Visionary Plant Consciousness or Stem Cell Wars

Visionary Plant Consciousness: The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World

Author: J P Harpignies

ENTHEOGENS / SHAMANISM

“Humans have long considered psychoactive plants as teachers. This book seeks to inform Westerners about these powerful plants and about the shamans who know how to use them. Their words are clear and simple and often based on personal experience. The result is an accessible book packed with knowledge.”
--Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent

Visionary plants have long served indigenous peoples and their shamans as enhancers of perception, thinking, and healing. These plants can also be important guides to the reality of the natural world and how we can live harmoniously in it.

In Visionary Plant Consciousness, editor J. P. Harpignies has gathered presentations from the Bioneers annual conference of environmental and social visionaries that explore how plant consciousness affects the human condition. Twenty-three leading ethnobotanists, anthropologists, medical researchers, and cultural and religious figures such as Terence McKenna, Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Katsi Cook, John Mohawk, and Kat Harrison, among others, present their understandings of the nature of psychoactive plants and their significant connection to humans. What they reveal is that these plants may help us access the profound intelligence in nature--the “mind of nature”--that we must learn to understand in order to survive our ecologically destructive way of life.

J. P. Harpignies is associate producer of the national Bioneers conference (bioneers.org) and coproducer and founder of the Eco-Metropolis conference (ecometropolis.org) in New York City. He is the author ofPolitical Ecosystems and Double Helix Hubris and the associate editor of Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions.

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Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines

Author: Eve Herold

According to stem cell research expert Eve Herold, the general public have become the victims of misinformation about this essential science. Over the last few years, the stem cell debate has been intensely political, religious, global, and confusing to many people. Now, Herold explains to a general audience what this science is all about, who is for and against it, and why it must go forward. In this startling book, Herold pulls together fascinating stories to highlight every aspect of this multifaceted field. She exposes the politics of stem cell research and demonstrates how these forces will intimately affect everyone. Packed with real-life stories of the people caught up in this groundbreaking struggle, Stem Cell Wars is a call to arms that will provoke debate and discussion for years to come.

Table of Contents:

The Field of Battle * Two Worlds Colliding * The Science that Started a Revolution * Hijacked by the Politics of Abortion* The Battle for Hearts and Minds * Political Spin and the Weapons of Mass Distraction * Ethics and the Embryo * Health Care and Hypocrisy * Korea: Great Expectations * Korea: The Fall * Winning the Peace


The Field of Battle * Two Worlds Colliding * The Science that Started a Revolution * Hijacked by the Politics of Abortion* The Battle for Hearts and Minds * Political Spin and the Weapons of Mass Distraction * Ethics and the Embryo * Health Care and Hypocrisy * Korea: Great Expectations * Korea: The Fall * Winning the Peace