Spiritual Herbalism

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Josh Williams runs a successful clinical practice and herbal apothecary near Salt Lake City, USA. He is an inspired and dedicated teacher of spiritual herbalism with over 20 years of experience, having himself studied under many celebrated herbal elders including Paul Beyerl, Kami McBride, Michael Tierra, and KP Khalsa. Josh is also a founding member of the Utah Tea Guild and the Wasatch Herb Festival, and The Green Arte tradition.

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Unlock the powerful, magical, and transformative gifts of the plant world, and engage in a relationship with our green allies and their medicine.

Spiritual Herbalism offers an invitation to enter into and explore an engaged relationship with the individual plants we encounter, and with plants as a spiritual grouping.

This powerful book encourages us to step into a sacred space where the personality and potency of each herb unfolds in magic and deep medicine.

Within this pages, Josh Williams offers many tools and insights for this journey, presenting new perspectives on the virtues of herbs, interpreting the virtues handed down by our predecessors, and giving practical examples of what spiritual herbalism looks like when it is truly engaged.

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INTRODUCTION

THE SPIRIT OF HERBALISM

• Deep green beginnings
• Herb magic
• Herbal medicine

ROSE

• The world tree

MULLEIN

• Herbal actions
• Herbal energetics
• Elemental constitutions
• The compass

OAT

• Systems of synergy

ROSEMARY

• Making connections

LINDEN

• Speaking from the heart

OREGANO

• Wild enchantment

DANDELION

• Tea ritual

ASTRAGALUS

• By moon and by sun

HOLY BASIL

• Rising up 138

YARROW

• Cultivating relationship

HAWTHORN

• Making & taking magical medicine
• Tinctures

LICORICE ROOT

• Harvesting with heart

RED CLOVER

• Tools of the craft

RASPBERRY

• Salves & balms

APPLE

• Dancing the wheel

ELDER BERRIES

• Ethical synchretism

ASHWAGANDHA

• Sachets 222

BURDOCK ROOT

• Herbal baths 230

LAVENDER

• Sacred smoke
• On becoming a certified master herbalist
• The mint family
• The dead in the dirt
• Reviving the priesthood

CULTIVATING YOUR HERBALISM

REFERENCES RESOURCES

STAY CONNECTED

INDEX