Stephen Harrod Buhner has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Secret Teachings of Plants.
The Secret Teachings of Plants
Summary
All ancient and indigenous peoples insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves and not through trial-and-error experimentation. Less well known is that many Western peoples made this same assertion. There are, in fact, two modes of cognition available to all human beings - the brain-based linear and the heart-based holistic. The heart-centered mode of perception can be exceptionally accurate and detailed in its information gathering capacities if, as indigenous and ancient peoples asserted, the heart's ability as an organ of perception is developed. Author Stephen Harrod Buhner explores this second mode of perception in great detail through the work of numerous remarkable people, from Luther Burbank, who cultivated the majority of food plants we now take for granted, to the great German poet and scientist Goethe and his studies of the metamorphosis of plants. Buhner explores the commonalities among these individuals in their approach to learning from the plant world and outlines the specific steps involved. Listeners will gain the tools necessary to gather information directly from the heart of Nature, to directly learn the medicinal uses of plants, to engage in diagnosis of disease, and to understand the soul-making process that such deep connection with the world engenders.
©2004 Stephen Harrod Buhner (P)2017 Tantor
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
Summary
Fermentation and plant use - as medicine, as psychotropics, as teachers, as companions on life's path - are an inescapable part of our exploration of what it means to be human. Thus, this book conflicts with a number of popular beliefs about alcohol, plants, and the nature of material reality. It is, therefore, not politically correct. The ancient beers, created...between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago, were quite different from what we know as beer today. Many were sacred beers..., and hundreds contained medicinal herbs. -From the book The author's beautiful and provocative exploration of the sacredness and folklore of ancient fermentation is revealed through 200 plants and hive products. This book includes 120 recipes for ancient and indigenous beers and meads from 21 countries and six continents - and the most complete evaluation of honey ever published. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©1998 Stephen Harrod Buhner (P)2019 Tantor
The Transformational Power of Fasting
Summary
Fasting practices to reconnect with the sacred, regain a sense of your life’s purpose, and heal physically and emotionally... Details what to expect during your fast physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Provides step-by-step guidelines on preparing for the fast, how long you should fast, what you can and can’t do during the fast, and how to end your fast. Explains how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, and insomnia. For millennia humans have fasted for spiritual, emotional, and physical reasons - as a way to heal their bodies, reconnect to the sacred, regain a sense of life’s purpose, and allow their souls to detoxify. We are evolutionarily designed to fast, and the body knows how to do it very well. Fasting allows the body and all its systems to rest, purify, and heal. During a fast, the body enters the same cleansing and healing cycle it normally enters during sleep. As a fast progresses, the body consumes everything that is not essential to bodily functioning - including bacteria, viruses, fibroid tumors, waste products in the blood, buildup around the joints, and stored fat - and the mind and heart release their toxic buildup as well. As Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals, in order to be truly transformed, you must first empty yourself. Offering step-by-step guidelines to fully prepare yourself for a deep fast, Buhner explores what to expect during and after spiritual, emotional, and physical fasting and detoxification. He details the necessary dietary and mental preparations leading up to your fast, what you can and can’t do during a fast, and how to end your fast. He also explains how to plan the length of your fast and how to choose between a water fast, a juice fast, or a mono-diet fast. Revealing how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, childhood seizures, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, insomnia, and fibromyalgia, Buhner shows fasting as a way to truly inhabit the body, to experience its sacredness, and to activate its deep capabilities for self-healing.
©2003, 2012 Stephen Harrod Buhner. All Rights Reserved. (P)2019 Inner Traditions Audio. All Rights Reserved.
Healing Lyme
Summary
Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to heart disease to incapacitating mental dysfunction. Although tests have improved over the past decade, they are still not completely reliable, and antibiotics are only partially effective. Up to 35 percent of those infected will not respond to antibiotic treatment or will relapse. The spirochetes that cause Lyme are stealth pathogens they can hide within cells or alter their form so that our immune systems cannot find them, as well as inhibit the effectiveness of antibiotics. The coinfections that accompany Lyme (including babesia, bartonella, mycoplasma, anaplasma, and ehrlichia) are often as incapacitating as Lyme itself. Healing Lyme examines the leading scientific research on Lyme infection, its tests and treatments, and outlines the most potent natural medicines that offer help, either alone or in combination with antibiotics, for preventing and healing the disease. The book has been a best seller for over a decade, and during that time the author has had contact with over 25,000 people who have used some form of these protocols during their healing journey. This second edition has been significantly updated, fully revised, and expanded to reflect the increased understandings from that extensive contact, including in-depth treatment experiences with hundreds during the past decade. Healing Lyme is the primary audio on what Lyme bacteria do in the body and how natural approaches can heal the disease. This new updated version joins the author’s other two books on the treatment of Lyme coinfections and completes his exhaustive work on these stealth pathogens.
©2005, 2015, 2018 Stephen Harrod (P)2019 Stephen Harrod