Bioregional Vitalism and the Spring Equinox Revelations

 Wild Herb Ways: Bioregional Vitalism and the Spring Equinox Revelations

11 sources·May 5, 2026

Wild Herb Ways: Bioregional Vitalism and the Path 

Executive Summary

The "Wild Herb Ways" framework, primarily articulated here by Paul Manski, in written form, is a workable repeatable practice rooted in a practical deep ecological small group process and represents a workable, repeatable synthesis of deep ecological small learning re-learning groups, rooted within bioregional herbalism, learned and practiced in the American southwest. Manski frequently references the primarily 'magical realism' literary approach often sentient in the southwest. Paul Manski did not originate the practice or the lexicon but learned it through teachers such as John J Slattery, Michael Cottingham, Mimi Kemp, Donna Chesner and students of Michael Shaw Moore sharing insights gained from face to face small group encounters with these teachers. Manski further focuses his own traditionalist Tridentine Latin mass Catholic Christianity, with direct learning, experiences and transmission within both Rinzai Zen and Hindu yoga, from residing for years at ashrams and zendos practicing eastern therapeutic body movement practice. European ancestral vitalism with small group experiential practice therapeutic work informs his framework for study and small group deep ecological based experiential learning in the American southwest that Manski calls "Turtle Island" within his 'magical realism' comprehensive teaching learning frame designed to heighten small group solidarity herbalism.  In addition Manski integrates his western "medical model" clinical experience and training as a licensed RN. 

     At its core, the work is small group experiential practice. Manski in his writing. posits that small groups must gather, venture, and regroup into the ecosystem of person, plant and place. The process is small group: gather, venture and share within what John J Slattery calls the "4 directional model" of authentic plant study. Paul Manski writes throughout his blog that bio-learning demands a liberation ethic of a journey out of self limiting modernity which is currently "compromised" and "traumatized" by a mechanized, technology-driven culture that forms alienated self individuals alienated from their small group inherent biospirit nature. Manski posits the welcoming small group as "tool-using social animals" members with innate wellness tendencies can form a homeostasis model self-thus, self-modulating stability and well-being mode of study. 

     For Paul Manski Sobriety is a key practice for biospirit unfoldment. Sobriety is a mandatory foundational practice for well being unfoldment. Maintaining sobriety is a key core component value. The culture of "experimental drug use" is a form of "degeneracy of experience" and is viewed as an intentional "erasure of Western norms" for the purpose of control and disempowerment.

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The remedy proposed is a "radically peaceful" return to "sitting with plants"—an experiential, intuitive practice of reconnecting with the local landscape (specifically the Southwestern "Turtle Island" bioregion) through intimate small group workshops called the "oral tradition". This practice is not merely medicinal but biospiritual, advocating for "Wellbeing" and the "Common Good" as defined by experiences aided by Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy. Key takeaways include:

• Biospiritual Vitalism: The belief that all life is animated by a divine spark and that healing requires an experiential descriptive "is" "root shift" in experiential consciousness rather than a proscriptive "should be" "heroic" focus on symptoms.
• Bioregional Identity: A rejection of abstract, proscriptive belief identities in favor of local descriptive experiential identity, face-to-face community grounded in specific watersheds and mountain ranges.
• Traditionalist Synthesis: The synthesis of the Virgin Mary completed as the fulfilled "Madre de Dios" "Mother of God" with localized and European archetypes (e.g., "Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe", "Changing Woman" "Pachamama" "Santa Teresita"and "Europa") a 500 year tradition in new world Catholicism to form  "Earth Mother" and Sky Father" figures central to experiencing "folk" place in the bioregion, person, plant and place.
• Techno-cultural Critique: A warning that modern "entertainment" media forms a sub-conscious mythology. While exploitative technology (drones, AI, video games) function as "negative programming" non-experiential,  sub-conscious vicarious memories which sabotage subconscious thought "ok-ing" the violence of for profit mechanized war. Sub-conscious thought is an automatic process.  "negative programming" non-experiential, sub-conscious vicarious memories as entertainment are designed to erase ethnic and spiritual heritage to support hegemony of the uni-verse vs multi-polarity of the multi-verse of place.

I. The Practice of "Sitting with Plants"

Person, plant and place. One foundational method of "Wild Herb Ways" and people seeking deeper relationship as small groups undergoing experiential training is the small group together action corridor of "sitting with plants." "sitting with plants" is a small group practice created and utilized by bioregional vitalist John J Slattery who developed the practice, theory and lexicon. Manski describes this as a small group experiential exchange of energy between the actually present small group of persons and the actual botanical world as "person, plant and place" as per Slattery, present as both a solo and group together practice. Sitting with plants involves a small group practice which centers on what Slattery calls "listening  to the whole terrain". Then sharing the experiential insights within the trusting circle in what Slattery, Dolores LaChapelle, Mimi Kemp and Donna Chesner called the "talking stick" approach. This is then expanded as more experienced elders present within the small group circle add botanical specifics, historical herbal history known as "plant story" and clinical herbal notes. During the process, if appropriate to the plant, herbal teas maybe be brewed on site on portable stoves, herbal glycerides or tinctures passed around, or small portions of the above ground plant may be sampled in a process Slattery calls organoleptic testing. Participants are eased into the process of using and becoming familiar with specific herbal lexicon to describe the "taste, smell, texture, color, and botanical attributes".

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A. Methodology of Connection

• Intuition and Presence: Practitioners are encouraged to experience the actual place, the "whole terrain" of the small group encounter and enter the "present moment place" through honing observational skills, focused breathing and "organoleptic" study (tasting, smelling, touching) in the small group workshops therapeutic environment of a specific bioregional place.
• BioSpiritual Introduction: The process for Paul Manski often involves repetitive litany prayer (specifically to male and female forms of God within the Father Sky and the Blessed Mary Earth) and an introduction of oneself to the plant, entering the place, explaining the intention to help one's community.
• The "Verb" of Medicine: Medicine is defined not as a noun (a commodity to be bought) but as a verb—a process, an active "connection" that cannot be "bought" though can be facilitated in the small group. -as per herbalist Michael Cottingham

B. Core Concepts

• Focus on small group circle: The small group, face to face, IRL learning formative experiential learning mode which Paul Manski describes as "herbmaxxing".
• As above so below: The vitalizing principle "out there" is active and operant "in here" 
• as well as within the small therapeutic group practice circle of person, plant and place. The present here now monment  is one model to facilitate loving becoming in the bioregion of mountains, watersheds as bioregion. -as taught by Dolores LaChapelle at the way of the mountain center Silverton, Colorado
• Multiverse vs. Universe: The "situation unfoldment" can be experienced as specific place as a "many-storied" multiverse of multipolarity, rejecting the "hegemony" of a single dominant narrative or power. Each person to be fully authentic must be specific fully here, fully now within a bioregion of person, plant and place.
• Tool-Using Social Animals: Human beings are defined by their nature to use tools and function most effectively in the small group. Manski argues this small group nature called by poet Gary Snyder, the "real work", has been "hijacked" within a state-ism by trauma for mechanized war and violence, requiring a peaceful extension of small group energy to reclaim it within the remedio.
• Vitalist Sovereignty: Vitalism is defined as harmony with naturally present "as above so below" forces and energetic relationships present in both the living landscape which he calls the localism and sovereignty of one's body-spirit, hence "biospirit" and immediate small group based community functioning as a wellbeing imperium.
  
  

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"In Ayurveda a person with kapha dominance tends to be overweight, sluggish and tends to present with allergic reactions, congested, stuck mucus and may suffer from depression. Depression in the sense of limitation on activity, suppression, decrease, inactivity, I think the key point here is depression. And I will address this soon in terms of the Gestalt approach to illness. Because while chronic inflammation has a metabolic and physical cause it manifests as a decrease in activity and this is called in Ayurvedic medicine, kapha dominance. So this kapha dominant formula addresses the multi-factorial processes of inflammation.

    This kapha dominance could best be understood as a person with chronic systemic inflammation. One of the key points of inflammation is that it manifests as loss of proper function in a particular area of the body or in a particular organ  system and I think this would be a good working definition, nonjudgmental for what is often turned depression. 

    Depression is precisely that, a depression in physical activity. A decrease in physical activity means you are doing less hence being less, becoming less. A decrease in the essential inner life of the person. As unitary beings a sustained decrease in physical activity tends to spill over into lowered vital force. We as westerners have inherited a frame of reference identified by Descartes. 'Cogito ergo sum', I think therefore I am. Yet Descartes did not create a separation. He noticed, identified a separation. He noticed it within and with his thinking perception. The separation is actually there in the dual hemispheric mammalian brain. This separation is due to an actual left right hemispheric process in our human brain. This split identified by Descartes is due to the hemispheric processing mechanism of the brain, left right. This divided symmetry is present in everything we do. We can encapsulate this situation by saying, we have two hands left and right with a single heart. If you learned to write old style cursive with your right hand, then break your right hand, so it is in a cast, you won't be able to write cursive with your left hand. It is as if your right hand belongs to a person who writes cursive and your left hand belongs to another person who never learned cursive handwriting. So there are multiple truths happening at the same time within a unitary package. I posit in my teaching a unitary identity concept I call biospirit. I intensify biospirit identity as part of the essential well-being health process. There is a subtle dualism, a mind body perception split, within a unitary response corridor. With a decrease in the physical doing life of the person, the person becomes over involved with inner processes that would best be left to the inner flow of internal events and processes. Imagine a person, who was focused on changing an autonomic process like the heartbeat. The heart in normal conditions adjusts to an increase or decrease in activity, there is no need to control it, it controls itself. Thought and the pattern of thought is and should be for the most part an automatic process which changes with conditions. To be neurotically involved with controlling thinking is to distrust the natural movement within the psyche. "The person is not 'moving', is 'stuck' and this stuck-ness and sluggishness of the body produces an over abundance of mental contents. Often these thought patterns of self-stimulation are loops of repetitive thought, that become more and more prescriptive in nature, focusing on should, what should be done, what could be done, what if scenarios."-Michael Cottingham 

    This is the manifestation and this formula addresses various elements of this situation. For instance in something like chronic arthritis what you have is a joint which is unable to move or is painful to move so what you have is the person not moving. You have a person who is not moving around because they have bilateral knee joint pain. You have decreased or depressed physical activity which manifests mentally, spiritual decrease. We are body in spirit, spirit in body. We are biospirit. And with this pain comes a lack of movement. And with this lack of body movement you have lack of spirit movement. You have a lack of becoming. So what happens when you don't move around, and you eat an bio compromised american nutrient poor fake diet? You have a decrease in the life force. You have Biospiritual attack." - Paul Manski within his studies of Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy in the small group Context https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2016/02/turmeric-tonic-and-fritz-perls-by-paul.html

II. Botanical Profiles and Medicinal Applications

The sources detail various Southwestern plants, attributing specific "biospiritual" and physiological qualities to each.

Plant Name	Common/Folk Names	Key Uses & Attributes
Conopholis alpina	Cancer Root, Squawroot	Restorative; used for male potency and muscular weakness following significant illness; "Neptunian" energy.
Corydalis aurea	Scrambled Eggs, Golden Smoke	Nervine and relaxant; acts as a digestive stimulant/bitter; helps "open up" the practitioner to the now.
Krameria erecta	Porphyry	"Herbmaxxing ascension plant"; used for "ancestral healing memory" and treating incurable wounds.
Prunus serotina	Black Cherry	Dependable anxiolytic for "overtired, edgy types"; used as a cough suppressant and flavor enhancer.
Ptelea trifoliata	Hoptree	Carminative digestive bitter; used for loss of appetite in old age or malaise following feverish illness.
Maianthemum racemosum	False Solomon Seal	Topical skin soothing poultice (astringent); aligns with kidney and lung Qi.
Larrea tridentata	Creosote, La Gobernadora	Defines the Southwest; used for sunburned skin and as a bitter; symbolic of sustainability and availability.
Rosa spp.	Rosehips	High-vitamin food; rebuilds the immune system and restores boundaries between self and other.

III. Philosophical and Political Framework

The "Wild Herb Ways" philosophy heavily integrates classical Western philosophy and contemporary "dissident" political theory.

A. The "Common Good" and Group Politik

Citing Aristotle, Cicero, and Thomas Aquinas, the documents argue that the city-state (Polis) must prioritize the "Common Good" (bonum commune) of its specific citizens, in a specific place of watersheds and place. The"common good" is hence the wellbeing of the small group being the primacy of the family.

• Wellbeing: The framework advocates for "Wellbeing" as a legitimate moral pursuit, arguing that current "anti-life" regimes prioritize "Entertainment media cosplay" and "global consumerism" over local direct folk.
• Immune System Analogy: Group identity is compared to a biological immune system. Just as a cell requires a membrane to distinguish "self" in order to promote the cell from "other," a small group community requires boundaries to maximize well-being and re-facilitate and promote small group encounters on the actual landscape of place within a tyranny of technological force continuously "broadcasting" a narrative of nihilism to maximize consumption while minimizing the validity of actual IRL person, plant and place within the bioregion of watersheds and mountains. 

B. Critique of Modernity

• Media Programming: Modern media is described as "electronic media conditioning" that uses "monotonous repetition" to program defeat, nihilism, guilt, addiction into the population to facilitate weakening the small group and promoting selfish individualism addiction hoarder values and conspicuous consumption.
• Technological Violence: Any technology (that highlights proscriptive media entertainment memory) that "divorces human beings... from their innate small group experience" is categorized as a form of violence utilizing the micro-aggression of trauma to attain rupture and hence the atomized isolated fragmented individual as commodity.
• "Sobriety": Sobriety is a key practice for biospirit unfoldment. Maintaining sobriety is a key core component value. The culture of "experimental drug use" is a form of "degeneracy of experience" and is viewed as an intentional "erasure of Western norms" for the purpose of control and disempowerment.  https://youtu.be/HfLi2R2Vqtg?si=jd-z1x03LwTDD-H9
  
  

According to Paul Manski writing on the essential foundational value of sobriety. Manski proposes: "....No western society that has stood the test of time can endure the threat of mass decriminalized drug use. The deconstructed social order agenda mandates tolerance of and non apprehension of social parasite criminals who transport, sell and encourage the use of intoxicating addictive deadly drugs like alcohol, opiates, marijuana, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines. The deconstructed social order mandates the suspension of laws banning the sale of these deadly substances. It encourages the use of these intoxicants among our young to destroy the power of the young next generation so you have an inevitable step down, dumb down decline. The spread of poverty flat unhoused tent cities in all urban areas is now accepted as part of the beautiful new deconstructed social order. Rather than treat addiction and maladaptive norms and punish crime and drug sales, instead promote crime and drug addiction as the new fun way to be. The dumbed down masses annihilated through openly sold death mantra marijuana, death mantra opiates, young ladies swigging beer and whiskey like tattooed sailors on shore leave birthing a proud new generation of fetal alcohol syndrome, ADHD autistic Jerry’s kids, sex drugs and rock and roll, proud low IQ handicappers, is now said to be a new moral good.

Even though countless medical studies prove that the genetically altered marijuana when used as designed creates gene expression changes that trigger lifelong schizophrenia and psychotic breakdowns. If only 1:25 people enjoy the marijuana psychosis gene expression over a societal cohort of casual marijuana abusers that means there are millions of forever mentally handicapped non functionary hangers on, non contributors. Millions of our children pushed via a child abuse agenda on a life long marijuana sold for profit addiction march towards lowered potential. Much like the use abuse of the red man’s indian indigenous curse tobacco that causes lung cancer, causes heart disease, emphysema, copd,  deforms unborn children in the mother’s womb, was marketed as a good pleasant billion dollar death industry to our children in previous generations. And exactly are the psilocybin mushroom, ketamine, marijuana, fentanyl, opiates, psychiatric antidepressants of today, marching our children in a death march to lowered achievement slavery.  None of these chemical addiction strait jacket stories are new. They were told over and over again in the freak show side show story now become the social media influencer. Or exactly like alcohol marketed today as an identified teratogenic substance in a billion dollar industry to women of childbearing age, entrusted with birthing our future. Know that our future is only through the mothers who birth our race. Alcohol is marketed to western women to dumb down intellectual capacity of the children they will inevitably carry. 

     As said before sobriety is society. Sobriety is not an optional occasional break from the chase for an ever deeper dopamine high. Sobriety is the fundamental basis for our continued group existence wellbeing. This does not even begin to address the meth amphetamine salts, meth both pharmaceutical meth and private underground lab meth, opiates, fentanyl, psychiatric drugs, benzodiazepines made available to western youth that will forever doze our western biospirit into the chemical sleep of erasure." -Paul Manski

IV. Theological Synthesis: The Divine Mother and the Earth

The theology of "Wild Herb Ways" centers on the "Theotokos" (Mary) and her relationship to the natural world.  https://youtu.be/Md1hA7xlLvk?si=3vvEADblAhmuiYMI

A. The Archetype of "Mary the Mother of God as Changing Woman"

The documents combine the Catholic Mary Mother of God and traditional Catholic concepts of the southwest  https://youtu.be/9xibIefTl18?si=T0NJbUSmu2NkautP

• Self-Renewal: Like the seasons, she attains old age and is reborn, representing the "perpetual rejuvenation" of the earth.
• Mistress of Animals: She is the keeper of sheep, deer, and all wildlife; the "Queen of the Flower World."
• Lá Bealtaine: The high holy days of Beltane (May 1st) are dedicated to her as the "Earth Mother," celebrating the rising energy of spring. https://youtu.be/kwbJDk-SU7k?si=lvcqjKgTRorFy-_T
  
  

B. Celestial Lore and the Bear Stars

The "Wild Herb Way" tracks the solar and lunar cycles, emphasizing the Big Dipper (Ursus Major).

• The Bear Path: The rotation of the Great Bear around Polaris (the North Star) mirrors the rising and falling energy of plants.
• Ancestral DNA: Manski asserts that European and Eur-Asian circumpolar peoples share "Neanderthal DNA" and the associated "bear star stories," which are foundational to their biospirit.  https://youtu.be/SU2PqNm5DdU?si=CvyKDzAGUrDL_1YN
  
  

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V. Key Insights and Directives

The sources offer several aphoristic "Revelations" for the "Peace Pilgrim":

1. "Life is too short for grief, or regret, or bullshit." (Quoting Edward Abbey).
2. Responsibility for Wellbeing: Individuals and small group communities must take responsibility for their health and psychological state; blaming others is a "disaster strategy."
3. The "Inner Smile": A Qigong practice to nourish vitality, beginning with activating a happy memory and imagining a cloudless blue sky.
4. Faith Action Bioregion: "Faith is meaningless" unless it is expressed through small group action and the "the experience living out the fundamental truth of family within specific bioregion" and small group dynamics
5. Suspicion of the "AI Intranet": The AI internet is viewed as a "potential trap" and "surveillance device" True work and "dialogic communication" should occur face-to-face in situations that maximize small group dynamics within bioregion of place.
6. Vote for love, give your television to someone else. Pledge peace, and never watch mainstream movies again. Entertainment is poison. Vote for "us" and create your own songs with folk music. Sing every day. Our faith is our music. We have bodies and voices. Create a choir. We will vote forever. We wave the flag that says, "We, we, we are one people." Sobriety is the only happiness. Live as yourself, soberly. As ourselves, beautifully, we are one people. Reject and resist mandatory air conditioning regulations. Ban air conditioning wherever you are. We are vibrant, and our beautiful women nurture the children of the future, embodying the loving embrace of the Orchid Declaration. If you are a woman, live like a woman. Stop living the lies of the abortion and death culture that erases us. Stop. Your leg and armpit hair are natural. Your butt and breasts are perfect. Your nails are perfect. Live simply. We embrace this healthy revolution of living as ourselves. Thank you for being yourself. See you soon. There's still so much to teach and so much to learn.   https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2023/10/aralia.html
   
   
   
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"Medicine is a verb, it's not a noun. And this whole illusion of disconnect... makes itself known in our language. You can't buy connection.", a quote from Michael Cottingham of Voyage Botanica— The provided texts, written by Paul Manski under the Wild Herb Ways moniker, present a dense blend of bioregional herbalism, Western philosophy, and identitarian vitalism. For Manski the plants themselves within a bioregion of place serves as a "world teacher". Manski who combines detailed botanical field studies of Southwest plants with small therapeutic group practice, sitting with plants,  Qigong exercises and spiritual revelations. A central theme is the "biospirit," which connects the person to place to the natural laws of the specific land they inhabit. The writings frequently critique modern media, globalism, and selfish individualism , arguing instead for a return to small group communal sharing, ancestral traditions and small group practice solidarity. Ultimately, the sources advocate for "wellbeing" through a disciplined life of sobriety, small group workshops, deep ecology, direct experience sitting with plants, and the medicinal use of southwest Remedio flora.  

The bioregional herbmaxxing philosophy is a vitalist, small group community-centered approach to healing that integrates the study of local plants, personal responsibility for wellbeing, and a "radical peace pilgrim" lifestyle. For beginners, the philosophy centers on several core practices and concepts:

1. "Sitting with Plants" derived from John Slattery, Mimi Kemp and Michael Cottingham

The fundamental practice of herbmaxxing is "sitting with plants" to learn their stories and voices both intuitively and scientifically based on John Slattery's four directions approach

• The Method: Rather than just identifying a plant, you should come face-to-face with it, introduce yourself, and perhaps nibble on a leaf, focus your breathing into the ground around it.
• Intuition and Relationship: Beginners are encouraged to find the "plant's house" (where it grows naturally) and establish a connection that goes deeper than superficial consumption, called "herbs of commerce" ny Michael Cottingham.
• Respect: This process is small group intuitive, features non-judgmental disclosure and multi-polarity; the person, plants and actual place are viewed as "teachers" that share their energy without boundaries.

2. Radical Responsibility for Wellbeing

Herbmaxxing teaches that wellbeing is the inherent responsibility of the individual within the small therapeutic and their local folk perspective.

• The Five Principles: Life should be reinvented through love, sobriety, law, beauty, and truth.
• Holistic Health: Nourishing vitality is achieved by "doing well, eating well, working well, resting well, sleeping well, loving well, and fucking well".
• Sobriety: A commitment to sobriety and clear thinking is essential to counteract the "negative programming" of modern mechanized entertainment media and industrial culture devoid of place.  https://youtu.be/6C-wE0OlzzI?si=VCxD8goeiID92ys6

3. Understanding Our Nature as "Tool-Using Social Animals"

A key tenet is recognizing that humans are tool-using social animals.

• Tools: We use auxiliary implements to extend our boundaries and live more effectively.
• Social Small Group Nature: We naturally live in small groups with hierarchies, and our wellbeing depends on these cohesive social bonds.
• Extension of Energy: We are taught to experience extending our life force in a peaceful, caring supportive small group setting as a way to help ourselves within specific "place" thrive.

4. Bioregional and Vitalist Identity 

The philosophy is rooted in localism and the "biospirit" of one's specific land.

• Turtle Island: Much of the source material focuses on the Southwest of "Turtle Island" (North America), emphasizing allegiance to local watersheds and mountains rather than abstract nations.
• Vitalism: This is the belief that a "spark of divine life" animates and protects the body, rejecting the idea that humans are "mechanical machines".
• Folk First! Earth First!: Beginners are taught to prioritize their immediate small group community and local ecosystem.

5. Spiritual and Energetic Practices

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Beginners are encouraged to integrate physical and spiritual exercises into their daily lives:

• Qigong: Practices like Zhan Zhuang ("Stand like a tree") and the Microcosmic Orbit are used to circulate vital energy (Qi) and build resilience.
• Seasonal Celebrations: Aligning one's life with the solar year (Equinoxes and Solstices) and lunar cycles to celebrate the "victory of solar season".
• Prayer: Engaging in "continuous dialogue" with the Creator, the person, the plants, and the place through prayers like the Jesus Prayer ("Jesu cum Maria sit nobis in via") or "I circle around, I circle around the boundaries of the earth" to stay connected while traveling the "medicine road".

6. Decoupling from "Death Culture"

A final major component for beginners is the peaceful decoupling from industrial war culture. This involves rejecting mechanized violence corridors and "selfish individualism" in favor of a commune-style sharing of resources and knowledge. The goal is to become "technicians of the sacred" who live as "plain peace pilgrims". As Michael Cottingham says, "Do no harm'.

In the bioregional herbmaxxing philosophy, health is not a static state but a dynamic process intrinsically linked to the solar and lunar cycles, which dictate the movement of vital energy (Qi) in both the landscape and the human body. Seasonal cycles, particularly the Equinoxes, serve as pivotal "turning points" that impact health through energetic shifts, physiological changes, and spiritual renewal.

How do seasonal cycles like the Equinox impact health?

The Vernal Equinox as a "Solar Victory"

The Vernal (Spring) Equinox (around March 21) is characterized as a "triumph of light" and a "solar victory" over darkness.

• Psychological Resilience: Experiencing this victory directly is considered essential for mental health, providing the "courage" to navigate life's struggles and navigation of seasonal changes.
• Rejuvenation: This period marks the renewal of the Earth (often personified as "Changing Woman"), which is reflected in the human "biospirit" as a time for "rejuvenation wellbeing" and the activation of the "liver energy".
• What is the importance of 'sitting' with plants?
• 'Sitting' with plants is the foundational work (spiritual practice) of the bioregional Vitalist as developed by teachers like Mimi Kemp, John Slattery, Michael Cotingham. Manski call it the  herbmaxxing philosophy, serving as a method to build a commune of peace and sobriety. It is an intuitive, experiential process where one approaches a plant as a living being and a teacher rather than a mere object of study or a commodity to be bought.
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  The importance of this practice is defined by several key functions:

  • Establishing Connection: In this philosophy, "medicine is connection," and sitting with a plant is how that connection is forged. It is described as a "face-to-face" encounter where the practitioner introduces themselves, states their intentions to help their people, and enters the "present moment".- Michael Cottingham
  • Healing Modern Trauma: Sitting with specific plant families, such as the Orobanchaceae (Cancer root), is seen as a way to address the "trauma of our trauma-laden age". These plants are believed to reach out to compromised, isolated individuals to help them walk in balance and create relationships based on mutual respect and healing.
  • Finding "Plant Houses": The practice emphasizes the importance of "where" a plant grows. By sitting with a plant in its natural "house," practitioners learn the specific songs and stories of that place. This process helps individuals understand "where you are, who you are, [and] what you are doing". - John J Slattery
  • Non-Judgmental Energy Exchange: Plants are viewed as anti-authoritarian teachers that share their energy within the boundaries and frameworks of place. By "sitting hard" and letting down personal barriers, practitioners can participate in a reciprocal energy exchange, such as hugging an aspen tree to share unique generative healing energy.
  • Intuitive Learning and "Plant Schools": Rather than relying solely on books or experts, sitting with plants allows the land to provide a direct transmission of knowledge. This practice establishes "plant schools" for the mutual benefit of all beings, where the plants themselves provide the instruction.
  • Listening to the Earth: The practice can involve physical actions like breathing into the ground around the plant or putting one's ear to the earth to hear what the roots are saying. It is a way to see what the plant "has to say" and to acknowledge the Creator's role in placing these remedies on the earth.

  Ultimately, 'sitting hard' is a way to de-couple from "death culture" and industrial war, replacing mechanized violence with a peaceful, communal study of the biospirit through "plant person place" strategies.

Physiological Impacts and Organ Systems

According to John J Slattery: The transition into spring creates specific biological pressures that the body must navigate:

• Liver and Gallbladder Energy: In the tradition of "genius wild herb ways," spring is the season of "wood and wind," which specifically activates the liver and gallbladder.
• "Liver Attacking the Lungs": The abundant release of pollen from trees like cedar, juniper, and ash during the Vernal Equinox enters the nasal cavities and lungs. This can cause the liver energy to "attack" the lungs, manifesting as Seasonal Allergy Syndrome (SAS), characterized by itchy eyes, hay fever, and respiratory irritation.
• Potency and Vitality: Certain "restorative" plants like Conopholis alpina (Cancer root) are sought out during the wet abundance of spring to restore muscular strength and potency in those sidelined by illness.

The Celestial Clock and Energy Flow

The philosophy uses the "Bear Stars" (Ursus Major) as a celestial indicator of health and energy management:

• Rising and Falling Energy: Just as the Great Bear "wakes up" and stands on two legs in the spring, plant energy—and human vitality—is seen as rising during this time. Conversely, in autumn, the energy "lies down," signaling a period for rest and the "rebirth of light" within the home's hearth during the winter solstice.
• Microcosmic Orbit: Practitioners use these seasonal cues to adjust their Qigong practices, such as the "Microcosmic Orbit," to circulate vital energy in alignment with the "sunwise" (clockwise) turning of the seasons.

Ritual and Community Wellbeing

Seasonal cycles also impact health by governing communal "party love festivals".

• Shared Experience: There are 34 designated opportunities per year (including 8 solar holy-days and 26 lunar celebrations) to gather as a "folk" to celebrate and pray together.
• Environmental Harmony: Health is defined as "living in harmony with the sun—the father of all things—and the earth—the mother of our people". This harmony is maintained through seasonal prayers at the tops of mountains to ensure the falling of rain and snow, which nourishes the bioregion's watersheds and, by extension, the community's health.
• How does the 'liver attacking the lungs' principle work
• The principle of the "liver attacking the lungs" is a concept derived from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and integrated into the bioregional herbmaxxing philosophy to explain the physiological impact of the Spring Equinox.
  
  
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  This principle works through a combination of seasonal energetic shifts and environmental triggers:

  1. The Wood and Wind Principle

  In the "Wild Herb Ways" discourse, spring is identified as the season of wood and wind. The Vernal Equinox (around March 21) signifies a "revival of the liver," which is the organ associated with the wood element. During this time, the liver’s energy—or "biospirit"—becomes highly active and "stirs".

  2. The Environmental Trigger

  As the sunlight triumphs over darkness, trees such as cedar, juniper, ash, and elm release an abundance of pollen. The "winds" of spring stir these plants, carrying the pollen into the human nasal cavity.

  3. The Energetic "Attack"

  The lungs are considered the "wind-related organ" in this system. When the woody pollen enters the lungs, the hyperactive energy of the liver (wood) is said to "attack" the lungs, disrupting the body's internal balance.

  4. Resulting Symptoms (SAS)

  This energetic conflict manifests physically as Seasonal Allergy Syndrome (SAS). Common symptoms include:

  • Itchy and watery eyes.
  • Runny nose and hay fever.
  • Respiratory irritation.

  5. Herbal Remedies

  To counter this "attack" and restore harmony between the liver and lungs, the philosophy suggests specific regional formulas. One primary remedy is Large-leaved ragweed (Ambrosia ambrosioides), which is used as a tea or tincture to treat SAS. Other plants used in this formula include New Mexican thistle, plantain, and elderflower.

• What role does the 'Bear Stars' constellation play in vitality?

• In the bioregional vitalism of the "Wild Herb Ways," the Bear Stars (the Big Dipper or Ursus Major) act as a celestial clock that mirrors and governs the movement of vital energy (Qi) in both the natural world and the human body.

  The role of the Bear Stars in vitality can be understood through the following principles:

  1. Seasonal Mirror of Energy (Qi)

  
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  The movement of the constellation provides a visual map for how vitality shifts throughout the year. The sources explain that "our holy sacred wild herb way plants kind after kind" follow the lead of the Bear Stars:

  • Spring Rising: In the spring, the Great Bear "wakes up" and stands on two legs. This celestial movement corresponds to the rising of plant energy and the renewal of human vitality (the "biospirit") during the Vernal Equinox.
  • Autumn Falling: In the autumn, the Bear walks on all fours, becomes sleepy, and lies down. This indicates a time when plant energy "falls" and vitality returns to the roots or the internal hearth, signaling a period for rest and replenishment.

  2. Internalizing the North Star Energy

  A primary practice for maintaining vitality involves "bringing the northern stars into your center".

  • The Hara/Solar Plexus: Practitioners are taught to pull the energy of the northern stars into the hara (the solar plexus or abdomen at the belly button). This is described as a way to "hearth" the sun's energy within the body to strengthen the legs, support the feet, and promote healing for one's community.
  • Microcosmic Orbit: Specific Qigong exercises, such as the "Microcosmic Orbit," are based on the "standing tree northstar Polaris orbit," which circulates vital energy around the spine in alignment with the celestial center.

  3. Spiritual and Mythological Connections

  The Bear Stars are deeply integrated into the "biospirit" through shared ancestral stories and sacred relationships:

  • Marriage to the Mother of All Things: One core teaching states that Mary (the Mother of All Things/Changing Woman) married Ursa Major, linking human reproduction and seasonal fertility directly to this constellation.
  • The Mother Maria: In this tradition, the Bear's mother is identified as Maria (the "Lady of the Mountains"), who turns at the center of the northern sky near Polaris.

  4. Communal Wellbeing and the "Gourd Dipper"

  The stars also play a practical role in the survival of the bioregion. The constellation is sometimes referred to as a "gourd dipper" filled with water.

• Prayers for Rain: The "Gourd Dipper" is connected to the "north star man" and "the woman Cassiopeia," who work together to pool water in the sky.
• Vitality of the Land: Community members must pray at the tops of sacred mountains to "fill" these celestial dippers with water. If these prayers are neglected, the sources claim the snow will not fall and the rivers will not flow, leading to anger and a loss of social cohesion within the "folk".
• How does Qigong practice align with the North Star?In the bioregional vitalism of "Wild Herb Ways," Qigong practice—particularly the Microcosmic Orbit—is designed to align the practitioner’s internal energy with the celestial axis of the North Star (Polaris).

  This alignment works through several specific physical and energetic principles:

  1. The Polaris Orbit and Microcosmic Orbit

  The foundational energy-circulation exercise, the Microcosmic Orbit, is explicitly described as being based on the "standing tree northstar Polaris orbit". While the natural seasons and the sun move in a sunwise (clockwise) circle, the night sky rotates counterclockwise around Polaris. Qigong practice seeks to mirror this celestial stability and movement within the human body to cultivate and circulate vital energy (Qi).

  2. Centering Energy in the "Hara"

  A central technique in this alignment is "bringing the northern stars into your center".

  • The Physical Action: Practitioners are taught to reach toward the North Star as it sits low in the sky.
  • The Target: This celestial energy is pulled into the hara, which is identified as the solar plexus or the abdomen at the belly button (umbilicus).
  • The Result: By pulling this "sun-like" star energy into the hara, the mountain is said to support the practitioner's feet, strengthen their legs, and initiate healing.

  3. Zhan Zhuang (Standing Like a Tree)

  The alignment is often practiced through Zhan Zhuang, or "standing like a tree".

  • Root and Crown: In this stance, the practitioner develops an energetic loop with the earth and the sky, much like a tree that remains rooted while its crown reaches toward the heavens.
  • Axis of Stillness: Just as Polaris is the stationary hub around which the "sun wheel" and the Bear stars turn, the practitioner strives to find a "hub of the axle that remains stationary" within their own body through rest and proper posture.

  4. Storage of Vitality

  Once a Qigong series is completed, the gathered energy—often visualized as an energy ball between the palms—is shrunk as small as possible and moved into the hara at the navel. This stores the "Polaris energy" for later use, nourishing the individual's "biospirit" and resilience.

  In this system, the North Star represents the "divine principles of perfection and order" that practitioners seek to embody through their movements and breath.

• How do I bring the Northern Stars into my center?

• To bring the Northern Stars into your center according to the "Wild Herb Ways" philosophy, you must engage in a specific energetic practice that aligns your body with the celestial axis of Polaris (the North Star) and the Bear Stars (the Big Dipper).

  The Practice of Centering the Stars

  The process involves a combination of physical posture, visualization, and the cultivation of vital energy (Qi):

  • Locating the Center: In this tradition, your "center" is the hara, also referred to as the solar plexus or the abdomen at the belly button (umbilicus).
  • Reaching for the Star: You are instructed to reach your hand toward the North Star, seeing it as it sits low in the sky.
  • Pulling in the Energy: You should visualize yourself pulling the energy of the star (described as "the sun" or celestial light) directly into your hara.
  • Internalization: Once the energy is pulled in, you should visualize a "rising sun" within your abdomen while breathing and focusing on healing.
  • The Microcosmic Orbit: This practice is often part of a standing Qigong form known as the "Microcosmic Orbit," which is based on the "standing tree northstar Polaris orbit". In this form, while the sun moves clockwise, you align with the night stars that rotate counterclockwise around Polaris.

  Storing the Vitality

  A critical step in concluding these exercises is the "shrinking" of the energy. After completing a Qigong series, you should imagine shrinking the "energy ball" between your palms until it is as small as possible, then move it inside your body through the hara at the navel to store the vitality for later use. (Note: The sources specify that women should move this energy into the heart area rather than the belly during certain times).

  Benefits of the Alignment

  Aligning with the Northern Stars is believed to have profound physical and spiritual effects:

  • Physical Strength: This practice is said to support the feet and strengthen the legs.
  • Spiritual Connection: It connects the practitioner to the "divine principles of perfection and order" represented by the North Star.
  • Bioregional Health: By "filling the gourd dippers" (the Bear Stars) through prayer and centering, the practitioner helps ensure that rain and snow fall to nourish the local watershed and the community.
  How does the 'Inner Smile' memory unlock vital energy?

  The "Inner Smile" memory functions as a specific psychological and energetic trigger within the practice of Tree Qigong to unlock and nourish your vital energy (Qi).

  According to the sources, the process works through these steps:

  • Activating a Happy Memory: To unlock the inner smile, you must first recall a specific happy time from your life. This intentional retrieval of positive experience serves as the foundation for the practice.
  • Visualization: While holding this happy memory, you are instructed to close your eyes and visualize a "clear, cloudless blue sky".
  • Cultivating Qi: This combination of memory and visualization is used to increase the life force (Qi) and move it through a "circular wheel" of eight elements (such as sky, wind, and wood) to renew the spirit.

  This practice is part of a broader vitalist philosophy that emphasizes "radical responsibility" for wellbeing. By intentionally using happy memories to shift your internal state, you are participating in what is described as "nourishing becoming"—a process that moves from the internal core (the roots) to the outward manifestation of health and vitality. This mental shift is seen as a way to counteract "negative programming" and reconnect with your inherent, life-affirming nature.

  Bioregional Medicinal Plants and Vitalist Herbal Applications

  
  

Living Air, trees, Water, Animals

Living Air, Trees, Water, Animals 

  "If a tree comes crashing down in the forest, and no one is present close by to hear the sound, did the crashing tree make a sound?   I circle around, I circle around the boundaries of the earth, wearing my long wing feathers as I fly, I circle around, I circle around."       On this gracious thankful Beltane the perfect wellbeing way for us, among us is the liberation way of family which is familiarity. Beltane is the sacred cross quarter time between Vernal spring equinox March 21st and Summer Solstice June 21st. We use the scientific method of sacred land sacred sex, viable vitalist person, plant and place of bioregions, mountains and watersheds Living Deeply, Air, Trees, Water, Animals, a practice to re-ignite rapture our destiny. Embracing Dialogic Communication Conversation: we Focus on reciprocal group understanding within the biome and active listening rather than winning and gaining an upper hand in argumentative discourse focused on outsiders, we prefer to offer a helping hand to those who are mutuals in face to face transactions. We acknowledge implicit intentions behind words. The implicit intentions behind words means we build up a community spirit among self identifying mutuals rather than attacking or critiquing others. Our Dialogic Approach/Learning to spiritual practice is celebratory of the solar year and seasonal celebrations: An educational method involving face-to-face communing natural forces on the landscape,  sharing "sign-ideas” to re-co-construct meaningfulness within biospirit, as seen in the great dialogues.

Sing ye to the remedios a new song , thank you Creator: because the Father through the Mother hath done wonderful things, so it is. They together hath revealed, this vitality in the newness of spring Beltane in the sight of beauty, beauty, beauty, beauty.

        What does it mean to say, with an expanded ‘our’, radiating to include living beings living deeply air, trees, water, animals. “Our wellbeing is non-negotiable?”. It means several key points the scientific method of sacred land sacred sex, viable vitalist person, plant and place of bioregions, mountains and watersheds living deeply, air, trees, water, animals, a practice to re-ignite rapture our destiny, that are aligned in an undeniable connected wheel. That wheel is the sun wheel of our western kind lore peacefully rising. The central point of the wheel, the hub of the axle that remains stationary and around which turns the sun wheel at Beltane is as it’s always been, taking responsibility for our wellbeing community pf the scientific method of sacred land sacred sex, viable vitalist person, plant and place of bioregions, mountains and watersheds Living Deeply, Air, Trees, Water, Animals, a practice to re-ignite rapture our destiny, lies chiefly with us because we are a people, and we sink or swim with regard to our cohesive social bond. Therefore the central point is taking responsibility for our wellbeing via sobriety and going deeply into our thinking, beliefs and subconscious stories that propel us forward. Blaming others for our failures is a disaster strategy. Tossing our own cultural heritage is a disaster strategy. We take responsibility for our wellbeing psychologically via our thinking. We are a people.  Our wellbeing, upon which all the spokes turn …unqualified immediate support for wellbeing, and ending the guilt that promotes the victimization of people. Begin a psychological approach, a thinking thought based approach, a proper lexicon of words. This method is exactly what a whole host of others taught.

      Dear brothers and sisters beloved folk birthed of green westernkind, greetings you are wished well. On this Turtle Island during high holy days of Beltane, the first of May, as we crown our Neandertal all Mother Mary the Mother of Jesus our Saviour and redeemer, our wellbeing is local face to face in the commons of shared experience familiarity which is the family within boundaries of landscape and watersheds within the bioregion. I have nothing new to tell you. Wellbeing is the exclusive responsibility of a people and we are a people and our wellbeing is stable familiarity of place. Dedicated firstly to God my Father sky, in the name of Jesus my Saviour by the power of the Holy Ghost through the powerful intercession of Maryam the Mother of God, earth mother, and all the angel and saints.  

        My very own Christian Easter comes on the Sunday nearest the full moon after the spring equinox. It is 'my' Easter and you can not take away from me the sacred flower world. We define Easter and you have nothing to do with it. Easter is the resurrection of Jesus Christ who lived and walked on this Turtle Island who became who he was, is and will be on the sacred tree. That is why we worship trees, and rocks and sky. The living spirit of sky is in the air wind, in the trees, in the water, and in the animals taught by red and blue and all those in the family of living beings. We do not explain to outsiders Earth First! Folk First! The full moon nearest the spring equinox was the New Year festival so follow this custom. Easter is based on the, the so it is, too, follows this ancient system. 

       Lá Bealtaine is the cross quarter day near May 1st.  Lá Bealtaine is the bright fire, and the beginning of summer. As the days lengthen in Lá Bealtaine the energy in the system of photosynthesis grows.  The two divisions of the year are Lá Bealtaine beginning of summer and samhain the beginning of winter. In  Lá Bealtaine plant energy begins to move into leaf and flower, rising. Hawthorn flowers, primrose, cherry, cinquefoil are part of this early rising energy of first summer. British Isles, the Celts lit ritual bonfires at the beginning of May. This practice continued until the Eighteenth Century. These fires were known as Beltane fires, and on Walpurgis Night, the Eve of May Day, there was dancing around the fire. Those who took part leaped as high as they could to make the crops grow higher, and burning brands were carried through the fields in order to make the soil fertile.  Maypole dancing today, in the British Isles, often involves young people dancing around the pole intertwining flower garlands or ribbons as they do so.     By invoking a biospirit hero ancestor in signing, we seek to activate the power of protection in the narrative of divine assistance, within the actual events around us.  Being who we are engaged in the salvation story, we seek the supernatural aid and assistance of the green breath flame in dwelling word of yellow flame Sol, of sacred mountain springs, pine forest, hemlock, fir, aspen, black cottonwood, alder and wild poleo in flowing snow melt streams, creeks and rivers. The crucial understanding has to do with the validity, meaningfulness and importance of one’s daily life. The value of our life has to do with the divine drama set in motion by the proto evangelium of Genesis 3:15 

        In short our ancestors were, and we are, and continue to be, combatants in a struggle. “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.” The woman, and thy seed refers to blessed Mary, all mother. In the words and teachings of sacred relationship we say all mother and our mother. Mary is venerated as a pivotal force in the salvation story. We invoke her protection and intercession every day we live above ground. We worship Mary, the alder tree with blood beneath its grey bark in the traditions of springs, caves and grottoes in sacred Europa and Turtle island. This fundamental insight is that every tyranny must necessarily be grounded upon the enmities and opposition and the general popular acceptance of evil within a death wave lifestyle culture. We therefore go against many of the commonly held understandings of the dominant culture.  There is no such thing as a neutral lifestyle in a 2 hours per week Sunday faith. Our faith is a 24/7 hour, 365 day faith. Either you are in or you’re out.

“I stand with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always. I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Green, through belief in the remedio, 

On the endless medicine road, by the power of healings, through confession of the Oneness of the Creation of Mother and Father creation. 

By these good sister and brother plants.

     This gathering of the folk as Sir Walter Scot well loved deeply prized wrote in 1810 described, it burns for us the same way today.  "And fast the faithful clan around him drew.

    What time the warning note was keenly wound,

What time aloft their kindred banner flew,

    While clamorous war-pipes yelled the gathering sound,

And while the Fiery Cross glanced like a meteor, round…

    Benledi saw the Cross of Fire,

     It glanced like lightning up Strath-Ire.

     O'er dale and hill the summons flew,

     Nor rest nor pause young Angus knew;

     The tear that gathered in his eye

     He deft the mountain-breeze to dry;

     Until, where Teith's young waters roll

     Betwixt him and a wooded knoll

     That graced the sable strath with green,

     The chapel of Saint Bride was seen.

" 

-Sir Walter Scott 

Lady of the Lake (3rd Canto)

      Like many ancestral family teaching held, the flaming burning bonfire, a crossed wooden stick cross with a bonfire held at the solstice, mid and quarter points in the celestial calendar and as a folk gathering for both emergency and celebration has been publicly suppressed by enemies of biospirit who make it their chief work to destroy us. The Fiery cross was called Crann Tara or Crean Tarigh (Gaelic for Cross of Shame), because to ignore this call to us as a we, us as a people to the chief’s side would bring shame and infamy.

     Modern Catholic May crowning Catholic rituals involve the crowning of a lifelike full size statue to Mary, the Neandertal ancestress with flower blossoms. These statues are usually outdoors or inside a church. Young unmarried girls or young women walk in procession offer flowers, then the whole of the congregation follows them walking in procession offering flowers.

         So what is vitalism? Vitalism is an extreme localism of sovereignty both within the physical body, in the spirit, and within Christ’s divine kingdom around us. The holy herbs are given for our healing. In that way a majority minority tradition, outside the flag waver pill pusher filth generator of the occupying regime. We are grateful to the martyrs and grateful to live to praise another day.  By Mary Mother of God Theotokos we preserve this knowledge of holy blessed remedies, in trees, roots, leaves and flowers. We have a spark of divine life that animates, guides, nourishes and protects the body. We are not mechanical machines. Our narrative and story is within the mind of God that lives in our hearts, speaks through the spirit filled breath of our voices, and just as the Theotokos suckled him, so do our veiled women do likewise for our children.    

     Christmas in the habitation of sacred space. We are God created infused beings. Our worship of God necessary for health is supportive tradition. Those who seek to destroy the practice of tradition are Bergolian enemies working spiritual wickedness. We pray and bless all shepherds and pilgrims of the one true church. We pray for the conversion of Judas shepherds who betray our people’s culture and tradition. Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner, Russian Orthodox Jesus prayer. “When the son of man returnth shall he find faith on earth?” Luke 18:8 When the son of man comes to earth in judgement, will he find faith in men’s hearts? He will find faith because we live a life of faith. He will find faith because we are faithful. He will find faith because we seek faith and life abundantly.

              The Pokrov, in Russian, or Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God was placed above our heads, draped over the church a fresco painted by human hands on the upper dome. Here we take part in Divine Liturgy. 

     In Constantinople at the Church of the Virgin at Blachernae the mantle of Mary mother of Jesus was kept and venerated, in the 10th century the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary appeared at an all night vigil held in the church. The people were under attack. The people gathered to pray at the all night vigil. She appeared to them, to St Andrew the Fool, his associate St Epiphanius, and others praying in the church. She knelt in their midst, her eyes filled with tears. It is fundamental to acknowledge the mystery of our faith. The tears of the kneeling Theotokus are Mary’s tears. She came with the Essene Baptist John, and angel messengers who draped her mantle garment over all those praying. She knelt in prayer, remaining a long time comforting the people. In the icon she drapes an item of clothing over the people as a sign of protection.

     “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’ Ephesians 6:12 The main struggle is of those human beings who make it their work to compromise with the evil power that attacks not only our people, but every people, every culture. The darkness seeks to erase the ethnic local sovereignty of person and place.This darkness of this world wants to destroy the spirit, the soul, the truth and replace the spirit, soul, and truth of the people with false narratives, bizarre concerns, fake news, deviant values of a perverted pseudo-civilization. When you defend the soul, which is the dignity of the spirit, of the people and place, you become a target of those rulers and darkness of this world, you will be erased, liquidated, suspended, taken out of circulation. For that reason we honour tradition of our ancestors. The icon is an ancestor of our authentic bio-spirit. For that reason we hold fast to tradition, especially in our worship of Jesus Christ, Mary the Theotokus God bearer, along with the angels and saints, who as our ultimate ancestors, we beseech with continual prayer. Christ is with and among us, be attentive. 

     Through the year with Genius World Christ teacher Paul Manski teaching: 

Love, sobriety, law, beauty, truth. So you can be you, blessings alway.

    Father God at arch of heaven, holy hallowed be thy name, kingdom will come be done, Turtle island earth and heaven, give us thy blessings everyday, we forgive all today never forget the morrow, in the name of your son Jesus, by power of Holy Ghost through intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father God water maker, Lord of the whole creation, hear me. I am the genius world Christ, teacher wild herb ways giving you fully charged. You Lord created earth and everything in it calling it good. God created us good, you good, to do good and be good. Now it becomes us to make good on good, good on grace, full of grace Mary theo Holy God bearing Virgin mother of Europan biospirit. For by the greatness of thy beauty, our Creator of them all may be seen never more to fall. We are known thereby as Holy Ghost God breathed inspirited sons, inspirited daughters, inspirited family ones, among inspirited green.  God endowed our biospirit, your biospirit, with the Neandertal Id as a we and us to be bright golden shining lights through Redeemer in Five Ways: love, sobriety, law, beauty and truth. Our instincts are the inherent Neandertal holy biospirited love God way, to us and all around, towards our people, family folk, for wives and children. Our God is greened love for all trees, glade, and wood and through sacred land, sacred sex truth which is Turtle Island dominion through Saviouress Mary of green glade of woods, Neanderthal Mary of cave art grottos. 

     Turtle Island is clockwise, four directions sunwise in the upper northeast right front foot Greenland, the lower right southeast right foot of the turtle Florida East Caribbean, the lower southwest left foot of the turtle the Gulf of California West and Baja California, in the northwest the upper left front foot of the turtle are the Aleutian islands and Alaska. We are the new Europa of Neandertal fully there, fully now, fully love.

     We celebrate clockwise daylight sunwise circle of the seasons of the day, whereas we celebrate night time circle night stars turning opposite counterclockwise. Our wellbeing night sky moves counterclockwise, around the bear stars. All of the bear star stories come from previously hidden now revealed by genius perfect fully enlightened genius world Mary Christ teacher, wild herb ways Neandertal language and our religious tradition. Heaven and earth and the natural seasons ‘move’ according to  prescribed sunwise turning order, and according to movement, within the sun begun we are born. The Great Bear is the big dipper, Ursus Major in the Sky is visible year round rotating counterclockwise around the pole star Polaris, spring up fall down. The great bear wakes up in spring, stands up on two legs. In the Autumn the Great bear walks on all fours, he becomes sleepy and lies down. Our holy sacred wild herb way plants kind after kind do the same, The sy above our heads is filled with bear, Zerua hartzez beteta dago. The bear's mother's name is Maria. Hartzaren amaren izena Maria da. The Bear stars are many things in the north, a cleaver or obsidian axe, made of stone, the hammer.  The bear stars are Karlsvagan, Karl’s wagon, or Charles wagon, from the anglo saxon churl for man, like volkswagon the folk’s wagon. The large wagon is Wotanchristvgon, the Wotan christ way path and the smaller wagon is Kevenavagan, Freya’s wagon, the man’s wagon cart and the woman’s wagon cart. Dawn stands the east and Evening for west. 

     The Bear in the sky is Ursus Major.  All peoples who have looked upward from the northern hemisphere towards the sky have seen watched, seen and understood the bear stars of the big dipper. “Which maketh Arcturus, the bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south…who made Ash, Kesil, and Kimah, and the rooms of the south;” Job 9:9 “Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars, the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus, the bear?:” Job 38:31 All eight names for the stars of the Big Dipper - are of Arabic origin, and refer to parts of our Neandertal roots bear story. Human beings came straight out of Europe the source of all human life. All European, Asian circum polar people have Neandertal DNA and share the bear star stories. Only subsaharan Africans lack Nrandertal DNA. The bear walks upright in spring and returns to sleep in autumn, the energy of plants rising up and falling in the same way:

α	Dubhe	ظهر الدب الاكبر	¿ahr ad-dubb al-akbar	Back of the Greater Bear
β	Merak	المراق	al-maraqq	Loins' (of the bear)
γ	Phecda	فخذ الدب	fakhth al-dubb	Thigh of the bear
δ	Megrez	المغرز‎	al-maghriz	Base (of the bear's tail)
ε	Alioth	عليات الحمال	alyat al-hamal	The sheep's fat tail
ζ	Mizar	المئزر	miʼzar	Apron; wrapper; cover
η	Alkaid (Benetnasch)	قائد بنات نعش	al-qā'id bināt naʿsh	The leader of the daughters of the bier
g	Alcor	السها	al-suhā	The forgotten one

    The watchman, ouros, opposite the Bear (arktos) star, Arcturus (Arkt-ouros), whose risings and settings serve to mark the seasons. Heraclitus. The seasonal celebration flow is solar composed of the eight holy-day celebrations: two solstice, summer solstice longest day and winter solstice longest night, and the two equinox vernal spring equinox and autumnal fall equinox, and the four quarter days midway between each of them, for a total of eight sun holy-days. And the lunar moon celebrations, composed of the 13 x 2 or 26 moon holydays the full brightest moon and the new moon dark night 29 ½ day cycle of moon that occur through the 365 day solar year. We have 34 opportunities to party love festival celebration of us as a folk.

Glory Be to the Father…

Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle, alleluia: because the Lord hath done wonderful things, alleluia. He hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Jas 1:17-21*

Dearly beloved: Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures. You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger. For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God. Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Alleluia, alleluia.

*Ps 117:16*

The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me: Alleluia.

*Rom 6:9*

Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him. Alleluia.

John 16:5-14*

At that time: Jesus said to His disciples: I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment. Of sin: because they believed not in me. And of justice: because I go to the Father; and you shall see me no longer. And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged. I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak; and the things that are to come, he shall shew you. He shall glorify me; because he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it to you.

     

     "One of the ways is the subtle dream body, accentuated by this full moon. The idea that you are a tiny little teeny tiny you without any roots beyond name rank and serial number is such a rip off. I always say, "Sit with the aspen forest. Sit in the aspen meadow." Really stop reading this garbage and sit with the aspen. Go! I am literally telling you to go to the aspen. I want you to hug the aspen. Put your arms around the aspen. This is called embracing the aspen. Together let's hug and embrace the aspen. Give some love to this meadow. This meadow has been waiting 64,000 years, 32,000, 16,000 years. Can you imagine how happy this aspen meadow is to see you? Place your hand directly in mine. You there? Join in this is a group hug. We are hugging the aspen tree in a circle. Tell aspen tree your secrets. If you are a woman or a man you need to join the aspen tree. Rub your hands on the aspen tree. I want you, all of us together holding hands to ask permission to share your unique generative healing creative energy with this aspen meadow. Now everyone, to the ground, I want you to dig a hole in the ground and whisper to this aspen meadow air, tree, water, animal. Now put your air, your breath, your wind into the ground. When I was a little boy I would go down the hill to the railroad tracks, and I could hear the train coming miles away. Put your ear directly on the ground and listen to what these aspen roots are saying. We are going to be all day long talking about aspen. Did you hear, "we" are going to be talking about aspen, your voice? You need to speak for these plant, these roots. I want you to write down in your notebooks your experiences. You are now everyone of you an aspen messenger. Some of you have guitars and drums and we will be singing your aspen songs tonight. During this full moon we will be dancing aspen dances. This is the good news. Put every thought into our aspen, our aspen teaching learning place. I know some of you have studied the I Ching, and the hexagram inner truth looking place. Inner truth looking place is both a raised tower and a door way, seen, and being seen. Look at the old aspen, Michael Cottingham taught me that those old aspen branches, on the big trunks are eyes, seeing watching. So we are seeing and in the act of looking we are seen.  The word rejoice is the fundamental activity of ourselves, the aspen meadow and the old aspen trees with white grey furrowed bark, the old limbs as all seeing eyes in all directions. We breathe the same Holy Ghost wind as the tiny aspen with macha late, like green bark and round shaking ovate leaves on flattened petioles. Later, we are going to share all our insights in this circle. Now become aspen. You girls and women I want you to be aspen mothers. You could easily say our highest power is the materia medica contained in the shimmering, quivering pulsating green chlorophyll aspen leaves, making known to us the genius world teacher wild herb ways.  In Imperative (as here) as a word of salutation or greeting, joy to thee, joy to you, that is to say, hail. We should always greet the miraculous aspen placed at the hand of God the Father before in Eden as beginning endless time. Latin salve. joy [verb] -ed, -ing to be delighted, like German, gern, to desire, old high German, ger, that is to say eager, to rejoice, be pleased with. joyfully  God SPEED  to joy, rejoice, be glad. Infinitive, to wish joy, bid, hail! salute, like English to send greeting. So put your arms around the white tree aspen bark and offer the aspen caresses and kissses, the Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine. Scrunch your body against the green skin of tremuloides. Because all creation gives glory to the Creator as we do. The fundamental opportunity is aspen bark tree medicine. The fundamental opportunity is doing the work, being the example of greenest viriditas grace faith, hope, and charity. God the aspen spruce, fir conifer  provider. Men you can be an aspen father. Who wants to speak for this aspen meadow? Who wants to give birth to aspen children? Those are not individual separated aspen trees. You are not separated. Everyone one of us is joined.  Yet it was never a mechanico-glow in the dark microphones and big screen tv burger king churches, it was always the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. It was always the Holy Ghost wind coming like a sound from the olde time sky thunder God the Father of heaven, way up there above the trees as of a mighty wind coming: and it sailed up over the fir, spruce tops, the aspen leaves shaking on their flat petioles, kinetic. Feel the roots of the aspen. Feel 64,000 years of air, aspen, water, animal. Every aspen tree you see shares the same mountain root system air, trees, water, animal. This mountain is aspen. Do not think for a single moment you are alone. We like the aspen are joined at the roots. Now stay in this circle, we are going to 'Circle around, circle around the boundary of the earth.' You and I right now, at this very moment, while you are reading these words, we are together. Do you want to be there? Why not be there on the mountain? Come with me to study plants on the mountain. We visit these plants without any filter in the biospirit hit zone. Taste the leaves. Pass around this tea and tincture of young aspen bark. We are now chewing on heroic, pointed leaf, trembling aspen bark? Always turning to higher power aspen leaves, bitter bark, by butterflies and hummingbirds, praying at chipmunk altars directly in my ear under an aspen tree? Hearing wolf howls and lion squeaks. Following wild turkey trails through the tangled forest. I was soaking my feet shirtless near a pool in Campbell blue wash and a cinnamon black bear cub came down to drink next to me with poleo and scouleri st john’s wort, was it the bear? Was it the poleo? Maybe pedicularis or sweet root or rubbing my body in olive oil and chuchupate root? Yeah I’m really not sure and frankly don’t need to be sure because I am sure in higher power, endless dimension, universal life as Roshi used to say. I am certain. Poplar-Willow family (Salicaceae)

      Many things have come and gone yet the aspen has remained.  Expect nothing experience everything. Plant list around da’Han 1st week June 2025 after extended drought little snow or precip, first late spring rain w/ thunder lightning hail apx. 2+ inches 5cm rain. Learn the botanical cursive signature in each of these 35 or so botanico genius world teacher wild herb ways, chew on hand fulls of white green translucent aspen bark and call me in the morning. fundamental opportunity is aspen bark tree medicine. The fundamental opportunity is doing the work, being the example of grace faith, hope, and charity. God the aspen spruce, fir conifer  provider.

https://youtu.be/xooAA5_WTOQ?si=oy6eAdbi03qVt4vX

What we will not be able to do, she will do. The full moon will be shining in and out of the clouds. Have you ever sat with plants in the moonlight? I can't tell you how many, these mountains are so thirsty for snow. Pray with me tonight on the mountain, for air, for trees, for water, for animals, for our people so they may live. https://youtu.be/wlK8Kl2yLR4?si=hp0xOCZelutewyKc

We celebrate clockwise daylight sunwise circle of the seasons of the day, whereas we celebrate night time circle night stars turning opposite counterclockwise. Our wellbeing night sky moves counterclockwise, around the bear stars. All of the bear star stories come from previously hidden now revealed by genius perfect fully enlightened genius world Mary Christ teacher, wild herb ways Neandertal language and our religious tradition. Heaven and earth and the natural seasons ‘move’ according to  prescribed sunwise turning order, and according to movement, within the sun begun we are born. The Great Bear is the big dipper, Ursus Major in the Sky is visible year round rotating counterclockwise around the pole star Polaris, spring up fall down. The great bear wakes up in spring, stands up on two legs. In the Autumn the Great bear walks on all fours, he becomes sleepy and lies down. Our holy sacred wild herb way plants kind after kind do the same, The sy above our heads is filled with bear, Zerua hartzez beteta dago. The bear's mother's name is Maria. Hartzaren amaren izena Maria da. The Bear stars are many things in the north, a cleaver or obsidian axe, made of stone, the hammer.  The bear stars are Karlsvagan, Karl’s wagon, or Charles wagon, from the anglo saxon churl for man, like volkswagon the folk’s wagon. The large wagon is Wotanchristvgon, the Wotan christ way path and the smaller wagon is Kevenavagan, Freya’s wagon, the man’s wagon cart and the woman’s wagon cart. Dawn stands the east and Evening for west. Let’s go into the infinity standing form. Again there is nothing original here. This form is something we do with remedios, with the person plant and place practice. The remedios are already here. The people are here. The plants and trees are here. The places where trees grow are here. This form could be called moving walking through the trees. It is a standing microcosmic orbit,  a kind of qi gong, Infinity is the figure eight form standing. As a reminder, Last but not the least – very important – once you complete a qi gong series exercise, imagine that you are shrinking your energy ball between your palms, make it as small as you can. Then move it inside your body through your hara at the navel, this moves energy from the ball into your body for later use. For ladies – during your various times, please put the ball into your heart area and not into your belly." -Paul https://youtu.be/HwzGkJGgW8w?si=K7tDtKwymxU4QJgI

"Owning the Peace Pilgrim way. Every twelve years with the Saturn return, the holy people wandering star returns up there in the sky. We do same, return and deep within our wellbeing we work to complete our vow to return to mountain places we been to visited before to visit again. I know some of you are like me, old and worn out, doing this a long time, I am telling you, do not quit. Do not give up. Keep your promises and re-visit these sacred mountains with me together. Even if you visit only one mountain, to to the work there renew your bundle. It is because you visit these mountains and pray together that the rain falls, from the top of the mountain." -Genius Teachings Always Free

So what is vitalism? Vitalism is an extreme localism of sovereignty both within the physical body, in the spirit, and within Christ’s divine kingdom around us. The holy herbs are given for our healing. In that way a majority minority tradition, outside the flag waver pill pusher filth generator of the occupying regime. We are grateful to the martyrs and grateful to live to praise another day.  By Mary Mother of God Theotokos we preserve this knowledge of holy blessed remedies, in trees, roots, leaves and flowers. We have a spark of divine life that animates, guides, nourishes and protects the body. We are not mechanical machines. Our narrative and story is within the mind of God that lives in our hearts, speaks through the spirit filled breath of our voices, and just as the Theotokos suckled him, so do our veiled women do likewise for our children.  

  "The fundamental opportunity is aspen bark tree medicine. The fundamental opportunity is doing the work, being the example of greenest viriditas grace faith, hope, and charity. God the aspen spruce, fir conifer  provider. It began with poleo mentha roots along the Mimbres and mixed in with the roots I brought home, hidden in the tangle was a hidden mimulus monkey flower root that sprouted and bloomed at my window, inner truth tower, looking place both inside looking window and outward window seeing, seeing and being seen is the word. To place light on a lampstand not hidden under a bushel basket like the highest of high meadows with tender green yarrow flowers and orange flames of casstilleja.

      I had let myself go by neglecting the word that is our creation beauty world way. The word is the word of yes. The word of promise and unfoldment according to the Lord’s abundance of praise and blessing. The word is yes, so be it amen. I take a yes journey, a yes ok road trip in the perfect Father in the name of Jesus Christ, through Mary the mother of God. 'Jesu cum Maria, sit nobis en via, May Jesus and Mary be with us on the road. The word in the book of life. Aralia racemosa and wild Lepidota nutriosa licorice root in vodka cordial." -The Fundamental point in Walking Mountain Aspen Grove

"We call the earth by this name, Mary, for she never grows old. When her age began to show, she simply walked toward the east until she saw her form coming toward herself. She kept walking until her young self merged with her aging self and then, renewed, returned to her home. Among us who proclaim the commune peace pilgrim life born of free will, the name of this eternal was pastel drawn with colored pencil Woman. The colour of sky above us is turquoise blue sky. She wears the sky-goddess cape dazzle blue. She is wife girl friend lover of the sun. She becomes for us the divana pastora, the divine shepherdess. She wears a big hat and has a walking stick, her clothes are rough, she wears a skirt with flat shoes for walking. She has a child with her. She is the mother who works with healing plants because she met them caring for the sheep. She is the keeper of animals, of chipmunks and ground moles, of rabbits and cottontails, of fox, bob cat, wolf and bear. She is the keeper herder of sheep, cows, deer, antelope, elk, buffalo and elk. She becomes for us the queen of the flower world of flowers, coming every spring as Easter La Dama azul. She becomes for us the mistress of animals, The Lady in blue. As we consider ourselves those of us above ground under the mantle of blue, we make it clear by becoming clear, standing with the green, in all directions. This is our journey to peace through peace may all be well, This is the rejuvenation wellbeing blessing thankful way. ings always. She becomes the pregnant sky woman, Virgo, fertile mother La Señora of the night zodiac stars about to give birth, clothed with glory of moon light. She stands with the moon, as the moon supporting both her feet. On her head of beauty is a wreath crown of the 12 star signs along the ecliptic we know as the zodiac, strewn across the dark purple thread she weaves of sky, that are the three fates past, present and future. She becomes for us  la gobernadora. She becomes for us the Larrea tridentata, creosote bush waving in the wind. She becomes for us the she being the queen on mescal bajada flats, greening of queens, flower of flowers, La Dama azul. The Lady in blue. As we consider those of us above ground under the mantle of blue, we stand with the green, in all directions, may all be well, This is the rejuvenation wellbeing blessing thankful way, blessings always. She became the pregnant sky woman, Virgo, La Señora, clothed with glory of sun light. She stands as the moon supporting both her feet." Because We Are Loved, Paul

https://youtu.be/kbO48p2TPZ0?si=UMpo7-7d_CiTvHvu

    "May you be blessed by this peace pilgrim way of teaching wherever, whoever, always together. Let's become what is needed to become technicians of the sacred. Visiting good solid places. Only together in this family living air trees water animals." _Wild Herb Ways

     "There is a holy church that sits in the desert, in the mountains, in the desert, in the blessings world below with gila monster, there you are sitting there. I am with you hummingbird. Become the son of the hummingbird and give birth to good things, peaceful loving things and sit with your woman on the nest protect your eggs and nourish the breath. Everything is there. What do you ask of me here and what do you ask of me? Knowing this, you too will go forward and work... The truth, you see how you have in your five senses. It is in your sense, remember those who walked like this, this is how you walk, in the morning, they walk, and you, here, who are in the world, and so walk. The truth? Listen a bird is singing. What do you want to hear? I breathe on you, now you can hear.  I breathed on you. Now you have it, and you want to know, so... It's really good.” -Paul Wild Herb Ways

 "Often times the biospirit of our people through me as the perfect genius Wild Herb Ways is asked, "?", the wordless question, the greatist yes. I answer. We are blood of blood, bone of our bones, sinew and stone, perfect mantra, straight from the destiny of sacred land the holy ones. We sit with plants, that's our sadhana. Sitting with plants, sitting with rock and stones we build the commune. Sell everything pool our resources. Take in the pregnant mother, take in the homeless, that is what sobriety does to build this 16,500 commune of peace pilgrim-ism." Solutrean Teachings , Paul

    "Qigong, biospirit is contained right here right now in the actual moment, your moment, your best you in terms of mutual benefit. It is all mutual benefit, nothing is done alone. We continuously barter with experience never acting within a vacuum. More better for self and more better for others. Creating an appreciation for resilience with intention, and so using precious time and energy in a good way, for mutual good you well being."

 

"The Wild Herb Way plant research is community-centered, based on the five principles of Wild Herb Way Vitality: love, clarity, law, beauty, and truth; conducted through teaching and learning, and actively carried out on Southwest Claw Island. We know that Jesus lived, walked, and taught in this North America (Claw Island), and that his mother was Mary, the Mother of All Things, who married Ursa Major. "God created us, so let's maintain balance. Everything that helps us grow is love, so let's align ourselves with love. Let's focus on five ways to reinvent ourselves: love, clarity, law, beauty, and truth."

https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2021/02/mary-of-remedios-and-plants.html

     "These are the essential questions, do you peacefully engage dialogue? Do you advocate peace through peaceful means as a peace pilgrim? Do you support family living voluntarily within bioregional existential borders? While clearly yes the dominant culture answers no. No to love, no to peaceful non-violence, no to bioregions and no to dialogue and yes to nations without borders and yes to collective punishment. Men and women of sound mind must prevail invoking what is considered by vitalists a peacefuel herbmaxxing ascension, plant person place strategy of unlimited love, on this path of radical peace here on turtle island embrace all things in common, pledging allegiance to this turtle island bioregion place Folk First! Earth First! Jesus Christ is King. It was the single most used herb by the hummingbird's daughter, Santa Teresita, who evolved the pachamama marian apparition way, who would rub the oil on incurable wounds. Herbmaxxing fronts the osprey microcosmic orbit mewwing the tongue to the roof of the mouth." - Simple and Plain, Paul 

     5) Zhan Zhuang, Stand like a tree. "Begin with Wu Ji, then water strength testing. Stand loosely feet the width of the shoulders apart, arms hanging loosely not touching the trunk, as if there are two balls underneath the arm pits, soft gaze, eyes looking forward. Remain in Wuji stance, imagine standing in warm lukewarm hip depth water. Push two two balls, one in each hand floating on the pond at your sides downward, then let the balls raise to the level of the hips, returning the arms to wuji stance.

6) Now do microcosmic orbit with the bottom of the tail bone as the flip point for front to back with qi downward flowing out the back of the legs into the earth. Develop a loop with the tree. Understand the tree is at least as big above as below with the roots and crown. Now bring the qi from the roots of the tree to the ball of the foot. Spilling over the top of the foot, up the front of the legs to the tail bone and into the microcosmic orbit. Blessings to all beings engaged in the real work." Tree Qi Qong Sutra, Paul

"I am talking now about the mountain in the south west, three mountains together like waves on the water, each with saguaro at the base, creosote into juniper and oaks, growth into pine and spruce. There are three mountains together in the south west each one a nicely sitting there mountain there whose feet are in La Gobernadora meadows, waving green with five pointed yellow flowers, waving, big cactus trees with sweet fruit, cholla. Below is the south Gila river with cottonwood trees between them, to south east a Black mountain, farther north is the Rio Grande north and south to Magdalena in the north east then west past Datil and the Plains of St Augustine, north to Sierra Blanca, Escudillo and another great mountain lying down in the north west. I am with you there. Do not believe that after seventy winters I am too old to walk these mountains. If you see me crawling on my hands and knees it is not that I can not walk, no. I crawl so I can kiss the woman I love. So I can be close to her and feel her breath, and smell her. This commune will never end. Do not believe that I have died. I live still there forever in pipsissewa and Uva Ursi, in the bear stars. Nothing can stop this commune. I am Wild herb ways. I am Wild herb ways! These are the four sacred mountain areas. Somewhere at the top of each of these mountains is a gourd dipper, filled with water, connected to the north star man and the woman Cassiopeia who are a couple working to pool the water of springs and rivers that flow down to the valleys below. All these sacred mountains must be filled with water by prayers. If they are not filled with prayers then the snow will not come, the rivers will barely flow and dusty wind will make the people angry and no good for working together." -teachings of Paul in Wild Herb Ways

     https://youtu.be/m8t6AONEfbI?si=1kdiTnSUOe4HhTej

  "You must become and study every word in the transmission, I have given you. We as a people becoming us in this commune of experience, in "Wild Ways with Herbs," in the teachings of Rosa, the Wild Rose Sutra, the Agripalm Sutra, the Motherwort Sutra, teaching you prayer and sitting with plants, making everything available free of charge for these 16,500 years. Since the pole flip. I only have a few turns of the seasons before I return to heaven to fly with Polaris. Become this wellbeing commune now."

   

     "The Blue Lady, Santa María Agreda, who bilocated to the foothills from España said it was the scent of the Jesus' mother Mary. We love Jesus and Mary. We love the Father and we love the mother. We love peace. We make journeys to sacred mountains together. The Jesus prayer practice includes the words of Cristobal Colon, "Jesu cum Maria sit nobis in via", "Jesus and Mary be with us on the road.", we are on a sacred journey. We counter LDAR lay down and rot of the DC dominant culture, and intuit the bioregion of plant person place. Be the way of love for governance of bioregion of living air, tree, water and animal. Be thou a cult of love for governance of bioregion of living air, tree, water and animal. Be the plant and be 'scented' while blooming for 1.5km approx 1 mile away, once the flowers open and have the ability, just by the scent in infused oil to freak a cortisol spike and deepen blackpilled 'ancestral healing memory'." 

 “Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.”-Edward Abbey

     "April 26, 2026 in love and peace together through wild herb ways,     Grasp vitalism here and now, vitalism and biospirit. The important thing is moving into a position where you learn and accept responsibility for working to nourish vitality, as ownership. We nourish vitality by doing well, eating well, working well, resting well, sleeping well, loving well, fucking well. No one is going to do the work for you." =Endless Mountain Air Trees Water Animal, -Paul

       "The Jesus prayer practice are the words of Cristobal Colon, "Jesu cum Maria sit nobis in via", "Jesus and Mary be with us on the road.", we are on a sacred journey.  So here are mountain revelations of person, revelations of plant and revelation of place, of wild herb ways. I am continuous dialogue, within the calm center silence devotion under the blue mantle of stars within all turnings turn, talking story with mountain plant, mountain person and mountain place, sitting with plants sitting with persons sitting with mountain place, being in place with persons, being with plant as person in the place, all in the interest of the remedios, all under the protection of divine all mother mountain Mary,  for the benefit of person, plant and place. We have many things right now, let it be as it is, let it be on earth and in heaven, for the betterment blessing of those who embrace place, people, and plants. From the mountain to the sea, we her people will be. From the river to the mountain, plant, person and place will be. From the river to the sea, well being will be. From the desert to the mountain, plant, person and place will be with thee. Plant person and place have to do with ultimate well being. Geography is an aspect of streams, rivers, oceans, bays, estuaries, land forms that define place. Place is home not only as an emotional idea, there’s no place like home. Home is a space. Home is a place, a physical entity with walls, windows and doors. Likewise person, plant and places are all mountain persons, mountain plants and mountain persons." -Paul Wild Herb Ways


     

     "I encourage you to say 'Let's pray", or "Let's sing", or "let's play music", 'Can we just be silent and listen to air, trees, water, animals?'; this always throws the selfish individualist for a loop because a selfish individualist can not pray, can not sing, can not be silent together with others, and can not engage in any activity without the shekel. Say love and peace and you immediately expose them. We never expose to shame only to explore commitment to the process of wellbeing within community. "Peace, love and sharing, helping one another...", are all hate taboo speech mantras to the tv-minded cultist. Fed on a diet of Fed slop narrative it's all fast paced tv cinema action to the culted. So instantly draw away from their lose lose storyline. You know through experience that love, compassion, working together face to face is the only answer. Just as they make war through a worship of aggression and violence we make peace through being for each other. Bioregional love is the monkey wrench in their mechanized cult of war. Rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air, umm, sorry no thanks. Glorification of war is not our way. Life, all life is to be cherished. So many trails, so many peace mantra prayers 'air, trees, water, animals', 'wild herb ways', 'person plant place', bioregion--- We are not podcasters on a microphone high, wildly gesturing with our hands. We are people, tool using social animals decoupling from industrial war culture. We live within boundaries of watersheds and mountains and we share everything we own to build this commune." -Peace Be With You, Teachings of Paul 

     "We are not afraid to de-couple from a death culture of mechanized violence. We are able to entertain ourselves with our own voices, we are able to join hands in a circle. We are able to love and heal each other in our love. We do not demand attention or recognition because we recognize each other face to face. This herbal peace pilgrim discipline is all that matters to us. For us it was always shash, the bear Ursa. This was taught and transmitted by Hatali Nevy Jensen from Grey Mountain in the house, sitting on the floor. Na'has dhan Biyatay Wei'nah, Aconah nhas'dhan, diyagno, ban su'day'kays, Naozhonah Ashlee, Nozhonah Ashlee, Nazhoni Ashlee. as taught to me by Nevy Jensen, "We the people came from the earth mother, changing woman. That's why she is sacred to us, sacred to you, on this beauty way, this beauty way, all of it wrapped in beauty." In our childhoods we said these words, over and over again. Our mother has married this bear again and again in one continuous celestial marriage, Freyja, Mary, Athena, Eostre. That is why our book is us as a people, flesh and blood. The words in our etymology are bones, blood, plants, us as a people, the green who overcome disease in the perfect wild herb ways. Always honour the mother who commands the holy people, angel messengers to increase the immune system in herbal truth biospirit plants. We are now coming together under the dharma of plant commune bone, blood and soil study." -Together in Love, Teachings of Paul

     "Unboxing: the most essential thing we can do is work together to keep it together, through every wind season and weather, with our hands together, to build this peace pilgrim love community of Wild Herb Ways together in wellbeing. By unboxing love, together action, and peace pilgrim mutual wellbeing you immediately expose the selfish individualist cultist who expects war dividend chips to gamble away vital force in the gaming casinos run by the dominant culture war pig industry. All you have to do is say , 'friendship', and the selfish individualist will put up a dollar sign. How much can I charge for friendship? All you have to do is say , 'wild herb ways', and the selfish individualist will say, 'let's see how much I can charge for 'wild herb ways'?  Because the selfish individualist puts an economic value price tag requirement on every interaction. The brain itself of the selfish individualist has been rewired through the technology of vicarious media passive view entertainment of cinema, television, recorded music, automobile high speed travel to translate all activity into an economic exchange. In the selfish individualist there is no possibility of faith, of hope or of charity. In the selfish individualist mind there can be no prayer. There maybe yoga classes or ancestral seminars, classes and so on, but of prayer there can be no prayer because prayer requires the silence of love, and within the selfish individualist there is always comparison, one upmanship and competition for more shekels.  In the selfish individualist mind there can be no 'wild herb ways', no sitting with plants, no together learning because in the selfish individualist there is always an arbitrator, a gate keeper of experience for economic gain, 'look at me standing above you goyim shiksa as your superior', to stand on higher ground, us and them but never an us together."  -Paul

      "I answer affirmatively yes to peace, yes to wellbeing, and yes to the peace pilgrim vow to do no harm that is the catholic peace pilgrim commune called wild herb ways. At The only reasonable decision is peaceful decoupling, non-violent group advocacy within the small group face to face forum of wild herb ways." =Wild Herb Ways

  "One of the amazing things being me Paul Manski, sitting with plants recovering ancestral memory, Folk First! Earth First! for 72,000 years and tears all over Turtle Island, in the perfect truth of Wild Herb Ways, is I knew Jesus, I climbed the tree Yggdrasil. I sat with Bodhi Daruma Dai Shi Ekka Daibo zenji facing a wall. When my eye balls fell out of my head they fell on the ground and became senchi, emerald green tea. When the Buddha held up a flower I understood everything and still do. People dox my picture and say, "That's you! Do you hear the voice Jesus?", as if someone who knew Jesus, Buddha, Wotan and Socrates should look like a movie star? Yeah right. I stood with Hercules, Washington, Socrates, and slept in a tent on a mountain in the Laurentians with Mary the mother of God before she went virgin. We drank Meade out of a bison horn, 36,000 years ago and as recently as 1987, bottles of Boone's farm apple wine at Ishawah trailhead right before the Yellowstone fires. Bob Boyle, Monty Barker, Phil Selwicke and queen Eileen who worked the bear box at Wapiti, and was known to have the most perfect vaginal folds since Athena who was absolutely not a perpetual virgin." -Keep It Sweet, Vitalist Paul





We must drop every politics, drop every motif of harm, drop every focus, drop everything and regroup as a Folk First! Say our name outloud, people, persons, place. Is it really that hard to say living air, living trees, living water, living animals? We are people advocating for our wellbeing, peacefully.  Spirituality is a biospirit thing of our people not a book thing. 



Our solution is to live as non-violent sober, reasoned, vigilant, well behaved, plain peace pilgrims keeping out of the mental illness auto immune disorder that is American politics. Do not say the ‘A’ word America, we are here now. This is the southern paw of Turtle Island. Earth First! Folk First! Are we a people, of bioregion, of waters, of place? Yes or no? If not then get out. Done. 

       Men and women of sound mind must prevail invoking what is considered by vitalists a peacefuel herbmaxxing ascension plant person place strategy of unlimited love, on this path of radical peace pilgrim here on turtle island embrace all things in common, pledging allegiance to this turtle island bioregion place Folk First! Earth First! Jesus Christ is King. It was the single most used herb by the hummingbird's daughter, Santa Teresita, who evolved the pachamama marian apparition who would rub the oil on incurable wounds. Herbmaxxing fronts the osprey microcosmic orbit mewwing the tongue to the roof of the mouth. The Blue Lady, Santa María Agreda, who bilocated to the foothills from España said it was the scent of the mother Jesus. The Jesus prayer practice is the mantra of Cristobal Colon, "Jesu cum Maria sit nobis in via", to counter LDAR lay down and rot of the DC dominant culture, and intuit the bioregion of plant person place. Be the way of love for governance of bioregion of air, tree, water and animal. Be thou a cult of love for governance of bioregion of air, tree, water and animal. Be the plant that can be 'scented' while blooming for 1.5km approx 1 mile away, once the flowers open and is said to have the ability, just by the scent in infused oil to freak a cortisol spike and deepen blackpilled 'ancestral healing memory'. “Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.”-Edward Abbey