Spagyrics: Ancient Medicine for the Modern World
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
There's something that I've been thinking a lot about lately. I've been looking at the state of the world and everything that's been going on politically and culturally. With the fires that we've been having out here on the West Coast, it feels like things are heating up—literally—on planet earth right now. I've been thinking about human beings' relationship to nature, our relationship to the earth, and the healing that is required of all of us right now, and I think the practice of herbal alchemy or spagyrics has great power and potency to bring healing to people.
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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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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.
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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, and welcome to our new issue here on the blog. |
| 0:33.6 | And, you know, there's something that I've been thinking a lot about lately. You know, |
| 0:39.3 | I've just been kind of looking at the state of the world and looking at everything that's been |
| 0:44.0 | going on, you know, within the whole political thing and all of the stuff going on culturally and |
| 0:50.6 | just with all of, especially with all the fires that we've been having out here on the West Coast, |
| 0:55.2 | it just feels like things are really heating up literally on planet Earth right now. |
| 1:01.2 | And I've just been thinking about us as human beings and our relationship to nature, our relationship to the Earth, and the healing that is required of all |
| 1:15.0 | of us right now as human beings and how the practice of herbal alchemy or Spajirics has this, |
| 1:23.7 | what I see as great power and potency to bring healing to the people at this time in a way |
| 1:32.7 | that I see is really required. And, you know, one of the things that I've been looking at and |
| 1:39.8 | kind of thinking a lot about is this dynamic of separation. That's a critical component of the |
| 1:47.3 | Spajiric process, is this process of separating out the principles of a plant in the ways |
| 1:55.9 | in which they're prepared alchemically. And kind of looking at our culture and thinking about human beings and |
| 2:03.6 | where we're at in the world right now and seeing that there's this core separation in our culture |
| 2:11.8 | that I think is really at the root of a lot of the problems that we're facing on the earth right now. And I think that |
| 2:18.9 | core separation is this illusion that I would say a majority of human beings on the planet |
| 2:26.1 | are carrying that thinks that we're separate from nature. It's like, I always like to talk about |
| 2:33.2 | the difference between, you know, the world and the earth. |
| 2:37.5 | And it's like the world is, you know, everything that the human beings have created from our minds, you know. |
| 2:44.5 | If I just think, I live out here in the country, so I'm kind of surrounded by nature and trees and plants and the earth. |
| 2:51.0 | But every time I go to a city, it's like, wow, you know, it's kind of overwhelming in a way. |
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