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REPLAY True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness - Sajah Popham (episode 17)

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The vital intelligence of nature is the force behind all growth, healing, and renewal, and our work as plant healers deepens greatly when we can match whole plants with whole people living inside the dynamic multiverse of the whole cosmos.

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In the Intro:

  • The way in which most of us (including me) are called to the plant path
  • It's time to remember who we are
  • The multidimensional medicine of Calendula
  • What I do when I want to remember new information forever
  • How understanding the ancient idea of vitalism changed my approach to plant healing

In the Interview:

  • The real definition of holistic medicine (it's probably not what you think it is)
  • Approaching plant relationships the way we approach human relationships
  • Why a balanced approach to herbal learning includes intellect, intuition, science, tradition, personal experience, and the experiences of others
  • The best way to get to know a plant
  • The two words that Sajah saw in a newspaper while clearing tables at a coffee shop job and how they changed his life forever
  • The role synchronicity played in introducing Sajah to one of his most beloved plant allies
  • Alchemy- the wholeness of the plant and the wholeness of the person integrated into the wholeness of the cosmos, and the importance using plants for the psyche and spirit as well as for the physical
  • Mythic astrology, the archetypes of the zodiac, and plants as bridges connecting our internal microcosm to the celestial macrocosm
  • Lung herbs and grief
  • Ancient ancestral resonances and the memory we carry in our DNA
  • The vitalist approach to herbalism- “something that is created by the whole is going to be more intelligent than something created by the part”
  • Plants mentioned include oregon grape root, devils club, wood betony, ceanothus, osha, and mullein

Show Notes:

Transcript

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0:00.0

Within you is a wound and within you is a wound and within you is a healer. Your power and the great

0:09.7

medicine you carry is living in those places that healing has touched. This is a quote from

0:16.1

today's guest Sajja Popham. I am Amber Magnolia Hill and this is the Medicine

0:22.3

Stories Podcast episode 17.

0:25.0

I read somewhere a few months ago, herbalist Stephen Herod Buner who was interviewed

0:32.2

on episode 8 of this podcast and who seems to be referred

0:36.0

back to somehow in most episodes that have happened since by either me or my guest.

0:41.4

Sage ever refers to him in this interview as well.

0:44.9

I read him say that when he has given workshops in the past or has, you know, his students

0:49.8

gathered around, he asks people what got them interested in herbalism and that so rarely

0:56.5

is it something like oh I've just always talked to plants and always had this

1:01.2

lifelong thing and I think a little more commonly it's like a plant

1:04.8

saved my life. I had this medical issue that I couldn't figure out and and then herb saved me.

1:11.1

Much, much more often it's, don't know I just feel called I don't know I'm just

1:17.1

interested and I can't stop thinking about it and that's certainly what happened

1:21.8

for me it wasn't any big dramatic life event. I spent much more time as a child watching TV than hanging out with plants.

1:30.0

I just felt called and felt interested and it was a slow and winding path and I ended up here and

1:38.0

now that I'm here I feel and Sajafels and so many of the herbalists that are teaching and speaking out these days

1:47.9

feel passionate about welcoming other people onto the plant path.

1:54.0

It's just time. It's time for us as human beings to remember who we are.

2:01.0

And who we are is a part of nature and an integrated bean. It's a part of all these

2:10.0

other integrated beans. It's part of a huge integrated whole that reaches

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