How Herbalists Can Change With The Times
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In this week's post, I want to talk about the state of the world right now how everything seems to be turning upside down. Everything is changing very rapidly in terms of the picture of human health and what's going on culturally and what's going on in nature. So how do we as herbalists change along with that? What are the things that we as herbalists can be doing to make sure that our practice of plant medicine is following the changes that are occurring?
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ABOUT SAJAH
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Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy. His mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances the science and spirituality of plant medicine, focusing on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. Sajah's approach honors and acknowledges the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants for a holistic model that uses the whole herb to heal the whole person. He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Plant Path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:29.6 | And in this week's post, there was a really great question that recently came up in a student Q&A session talking about just the state of the world right now, |
| 0:41.2 | really, and how everything seems to be kind of turned upside down. Everything is changing very |
| 0:48.3 | rapidly in terms of a picture of human health and what's going on culturally and what's going on on the planet |
| 0:57.1 | as a whole in terms of changes in nature and it's like what what how do we as herbalists change along |
| 1:05.9 | with it right what are the things that we as herbalists can be doing to make sure that our practice of plant medicine is really following the changes that are occurring? |
| 1:20.1 | You know, one thing that I've always said is that, you know, that new diseases are coming our way, that there's going to be sicknesses and health |
| 1:31.2 | problems that human beings are going to be dealing with in the years to come that we've never |
| 1:37.7 | seen before, right? I mean, we've never been exposed to, you know, all of the invisible electromagnetic wavelengths in the air |
| 1:46.7 | from Wi-Fi and 5G and the internet and, you know, culture has been moving at a faster |
| 1:54.7 | and faster pace and people are sleeping less. |
| 1:58.9 | Their immune systems are lower. You know, stress levels are higher than ever, |
| 2:04.7 | we're exposed to foods and genetically modified organisms and all this stuff, right, that is new |
| 2:12.5 | and is changing the state of human health. And I believe it's critically important for us as herbalists |
| 2:21.3 | to stay as current as we can with these changing times. But how do we do that? How do we come to |
| 2:28.9 | understand our medicinal plants in light of the changes that are occurring on the planet. |
| 2:35.0 | And how do we balance that with all of the wealth of traditional knowledge that we base our practice of herbalism from, |
| 2:45.0 | in the way that these cultures and traditions have used medicinal plants effectively for thousands of years. |
| 2:52.6 | So how do we move forward in a good way? And so that is the topic of discussion. I thought it was |
| 2:59.7 | a really, really inspiring question. And it got me thinking about, well, what is the most important |
| 3:07.1 | thing for us to be focusing on right |
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