Wild Herb Ways

Wild Herb Ways. Vitaliste bioregiónal. Healing biospirit. Magical Realism. Fiction author Paul Manski. SW on Turtle Island. Ocotillo, juniper to pine bioregion.

Sunday, November 08, 2026

Double Faith, Dvoeverie (revisited)

Double Faith, Vareniki Double Faith Revisited
Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
Double Faith Varenyka – Double Faith

The Paths of Wild Grasses, author of magical realism fiction Paul Mansky. Bioregional biospirit. "People First!", ancestor of Wotan Odin. Southwest lower paw on Turtle Island. Ocotillo, bioregion from juniper to pine.
Double faith – double faith – is a Russian-Slavic term consisting of the word “dvo”, which means “two”, and “any”, or faith, two faiths, or double faith, non-interference in coexistence, faith. Here, instead of the universe, there is a multiverse. There is coexistence, there is cooperation, there is us and us. Whether it is academics or brilliant acquaintances, the idea of ​​double faith can be understood as let these be pies according to the principle of non-interference, or let these be doves according to the principle of non-interference, which are eaten at winter Christmas holidays. We are not against the holiday at Christmas, and we are not against Christmas at Christmas. We do not look for a festive Christmas tree in the Bible. We also do not stop painting Easter eggs at Easter. We crown the Queen of May together, and if her name is Mary or Eostra, we will be just as devoted to welcoming her, the fertile woman, to the new dawn. Grabbing a pussy, stripping it of its clothes, throwing it on the floor is an art that begins with a kiss. As we gather nettles, we pray to Freya. We are done with the one-book approach, sola scriptura biblia. Nor are we trying to create a new cult of sola scriptura academics to replace the priest. Yes, we read Havamal and the Poetic Edda, but we are not just engaged in Viking reconstruction. We are above all the People! First and foremost the Earth! “The adventurous human life should be enough for anyone and should free us from the childish longing for immortality... If this life here and now, on this wonderful planet we call Earth, is not enough for us, then what possible pleasure, satisfaction, or happiness could we find in some transcendent, eternal existence beyond time and space? Eternity, in this sense, beyond time, may be nothing more than a moment, a flash, and we probably experience this bright flash of eternity at the moment of death. Then we should disappear from the road, dignifiedly planting our bodies in the Earth to nourish other forms of life - weeds, flowers, shrubs, trees ... which support the constant human spectacle - the lives of our children. I think that is enough ... I think the desire for immortality is based on ... a terrible fear of death, the fear of death that comes from not having lived fully. If your life has been lived in vain, then naturally you will hate to part with it. If you have led a cowardly, worthless, or... boring or unpleasant life, then as you approach its end you will cling like a drowning man to whatever half-life medical technology can offer you... It is far better to fall off a cliff while climbing a precipice, or to die in battle (quoted by Edward Abbey from Leffler 1989: 17–18)







And our well-being, our people, is more important than belief in a multiverse. We worship the physical Bible as we worship a Christmas tree, but no one worships the words inside the occupied Bible. The Bible is a supremacist "Big Three, really the Big One," a Middle Eastern book, and it is not our place, not our people, and we immediately reject fratricidal anti-white mechanized warfare for profit. We reject genocide as a political agenda or a byproduct of a militarized state. We are pagans, people settle down, no fighting, okay? If we fight, it is through advocacy through a careful lexicon to promote our well-being in the face of the generalized occupation of Turtle Island. Remember, in the surveillance police, the medical-military industrial complex, they are constantly watching, waiting to imprison, to show trial, and to attack. The CIA and FBI have been occupied by forms since J. Edgar Hoover, 100 years ago. It's a skunk smell that can't be washed away, it's irreparable. Remember, your freedom is paramount. They own an AI algorithm. They are not our friends, no matter how often they verbally signal virtue with a dog whistle. For example, there's the concept that recording a musical performance and distributing that digitally recorded image, perhaps of a real event, allows everyone to experience that musical event. So we as a society create and sell a universal musical performance. It's a fundamental trick and a deception. The problem is that under these constraints, under this narrative, no one has music. Music has been destroyed by recording music and then marketing it as a commoditized digital product. The musical experience is the whole gestalt of getting dressed, leaving the house, traveling, going to a theater or a music venue. Sitting down, actually walking up to a chair and sitting down. Listening and hearing fleeting, ephemeral, fragile sounds. Then you have musical performers. You have real musicians rehearsing, performing on stage or in a living room, it doesn't matter. All of this experience is music. The sound itself is just a small part, a small piece of what music is. The other thing to understand, the next thing to understand is that when a musician blows a horn or plucks a string, that's it. Then it's over. There's a vibration, a sound, someone hears it, and then it's over. You can't take it back or redo it. Music, like most of the authentic, important tasks in our boring, face-to-face human lives, is quite fragile.











Perhaps you have been converted to the cult narrative of the singularity through their occupied cinema, television, smartphones and culture, where 75-year-olds seem to have found the fountain of youth and you interact with their AI holograms online in hilarious virtual, completely fake events. Or perhaps you enjoy watching long-dead silent or talkie films, memes about the evil empire, pathogenic programming, movie stars from a bygone era kissing and romancing in anti-white infomercials? Life has no meaning, as you see it, time, father time wins all battles. If there is a victory in the singularity, it lies precisely in the erasure of the dominant culture, the enslavement of paranoia and the enrichment of elites. First, AI has already approached human levels of consciousness, intelligence and action. A complex known as artificial general intelligence (AGI) is integrated into many human ecosystems. AI is localized, and in those isolated areas free of AI contamination, depopulation and harm resistance strategies will continue to be employed. Full implementation will be gradual, the analogy of a frog in a pot of water and then gradually heating the water to a boil. So a large part of your life has the potential as occupied space for various types of bio-accumulation. In all of this is understanding the unique nature of birth in the human body and the work, the real work of establishing relationships and family networks of us, because we are above all, People! The Earth is above all! Sacred land, sacred sex. “On this issue, the American public, as always, is far ahead of our cultural institutions, our so-called leaders, and our deep thinkers. Most American women are content with no more than two children for one; the real cause of our constant population growth is not ignorance but uncontrolled immigration. If immigration were reduced, as most of our citizens would like, we could soon stabilize the population of the country and begin serious reform of our deformed social, economic and political institutions. But those in power do not want this; the maniacal ideology of “Growth” is based on endless population growth; conservatives love their cheap labor, liberals love their cheap business, and the great techno-industrial mega-machine needs an endless supply of its necessary raw material – bodies – to justify its expansionist logic…” (Edward Abbey in “Zephyr”, 2010)







Dvoeverie are dumplings with a crispy outside and a soft filling inside. Dvoeverie are golumpki with a green cabbage outside and a soft beef, pork, rice and red filling inside. In actual coexistence, there is coexistence without a litmus test, a signal of virtue. In golumpki, the green cabbage represents the green moist mother Jörð (Old Norse: Jǫrð [ˈjɔrð]; "earth") as the earth. She is the sacred earth, the sacred land, the beloved of all, the father of Wotan Odin, who hung on Yggdrasil, gaining the runes, the inner forms and the mother of the god of thunder and lightning Thor. Mother Earth (Mother Ziema or Mother Earth, whose name literally means moist Mother Earth) is one of the oldest pagan Slavic goddess cults, which also represents the all-mother and Nature according to natural law. The term "Rodnoverie", often used in pagan-Slavic Russian-speaking contexts, is derived from "rodna vera", which translates as "native faith" or "ancestral faith", with "rodna" coming from "rod" ( Proto-Slavic "rodę "), meaning birth, lineage , race or origin , thus emphasizing our focus on ethnic and biospiritual continuity. You cannot separate the pies inside from the pies outside, they both begin as one in the multiverse. The dual faith is everywhere and in everything. You cannot separate the golumpki inside from the golumpki outside, they both begin as one. One is the vital spark of life, the key moment of natural law. We do not throw a ball in the air and then beg God not to let it fall. We honor natural law. None of us turn the other cheek, except in the Taoist sense of jiu-jitsu, using force to deflect blows and avoid injury. We do not sell our belongings or compromise our well-being. Our one golden rule is to love our people above all else. Gymnastics is the physical sport of the Polish Falcons, not a mental gymnastics confusion to harm our people. We protect our people through advocacy in group governance politics and never yield this duty to anyone. Existence in the multiverse is everything. Life is the key, our life in the blood of our children, not a future life in heaven.





What is biospirit? We take the position that the term “spirit” can often be misleading because it posits a part of ourselves, like a spiritual soul, that exists separately from our physical biological body within the framework of natural law. We want to avoid this opposing strategy of body versus spirit. Our body cannot oppose our spirit because our body is our spirit. So biospirit is about setting a goal, achieving unity of intention and practice, bio refers to the actual body of the biological process, and spirit refers to the intangible qualities of will. In the biospirit of the multiverse, intention meets practice, so biospirit trumps culture because culture exists downstream from biospirit. People may say, “I am spiritual, not religious,” meaning that they have a personal, private way of maintaining their dignity and viability as individuals, which is of course fine. It is also fine to say, “I am not spiritual, I am religious,” meaning that they are publicly upholding their dignity and viability as a family, as a people, as a tribe. Practice has nothing to do with abandoning group practice in favor of personal practice. So we are not arguing for “jiriki versus tariki,” one’s own power versus another’s power. I prefer to talk about owning the body, inhabiting the body, embodying the life process, embracing the life process. In the multiverse, mutual benefit means whether one practices alone or with others. The interconnected nature of things and the fact that we use tools, so there is a connection, and the benefits defined as the accumulation of each also benefit each other.

Dumplings are perfectly fried in butter. Golumpki and dumplings are the ultimate superfoods, and I understand golumpki dumplings as a deep ecology, wild herbs, paths of peace, a pilgrimage for us on Turtle Island. We all understand Turtle Island as what Sierra poet Gary Snyder called an eco-house – a farm that fits perfectly, like an axe handle, like golumpki dumplings. Richard Wagner called his opera “gesamtkunstwerk,” or “total dumplings, total golumpki,” a complete work of art. Whether it’s dumplings, gesamtkunstwerk, or golumpki, we have a self-contained whole that doesn’t seek to postulate a Big Bang origin. Things exist, and we don’t postulate just one. In vareniki, we see golden fried dumplings, crispy on the outside. However, biting into, tasting the dumplings, stuffed with soft potatoes, sauerkraut, farm cheese, topped with caviar, horseradish, you feel all the flavors: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, sharp and spicy. The term "dvojevriye" was originally used in Russian Orthodoxy, in fact the "Christian" faith, to criticize the formlessness within the form, as a criticism of what Russian Slavs should believe in, as opposed to what Russian Slavs actually believe.

The biological clock ticks for each of us within our culture, making the present moment more precious and unreliable for both men and women of all ages, sending it into erasure. The persistence and struggle of our people, acutely aware of our fleeting ephemeral nature, is our personal history of selfie culture. Some people, through terminal illness, suddenly wake up to the realization that their personal time is inherently limited according to an unchanging fateful script. Mortality comes knocking and then screaming, like the Gestapo and the police state, at the door in all its various forms. Life is an incurable disease, and the outcome is well known, poignantly documented, barely realized or understood. From the monstrous two-year-old who says “no, no, no,” to the teenager who thinks it’s a revolutionary concept to expose a penis or clitoris, to the boomer waiting for yet another amazing medical procedure, this absurd “me, me, mine” shitshow is what we’re up against, all of us. The shitshow denies and dispenses gallons of water by the teaspoon. Culture and folklore are not part-time jobs, they’re all in the multiverse. “Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!” should be our deepest prayer practice of faith. We cannot live in packs. We are white, we are wild, and life without a lion, a bear, and a wolf is an erasure. We are creatures hiding in the wild forest. Freedom is not a constitution. Freedom is a bioregion.





Bi-faith was originally a guardian of shame, avoiding the deplatforming attack on "People First, Earth Above All!". Sacred land, sacred sex, guardians of the traditions of one of Russia's "big three, really the big one", three Middle Eastern crazy occupation fraud mafias to control, suppress thoughts, infiltrate peaceful experiences and compromise actions regarding authenticity. In mono-states there has been, is and will be a serious gap between what people officially claim to believe about access to mono-state controlled cash, access to controlled currency, surveillance money or guilt dollars, and what we deep down believe is a savage tool that uses social, beautiful, loving noble animals. Within the monostates there has been, is and will be a significant gap between what people officially claim to believe for the purposes of employment in the dominant culture, approved state contracts of social credit, access to a police state, health insurance, access to controlled, monitored and tracked official forums with access to speech, social credit, anti-white bank loans, the label of shame, criminal race, migrants, courts and prisons, under the dystopian monostate occupation of the dominant 5-year state, focused on the principle of "comply or be stripped of your bank accounts, speaker, platforms, housing, tents in Rhodesia or Zimbabwe, it is "good" to harm state anti-whiteism, and what people apparently believe and do in their beautiful hearts "People First! Earth above all else!" as a wild instrument, using beautiful, fundamentally kind, caring social animals.

America, the USA, Russia and NATO are the mono-states of the "big three, really a big unit", the Middle Eastern occupation fraud mafia that controls, restrains, monitors, manipulates thoughts, communications, experiences and actions, as evidenced by the 30 years war (1914-1945) for the destruction of white Europeans, where the USA joyfully united in patriotic manipulation with Russia to maim, kill, rape, rob and destroy white Europe through profitable mechanized war, citing the sacred Balfour Declaration to create the "big three, really a big genius unit", a golden parachute in the Middle East, and as evidence - the war for the destruction of white Europeans in Ukraine (2014-2025), where NATO, the USA and Russia again joyfully united in patriotic manipulation to to maim, kill, rape, rob and further destroy white Europe in Ukraine through profitable mechanized warfare, invoking the sacred Balfour Declaration to create a new European homeland with a golden parachute under the leadership of the "big three, really the big one". We do not need a book telling us that killing a deer for fun, leaving the meat to rot, is sloppy morality. We hunt to feed our people, not to play big game hunters. The murder of innocent women, children, non-partisans with mechanized military bombs is genocide, there are no heroes here, none, none.

Double-mindedness was originally a psychological tutelage that controlled the comparison of prescriptive "shoulds" and descriptive "rights". Later, "Two-faith" became a formal study of peasant folk beliefs under the Soviet monostate, within the framework of the "big three", but in fact a large unit, which is something completely different. The people of the earth and Between the darkest winter of the budding poplar Imbolc, returning, the day of Aung-ha, the bear on its feet, walking, the Big and Little Bears, the Polar Star, Stella Maris, the two-faith of the double faith, the Polar Bear the star of our mother, the morning star Venus the woman, the Lady, Makosh-Mother, the Moist mother of springs, swamps, streams, springs, the Heavenly Mother, the Mother of our people and all that exists! Walking sun bowls with elk meat, dried Ribes americanum, black currants, raisins, nursing a smiling woman, a changeable woman and her beautiful children, our sun brothers, sisters and daughters.







Wotan's words were unanimous, speaking with one voice... "Write, remember the words I speak, and declare that I am the Blood of your blood, the bone of your bones, the cherry, the elm, the ash and the juniper, the water, the fire and the stone. Learn the northern prayer with the Great Bear. Look at the North Star. See the turning in the night sky, feel it in your belly. Sit with the plants by the water where it gathers. Sit sober with these medicinal plants in this medicinal garden. There is only one law that ensures well-being. So in this hearing you are called to prosper through your own efforts. I teach the struggle for knowledge, and then I share the song." "

When the heavens are about to lay a great responsibility on a man, they first test the biospirit, exhausting the will, the muscles and the bones; then they stimulate, strengthen and compensate for its incompetence.” Mencius. You must find a way to overcome difficulties, and there you will experience a brighter world called the paths of wild herbs. The power that moves the body comes from the center of the body. The hips move the shoulders, the hands connect with the feet, and the elbows with the knees. The sun and the moon, although outside us, among us and within us, the brightness of the sun shines, the coolness of the moon recedes, but nourishes, like the dark liquid in the kidneys. No matter who we are, we must purify and improve ourselves every day, and both young and old must participate in this process. Sarcasm, laughing at others, envy and suspicion lead to negative results. When we stand on the backs of others to reach a higher position, we should prepare to fall. It is better to look for a lowland where the water flows, and prepare quietly. Water, though soft, when gathered together, gives a profound power to cut the deepest canyon through the hard rocks of a mountain. Loud voices will only single you out so that you fall first. The lush spring truth with the exquisite song of birds begins in the fall with the falling of leaves, when the energy of the earth descends downward and we gather medicinal roots. It is said that the genius of nature, which is to allow wild herbs to be as they are, to reveal themselves and reproduce, rejuvenating wild herbs, is part of the original pattern and is freely given as a path to understanding.

Four weeks before Christmas, remember that in the cold and darkness there is something underground that transforms us into the budding Valkyrie Veriditas, the green light born of all mothers Freya and Frigg. We will be together for Christmas, not only in hearts as children of light, but also in plants and roots under the fallen snow. To see a star shining in the sky above a house of bread. The double faith of a double faith is how we hold ourselves together as best we can. There is no point in explaining everything, even if you could. Our house is a remedios, conceived and built of oshi root, cherry bark, honey, dumplings, sauerkraut, black rye bread and butter, warmed by the fire and saturated with beer and songs full of wine. The bread house is the house of abundance and the storehouse of grain, of salted cheese, of apples and dried walnuts, of acorns, pine nuts, potatoes, carrots and acorn-fed pork, of sauerkraut and sausage. The star that shines over our necessary homes of bread, of loss and gain, our grain of abundance. We are careful to take the story of the origin of Imbolc in verse, which blooms within us. As we look up at the night sky, turning with the wheel, with all our hopes, all our longing, with the deepest lonely melancholy, at the roads all covered in mud, peering into the twinkling, at the great bear clock revolving around the North Star, halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, here we meet our ancestral messengers.

Wotan, Odin, the Yggdrasil tree pole Polaris extends from the northern sky to the core of your body, passing through your navel and spine. This should become your method of inhaling and exhaling prayer. The seven days in their notable order provide an easy journey within the narrative of access. The key point is to blow the foul by approving the fair. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are key points for a complete transformation. Pay attention to these words: sun, then moon. The moon becomes larger, a week before the full moon, at Christmas it will turn into a small crescent again.

Let's start with Sunday and Monday. The first two days are dedicated to the day of Sunday and the day of the Moon. Sunday (Sunnudagr), Sunna, the day of Sunna and Monday (Manadagr) Mani. On these two days, dedicate your intention to the sun and the moon respectively. The sun and the moon are two different living beings to whom we worship, pray, and offer prayers.





Although it is said between times, when the veil is thin, come to all the saints, remember, son and daughter, your ancestors are more than names and letters in a book, more than an abstraction, they are your soul. Lose your soul, you lose everything. These ancestors are the flesh and the muscles that hang from the bones of your face. Why do we honor our ancestors? Because these ancestors are the tears and the laughter, the deepest impulses and aspirations that you had, they had with you. It was every year that they fought and sighed and waited for the poplar to bud. In the political tent, some may know their names on the list, and some of you may not know any names. However, he who knows the long list, and he who knows nothing from his very breath, has a list as long as the hills, as muddy as the rivers, and as high as the mountains.




The people above all! The land above all! The ancestral faith of the peasantry embraces the "we" of us, the pronouns: We, us. Christianity, whether on more than a superficial level, is irrelevant. This is called bi-faith (dual faith) or "double faith." Our life as an experience is profound, while our faith superficially masks the superficial true nature of our pagan beliefs. Dualism permeates all pagan spirituality "People above all! Land above all!" and in fact seems to be the basis for much of it. This should not be confused with the dualistic good versus evil. It is like a coin with two sides. A coin with two sides is not two coins. If you have a quarter of a 25 cent coin with two sides, heads and tails, do you then have a 50 cent coin? No, it is still only 25 cents, a quarter of a coin with two sides. One coin with two sides complements opposites such as darkness and light, winter and summer, woman and man, cold and heat, top and bottom, north and south. The four elements are important to us as complementary. Fire and Water are two forces, two sacred dualistic opposites, complementary symbolic forces on the horizontal or earthly plane. Earth and Sky are two forces, two sacred dualistic opposites, complementary symbolic forces on the more vertical system of duality. These four together form a cross with a wheel, a sun wheel.

Today's names: the seven days of the bright-shining Sunnah, Sunday of our lawful month, the day of Tyr, the one-armed warrior who teaches us to resolve disputes, the day of Wotan, the day of Thor, the day of Saturn for ablution, for our sweat with hot lava, glowing red lava stones. remain portals;

We use them in the spirit of true ancestors, family members whom we honor and remember for ourselves as a people. The weeks, the sunrises and sunsets are for us laid out in seven days as seven paths that open up, like seven names, like days in the sunlight, to bend, to turn for weeks, around the wooden pole of Yggdrasil Polaris. The seven days of the week are signposts to our own deepest values ​​on the path of medicine. Each day is a connecting source on our journey to greater heights and deeper commitment to intention.

The portal of entry opens with a powerful practice freed from the subversive mish-mash of the Middle East. The mist and failure of the desert gave birth to illegitimate triplets: Moses, Muhammad and Jesus, desert occupationism, Islam and Christianity, none of which resonate here among us, resonate, swallow guilt at all, have no pull. Our unfolding biospirit of the reindeer barn, the flatland prairie, which must continue to sustain our struggle for well-being, health, and vitality. Today's names - the seven days of brightly shining Sunna, our lawful lunar day, the day of Tyr, the one-armed warrior who teaches us to resolve disputes, the day of Wotan, the day of Thor, the day of Saturn for washing, for our sweat with hot lava, glowing red lava stones, remain portals; we use them in the spirit of true ancestors whom we honor as true blood and soil. The weeks, the sunrise and sunset for us, are laid out in seven days as seven paths of discovery, as seven names, as days in the light of the sun to bend, the rotation for weeks, around the wooden pole of Yggdrasil Polaris. The seven days of the week are signposts to our personal deepest values ​​on the path of medicine. Each day is a connecting spring on our journey to greater heights and deeper commitment to intention. High places, such as mountaintops or treetops, especially cedar, yellow pine, aspen, alder, and oak, became sacred as meeting places for the Sky-allfather Crow and the moist Earth-green allmother. Where they met, they joined forces for procreation, usually in a flash of lightning and a roar of thunder. The winds are the grandchildren of the God Stribog. In mythology, water was called the water of life and death, and rivers were treated with respect lest they drown you on your next visit.







Freya leads the Valkyries in a fight of healing, through experience, freeing the biospirit from the bonds of disease, and carries our dead in the fight. Freya, choosing first, to her personal hall, similar to Wotan's Valhalla, the Hall of Honor. Freya wears a sparkling star necklace and a magical healing wand, which, derived from her personal journey with Yggdrasil, our ancestral tree, inspires us to action. She is a grasswoman who heals her closest kin, for that is her true calling to be alive. She is the earth mother herself. Respect her fully. The windmill is the medicine of Sunna and Freya. The staff was a reminder of Yggdrasil, the living Tree of Relationships that sustains our well-being, and the tree of our ancestors, from Wotan the All-Father, her husband, who hung in the tree for nine days to gain the knowledge of the runes, to the constant work of the people in creating medicines and gardening. Odin, also known as Wotan. Freya teaches us the communal practice of herbalism in the garden for the well-being of our people, in the reindeer house, in the open prairie and in the garden of wind flowers, the runes, the signs and patterns in the spinning sun wheel, which in the north is visualized as a spinning bear, the North Star and much more.

The Poetic Edda, in a song called "Havamal": "speak Hara" (Har: High = Odhinn, Wotan or Odin). Stanzas 138 and 139:

"I know that I hung on a windy tree all nine nights, wounded by a spear and given to Odin; alone on myself, on that tree that no one knows from what roots it grows. They gave me neither bread nor a drinking horn, I looked down, I took the runes, I took them with a scream, I fell from there."

I know that I have it.

to hurt someone

good night all nine

sectors twisted

and given to Odin

alone

on that wound

who knows

from whose roots it flows

I know that I hung

on a windy tree

all nine nights,

wounded by a spear

and given to Odin,

myself to myself,

on that tree that no one can know

from where its deep roots reach.

The problem of noise 139

We bring me happiness.

neither on the corner

I am a beginner.

I have learned the runes.

for the discovery

I jumped away from there.

They mocked me with bread,

and did not give me to drink.

I looked down,

I took the runes in my hands,

shouting that I had taken them,

and then I stepped back

from that sacred tree. "

The constellation of Ursa Major is widely known as the Great Bear, the constellation encompasses the zodiac signs Cancer, Leo and Virgo, including known as the Plow or the Great Bear.




Maria Makosh, Mother-wet-earth of the Bright World

-The bear is part of the power of Makosh or Mother-Dipper, that is, the constellation of the Great Dipper. The symbol of the Palace is the cornucopia or golden bucket. The sacred tree is the pine.

The name Arthur from the legend of King Arthur comes from Arcturus or Arctos. Arctos literally means "bear", and since Ursa Major (the constellation of the Bear, which includes Ursa Major) is on the northern side of the sky, it also means this direction. "Bear" comes from "Bor" (father of Wotan), from which the words Hyperborea or borealis come. The word Arcturus itself means "bear guard". It symbolizes "watching over the poles", referring to vigilance over the grid. Each green tree standing is a large wooden pole raised in his honor. These wooden poles were stylized over time into the symbolic form that we know today as Irminsul. Develop a sense of tree worship in the forest.

The Great Dipper, the bear, last night low, stumbling, drunk with sleep just above the ridge of Kettle Ridge. The Great Dipper, always high above, the dominant alpha male, now lurked on the periphery, eclipsed by the north. The stars, like storms, had aged and become inactive. The shooting stars that had flickered across the sky in giant leaps had stopped, waiting for something I could not imagine, content to stand still in the sky. I had questions about the deciduous conifers. Where was the larch? Had the tamarack shed its needles? What kind? Now there was no mistake, the larch was bright yellow against the black-green fir and spruce on the mountain. At night, like pale white clouds against the dark northern slope.


Irminsul is the name of the column of the universe that supports all things (the cosmic axis); Irmin is thought to have been another name for the sky god Tyr among the Saxons. The rune associated with Tyr, "Tywaz" (T), is an arrow pointing upwards, signifying the North Star or guiding star, the apex of the world axis, Irminsul. The Roman historian Tacitus states that the name of Mars was Hermin. He further writes: "In some parts of Germany Wotan was considered identical with the Saxon god Irmin. It was said that Irmin had a heavy chariot of copper, in which he rode through the sky along the path we know as the Milky Way, but which the ancient Germans called the Way of Irmin. This chariot, whose roar sometimes became perceptible to mortal ears as thunder, never left the sky, where it can still be seen in the constellation of Ursa Major, which is also known in the North as Wotan's Wiz. The Pole Star was believed to be the top of the sacred column; the sky revolved around this star. It is generally believed that the great holy Irminsul was built of ash. a straight line that keeps the cosmic forces in a polarized state. "

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Lady, Makosh-Mother, Mother of Water of springs, swamps, streams, springs, Heavenly Mother, Mother of our people and all that exists! Weave for us a Bright Destiny, a Clear Destiny, and let there be no dark threads. And may Your mercy not perish, but be with all our Native People! We sing Your Great Glory, now and forever, from Circle to Circle! So it will be, so You are, so You will be! Do not go against your Destiny, which the Mother of God, Makosh, wove for you, and against the voice of your Heart and Conscience. For you will lose all life's paths and will be called a lost wanderer.

Wotanism is a rune expressed by relatives as the rune of the power of Wotan as the All-Father. Otala represents personal love for the people and the nation.

We must become a holistic masterpiece (gesamtkunstwerkin) in the context of the Wild Herb Paths, as world teachers-pilgrims of peace in the context of our Materia Medica.

Lady, Makosh-Mother, Heavenly Mother, Mother of Moisture, who lives and revolves with the bear in the northern sky! Grant us the strength to create a destiny free from grief and tears! Grant health to us, your children, great and young! So it is, so it is, so it will be!

We honor the day of Makosh-Mother, the Great Mother of Light, the Mother of Moisture, who married the bear and lives alive in the northern sky, Polaris, we raise our right hand to you, Heavenly Mother of Moisture.

Work tirelessly, receive and take for our people, and be ready to receive and accept through your struggle the Wisdom of the Runes, which the All-Father Wotan, the Great One, helps to make real, tangible and tangible. Reject the dualistic Middle Eastern fable that betrays us. Stand, receive and take the one-eyed perspective of free choice, focused on the well-being of our tribe solely for the sake of well-being. Receive and take, live your biospirit. Have nothing to do with their little hats that sit on the back of your head and do not shade your ears. Free yourself from the stupid three, three Middle Eastern faiths of supremacy. Reject all who touch their stone walls as traitors. Reject, forever reject the endless mechanized war for profit, which is the genocide of the innocent and has no heroic value. You are first and foremost a people of peace, a pilgrim! A people of well-being, who reject the selfish individualism of occupation. Be prepared to receive a bright clear mind, never imposing your opinion on the sick who seek supremacy in their crazy, stupid Middle Eastern fantasy fables of endless economic growth.





We worship our ancestors by natural law, we embrace what it means to be who we are, on sacred ground, sacred sex, sacred ground in worship of our bone from bone, blood from blood, moist earth above earth, days free from the occupation fixation on mechanized warfare, exported military devices for profit. Turn your eyes away from the crazy fiction of the penultimate occupation and enslavement, and with one eye see the whole World right before you - this is the life of nature. See and recognize the patterns and understand the meaning of the Runes. Remember the Havamal of Odin and Wotan, in Frigg and Freya. Receive the ability to rejoice in each day of existence for the well-being of our Earth first! People first! Receive and embrace the ability to comprehend daily well-being. Receive and embrace the ability to unite the teachings of pattern recognition into a single whole within your people. Endow yourself as a person with a heightened sense of pattern recognition to clearly understand all problems. Love for your people allows a person to always follow the straight path regardless of the surrounding public opinion. Constantly listen to your Gods, Goddesses and Ancestors, keep their memory alive. The ability to fulfill the will of our gods in natural law, sacred land, sacred sex and communicate with them increases a person's awareness of pattern recognition, and he coordinates all his actions with his parents, tribe, people. Earth above all! Folk Faith! endows a person with love for specific nature, the moist earth of Maria Makosh, Mother-Moist-Earth of the Bright World. Stand tall together in a circle in the Algiz rune, point your hands to the Bear in the northern sky of the Polar Star, become part of the power of Makosh or Mother-Bucket, that is, the constellation of the Great Bear. The symbol of the Palace is the cornucopia or golden bucket. The sacred tree is the pine. In addition, nature is like a bellows, the power of which is rooted in its ability to suck in air and blow it out. The power actively functions only in this empty space. In order for the bellows pump to work, it needs fluidity in this space, free from blockages. As for the lack of morality in nature, so are government regimes that treat their citizens as means to achieve their goals? It is best to remain unnoticed and do the work necessary to preserve life than to expose oneself to the regime's destruction. In other words, it is better to exercise restraint than to be restrained.

Lady, Makosh-Mother, Mother of Water, Mother of Springs, Swamps, Streams, Springs, Mother of Heaven, Mother of God! Weave for us the Bright Fate, the Clear Fate and the wisdom of the forest spirit. Gives a person the ability to always remain "pure", that is, pure and impeccable, in any situation.

This describes the initiator.” The Rite of the Hammer. This example is written in a northern orientation, and appropriate changes should be made to the order of the galdrar in eastern orientation rites. 37 Stedur: I. Stand straight in a crossed position with your arms parallel to the floor and your palms facing outward.


Stand in the position of the cross. Turn to face north, take nine full breaths, then turn with the sun (from north to east) and chant “hu-ha-hi-he-ho.” Do this in all four directions, ending again in the north. This exercise can be done from the east in the afternoon or at dawn.

1. Holding the runic staff in your right hand, turn to face the North Star. 2. Starting with the fehu in the north sign, send the futhark runes in a ring around you at the level of the solar plexus up to the circle on the ground or floor, always "with the sun" clockwise. The runes should form a complete band, ending with the othala next to the fehu in the north. 3. Stand in the stadha cross position and imagine an equilateral cross lying horizontally in the plane of the rune ring and your solar plexus, with this point as the center of the cross. The arms of this cross should end at the points where they intersect the rune band. Imagine a surrounding sphere of shimmering blue light with the red rune band as its equator. Then imagine a vertical axis running through your length from infinite space above and from infinite space below. 4. Feel and see the power flowing into your center from all six directions as it creates a sphere of radiant red power. The color may vary depending on the ritual intent (see the section on color symbolism). 5. The Witki should touch the back of the wand to the chest at the center of power and push it forward, projecting the power from that center to a point on the inner face of the outer sphere. The runecaster should then sign the hammer...L from the mass of magical power. The sign should be drawn as shown in Figure 4.7 on page 92. During this process, say:

Weekend in Hamarr in Nordhr, it is good and safe!3

(Hammer in the North, hallow and hold this holy place!)




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Standing Sitting Together With Plants

     Recently I discussed what has occasionally been called 'sitting with plants’.  I want to dig into what ‘sitting with plants’ means from a bioregional perspective with regard to the signature, the doctrine of signatures, within small group open palm, come and see hands on. I also wanted to talk about background history and more about the practical aspects of ‘sitting with plants’ within a group context in relation to rampant infectious bio-phobia and eco-phobia within the orchestrated psyop both vectors of transmission and substantive cure. The cure of course is the genius world teacher's uber-mann wild herb ways, imperative, "Become a people in place.", now active and fully engaged among us as a people. The doctrine of signatures refers to the foundation of meaningfulness and basic goodness in person, plants and place vs a random thrown together mixing of anonymity characterized by meaninglessness.

      Now to start ‘sitting with plants’ is actually standing with the green in four directions. Sitting with the plants is not only sitting with the plants but standing with the plants, walking with the plants and being with the plants together with others while standing with the green. So one of the primary foundational things I ask is, “Will you give all and everything to this commune of experience?”, “Will you become with us as a we together? Loving the way home?”, and most radical of all in a FolkFirst! EarthFirst!, open palm, come and see, “Where is this coming from?” The connection of person, plant and place in 'sitting with plants', is rooted in the foundational basic goodness within the ground of being of our multi-verse reality rooted in freewill. Our specific bioregion of hills, creeks, watersheds, air, trees, water, animals along with our fingers, toes, eyes and mouth as scientific instruments of perception are all inherently meaningful because we live, move and have our being in God's creation. The open palm refers to the invitation and obligation to see touch and taste. Free-will refers to us, ourselves as active participants in this meaningful ground of being exactly like ponderosa pine seedling sprouts, sprouting or monarda seeds sprouting emerging in the forest ecosystem of mountains and rivers without end. Our biospirit creates good noble and beautiful things as culture because we are fundamentally beautiful.

     I would say with regard to community empowerment and us rebecoming a people in place, we are embracing our unique peoplehood solutrean mindset tool kit. "Once you are loved, we become wanted to be." -genius world teacher among us. In short this movement is coming from the fundamental actuality of being in physical proximity to the plants to wild natural places, as and within a small group face to face process unfolding IRL in real time. Real life, real place, real person, real plant, real face, real time deep ecological insight into our specific bioregion. When I say ‘wild natural places’, I obviously don't mean absolutely wild or absolutely natural in the sense of a purity spiral. We do not do purity. We do not do impurity. We do ourselves as a people supporting each one of us in our unique inherent bio-cultural characteristics infatuated with us, our people and who we are as beautiful persons. We support and tighten our weakest link in the chain of us becoming a people. For the official acoustic record, for those taking notes, keeping score struggling for balance, there is the process. We are fully supportive in loving who we are. Loyal and invested in who we are as the ultimate. The only thing we have is our process. I mean it could be any place where plants are growing and you can sit with them. Any where being with others in a relatively undisturbed sort of environment, is the right place, right time, right space. This is often a park, it could be a ‘natural’ National Forest campground or trail head.  It could be a National Monument. It could be state game lands, or a state forest.  It could be a city or county park. It could be a back yard or garden. What matters most is the intention to work with plants to mitigate suffering and maximize wellbeing while simultaneously disavowing the selfish individualism of the fairy tale of endless economic growth and the war perc merch economy mindset. We are the foot soldiers of the peaceful non-violent resistance. It could be any place, anywhere the plants are growing and we, us as a people are becoming with regard to helping one another. Plants are growing everywhere.  So this is a practice that can occur anywhere. It can occur spontaneously and it can occur here as a conscious practice unfolding in a loving, caring, structured environment in the sense of a garden, the medicine garden.


     So what is the essence of sitting with plants? standing with plants? walking with plants? being with plants in a group context? Well the first thing is to gather with your group with the intention of being with the plants together. Many are called and many more are chosen, many miles before we sleep. Having a team approach where everyone before the event, before the activity before the process, involved with the process more or less agrees to a certain set of common interests and common intentions. Thus there is a commitment of time to engage together in a therapeutic caring way relating to these plants to bring back a sort of new heightened awareness of what the plants have to offer us. For us the materia medica is everything. We have sold and sacrificed everything for everyone among us. You could say common rules and common hopes. The basic process begins with a common understanding of respect. Respect most of all primarily for this FolkFirst! Earth first love offering teaching, respect for the vital spark behind every in out breath. Respect for one another within the group and respect for the place, respect for the plants growing veriditas and respect and thanks for the situation that we're in, we're in together, in relationship to sitting with person, plants and place. Respect for the opportunity to build this commune with our hands where we focus on love.                              


      The first thing is wear loose comfortable clothing appropriate to the season for a romp adventure outside. If it's raining or if rain is expected you want to have rain gear handy. A wide brimmed hat for protection from the sun. If it's hot and warm you want to have some liquid hydration available to drink, clean water, some tea or something like that. Maybe something to sit on, a cushion or blanket. In short be prepared for a cozy day in the open air with a small group of people dedicated, committed to this process.


     Plant Orientation: sensorial phase: You Begin by joining brothers and sisters promised to this wild Herb ways process, in a circle in an outdoor space. Begin by the short circle introduction of the group to the group and to the place from the place where this is happening. We are meeting one another for the first time. Often it’s best to have a campout of several nights duration. At the beginning it’s best to have a short twenty minutes to an hour silent walkabout. Followed by an intention circle where each person states to the group their name and what their intention and expectation is for the process. You can Embrace each other in the group with a gentle sort of hug. Hugging the tree as a loved, cherished family member and then hugging, embracing the persons who stand together in this circle to love each other as deeply as we can. You could also reach out your hand to each person within the circle to hold hands forming a circle. We are a love sacrament offering each other our bodies, our hopes, our dreams as air, trees, water, animals. Depending on how often your group has done this you may want to appoint a de facto guide leader to go over what's going on and what's going to happen so there's a reasonable expectation of what's going to be happening with the group. The group facilitator may want to mention, “…we are sitting with plants and point out ____ is plant we're sitting with…sitting together”. It must be a specific plant directly in front of us. So there is no confusion you want to have the leader point out the plant and also point out and identify look-alike plants nearby and if there is poison oak, poison ivy or toxic plants in the immediate area. Then do a short circle walk around including key points of the place bioregion. Remember our 'sitting with plants' is celebrating thankfulness for being above ground, breathing for another day.

     Initially it’s good to begin this practice with large plants like trees. It could be a large woody shrub, or a tree, for example a ponderosa pine. You want a non-thorny plant that you can literally hug and put your arms around. A tree or shrub that’s easy to identify and doesn’t pose reactive irritant skin issues. For us, our people, our place, our gateway plant is this great holy tree the ponderosa tree. Hugging the tree is an activity to begin the process of ‘sitting with plants’. By hugging, kissing and embracing the tree we promise and vow to learn to hug, kiss and embrace each other. We pray for our ancestors departed, those here with us now and our children to come. Who knows a beautiful child of God, child of the forest may be conceived here today among us? We welcome that child to be born, most surely will be among us today through this 'sitting with plants', becoming as a people through this ecosystem, bioregion place. You may want to touch the bark of the Ponderosa Pine. We have taken the ponderosa pine as our tree friend and we place our every hope, every fear, every pleading believing well spring of biospirit, our biospirit of intrinsic worth and value of us as a people on this tree. You may want to sniff the bark, smell the love scent of ponderosa pine vanilla permeating the air as we drink together this pine pollen tincture, our own blood is mixed and redeemed through this green veriditas blood clorophyll of plants now surging, through our blessed, thankful bodies with this ecstasy of each in out breath. Place your hands on the ponderosa pine, taste with tongue on the bark, taste the Ponderosa Pine, touch the needles and get in close proximity with Ponderosa Pine. Hugging your plant sitting partner so our people may live as a people connected, riveted to this.


     Now of course if the plant that you're sitting with is a small plant, a forb or annual plant rather than a large perennial tree or woody shrub you may want to have each person within the group walk up to and approach one of the plants, as ‘their’ plant. For instance one plant that we have sat with in a group setting is Monarda. Monarda is a member of the lamiaceae or mint family of plants. It is intensely aromatic so you may want to have someone taste the monarda leaf. Look closely at the monarda. Perhaps using a 10x loupe magnifier lens. Look at the stem of the monarda, touch the square stem. Examine the way the the opposite leaves are positioned and smell the flower and foliage, etc that sort of thing. You may want to gently put your ear down to the ground where the plant is growing and approach the plants from a crawling position so in a sense you're on the same level at eye level looking directly at the plant. Team members who have promised each other to this work can engage in living water baths together reciting the orchid manifesto. Tea shots of warm herbal tea can be placed on the abdomen or shoulders and drunk, slurped. Ponderosa pine pollen can be sprinkled on the neck, chest and abdominal area to potentiate the body. Plant partners may practice placing the soles of the feet together while straddling a smaller ponderosa pine, joining the hands together while simultaneously performing yab-yum ta-mo practices uniting the breaths of the two with the respiration of the qi energy of the tree. In short we bring together the whole body by embracing the whole terrain to increase the fertility of us together and the forest ecosystem. Sweat steam using fire, glowing hot rocks, water and fragrant herbs are definitely part of this essential practice, 'sitting with plants'.

      After each member of the group have each made some sort of contact with the plant: visual, tactile, olfactory, perhaps tasting a leaf of the plant. If it's a medicinal plant it is possible to have maybe a tincture bottle on site of the specific plant that you're going to engage, or a glycerite if it's a plant like monarda. You can have a small portable stove and make tea from the plant and the members can drink the tea. These are all possibilities. All these things can be done, so this is not a quick process. The other thing is this is not a monologue. It is a group practice ‘sitting with plants’. Maybe it should be called engagement with plants?

      The next phase of ‘sitting with plants’ is the Intuitive Phase. I wanted to mention a common issue with ‘sitting with plants’ especially in a group context with urban city dwellers and that is fear, anxiety and various degrees of trepidation connected to the outdoors. Biophobia and eco-phobia are both elements of the same disconnect of persons. Biophobia is the aversive response of fear and disgust toward natural stimuli in nature. Eco-phobia is the dread of helpless, hopeless, and powerless feelings regarding climate change, environmental degradation and ecosystem collapse. In both eco-phobia and bio-phobia the result is similar, passive acceptance of inaction as the only possibility.  The intuitive phase can be problematic for many for a variety of reasons including eco-phobia and bio-phobia and each ‘problem’ can be a potential blockage to the process. 

     There are many taboos to listening to the plants. Some of the taboos are religio-cultural within techno-america. Many people in our culture have never been face to face, one on one with a plant as a living being or as plant-person in a wild or semi-wild environment. In a sense you are dealing with impoverished, deprived, deracinated non-persons who have been taught, educated and programmed to not engage with the natural world.. How de-racinated? Impoverished in what way? Deprived of what?


Well deprived and impoverished from the essential well-spring of their essential nature, their biospirit and place as a person in the bioregion. The whole process of being alone one on one with a wild plant without a filter, in even a semi-wild environment can be anxiety producing. Wild nature in the form of a plant growing on its own, self thus imposes another whole multi-verse of being. You will have people checking their phones, taking photographs, using apps on their phones to ‘id’ plants, using notebooks, writing things down, taking notes, asking questions. These are all valuable ‘student’ type of activities and show how serious people are. People will be asking questions and instead of listening to the answer they are thinking of the next follow-up question to ask. Then there is the one-up question to show how much they know, To show just how serious they are. So it is important to create some ground rules, to make it easier to just have the group’s essential activity be ‘sitting with the plants’. Focus on returning the group energy to sitting with the plant using the five senses. The human body itself is a scientific instrument of perception. Here and being quiet is how it works best. Many people are fixated on a mechanical perspective, so it is important to work a shift to a vitalist, bioregional perspective rooted in the human body’s ability to perceive. The idea of ‘talking plants’,  ‘the spirit or voice of a plant’, even the idea that perhaps the plant is a living being, or the idea that God a god, a creator somehow set up the plants to ‘help’ and aid, heal and better us can be a moment of extreme existential dread for many.

The idea that a person can connect with a plant in a place is and can be for some a difficult problematic situation and is a huge political socio-problem. Team micro is advanced formula practice and only used within the open-palm commune supportive enviro milieu after many sessions just sitting with plants, sweats and hours in the lab of forest. Team Micro-dosing within the ‘sitting with plants’ herbal community is always in a controlled therapeutic caring community within a wild herb ways framework. Frankly with preparation and with a skilled facilitator, it is probably one of the best practices to get through and beyond eco-phobia and bio-phobia neurosis plaguing westerns into a cult of passivity. We have an innate connection to the wild, to nature and to each other and it is only through a careful and complete program cult of sowing disconnection that such a thing as bio-phobia and eco-phobia within a deracinated guilt body can even exist as theory, let alone an active force of becoming.

If the group has kept itself focused on the plants, for some time loving in the commune of experience, sacred land sacred sex it's important to bring this before the group as a practice possibility. So here we can begin sharing all things in common of one accord, air, trees, water, animals. The ponderosa pine of the western states is probably the best entrance into standing with plants. Using the breathing technique exercises, we begin to work synchronizing our breath to the 'breath' of the pine. Ponderosa pine are known and understood as one of the entrance corridors of human plant interaction within our group practice of 'sitting with plants'. As I mentioned with the ponderosa pine, one of the practices is hugging the tree. The next step with the 'standing with trees' is to experience the field of energy surrounding the tree. We link this standing exercise to the root of the tree in the ground and our feet. Using exercises and practices learned in the standing microcosmic orbit, we link and synchronize our vital life goes with the vital life force of the tree. Especially use the plunger and push hands to extend and combine our human energy life force with the tree life force. A ponderosa pine pollen tincture can be especially helpful here with this exercise. We hug and embrace the ponderosa pine tree and using the fragrance of the ponderosa pine bark we focus on sharing our human energy with the tree plant veriditas energy. It is helpful to vigorously rub our bodies against the tree.
A powerful plant ancestral healing practice is to team up with a member of the plant sitting practice group. In this more active 'sitting with plants' practice a male and female partner comfortable with each other in their practice, embrace each other while simultaneously embracing the ponderosa pine. This can be an excellent time for members of the circle to conceive children, vowing to raise them in the sacred land sacred sex circle of communal love that is wild herb ways. Sex between consenting loving adults under the open sky during day light hours, is definitely part of the practice of 'sitting with plants'. By sharing our energy with the plant that we are sitting with we can come to deeper conclusion.

    What you want to do once this initial contact period has occurred. Once the contact connection orientation phase has been established you want to then go into a more quiet intuitive mode. As far as the quiet mode you may want to have a facilitator address the group and advise the members of the group to take some deep breaths using one of the qi-gong techniques I demonstrated earlier. Qi-gong Chinese aspects, although here again you know when I say, ‘a Chinese aspect’, it's an aspect of being with plant and breathing. So it's not an Asian or Chinese way of being with the plant. It’s not Chinese breathing, it's just being with plant. https://youtu.be/HwzGkJGgW8w?si=cfbm5NRDbtgwGUSs


     So what you do is you stand before the plant in the area adjacent to the plant. You take some deep breaths by raising your hands up above your head as you inhale, and then bringing your arms to your sides as you exhale. Doing that four times. You can make some pushing hands motions where you attempt to feel the energy of the plant under the ground in the area of the roots. All living beings are continuously engaged with the environment. It is not that you believe the plant is engaging with the environment. The plant as a living being must and does engage with the environment in myriad ways.  https://youtu.be/c1izaN9vo2c?si=Zc4wRo8_1Mk4LwSn


So you engage with the environment. You note the position of the plant. You're noting. You're watching. You're observing where the plant is growing. You're noticing for instance with Monarda, that it likes sun. Monarda likes sunny areas. It likes a dappled sunlight. It's an understory plant.  It likes to grow in little patches or groves or groups of fellow monarda plants, tiny little monarda communities. Noticing all that, you may want to touch the soil around the monarda plant. You can feel the soil and ask, “Is the soil moist? Is the soil well drained. You are touching the soil with your fingers. You are asking, “Is it Sandy?” Is it a clay soil? You're doing all this noticing and then at a certain point you go into a deeper quiet time where each person can either be within a circle around a particular group of plants, if it's a small enough group of people, around a little stand of monarda, a little grouping of monarda. Or it can be where each person then goes off not a long distance, a few yards away and finds a little area of monarda. That they feel comfortable with sitting with and then each person sits quietly without speaking. Each person sits without making overt noises or or you know, without saying anything. You sit with the plant for a period of time. I would say this period of time is roughly 10 to 15 minutes of quietly sitting, something like that so you can have someone with perhaps a timer to time this.


 

     Then after the period of Silence, you regroup. You can have the facilitator announce, “...okay we're coming back together as a group.”, something like that. Then each person then slowly comes back to sit in a circle once again adjacent to the monarda grouping of plants growing in that environment. What I would then advise is to have what I call a Talking Stick approach. What is the Talking Stick approach? Well the Talking Stick approach is where you have some sort of object it can be either a formalized piece of wood that you use for this purpose. The talking stick can just be a piece of wood or or a stick or something nearby that you hold. You can have something attached to it like a bandanna or twine. Or it can have a feather attached to it. You can have maybe if there's usnea nearby or a vine or grass or something wrapped and braided around the talking stick. Or it can be something like a flexible willow in a circle. The talking stick  can be a bundle of even the monarda plants, like a bouquet, a small bundle of monarda that you pass around. Each person now while holding the Talking Stick has the hot seat to use Fritz Perls term. The person is then invited to share what their experience was sitting with the plant. I would call this the ‘talking stick’ stage while the person is talking. You may want the facilitator to announce it there's a rough time limits. You're not you don't want someone monopolizing the conversation. Because we're not again, we're not so much at this time talking about ourselves. We are not focusing on our traumas or our Joys, our hopes, our sorrows and so on. We are talking about our experience together with this Monarda. So for instance if there was a tea drunk or sampled or a tincture we can talk about what our experience was with the tincture in relation to sitting with the plants. What was The Taste? Was it bitter? Was it sweet? Was it pungent?  Was it bitter? Was it astringent tightening to the taste? Again some of these terms may not be familiar with the person, with all members of the group. So there's an educational process about these different terms. We are developing language terms of a lexicon within organoleptic testing of plants. You could also talk about where the Monarda was moving in the body. Was it? What was it doing in the body? Did you feel the monarda in your lungs? Did it form saliva forming in the mouth? Did you get a warm feeling? A cold feeling? Was there maybe something like a headache? What change did it create? In what organ system? Was it moving upward? Outward? Inward? From front to back?  Is there a specific part of the body that you felt the Monarda? Or the Herb, whatever it was? Was acting now of course there are more emotive people.  There are more intuitive and there are more introverted people, who will have maybe almost a visionary experience sense or experience with the plant that they would talk about. They may mention something that they saw, a color or a shape. It could be a vision. It could be a Daydream. It could be an actual vision that they saw or felt or heard, or a presence.


It can be whatever they want to say, whatever they want to share. Of course you want to encourage here through the facilitator openness to expression. Yet at the same time you don’t want to reward the bizarre. Because in group dynamics you will have a competition for the most outrageous statements for reaction acknowledgement. That is not what we are aiming for. We are focusing on the plant, so don’t forget that focus. Or you will have someone get into culturally correct trauma. If you are sitting with Gossipium thurberi, desert cotton, someone will mention seeing women slaves beaten screaming, witches burned at the stake, cowboys shooting indians or something. You don’t want to get into fantastic, theatrical, entertaining, imaginative skits because it’s fully about developing the human person as an instrument of observation toward the plant. Yet at the same time you don’t want to stifle speaking honestly. You want to channel the spoken words of the participants into the plants themselves in relation to our bodies. You also want to validate the least likely to speak person, to get them to speak and the best way to do that is focus on sensations within the organoleptic continuum of energetics. You want to have focused openness in this whole process toward plant energetics especially. Don’t forget we are working developing a lexicon of expression with language, with words to get into these plants to develop a deeper bioregional vitalist herbalism of repeatable experience within a materia medica. 
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      Once the person is finished speaking. Once they have had their say. Then the Talking Stick, the bundle of herbs whatever you are using is passed, hand to hand to the next person. The next person just speaks and the rest of the group listens attentively thoughtfully. Then as a gift the talking stick goes around in a circle, from person to person. Perhaps as it ends the facilitator may say, “Does anyone want to comment on what was said? What's been said?” At this point there can also be something where the facilitator who perhaps is more skilled and knowledgeable and has a little bit more expertise, perhaps about botany, perhaps about the energetics of the plant, perhaps about different schools of herbal, how they viewed the plants, their own experience with the plant and so on; they can do a wrap. In that sense summarize the conclusions, establish if possible common ground of the group subjective experience. The facilitator facilitates in the sense of concluding and then you know the event has moved on then moves to a new plant… but this as a whole is what I call the process of ‘sitting with the plants’. 


      So the question is where, why, when, and how this process come about. Well I wanted to go a little bit into my own experience of this process. How I came to it. It is primarily through other teachers. I've mentioned before some of their names. Here I don’t want to name drop. Because to be honest, I am not sure if they approve of how I am presenting ‘sitting with plants’.  So I'm not going to mention their names right here. You can read some of my other writings for that.  you can get that from other sources. I wanted to talk about my own experience. Some of you may know I worked for approximately 20 years as a LPN, and RN, registered nurse. I worked a lot with in the area of of Psych or Behavioral Health. I was exposed in that in that process in that occupation, in that job within Healthcare to giving talks. I had to give talks. I had to give sort of group, group talks to people who are often in a lockdown psych ward type of environment. Oftentimes they were unable to leave the facility.  They were there usually for some sort of court ordered evaluation or something like that. They weren't just free to leave. Given that they often wanted to take part in groups. Some of these groups were led by nurse practitioners. They were led by a psychologist. There were AA 12 step programs. They were led by psychiatrists and so on. Lot’s of groups.  

     One of the things that I've learned though from this employment experience is that one of the major lacking problematic portions of that job, was patient being held against their will in a place denied access to the outdoor world of nature. Being held against your will in a building. A building which is often not designed to facilitate the entrance of light, wind, air from the outdoors. Often such medical style buildings are designed to be insulated from the outside. Which was often no windows, no windows that could be opened. A stuffy stale stifling place isolated from the natural environment. I developed a resistance to this whole mode of isolating people from the natural environment within the health care model of the dominant culture. I especially think this crystallized and became deeper and more fundamental during the covid event. 


      One of the things of the covid events which was later learned, was that respiratory illnesses are very interrelated to vitamin D trough and vitamin D deficiency. So covid was exacerbated or made worse through lack of exposure to sunlight during the winter months. This was true, this is true of many viral illnesses. During the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu epidemic one of the treatments was exposing even bed ridden patients to direct sunlight.  I guess we live in different times. Back then there was a lack of air conditioning. There was no A/C mandate and so on. One of the treatment therapies for the flu victims of the 1918-1919 pandemic were to place them in solariums or windowed areas where they could be exposed to sunlight or even place beds outside where they were exposed to sunlight. To make a long story short, the absence and lack of contact with nature, with wild nature is itself a style of deficiency that is intentional. It is important to dig that the depriving nature ethic is an intentional conscious conspiracy to create a consciousness that echo chambers eco-phobia and bio-phobia. This deficiency  lends itself to depression and what today might be called psychological stress.   

     Part of the ‘sitting with plants' process for me in a sense was going back to some of the earlier experiences that I had both as a Young Man and in my youth so I'm going to call it my spiritual question period. Where I regularly engaged in outdoor activities within a spiritual context. What were these spiritual activities? I lived at what was called an ashram or a yoga training center. And at this yoga training center one of the things that I did as did many of the people did, was to sleep outside in a wooded tent platform on a fairly steep ski hill. During the winter it had a tow rope going up for down hill skiing. This was actually a winter skiing slope. This was in the spring and summer. So people would sleep and live outside on the aspen and birch covered hill side. They would gather for their yoga exercises which were also done outside. Off and on outside depending on the weather. Exercise, yoga asanas on a yoga platform deck to the open air. There was also an indoor space for exercises.  I would say that a large part of that practice, that spiritual practice was the connection with the place which was in the Laurentian mountains of Canada in Quebec. The ashram evolved relatively, in a relatively pristine wild area which was near the Laurentide Provincial Park near St Agathe d'Monts. 


 

     Anyway to make a long story short, one of the most important things that I got from the yoga experience was this contact with nature. The outside direct contact with the mountain. This contact with the mountains had a lot of Aspens and birch on them so they were they were you know the white bark, Mt Tremblant, trembling leaves and so on. It was a very outdoor, outdoorsy experience. I don't know if the ashram was intended that way but yet it was that way. I also studied herbal medicine with a Dr Gauri Shankar. It influenced the importance that I saw with ‘sitting with plants’, being wrapped around nature. The experience of the moon cycle, the angle of the sun. The long long days where the sun went down at about 9:00pm. 

     Something that I found much later through my health care sort of nursing Registered Nursing employment which was totally lacking in this Healthcare model so you have these relatively sick I'm going to call them sick people. They were you know sick. They were having issues but some of the issues that they were having was this lack of contact with wild nature.


 

     Another experience similar to this is that I happened to meet again during this sort of spiritual questing. It was in the Colville Washington National Forest near in the bush.  In the area near Nespelem, Washington which by the way just recently had some very severe fires wildfires but to make get back to my, how this sitting with plants came about. There was a man and he was a Chippewa. Sun Bear was a man and he led this group and the group was called the bear tribe and it was very interesting sort of time. Peace movement, you know we're going back to the 70s here the 1970s so we're talking you know almost 50 years ago. So we're talking a long time ago. It was a much different time. A much free-er laid back open time.  You had a lot of people hitchhiking.You had people driving cars old beat-up Vans and so on. Gas was .62 cents a gallon. People were driving trucks that were 30 years old so driving cars from the 1950’s. They were on this spiritual questing to find, to find the meaning of life. So was I and one of the things that this gentleman taught his name was sun Bear and Wabun was living in balance. He would watch old western movies and there were people coming and going.


Everyone seemed to have this book “A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy”, and “The Spiritual Community Guide”. There was exploitation but there was also honesty, a little of both. Sun Bear happened to be a very charismatic sort of person he lived with his his wife Wabun and a group of people there at this place. It was a simple log cabin he had in more or less in the forest. It was a cabin. It was more or less I guess it wasn't off grid but it was it was very isolated. A lot of the practice was involved with praying, being outside, doing sweat lodges. How you know you have hot rocks, pour water on them. You take in the Steam and praying, praying to Natural Forces, outside of the Western Christian framework. So this was another experience which led to my ‘sitting with plants’. 

      Another experience that I had during the same time. Was in the area called the Catskill. Catskill Mountains of New York again a relatively pristine beautiful area. There was a gentleman, Eido Shimano Roshi, a man who he claimed to be a a Zen Buddhist. Rinzai Zen, a teacher and he had through an amazing organizational charisma skills and whatnot and donations and so on. He had acquired this huge estate in the Catskill Mountains around Beecher Lake where Harriet Beecher Stowe lived many years ago. She who wrote “Uncle Tom's Cabin” incidentally. This beautiful lake I'm going to call it wild, Beecher lake. The zendo was there. There were loons on the lake. There were you know ducks, geese, osprey fish eagles. You know beautiful beautiful hardwood forests of maple and oak. You would get incredible incredible beautiful seasons. You know the snow you would get the fall, the Autumn. The Beautiful foliage of reds, yellow and oranges and the yellows of the Oaks falling leaves.  You would get the springtime. You would get the season of mud so to speak and the summer and whatnot. Again the teaching was called Zen and it involved a lot of sitting.  We are would sit for roughly 100, a hundred days. During this time each of the 30 days we would have what was called a sesshin. All work would stop. Saying where you would sit from roughly the earliest morning till, till sunset basically. There would be chanting. There would be a form of walking, kinhin, a ritualized walking on this outdoor deck. Walking slowly deliberatetely, mindfulling, where you would see the trees outside. You would see the lake, ripple on the water, clouds in the sky, rain falling, snow flakes, leaves falling. You would see the wind move. You would get the cold air and whatnot.


We worked during the day when we weren’t ding the 15 hours a day of meditation sitting and walking, doing dokusan, answering koan. Does a dog have the Buddha nature? Yes or no? Joshu answered, ‘Mu’. So Eido said, ‘Do shikan-mu .’ as a play on shinan-taza. Or show me the hand of one hand clapping. We would cut and split firewood. The meals were all eaten in and again in a ritualized way. Where you had three bowls. Into each Bowl was a little bit of food you washed the bowl with with tea, with hot green tea. Then you covered it up in a, I'm going to call it a bag, with these cloths. You would, you would stick your bowl in a certain area which had your name on it. Then you would use that bowl in the morning, for lunch and dinner. Sometimes you don't have late 6:00pm supper after the noon hour meal. You didn't have dinner or that was an optional thing. Again the sitting practice involved sitting quietly silently with your breathing. 

      I think that this had a lot to do with my own formulation of ‘sitting with plants’ because whenever I say sitting with plants I changed some of the things I wrote.  I changed it from ‘sitting with plants’ to ‘sitting standing being with plants', because it's not only just sitting with plants motionless quietly. You're also standing with the plants. Also walking with the plants. You're also being with the plants. 

      So I'm fast forwarding till today and I recently went on approximately unintentional but a nine month camping trip. I didn't exactly start out with the goal of doing a 9 month camping trip. It worked out that way. So I began this camping trip more or less in February at the the mountains. It began in February at the local mountain chain that is sort of where I live. It's a distance away. It's called the the Catalina mountains. So I sat there and camped there at the Catalina mountains. I walked up to the the different Springs. It's called Romero. Romero Canyon, Romero spring and I would walk there pretty much every day. I would walk the wash, walk the little wash that flows off Santa Catalina mountains. I would stay there. I would stay at the hot sauce pepper sauce Canyons National Forest campground. I stayed at the, a little bit higher on the mountain where there are various campgrounds Moreno Canyon Campground and so on. I don't want to give all my places away. Anyway you know I did this camping. I went up to Mount Graham, Gila Box. I went up to the a very nice Campground there in in the very lower part of the mountain and also a little bit higher noon Creek up there towards higher up the mountain as it got warmer. Then I went up into the area around the mogollon rim some, some places that I go three or four different places ranging in elevation from about in a five or six thousand feet up to about 10,000 ft and then to places along the The Gila River in the Gila National Forest. 


     Anyway so during this time I was also writing. Writing some of my things that I've written and publishing them in this blog but it all crystallized came together in this process of ‘sitting with plants’ and reconnecting. Reconnecting for me not only with the plants which I had been studying for all this time going back to the 1970s although it wasn't always in a linear fashion. Oftentimes you know it came with having to work and earn money and I did things that way. I worked for the forest service. I worked for the National Park Service. I worked for the state parks of California. I did horseshoeing farrier work. I lived as best I could as an impoverished white european American. I worked at the lumber yard. I worked at Wahweep resort in the Glenn Canyon National monument. I you know I lived for 15 years in a trailer, on a 5 acre inholding, Pariah, Utah on the BLM, which is now Grand Staircase National Monument, National Park sort of thing. So I mean I didn't always have the opportunity to spend all my time studying plants.

     I did you know, I mean as much as I could, I read books. I tried to spend and work as much time as I could outside apart from the roughly 20 years when I worked as a nurse which I had to always be inside, inside the hospital. Being inside which was pretty hard for me to be honest with you and doing a lot of things which I didn't did not really feel that comfortable doing. I sometimes feel that I paid, paid the price so to speak of karma for doing some of those things which which I probably shouldn't have, should not have done. Again you know every every person lives their own life as best they can. No one is pure, no one is impure, is one of the teachings is, is that I learned. Is that from Eido Roshi, is that no one is pure and no one is is impure. There's no such thing as a perfectly pure person. There's no such thing as a perfectly impure person. https://youtu.be/4bqY8EfrOkg?si=7WVP2N_A0nFb79v3


      And I think also from my Christian background Catholic background, in one of the prayers called the Our father, is to forgive. One of the things that I began to understood about that Our Father, is that it's an inner psychological message of healing. When you forgive because you're forgiving the person not because, not always because you love and respect that person. You are doing the forgiving and this someone may find this objectionable and you know I'm okay with that. But you're forgiving the person not because they did something to harm you, although they might have or might not have done that. Youn are forgiving the person because they are created by God. You didn't create this person. God created this person. God allows the Sun, the rain and the beautiful aspects of creation to shine on this person regardless of your opinion of them. Regardless of what I think of the person who offended me they are a creature of God. That's why I'm forgiving them. I forgive because I live and move and breathe and while I live there is hope yet with the dead there is no possibility to become. So by not forgiving I choose my place with the dead, those beyond hope who can no longer become. We choose to become as a people whether needful rain or blasting sun, we choose by free-will to become together as a people.

     The other thing is as a psychological tool when you hold anger, when you hold hatred, when you hold bitterness, regret towards a person, towards a place, towards a situation, the person you are harming is yourself. You're not harming the person you are hating. You are harming yourself because you are closing off a portion of the Divine that is for your benefit. Your potential benefit you are closing off something that potentially could assist you. And by holding on to this anger you're damaging yourself. So anger, hatred, holding grudges; it's a self-harm activity.  You are harming, I am harming myself when I hate. 


     Now you know and one of the teachings of Zen and the martial arts is that in the activity of martial art defense you are not hating your opponents. I think this may be a familiar concept to anyone who has played any team sport; basketball, football, hockey baseball. When you as a pitcher are throwing the ball you don't hate the batter. You're trying to strike the batter out. You're trying to defeat the batter. You're not hating the batter. Likewise when you're playing football you don't hate your opponent but you are trying to tackle your opponent. According to martial arts by having a state of mind of pure physical activity you actually become a better opponent. You are better able to defeat your opponent when you have a clear view of them without emotion, without hate, without love. You're just in the act of the martial art. And the same sort of being in the flow being in the moment is true with music. You practice music so you get to the point where you go beyond the practice and play music according to Jerry Garcia and many players. This is the teaching of Zen and manual arts, that you sit so you go beyond sitting. You get to the point where you are not sitting with emotions. You're just sitting with a physical body and the beauty, the enlightenment, the Buddha nature of the situation, of the events, is sitting on the mat. A lot of these Concepts I've included or tried to include sometimes failing, oftentimes failing, sometimes succeeding but including these Concepts in the sitting with plants.

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      Recently I've written about the doctrine of signatures. And I had heard mentioned by several of the field school herbal teachers that I studied. The herbal teachers taught that there was a doctrine of signatures. They taught this doctrine of signatures was a, “looks like then it acts acts’, “if it looks like then it probably is like’, an organ of the body. So I mentioned that walnuts when they're split in half look like brains so walnuts are a brain food. Or red root, red Ceanothus, red roots. I see you know this Ceanothus Americanus with his friend fendleri, greggi. See you know it talked about as a blood affinity medicine, electron microscopes, positive and negative charge, Michael Shaw Moore. Or in our tinctures looking like a red substance, cabernet sauvignon color or red substance blood. So Ceanothus root, this or red root is a blood medicine. The same thing with sassafras. Sassafras is red. The red bark makes a red tea and makes a red tincture. It's a blood purifier. The yellow agrimony is like a liver like jaundice so it's a remedy for jaundice. 

    This ’looks like then is _____’, is a simplistic view of the doctrine of signatures. Doctrine of signatures was a concept very prevalent in Western herbal medicine especially in the 1600s by herbalists like Nicholas Culpepper and Jacob Boehme and their concept of doctrine of signatures has to do with the World created by God was not left for fallen man a wasteland. The creation was made in such a way that the remedies of plants and the medicinal portion of plants was revealed to the herbal scientist to the herbalist through the doctrine of signatures in a Revelation gift left by God our creator within the created world. So it's a noble concept. It's a concept that goes through to Aristotle and though Aristotle reacted to his teacher Plato by in a sense rejecting portions of his teacher Plato’s ideas of the Primal forms. Aristotle still held the idea that there were primal forms although not an absolute ideal primal form. Aristotle took primal forms in the sense of we go to the actual thing itself to see the primal form in its current manifestation as a variable actual form. Aristotle took this as a starting point for investigative science. But the doctrine of signatures in Western philosophy through the Greeks through the Greeks who when you know Aristotle taught Alexander the Great who made great travels throughout the the world of his time all the way to India, what we would today call the the levant, to Mesopotamia Iran Iraq Afghanistan and these teachers along with people forget that there were great Buddha statues in Afghanistan. Buddha was often understood as at least by his own writings of indo-Aryan, of the Shakya clan. This is the way Gautama Buddha described himself as Buddha. I'm not saying you know I'm not talking about his his race or so much as his ideas. These were the ideas that these people were familiar with obviously and through the the writings of the Greeks of Aristotle were for a time sort of lost to westerners till the Renaissance. https://youtu.be/N-L_gXdTzYk?si=G5tCWWUJNN7gesE8


Basically the Italian European Renaissance in the 1600s when people like Nicholas Culpepper Jacob Boehme rediscovered these ideas. As they began to have these preserved translations of the Greeks from the Arabs, from the Iranians, from the Islamic writers who had preserved these writings in Arabic. They were then brought to the west and they continue to be in a sense rediscovered by people. Rediscovered by our Western philosophers but anyway to make a long story short. I wanted to give a little bit of background on how this meditative tradition that I met in my spiritual seeking time informed and created this ‘sitting with plants’ along with the teachers of herbalism I had studied with here in the Western United States. Through books, through book reading and through this personal journey odyssey of actually spending a lot of time outside in nature with relatively intact ecosystems I began to see the value and application of a satipathana, ch’an, rinzai zen practice of like Bodhi Daruma Dai shi Eka Zai so Zenji, of facing the wall. 

     One of the first events in my life that I consider a significant event is I went on a backpacking trip from the western Pennsylvania towards Harrisburg. I walked and as a teenager backpacking. I at that point in my life I can remember one specific event. It was a summer thunderstorm. I was on what to me were incredibly high mountains although here they would be considered small foothills of probably less than 1000m or 3400ft. It was near Mount Davis, where our cross country coach took us to train on an annual summer trip. The highest point in Pennsylvania along with what some people might call the Blue Ridge Mountains or the Chestnut Ridge. There was an extreme summer mid afternoon lightning thunder storm. What came to me as an 18 year old kid sleeping in a flimsy tent alone on a mountain with this raging thunderstorm of flashing lightning was my absolute poverty. I just came to this sort of vision or revelation epiphany that I knew nothing about the place where I was born. I had started studying books by Bradford Angier. I can't remember the name of the book I think it was a Field guide to medicinal plants, or herbs or something like that, Jethro Kloss, Back to Eden. I read a lot of sort of Back To Nature books hunting and fishing journals trapping journals of the Pennsylvania Game Association.

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I started to realize I knew nothing about the place where I lived. I was a stranger to myself, my place and my people. On that mountain walking through these hillbilly forests I came across the most unfriendly inhospitable people who would glare at you, never inviting you in, I had ever seen. Exactly like the gritty yinzers who glared at you through angry bitter eyes of inner city Pittsburgh. This was America and it was fundamentally tending toward broken. The social fabric, mine and theirs had been forever severed for many by a generational technocratic trauma. I made a vow or a promise to myself and to them that one day I would learn the names of these plants. I made a promise to overcome and not be destroyed by trauma. I made a promise and a vow that one day they wouldn't just be trees to me. I made a vow and a promise that one day the plants would not only have names that I would say their name and know what that plant was. I would know what it was used for, I would know its useful purposes, I would know as much about that plant as I could. That was sort of my purpose and vow I made on Sugarloaf knob near Mount Davis many years ago approximately 50 years ago while backpacking across the state of Pennsylvania. I made this promise that I'm going to learn the names of these plants. 

      I felt like I was handicapped by not knowing the plants. I felt like I was handicapped walking with a ball and chain around my my ankle because I didn't know where I was. I didn't know what was going on around me in terms of the natural environment. I was in a techno-fog of generational proportions. I was a normative stranger through the technological bubble that I was living in. Which even back then was both positive and limiting. I mean that was before cell phones, before computers. It wasn't that much of a technological bubble yet it was wastelanding everything. I was isolated by my upbringing and it isolated me from the wild natural world. https://youtu.be/-fqfsDQmcXw?si=cpKOlA-wzZeuOJT4


      Some of my most fond memories were going to Schenley Park, going to the Nature Center there, hiking down below my house. There was a little canyon there with a little stream flow of water. There was a spring there. Probably the first plant I learned as a medicinal plant was sassafras that grew around me down the hill near the railroad tracks. We had a woman that lived in our house her name was Johanna (Stacko) Governman she was probably in her '80s at that time so she was probably born I'm I'm thinking maybe in the in or around 1899 in rural Pennsylvania coal country. Anyway to make a long story short she was an herbalist although I didn't know it or recognize it at the time. She was an herbalist plant person. I looked at her that way. She worked for early Bell Telephone as a switch operator, as a ‘hello girl’. She never married. She lived alone. I'm not sure about her whole story. I know she was born to a large family of nine brothers and sisters. She left her family, moved to the city and she worked for Bell Telephone. She retired and she kept plants in pots. She knew a lot about medicinal plants, the cycles of the moon. She introduced me to the Old Farmers Almanac.  I don't know how much she knew. It was much later I realized she had influence on me that I didn't recognize at the time. All these experiences, these Journeys, these learning opportunities that I had led me to ‘sitting with plants’. I wanted to share that with you.

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 I Sit/Stand With the Green”

     Lyrics, music, copyright 2025, all rights reserved: “Green Orchid Manifesto, Orchid knows, everything knows, Orchid knows where raspberry grows. Orchid knows, I sit, stand, walk, being with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings alwaysStacko), with green Paleolithic Neanderthal Mary Orchid rose. Orchid knows the iris raspberry rose. https://youtu.be/SU2PqNm5DdU?si=eA6HV4ZhSGt4xzpc


Orchid knows gray and red squirrels, wolf and elk, beaver, chipmunk, skunk and snake. Orchid knows. Green Orchid manifesto orchid knows, orchid knows where raspberry grows, where road runner, hawk, raven, hopping red breast robin goes. Orchid knows blue stellar jay, cinnamon bear, coyote fox, bob cat, Aspen meadow snow. Orchid knows perfect love flows orchid knows. Orchid knows I am wild herb ways. Orchid knows I am the medicine road. Orchid know where raspberry grows. You are a golden raspberry rose, orchid knows. Orchid knows I sit-stand with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always, with green Paleolithic Neanderthal orchid Mary. Orchid knows  

At your side orchid knows the perfect wild rose, supply of flows. Orchid knows iris, raspberry rose, bitter yellow, oh orchid knows clear to have met your taste. Holy Ghost air wind nourish with vital force, orchid manifesto. I lift them up alive, your family grows. Orchid knows  greenness of remedios, waters flow, the sunflows, live in light, the orchid rain falls flows, orchid flows knows the moon rising. 

Sunset she is flamed by his light, to rise again… 


I Sit-stand walk am with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always, with green Paleolithic Neanderthal orchid Mary. 

The mother of mothers knows where the raspberry grows, mother of sons, mother of daughters, mother of raspberry rose. Orchid mother of holy remedio. Orchid mother of rocks and cliff face ledges, orchid mother of golden dawn, orchid mother of heaven’s door, orchid mother of morning star, orchid mother of angel messengers, orchid knows my mother of ancient ancestor agrimony and saint john’s aconite Poleo bugle weed, and our mother of the snow. Orchid knows mother of red and white where monarda grows. Orchid agrimony and saint john’s aconite, Poleo bugle weed, and our mother as the hero euro-cult of faith built generation by generation. Orchid through eternal sacred celestial marriage between a man and woman in the sacred euro tribe. The Orchid manifesto flows, and it goes. The Orchid knows green flame force, hidden in blowing winds blow. All of the essence and not found in death. Orchid knows I am the vital force alive, Crawling up your turtle island spine.

Orchid knows the way back home back. Your slick rock shoulders continental divide under oaks with pedicularis, flowers color chocolate orchid knows, orchid knows the way back home. Orchid manifesto the perfect iris raspberry rose, orchid knows, orchid knows. https://youtu.be/dp0tFBRWzFk?si=41gp4xtCvTjrEp60


“I Sit, walk standing am 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.

I arise today through the strength of water,

through the strength of  ancestors,

through the strength of place,

through the strength of  Judgment.

I arise today through the protection of Angel messengers, 

in the service of the green,

in hope to meet with reward,

in prayers of Mothers and Patriarchs, in predictions,

in preachings, in faith,

in innocence, righteous men and women move in peace.

I arise today, through the strength of golden Heaven:

light of Sun, brilliance of Moon, splendour of Fire,

speed of Lightning, swiftness of Wind, depth of Sea,

stability of Earth, firmness of Rock.

I Sit, walk standing am with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always. 

I arise today, through strength of green earth to pilot me:

to uphold me, wisdom to guide,

Eyes to look before me, Ears to hear,

Words to speak, Hands to guard me,

The way to walk before me, a shield to protect me,

Earth and sky to secure me:

against snares of devils, against temptations of weakness,

against inclinations of fear, against everyone who

shall wish me ill, afar and anear, alone and in a crowd.

I summon today all these powers between me (and these evils):

I Sit, standing with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always, with sacred mother of green mountains, field and forest,

against every cruel and merciless power that may oppose my body and my soul, against sickness, against incantations of false prophets,

against unjust laws, Against false accusations,

against false decisions designed to limit the green, against the craft of war,

against the cycles of abuse,

against every hex and spell of disease  that endangers my body and soul.


Father and Mother  protect me today,

I Sit, walk standing am with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always, with the green wisdom of reverence, 

against poison, against burning,

against drowning, against wounding,

so that there may come an abundance of reward.

Life is with me, Life before me, Life behind me, Life within me,

Life beneath me, Life above me, Life around me,

Life on my right, Life on my left,

Life in breadth, Life in length, Life in height,

Life in the heart of every man who thinks of me,

Life in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,

Life in every eye that sees me,

Life in every ear that hears me.

I Sit, standing with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always, with the green be victory in peace.

I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation unity of all life, through belief in the power, through the Oneness of the Creator of creation.

Salvation is my blessing. Health is my blessing. Love is my blessing. Peace is my blessing. Blessing is my life. Thank you glorious Creator my Father, my Mother, in all directions. May the blessings of the Father and the Mother and the Holy Wind, be ever with us. I Sit, walk standing am with the green, in all directions, may all be well, blessings always, with the green.”https://youtu.be/iRUYDxQR2CY?si=YIlzto-qRkfyAwij


 

     My brothers and sisters, my beloved folk, I have nothing original to tell you. Originality is part of the fantasy coalition of newness within modernism that binds and burdens our people to erasure. Instead of novelty embrace your ancestors that live locally, nearby as blood plants and soil place. Embrace the sun wheel of seasons. Embrace your kin, be to your folk what they need to be. What you need to do to help them be with these plants, persons and places. Embrace the wild, resist modernism. Remember our greatist strength is hospitality. Before this surveillance police state we gathered and shared, we gifted one another, hugging, greeting one another warmly, sitting, standing, walking, being face to face celebrating the seasons and our life together. So defy bestial foul banners that hang as continual threat of doxxing. Join again with hospitality as in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, the epic sagas of european people. Embrace the hospitality of your kith and kin. Look into the blood and soil around you. Use the wild herb ways of plants for healing us together.

https://youtu.be/a3SnFUv_Nr4?si=NwyKU7uX_tL65g38


        Rooted in the old ways and part of the real work, the sign, the signature is the stories of the Holy Tree, the Holy Way within tradition of our salvation story are the ways of protection prayer. When we say the ways of protection prayer, we mean summoning an aspect of plant, person, place and all our ancestor’s  heroic divine presence on this endless medicine road to dwell and activate amongst us. By the use of the blessing sign we enact in our lives the living power flowing in all things, through the intention of sacred space. “ Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou sit standest is holy ground.”. Where we are located right now in the present moment, sitting, standing, walking, being together is sacred ground. All of creation around us that we are sharing is sacred space and so therefore we are mindful of our actions, of our intentions on this endless road traveling together horizon to horizon.


 

     Remember, Through the absence of purpose, souls are lost in darkness. So for that reason we have intention. We make promises, oaths and declarations of purpose to ourselves privately as blessing and publicly together. In the modern industrial view there is a tendency to locate our place within a political map, that is only part of where we are. There are many valid maps, of watersheds, of valleys, stream courses, divides, of the bioregion and ecosystem. There are spiritual maps, guides and warnings. We are situated between life and death, heaven and hell. We as protagonists inhabit a divine theater, struggling for the prize of eternal life. Life as process means the importance of rigid roles between male and female in a sacred marriage partnership, for the sustainability of the family. The family is the basic unit of salvation and the continuation of the medicine road. Celestial marriage is a sacrament of sacred partnership exclusively between a man and woman. Without rigid roles for men and women there will be no available women as folk caregiver mothers for our children. No mothers means no families, no families means no children, no future, end of story. The question is why many assume passive roles in light of official programs designed to erase and replace the family as a central viable group?  One answer is complete and total abject fear of the monolithic state. Fear of the state sponsored programs of exclusion that can be unleashed at anytime, against anyone, for any reason. People are so afraid that to admit they are afraid is a fear. No one can be afraid so billboard messengers are always happy. Yes we can should and do be happy, but not all the time. Our people are struggling and we are not laughing at their pain. That is ludicrous to be laughing at your people’s suffering.  Another answer is that the regime in power over us, through its government schools posits no sacred values in its mandated secular program. To affirm the endless medicine road of reverence and gratitude that supercedes the state's authority may be met with sanctions ranging from loss of employment, media based accusations, imprisonment for crimes of thought, speech  or expression and various threats of diminishment of one’s life moving forward. Affirmation and cooperation within a secular world view is a denial of basic green vital sacred identity. Whether it be forced work in servile unessential labour on sacred festival days, whether they be Sunday, or any day we choose to be a sacred day, voiced public tolerance for morally prohibited action, or being subject to always on without a shut off switch active visual/audio messages of morally repulsive advertisements, in many ways the current regime is problematic to faith and hence our salvation. 

https://youtu.be/A82PK5ZKqe8?si=WNR8RAHwBs-2YeV4


     A secular stateism condemns its citizens to depression, anxiety and fear by denying the validity of the green flame and the celestial marriage of folk and sacred land, man and woman living tree and the eternal stakes of the life process on earth. Zabiba wal-Malik  I have loved you Zabiba in this manner so as to love the people in you and through you ... and I have embraced your God because you are a living part of the people, you believe in its role, and you love the homeland..." When the king uttered these last words, tears filled his eyes and rolled down his cheeks and moustache. At that point Zabiba rose and, with tears pouring forth from her eyes, embraced the king, kissed him on his forehead, and said: "Thank God for the creation." (Saddam Hussein Zabiba wal-Malik)

     The genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways offers, The Four, as in “Woo Woo Song”, https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2024/04/woo-woo-song.html 

Referring to four compass points east, south, west and north, spoken sun-wise, in a greater teaching, four directions. As sung, performed, danced and chanted during the recent 8.4.2024 world day of prayer. https://youtu.be/dp0tFBRWzFk?feature=shared in the liturgical piece Not only the compass point directions, but specifically “Our well-being is non-negotiable.”  says, “As above, so below.” Another is, “As before, so now still.” “As it appears, so then it is.” “What you do, that shall you become.” From sitting, standing with plants comes the doctrine of signatures which is inherently composed as the four, sitting, standing, walking, being with plants. Listening as participant to the whole terrain as a qigong.


     Sit/Stand  tall together in a circle in the Algiz rune, point your arms toward The bear in the northern sky Polaris, become, take part of the power of Makosh or Mother-Bucket, i.e. the constellation Ursa Major. The symbol of the Palace is the horn of plenty or the golden bucket. The sacred tree is the pine, alder, Aspen and ash. During these last 36,000 years I can vividly remember, like it was yesterday the voyages I made to Turtle island from the east, from the west. We have worshipped the bear, the north star Vega, Thuban and now again Polaris. 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. Our Gods and Goddesses are just and those who censured our words, gate keep our speech, spelled our people with suicide, spelled abortion and spelled addiction, drugged our people, who broadcast their message of white European guilt in the occupied media of stolen forms, who now own, bought our own electronic media forms that we created, then banned us, deplatformed us from positions of authorship, and broadcast a continuous antiwhite message that defeats us as a people through subterfuge, managed antiwhite narrative producing an electro hybrid dehumanized person.  Now we have to deal with the passive euro brother spontaneously an enemy via meme pathogens a deracinated blob of guilt and apology. https://youtu.be/OdL0M1zUWe0?si=KyHAcdnwEYH9hws2


         One of the amazing things being me, Paul Manski, as wild herb ways sitting, standing, walking, being  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 Daisho 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. I remember Hephaestus popping her cherry in a Grove of oaks, I was playing the lyre, Easton was there and Tree Godfather.




      You must become and study every word in the transmission, I have given you. Not only this transmission but become and study whatever is going on between you, us and these plants as a transmission. 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, standing, being, walking 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.      

    My ancestral family members to be a people emerged from the forested mountains, an indigenous self arising first people, a situated family of people who trace our lineage to the paleolithic with significant Neanderthal DNA in our ancestral genome, like the Germanic tribes, like the Dine, like the Apache, like a pierogi fried in butter. Along with the Basque people, my family Germanic lineage has up to 5% Neanderthal. We are the authentics traced to this Turtle Island. Our people have the highest Solutrean DNA Neanderthal song story memory story. In our memory that becomes stronger and and stronger as we sit, stand, walk, be with our herbal plant medicine teachers we see Solutrean ancestors face to face. Science now reveals that all human life emerged from Europe in the straight out of Europe love truth, that prioritize our wellbeing, as the actuality of a meaningful authenticity. We are the authentics unfolding through our human genome research.



Sitting, standing, walking, being with plants, sitting, standing, walking, being 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. 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 paw of the big Island. We know that Jesus lived, walked, and taught in this North America (Claw paw turtle 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.

       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, standing, walking, being there mountain there whose feet are in La Gobernadra 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 north to Sierra Blanca, Escadillo and another great mountain lying down in the north west. 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. https://youtu.be/U5cdqkIfYQw?si=dBGW0AYS_r6LWfw2

Mrs "Nav"- said, "Meet people where they are at. Healing doesn't occur in an environment of judgement...healing is not a destination but a journey we are on, i don't practice heroic herbalism, i work on long slow lasting shifts."

So I am asking my countless patrons who support me, be blue sky mind. See with blue sky eyes. That is not only for guest, it is for host. You know we have the guest and we have the host. We have the entertainment and we have the entertainers. We have all the sour dough doughnuts fried in beef tallow, stacked up and we wonder what is the inside of the doughnut like? What is the outside of the doughnut crusted with sugar? Well there is no inside of the doughnut hole without the outside. Sometimes host sometimes guest. Either way if we see something we're sure it's inside and outside. Does it matter where the inside begins? Where is the outside beginning? Both inside and outside begin with love. If you see it, if you feel it, then it's something that's important to deal with. see it? Then own it. Own the doughnut inside and out. We love the doughnut and we love the donut makers in the kitchen. That is our road, that is the Bioregional medicine road. Our path is on this plant medicine Road. Not only other but self.

Allow some space for good things to flow in. I need not only to stop judging others but stop judging self. The illusion of disconnect mind is mainly in the soft ego judgment, picking and choosing, the good and bad, the right and wrong, the goodway/bad way. Get to a space where there is clarity, openness and the blue sky mind. A conscious let go, let it rest, let it be, give it a space to be whatever it needs to…”

#GeniusWorldTeacher teaching from the #ConcertForSquirrels praying for rain so these conifer forests may live. For winter snow

As Zoe said, "Your confusion is better than clarity. Only don’t know, flow." - so I actually bring in & invite blue sky mind into the mix. I ask blue sky mind, "Thank you blue sky for being perfect blue above our heads. Show my clouds, please? Let me see clouds and sky." My thoughts, feelings, goals, problems, tape loops- whatever- i see, I see it with a background of blue sky, clouds. I allow/invite ego concern to be clouds moving across blue sky, dramas, big-plans, hopes, fears all get blue sky mind treatment for a while...until all i see is blue sky. 4 directions, beauty, Hózhǫ́ náhásdlį́į́’. then maybe i see raven, hawk, buzzards and eagle circling slow, playing on the thermals flying in the blue sky, way up there, then i go back to whatever and know plant beauty way is there for me, Hózhǫ́ náhásdlį́į́’ Blue sky beauty way.” 


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