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23 leading experts reveal the ways that psychoactive plants allow nature’s “voice” to speak to humans and what this communication means for our future • Presents the specific “human-plant interconnection” revealed by visionary plants • Explores the relevance of plant-induced visions and shamanic teachings to humanity’s environmental crisis • With contributions from Terence McKenna, Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Katsi Cook, John Mohawk, Kat Harrison, and others Visionary plants have long served indigenous peoples and their shamans as enhancers of perception, thinking, and healing. These plants can also be important guides to the reality of...
Whenever Rosa had a bellyache, she would feel better after her mother, Ena, gave her juice made from sweet Paw-Paw fruit that grew in a patch in front of their house in Barbados. But when a wicked obeah woman casts a spell that causes all of the island's Paw-Paw trees to die, Rosa's mother falls ill and is rushed to the hospital. Certain only Paw-Paw juice can heal her mother, Rosa sets out to grow a Paw-Paw tree with the power of her magical song. Set in Barbados, Rosa's Paw-Paw Tree weaves fantasy, island history, and a family's traditions, with an inspiring tale about a daughter's deep love for her mother. Rosa's Paw-Paw Tree includes educational illustrations featuring Plant Anatomy and ...
Why isn't the evolution of flight shown in the fossil record? Bugs, birds, bats and dinosaurs flew and are shown fully formed in the fossil record, but there are no animals with halfway wings in the fossil record leading from ground based animals to flying animals. What is desperately wrong with the Grand Canyon if evolution is true? Where are the massive signs of erosion between the sedimentary layers of the Grand Canyon if they were laid down a "million years" at a time? Why does massive erosion only show up at the top? Animals with well-developed eyes show up suddenly in the fossil record as do flying animals. It's the norm for plants and animals to show up in the fossil record with the s...
Introducing young children to the natural world, this picture book follows the life story of an oak tree, as it develops from being a little acorn through to becoming a mighty oak tree.
"Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike."—R. McNeill Alexander, Nature Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technology goes around on wheels—and on rotating pulleys, gears, shafts, and cams—yet in nature only the tiny propellers of bacteria spin as true wheels. Our hinges turn because hard parts slide around each other, whereas nature's...
Marcel, a young tundra swan, tires halfway through the winter migration and stays behind while his parents and the flock continue south. He asks for advice from other animals about how to survive the winter, but their ways of living are not right for the swan. "For Creative Minds" section includes fun facts about tundra swans, migration, and an animal adaptation matching activity.