The secret teachings of plants/ the intelligence of the heart in the direct perception of nature Harrod Buhner Stephen

A Note to the Reader Introduction Systole Of Nature and the Heart Prologue to Part One Section One: Nature 1. The Nonlinearity of Nature 2. The Self-Organization of Life 3. The Energetics of Life Section Two: The Heart 4. The Physical Heart: The Heart as an Organ of the Body 5. The Emotional Heart: The Heart as an Organ of Perception and Communication 6. The Spiritual Heart: Aisthesis Diastole Gathering Knowledge from the Heart of the World Prologue to Part Two Section One: Veriditas 7. The Door into Nature 8. The Necessity for Acuity of Perception 9. Feeling with the Heart Section Two: The Taste of Wild Water 10. Gathering Knowledge from the Heart of the World 11. The Pregnant Point and the Mundus Imaginalis Section Three: The Fruitful Darkness 12. Depth Diagnosis and the Healing of Human Disease Interlude 13. The Importance of Rigorous Self-Examination and the Necessity for Moral Development Section Four: Grains of Sand from Another Shore 14. Reading the Text of the World: The Geography of Meaning and the Making of the Soul Epilogue Appendix: Exercises for Refining the Heart as an Organ of Perception Bibliography with Commentary: The Wisdom of the Earth Poets Notes Index