From greenman@ucla.edu Sat Nov 13 21:48:57 1999 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:12:37 -0800 From: David King To: Community Garden List , CSA List , Medit-Plants Subject: Our Spiritual Relationship to Plants, Reprise In July, I request one and all to contribute their thoughts and ideas on their spiritual connection to plants. I got a wonderful outpouring from so many people. I tried my level best to respond to one and all, but in the hub bub that is daily life on this planet, I might have missed one or two, my heartfelt gratitude goes to all who contributed. I have now given two lectures on that topic. The first was a 30 minute intro lecture that I had to give in order to get the job teaching a botany class. I got the job. The 2nd was given a couple weeks ago and the notes/quotes etc are now up on my class web site. If you desire, come by and check it out - I think a full 4 hour workshop is next for me on this subject, there is a lot of interest in it. Not mentioned at the web site but of extreme value none-the-less for my preparation for this topic was the book "Plant Spirit Medicine" by Cowan (turns out that a friend of a friend is studying with him at this time), The Plant-Man Council (do I have that right? University of VA) and their report, "The Connections Between Plants and Man" and many others. http://people.we.mediaone.net/agreenman/Yo/Index.htm About midway down the page are three columns of Acrobat files. "Notes for Week 8" is the Spirituality Lecture, "A Walking Meditation" is adapted from "The Healing Power of Trees" a light and otherwise self-serving text, but, using the scenario of "take what you need and leave the rest", this exercise has excellent potential. If you wrote me look at the "Spirituality Quotes" and see if you made it there. I got a huge amount of material and some of what you said was just too special to let it go away. Beware - my next goal is to turn this into an introductory botany book, working title is "Botany for Everyman" or "The Karl Marx Botany Book". Something like that... You might well turn up there as well. Thank you one and all. I am still interested in learning - if you have more to add, if you have links of interest, please make them available to me. This is, evidently, going to be my lecture forte, I just as well ought to get damn good at it. Again, I am so indebted to all of you. David King Consulting Horticulturalist Author and Lecturer