A Sage Guide: Mythology, Uses, and Controversy
As one of the most respected and versatile stars in the plant kingdom, Sage has been a household name for her culinary and medicinal power for millennia.
As one of the most respected and versatile stars in the plant kingdom, Sage has been a household name for her culinary and medicinal power for millennia.
Our pleasure is serious business. In this essay, we look at the nutritional value of pleasure, recreation, and how that applies to recreational drug use.
A study has found that a psychedelic substance may be more effective as an obesity treatment than the pharmaceutical drugs currently available.
Centuries ago in Europe, in a time before most people could read, a system called the “doctrine of signatures” was developed to catalog the language of plants. I have successfully used this system to understand the medicinal properties of a plant.
In the forest the human brain was expanding at a phenomenal rate. Around 200,000 to 150,000 years ago, this process came to an end. The brain stopped expanding and started to shrink. Brain shrinkage appears to coincide with major dietary change.
The ancient healing science disassembled me and pieced me back together into a new whole. There is no place on earth comparable to India for inducing a major shift in consciousness.
I wasn’t expecting the extreme pleasure of being so totally connected to the system. I was part of that living system, and extraordinarily thankful…
The seed revolution began one sunny afternoon on a neatly
mowed lawn at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. For an historic moment, it wasn't
much to gawk at: a circle of about a dozen seedsmen and seedswomen sitting
cross-legged in the grass, laying out the blueprint for an agricultural
uprising.
Yoga's popularity has grown tremendously in the midst of a global crisis, because it promises to transform our ways of relating to animals, the Earth, and one another. The most important part of yoga practice may happen three times a day when you sit down to eat.
Industrialized food is detrimental to both our personal health and the natural world. But history may hold the answer to healing both.