Psychology, Astrology and Herbalism
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
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🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Let's face it, people want deeper levels of healing these days. Most are starting to realize that a physical symptom in the body is actually and oftentimes directly influenced by the mind and emotions. Some are even thinking that maybe their physical symptoms are there because of their psychological and emotional state!
This is revolutionary to say the least. Because for a very long time we have always thought of the body and the mind as separate- that they are distinct entities and couldn't possibly influence one another. Not only do most of experiences contradict that kind of thinking, but modern science does now too. It is showing that the body and mind are in fact not separate, but are 2 ends of one spectrum.
So if we think about herbal medicines within this context, we could infer that because a plant is working upon the body then they are also working upon the mind. From flower essences and plant spirits, to spagyrics and other alchemically prepared medicines (and by alchemically prepared I mean done according to the western tradition of real alchemy), many herbalists are starting to address their clients psychological and emotional well being with plants.
Unfortunately, most herbalists do not have psychology degrees, or any sort of system that connects their plants to how to address the mind. This is where astrology truly shines!!
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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 Unique. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey there everybody, Seja here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:29.6 | And I was thinking today about this concept of psychology and herbal medicine and how so many people out there using herbs are really starting to notice that plants don't just have an effect on our bodies, but they're also having an influence upon our minds and upon our emotional realities too. |
| 0:51.3 | And I think a big part of the new paradigm of herbal medicine that's been |
| 0:56.8 | being developed over the last number of decades, I think psychology is a big part of that. |
| 1:03.3 | I think that we're wanting to practice herbal medicine, not just using the plants for the body, |
| 1:08.6 | right, not just seeing them as acting on the different organs |
| 1:12.4 | and systems and tissues of our physiology, |
| 1:15.6 | but that plants also have this capacity |
| 1:17.6 | to have an impact and an influence upon our past, |
| 1:22.2 | upon the conditioned patterns that we hold within our minds, |
| 1:25.9 | upon our primary emotional reactions and and in |
| 1:30.4 | that way that these herbs have this ability to kind of re-framework, re-pattern our minds, our |
| 1:37.6 | psychology to help us to have more clarity in our minds, help us to have more, I guess I would say a more consciously directed |
| 1:47.4 | mind, a more free mind, right? I think it seems like so many people out there just kind of feel |
| 1:52.9 | like their minds are running the show and that they don't have any conscious control over it |
| 1:58.5 | or that, you know, they're constantly at the whim of their past |
| 2:02.4 | conditioning or of their traumas and that they need healing in their minds, that their psychology |
| 2:09.0 | needs assistance to a certain degree. And what I found and a lot of my students have found |
| 2:14.2 | and a lot of other people out there have found is that plants are amazing |
| 2:17.7 | for healing the mind that plants are not just our healers there are teachers as well and I feel like |
| 2:25.3 | that's a really important concept in the new paradigm of verbal medicine right that we're able to |
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