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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Mary of Remedios and Plants

 Mary of Remedios and Plants



     


Blessed Mary mother of God is both queen of heaven and Empress of hell. Even though not permitted acknowledgement as such, within Fourth Variant (FVDC) she is still Empress of this hell. Inextricably linked to salvation story. Her place was foretold from the beginning. " I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Genesis 3:15 

      Almost immediately as Apostoles went to Spain, Germany, England with the gospel so did Mary both in physical travels and in apparitions. She appeared to St James in 40 A.D. He was there in Zaragoza, in Spain. She was there too, as Our Lady of Pilar. Understood as a column or pillar, she is a conduit between heaven and earth. The plants as greenings are within the earth and as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are with thee. Blessed is the fruit, "et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus.", of her womb, Jesus. So we give glory and thanks, often with the sign of the cross, while gathering plants, making medicine and the person likewise does the same as faith, hope, charity medicine. 

Gloria Patri,
et Filio,
et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio
et nunc et semper
et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. In the name of the father, son and Holy Ghost. Within a Fourth Variant nation, such as ours, always use 'Holy Ghost' because the 'holy spirit' is very dominant culture with judeochristian overtones. Always try to go directly to the Mass of all time as preserved by Lefebvre. 


      Many nations of Europe where our Lady and the apostles traveled have a long history of Marian devotions, including England, Spain and Portugal in Europe and the New World. As nations they have on their coat of arms, flags, a cross, symbols they carried with them to symbolize where they stand in this enmities especially against those and the forces who opposed Christ and Mary and those to whom he was delivered. From his birth, the nefarious sought to kill him in the slaughter of the Innocents, the flight of Mary and Joseph to escape unto the Crucifixion, where the cup could not pass. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews", John 18:36. 

       In some places nations took themselves to be states, and took great pride to avoid the Cross, Mary or any symbols related to the good news on their flags. So you may have stars, stripes and various red white blue waving. They take enormous pride in that they are free of this gospel. The paperback constitution  and their declarations of independence with Fourth variant dominant culture, (FVDC) signed and written by slave owners, go to great lengths to talk freedom and rights while making no mention of Christ or Mary. After the movement of 1917, in many apparitions Mary warned of these errors spreading. At Fatima in Portugal she spoke to 3 children. She has, is and will speak to many others. 

      In a Fourth Variant dominant culture (FVDC)- communist medi-police pharma surveillance state environment, like the United States of the 2020's,  you will find like Paul, " To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes save some." 1 Corinthians 9:22, ...you will become all things to all men and save some. To the pagan you will be Christian, to the herbalist wishy washy, to a Christian a Catholic, to someone born again a worshipper of Mary, to the jew an antisemite, to the patriot a subversive, to antifa a fascist, to the antiwhite a supremacist, whatever label or slur available within the regime narrative will be put on you so as Paul said, 'made all thinges to all men'. "Omnibus omnia factus sum, ut omnes facerem salvos". Just as his blood was shed for many, not all. "This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many." Mark 14:24 Keep to the plant remedios provided by Mary the Mother of God, say the rosary while gathering, learn the Little Office of Hours, attend a chapel with the Mass of all time. 


     Rather than Jesus Christ and Mary we have 4th of July brand Fourth variant communism. This error masquerading as a nation as a state America is quite sophisticated and spreads as Our Lady at Fatima said. Marta, and Jacinta could only imagine the filth and foulness of slave owning founding fathers, their rights, constitution of freedom and the treachery of their bondage 260 years later. Whatever can be said, will be said to further deplatforming for the regime. No matter, keep to your devotional process and the plants placed by God through the Blessed Virgin Mary mother of God. 

     Jesus Christ died on a dogwood tree and then rose from the dead. Plants too die in winter and resurrect in spring. This is called greening. As in the well known teachings proverb taught me, Things are not exactly what they seem and they are not different from what they seem. Plants like dogwood and rose, Rosa mystica are in one sense plants and in another sense remedios or remedies. Since appearing to St James, Mary has appeared to many people, sharing plant remedies and teachings of various kinds. 

     We teach to say the rosary and work with plants. Mary the mother of God widely made known the rosary through St Dominic 1000 years ago. Yet it was known by her also to St James who taught it to St Paul and St John. In the rosary we use, there are 15 mysteries. The first mystery is Annunciation. In the Annunciation Mary said, yes. 

      She not only said, yes, to the angel messenger of God Gabriel at the annunciation we commemorate in her Holy Rosary as Mary the Mother of God, grace filled, "And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her." Luke 1:38 She said yes to many things and has been active ever since. Her yes was never passive as any woman who has carried a child and loved her son will tell. Her yes didn't happen, it was worked. She not only said, 'yes', making possible Jesus our Savior, she also continues to be mother of Mercy and Empress of hell. 


     Like Jesus who, "suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven", Mary also "Mary, who brought forth the Lord to men, gave life to mortals, renewed the heavens, purified the world, opened paradise, and delivered the souls of men from hell" -Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis 1250 A.D. No one can come to the divine presence, which is all healing except through Mary. So the gathering of useful plants and healing remedies are her work to mitigate suffering and bring a salvation. At the name of Mary the powers of the air flee, dissipate, healing occurs by divine wind flowing within the body, just as the moon appears when clouds disperse. It is not that the moon is added to the sky. It is the clouds which give way. So healing is not addition but subtraction.  " A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it." Ecclesiasticus 43:24. Mary is the fragrant dew used to overcome disease. 

      


Salve Rociera: a traditional song from Virgen del Rocio,  which takes place yearly at Pentecost in Andalusia (southern Spain) 

"Dios te salve María

del rocío Señora.

Luna, Sol, Norte y Guía

y pastora celestial.

Dios te salve María

todo el pueblo te adora

y repite a porfía :

Como tu no hay otra igual.

Olé, olé, olé, olé, olé,


God hails you, Mary

Lady of the Dew.

Moon, Sun, North Star and guide,

And celestial shepherdess

God hails you, Mary,

All the people honor you

And repeat over and over, 

There is none equal to you

Olé, "


      Mary the Virgin Mother of God is the greening of roots rising spontaneously. The meaning of Jesse here is creative force, is will be, to the above ground as remedio herbs in spring.  "And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root." Isaiah 11:1 And there shall spring forth spontaneous shoots out of the stumps of trees as greening. -trans

    "and the virgin's name was Mary.", LK 1:17 The unmarried daughter's character and authority was ..."Mary, a sea by the abundant overflow of her graces; and Mary is a bitter sea by submerging the devil. Mary is indeed a sea by the superabounding Passion of her Son; Mary is a bitter sea by her power over the devil, in which he is, as it were, submerged and drowned." Chapter III " Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary", "Speculum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis" by Conrad of Saxony 1250 A.D. Just as it is said, the difference between a muslim, protestant, jew or communist is alone Mary, the Blessed Virgin mother of God. 

      That bitter sea of her power over the devil, and all sickness and death is her remedios of plants. For that reason she is known as La Conquistadora, Larrea tridentata, La gobernadora, the governess, ruler and keeper of plant Remedios.



Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de las yerbas y plantas y San Pedro, Ora pro Nobis. On this Fullmoon night I come to your garden for the remedies you have brought to us in plants and herbs.


 Gloria Patri, et Mater, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Help us to find good medicine and blessings!always.

Glory be to the Father and Mother, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

R:  Sicut erat in principo, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.


ASPERGES me, * Domine, hyssopo et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

THOU shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed; Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me worthy to gather your plants.


Monarda spp, Oregano del campo, wild hyssop.

Nuestra Señora de los remedios de las yerbas y plantas, Mother of  herbs and plants, Oh!, Queen of heaven and earth, on this Full Moon Blessed Virgin, with San Pedro, you have showed us tonight the keys of heaven. we worship you. You are the daughter well-beloved of Our Father, the mother chosen by the word, the wife immaculate of the Holy Ghost.

     We depend on you, oh!, Dear Mother, as children depend on their mother tender and careful. As you fed and nourished your son Jesus. Show us your herbs and plants so we can make good medicine and bring blessings!always. 

    Jesus you hung on the tree of the cross like a flower, you died and were buried in the ground then rose at Easter in the spring.



Anemome tuberosa, the pasqueflower.

We come to this place to gather the medicine, which is your body and blood under this full moon, to do as you commanded, "And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick." "And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." "The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.", ..."none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer."



      Forest of Redroot, Ceanothus fendleri. Comfort the afflicted and those alone and solitary, help the poor and those who lost their hope; help the sick and to those who suffer. They can be cured of body and soul, and strengthened in spirit with these Remedios, these plants you give us on this Full Moon.

      Our Lady of All Remedies we come in remembrance of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and in honour of Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, Blessed John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, we know all manner of healing come from you in these plants, who are your children even as I am your son and you my Mother, show me which plant can heal my brother and sisters, do not let them suffer but show me good medicine to bring blessings!always.

Let me bring good into this world in the name of Jesus, Mary and all the angels and saints.

-Paul Manski


      


When taking various plant medicines in the body, the patient, like the person who gathers and applies the plant uses the name of Mary, so that the greening become handmaidens of the Lord and of Mary. "Enough, stop crying! When you return to yourself, you will show if you love me. Speed of conversion will be proof of love; punishment will attend the insolence of scorn.’” -1135 A.D. William of Malmesbury

From a theoretical scientific view, Mary is the greening power asleep in winter emerging as plant medicine. That is why we pray to Mary, because she actually is the greening that overcomes the grip of demons, addictions, virus and forces of satan that bind one to much sickness. We invoke her name as plant medicine to overcome the infernal enemies to overcome the sickness. As the mother of God she has the power to restrain demons that are experienced as bondage, slavery, addiction, sickness. Mary is able to restrain the demons within bodily sickness, that harm us as illness. Mary and her plant medicines command angels to both guard and protect.


Mary as queen of angels creates movement with remedios by complimentary immune system movement to increase healing. 

"By her power, she can, thanks to her power over her son, wrest from Him whatever she pleases by a sweet violence." Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, -1135 A.D. William of Malmesbury



Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de las yerbas y plantas y San Pedro, Ora pro Nobis. On this Fullmoon night I come to your garden in faith, in the faith you have given and promised for the remedies you have brought to us in plants and herbs. These plants i gather are for each one, to do no harm, to walk in love balance, even though shunned and erased continue to walk on endless, your endless medicine road and continue regardless of the enforced shun silence placed by those in power allied with dominant culture antibiospirit regime.





     Free us from the hate they sow into children in their dominant culture social media schools, prisons, colleges, universities, halls of justice. 

 Gloria Patri, et Mater, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Help us to find good medicine and blessings!always. You have given a remedy for every dis-ease.

Glory be to the Father and Mother, and to the daughter and Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

R:  Sicut erat in principo, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.


ASPERGES me, * Domine, hyssopo et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

THOU shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed; Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me worthy to gather your plants.




Nuestra Señora de los remedios de las yerbas y plantas, Mother of  herbs and plants, Oh!, Queen of heaven and earth, on this Full Moon Blessed Virgin, with San Pedro, you have showed us tonight the keys of heaven. we worship you. You are the daughter well-beloved of Our Father, the mother chosen predestined by the word, the wife immaculate of the Holy Ghost.

     We depend on you, oh!, Dear Mother, as children depend on their mother tender and careful. As you fed and nourished your son Jesus. Give us courage to face the erasure and silence placed on us. Show us your herbs and plants so we can make good medicine and bring blessings!always to our occupied people under this 100 year godless regime.

    Jesus you hung on the tree of the cross like seed of a flower, you died and were buried in the ground then rose at Easter in the spring like the greening. i come to this place to gather the medicine, in the faith which is your body and blood under this full moon, to do as you commanded, "And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick." "And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." "The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.", ..."none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer."






       Comfort the afflicted and those alone and solitary, under the dominant culture antibiospirit shun imposed by antibiospirit, these last 100 years beginning with the 30 year biospiritual war 1914-1945, help the poor and those who lost their hope in the erasure shun that has become our life; help the sick and to those who suffer. They can be cured of body and soul, and strengthened in spirit with biospirit Remedios, these plants you give us on this Full Moon.

      Our Lady of All Remedies we come in remembrance of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and in honour of Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, Blessed John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, we know all manner of healing come from you in these plants, who are your children even as I am your son and you my Mother, show me which plant can heal my brother and sisters, do not let them suffer but show me good medicine to bring blessings!always.

Let me bring good into this world in the name of Jesus, Mary and all the angels and saints.

Paul Manski 


      


Many plants like the sword Iris, symbol of France fleur-di-lis, resembled the sword prophecy of Simeon at the presentation in our Lady of Sorrow rosary, to pierce her heart with sorrow. Our lady left behind lilies at her assumption into heaven where she was crowned queen of heaven and earth and empress of hell.


One of tools we use while gathering plants is the rosary, or garland of roses, a plant Mary taught many to use for healing, and plants in the Rose family.

Violets are modesty and soothing, they bloomed as Mary said yes to the angel Gabriel in the first mystery of the rosary. Columbine, Our Lady's Shoes, grew up in her footsteps on her travel to see her cousin Elizabeth, in the second mystery of the rosary, the visitation.

One of the Magi, saw a field of Oxe Eye Daisy, when he stopped to examine closely the flower, he noticed it resembled the star they had been following and understood it as a sign, the child baby Jesus was near. Rosemary, was a small bushy fragrant medicinal plant Mary hang the swaddled clothes to dry. St Anne and St Joachim the mother and father of Mary, were Essenes and herbalists and taught Mary herbal formulas, materia medica and tincturing which Mary taught to Jesus, and Jesus to his disciples. Many of the healings Jesus did had plant components from the Essenes and teachers instructed by Mary at Mt Carmel. When Elijah through his cloak over Eliisha, giving his spirit to him, it was a brown wool, like the brown scapular worn and rosary used by herbalists today from Our Lady of Mt Carmel, regiven by our Lady of Carmel to St Simon Stock in 1251 A.D. This technique  is used to place a person under her mantle of protection through prayer, herbs and limpias. Various people of Mount Carmel venerated the Virgin Mary a hundred years before her Immaculate Conception. The plant traditions of the Essenes taught by Anna, Mary, Jesus traveled by the Apostoles to Europe, Spain, Italy immediately after the resurrection. 

         Herbs and plants gathered, worked with and taken in this way into the body become like the angelic salutation, Ave Maria, gratia plena, within the body. All along this process, "Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield." Isaiah 21:5 All along the table are beholding the watchtower, which is prayer, remedios. So that one eats and drinks with prayer and thanksgiving. Within Fourth Variant dominant culture any dissemination is problematic, yet we go as we go, ahead. 


“I am God’s mother, and I pray that my son gets this soul a place in heaven. I am also empress of hell, and have power over all you enemies; and therefore I command you that he [the devil] keep this soul no longer. But go your way and let him [the soul] rest.” Sermons John Mirk 1350 A.D.

Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios, you are the one with the best medicine


Yes ..pleasant dream...Nuestra Señora de los Remedios. 



Keep me going on this medicine road, you are Osha Chuchupate.



You are Mary the mother of God. You are our Savior's mother. You bring us so many good things. You show us the way to Sierra Ancha, you Open the door to the deer house, you bring us good medicine, you bring us Ocotillo for the



you bring us the feathery Solomon seal, osha and aralia, Yerba Santa and Torote, Saguaro fruit. 




our holy Mary protected us...Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios

You have many names Mary. Whatever name we use you answer us because you love us. You are my lover because in my heart you have planted the seed for the flowers, the roots and seeds. In my heart you have placed the Lily. The feathery Solomon seal, to make me strong, when you call me to the mountains. And you do call me to the mountains, wherever you call me I will go, wherever the medicine grows I will go. I will go in your name. you walk with me and you hold my hand and show me all the medicine plants I need to know.

You have brought us all the plants,


 all the animals, and you're blessed son Jesus, he is with us true true

Our Holy divine perfect Mother, with the moon shining..

.the stars a road 



from here to tomorrow..

.far beyond this way...with the wind blowing...Changing Woman Nahasdan Nadle', 

Sash nadle, 

Beautiful bear woman,

Turquoise Woman..

Leading us on the Corn pollen road...

Look at the stars the Milky way, Corn Pollen road...




past the red slick rock mountain singing...

Our hogan, our house is the Changing Woman...

Cedar from up on the Bear's Ears mountain..


Sash Cedar moutain song..

.way up following the stars, the snow is falling. The snow is falling, the clouds are coming the rain is falling the clouds are moving quickly across the sky,

stay asleep a a little longer sash, 

Wait for the zigzag lightning to come back in the spring time, sleep sleep



,

when you wake you"ll tell us about the spring flowers and new grass...tell us about the bear medicine, osha 


When you wake up in the spring time dance, show us where the osha root grows,


La Medicina del oso.

Take me to the Black River




Yes ..pleasant dream..our holy Mary

Show me many things

Show me the ocotillo medicine,


Take me to where Yerba mansa grows



Bring me strong Yerba mansa medicine so i can help others love you more



And the Torote tree and copal resin


protected us...with Yerba santa 

Our Holy divine perfect Mother, with the moon shining..

.the stars a road from here to tomorrow..

.far beyond this way...with the wind blowing...Changing Woman Nahasdan Nadle', Changing woman, Turquoise Woman..

Leading us on the Corn pollen road...

Look at the stars the Milky way, Corn Pollen road...

past the red slick rock mountain singing...

Our hogan is the Changing Woman...

Cedar from up on the Bear mountain...

Sash Cedar moutain song..

.way up following the stars, the snow is falling. 

stay asleep a a little longer sash, 

when you wake you"ll tell us about the spring flowers and new grass...

Changing Woman, you are mother Mother...you belong to yourself...

You bless everyone always...

Black Obsidian woman moving from Natsin'an Navajo mountain to Dok'ad'slid-to Flagstaff, 

you're bringing us snow...

you're teaching songs, dropping like falling stars silent across the sky...


some day we will remember there is one mother blessings! always



Changing Woman, you are mother Mother...you belong to yourself...

You bless everyone always...

Black Obsidian woman moving from Natsin'an Navajo mountain to Dok'ad'slid-to Flagstaff, 



you're bringing us snow...

you're teaching songs, dropping like falling stars silent across the sky...


Mary most beautiful among women,

Mary blessed and blessing,

Mary with soft things and hard things,

Mary, all the stars inside your deer house,

Mary you show us your son Jesus,



Mary your hair is thick and soft,

shiny like water in the sun,

your hair yerba santa and narrow leaf cottonwood,

shoulders and head covered with blue and green,

stars in the sky show me the road,

milky way road, horizon to horizon,

show me the beautiful way,

the way of water black river white mountains,



i have 5 fingers, bila'ashdla i am your son,

don't be a stranger to me,

Mary you are my mother,

your hair like aspen leaves flutters in the wind,

sweet estafiate underneath your arms,

your lips are full like the fruits of walnut

all about your body are roses and blackberries,


the sweet water with cottonwood and willow,

your legs are strong your hands are gentle,

your words are bird songs,

meadowlark and robin,



you watch over me Mary with eagle eyes,

your eyes see all from up on high,

Mary you stand with Jesus

Mary you are the medicine way,

you give us all the plants.

blessings!always good medicine Mary & Jesus!



-Paul Manski with Mary


Thursday, July 19, 2018

gentian review

        understanding gentian root a basic review.  so here  a basic review...
       in a world created by God everything is God created, plants are living beings they are part of the creation story-song in a specific place. our relationship with plants involves the basic salvation-story of our souls within the creation. the plants and the plant knowledge of people, plants and place is part of the heritage we inherit and move forward. the gentian pictured here is gentian affinis, blue pleated gentian.
     there are many plants of the gentian family and their flowers range from this purple blue flowered variety to pale yellow white. in general it is a plant of high mountain meadows. the use of gentian root and leaves by itself and in bitter formulas is a long tradition.
   
     
                                                 

      gentian works a bitter principle to promote digestion.  gentian is a God created wild plant met in the mountains. God has provided us a healing dialog with plants.  digestion is a bodily process that touches on fire, air, water, earth, each element created by God. digestion  is an ordained by God occurrence in the body for us to live. digestion is taking in. when understanding digestion there is self/not-self, inside/outside. when the body can not extract harmoniously the things it needs to survive from food we need to understand that it is a problem of frontiers and boundaries, inside/outside, self/other.  from that we enter into the auto-immune disorders, inflammation and allergy. the body's ability to recognize self/not-self is compromised.
     traditionally in europe bitter herbal formulas were used before meals as an aperitif. the herbs were preserved in alcohol. gentian root and sometimes leaf was used along with carminative heating herbs in bitter formulas. the dried root as a tea in water is used in the same way. using gentian in this way is meeting the plant face to face where it grows and using the whole plant rather than disecting it in a laboratory or standardizing for specific components.
      understanding and  journey with plants often battles the secular cultural narrative of separation. narrative outside of a compartmentalized world. the cultural narrative  living in a secular, God-less economic zone of the empire the task of the dialectic moving through re-written history is to create through electronic media the new fluid gender generic person to inhabit a purely economic space. there is continuous re-education efforts to fashion people to generic consumers. every effort is made to create a safe environment for the race-less, gender-less participants of perfect consumerism. within the dialectic of modernism tribal-family ties of loyalty to the earth in a specific place must be purged. the question of how to preserve the existence of our people and a future for our children, is not a theory or concept- it is the intricate fabric of life. so when confronting auto-immune processes gone awry it is not only the physical small world body that has been altered but also the eco-systems, the earth household and family that are altered.
      in promoting the dialectic of modernism within the empire new consumer paradise, all kinds of new illnesses arise. because the process of living in a multi-cultural space is often toxic and unsatisfactory within the new consumer paradise. there are continuous efforts to make available boundless supplies of new pharmaceutical drugs available to treat these new illnesses. not only are pharmaceuticals advocated for physical illness, pharmaceuticals are used to alter the emotional heart, the thinking, the mood. yet for every new drug there are unintended consequences. there is no such thing as a drug that works on a particular body system without effecting every other body system. a drug supposedly for the breathing as in asthma must also effect the liver, the heart, the brain, the emotions, the thinking, the personality and gestalt. there are receptor sites all over the body. the body created by God is not a machine. there are no static isolated processes within the body. likewise medication for behavioral issues, mood and thought disorders don't stay within the brain. dopamine, and serotonin receptor sites are found throughout the body, effecting every body system. again the body is not a machine. medications built in a lab do not have smooth machine like functions within the body. A medication taken for a thought disorder effects the heart's ability to pump blood, effects the pancreas and glucose/insulin dynamic, breathing and respiration.
these so called psych meds while also effecting the entire body dynamic also effect people of different genetic/racial differently.  
     currently i live and was raised in empire. my language, english is empire. in the grand bargain the language of my parents was hush hush so that their offspring, not children, but off spring could participate in empire.  from the social standpoint, the huge experimental process of empire building accelerating. part of the vast social experiment of empire is a conversion to secular life. become interchangeable parts in an economic zone.
     regardless of view, like weed flowers poking out of the asphalt parking lot, people with actual memories, and at times people who because they are created by God, living in a God created world through joy or crisis spontaneously move towards living the old ways with plants such as gentian their medicine.
     our life is not only physical. our life is not only defined by economic terms. part of the cross of Jesus Christ is to portray and advocate for a spiritual place, a home for our people, a community where families may thrive. to view life solely as a material chemical and physical process is to demean it. likewise to understand my work with plants as solely medical, scientific and pharmaceutical is to limit and change what i am doing. any kind of situation i am in is "in him we live and move and have our being" Acts 17:28. it is not that i am living, then digesting, then studying herbs, then going to church. everything is informing one another, because it is in him we have out being. likewise plants. likewise the process of the plants. likewise collecting and gathering plants, it's all sacred activity and spiritual work.
an essential part of this work is tasting the bitter gentian root. developing formulas 
         when you look at the body and look at the mouth and look at the hole where the food leaves the body, it's difficult to find inside and outside. the reason is that the inside/outside of a living being is fundamentally different than the inside/outside of a machine.  beings engage with the world in a fundamentally different way than a machine. the language of empire has accelerated to a technologically place of propaganda. consumers see the world in economic terms. slogans are repeated from movies, television,  and mnemonic repetitive  music. language as a tool of empire doesn't readily capture the overt effort to create a universal economic space. within the dialectic of empire a mode of experiencing is encouraged that makes it difficult to encounter. to further the economic goal of consumerism language embedded in technology shifts the paradigm. one another as persons is shifted to sales, customer service, buying and selling.
     we can think of the cheeks and face as being somehow on the outside. but what about the lips?  are lips inside or outside? or are they at the frontier of inside/outside. as we go further we can see the mucosa of the digestive system somehow inside/outside and frontier. in the body it's like this, the deeper you go you will find it difficult to say inside/outside.  yet there is self and other. and it has to do with movement of elements of fire, wind, water and earth. there is spontaneous recognition of self and other , along with connection and interpenetration with our small world body and the big world spinning planet body. before all else is events with Jesus being born to Virgin Mary now queen of heaven and earth. Elijah his servant on the mt carmel looking for the cloud to bring rain. 1 Kings 18:44 "Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand." 
     we must re-own the cultural narrative of language. language for our history was words spoken. language was words heard remembered. language in the consumer market lab is language/machine. machines speak the words and the drone of electronically repeated phrases broadcast the dialectic of societal revolution. 
      one thing that is absolutely clear is that our lives are not mechanical processes. the plants we use are not mechanical. plants are living beings created by God, they too live and move, and have their being in Jesus Christ. if somebody says, 'the body is like an automobile and food is like gasoline.', or 'the brain is like a computer.', above all re-education is required. if you are seeing gentian working solely through the bitter secoiroid glycosides present in the roots to increase gastric secretions then you have been marginalized. we must be able to speak freely. 
     with all the elements of water, earth, fire, wind there is information of the plants and their qualities. the plants have stayed awhile in place and taken on specific qualities of their place. when we take a plant like gentian we are taking the life of God's breath in our hand with gratitude and intention. Romans 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." above all there must be caution when working with living things. be cautious and alert to what is going on around you and learn how to watch and pray. Mark 14:38 "watch ye and pray." learn to watch and pray let that be your practice.
     water, earth, fire and air, these 4 elements are happening by God in a good way. Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." so, whatever is happening with gentian,  or plants, our healing herbs or whatever we are  doing while we are alive it is all coming back to this basic understanding and principle. there at a certain point it becomes two and two. just as on the Ark, "two and two with breath" Gen 7:15 "two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life", whatever life we have is on loan from God, not only our life but the life of the plants that we use for healing, all from God. Gen 2:9 "And out of the ground made יהוהElohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." whatever is happening or not happening, has to be put into this framework, this principle, this context and this is how we work with the plants. we are always working with an ecosystem which is an earth household, and and with divine providence we must use all our skillful means to have this occur, for self and others.
     with fire we receive our bodily warmth. we are flexible, wet, moist, not cold, lifeless, brittle, dry and stiff.   from wind we receive our breathing in and out. God as the Holy Ghost makes available to us breath. we have borrowed for a short time God's wind. water is our blood in the same way water is a flowing stream or rain from spinning clouds. our body comes from the earth, from rocks, stone or mineral. multiculturalism is wonderful until our deepest heart comes face to face with Christ the King, or Mary the Mother of God. plants only stand approximately to science. learning with plants must happen directly face to face with the plants and a few people here and there. "can't you just tell me what it is?" yes, i would love to tell you what it is however this is not the time or place and we are not ready to speak about gentian and the bitter principle. gentian involves going deeper into our experience.... 
    it helps when approaching  plants  allow the principles to come into play. this may be a foreign concept or a familiar experience.  the work is encouraging others and sharing. i thought it would be best to review basic concepts.
although time is quickly running, it has not run out. there is still breathing. in this breath wind is the power of God, mixed with water, filled with earth, power of green. there is a correspondence between holy ghost still flowing there in lightning clouds. you are breathing and greening is evidenced in your red blood, the moisture in your breath. so regardless it is still possible to embrace. it is miraculous work to live today. when we see greening stepping forward as plants with seed, fruit and flowers, this is the first day. the sun is fire, it has embraced the ground. valerian kiss, hugs and embraces, giggles and laughter of all kinds. gentian makes it easier to pull the light of God into our stomach as fire....
      despised and shunned is nothing new, knowledge is not so much withheld but rejected, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge", Hosea 4:6 who's voice is dismissed and discounted can be important to hear. unless someone is poking you with a red hot poker then you are being triggered. it's important to listen calmly. you can only respond when there is quiet. "And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word." Lk 10:38 so we take the "Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart." LK 2:19, this is the vital principle of being in the place and sitting with the plants because in this situation answers will occur. especially when out and about be aware that this is God's garden and present here.
         put out of your mind any issue that says no/can not. it is being done and if plants are growing then you connect.  greening is what we work with, everything else will pull together.
     it's hard for me to understand prayer without a female presence. birth without a mother Mary, or savior Jesus? it is impossible for me to understand healing without acknowledging the power to thrive in green leaves. 
      when thinking of health i think of life pleasing to God. the power plants to heal has to do with the greening power of the leaves. health is the strength and power to thrive and it can only come to us from God by grace. much of suffering pain despair and depression is connected with embracing the stupid, latching on and then through hubris not acknowledging that we need to change our fundamentals. we want more pills but we also want to hold onto our stupid. we need to let go of stupid let go of our pills and embrace the green.                                              
         in the dominant culture it's familiar to describe someone as being sick and in need of a pill or more pills to become better. you will find many people that can name 10 or 15 diseases but they cannot name 10 or 15 green plants for healing. for them the only thing that they have are bushes and shrubs. it is an additive process so that someone has a certain disease routine and continues that disease routine with the addition of more pills. someone is given electric tests and passed through various forms of electricity and then it's all put in the computer, this is a kind of permitted healthcare of  dominant culture. in this way we embrace stupid. 
     the Holy Ghost is breath dwelling in living beings, in and out, spirit. light and fire, the sun seeks out the plants and they embrace one another, earthed with readiness, and this divine presence mixes with the physical world to make green. so encountering green with skillful means is working with plants to God them with green, gradually as they are able to remedy. 

Psalm 104:29-30  "Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. 30Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth."
     we have elaborate models of disease. there is abuse and trauma. there is addiction. there are bugs, virus bacteria and parasites. we like to think that someone is anxious because of some situation within their brain some kind of chemical balance or imbalance, when really what is happening is that a person has divorced themselves from the healing green. community and the grace as family as it relates closest to the green energy is remedy. an embrace of divorce is a waste of energy that may cost you the green moment. throwing pills into the mix is pointless. it is relationship that must be restored. the primal relationship is green. it is meritless to pretend that the breath of creation as the holy ghost can be left out of treatments. if you treat green plants in the same way that the dominant culture treats pills then it is true you will do less harm however at a certain point you will also do little good. we must do the most good and the least harm
      the spirit of God and our bodies is the same way as the light of the sun on the rich moist earth, mixed with rain from above and moisture within bringing the green. in our own bodies this green is red blood, bone and sinew. between us is friendships. the greening will to become further.  remember it is God who placed the rain and sun, now plants of green so when gathering remember Ezekiel 37:9 Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. the life lived is eternal

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