Alchemy and Spagyrics in Herbalism (Part 1)
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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This episode comes from the 2015 NW Herbal Symposium, on Whidbey Island, WA. Be sure to check out Part II!!
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| 0:00.0 | The Plant Path, Your Window into the World of Urban Medicine, with Saja Popham, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Union. |
| 0:25.6 | So welcome everybody. Thank you so much for coming out to my class here. |
| 0:29.6 | So this is going to be part one of a two-part class |
| 0:34.6 | talking a little bit about the alchemical tradition from Europe and I'll keep going |
| 0:42.9 | okay so I really wanted to share a little bit with you guys about some of the |
| 0:48.8 | studies that I've engaged with over the last probably seven or eight years now |
| 0:53.3 | in regards to the alchemical |
| 0:55.4 | tradition of the West and there's a lot there and so I was like wow I could do a |
| 1:01.5 | little quick class on it and do something else and I just thought I'll just turn it |
| 1:05.4 | into a two-part two-part class so I can get dig in and get into a little bit more |
| 1:09.9 | detail with you guys on what has been for myself personally |
| 1:15.6 | a really profound area of study that for myself has really enhanced |
| 1:21.6 | my understanding of |
| 1:24.6 | we all good? |
| 1:26.6 | You are now. Okay all good? Oh. You are now. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay, great. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh. |
| 1:30.3 | Is it being on the, yeah. |
| 1:35.3 | So that this tradition for myself personally has just really enhanced myself as a person in my own personal growth and just journey through life, |
| 1:45.0 | but also as an herbalist and really providing some very valuable context |
| 1:50.0 | and understanding plants on a totally different level. |
| 1:54.0 | And for me, kind of my little bit of my story in herbalism. |
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