• Establishes that being in partnership with Nature is our birthright, explores the roots of our separation, and demonstrates that we are designed to communicate with Nature
• Offers six principles of co-creative partnership with Nature that serve as a map for guiding us back to our rightful place as a part of Nature
• Explains that plants can guide us in living according to our true essential nature and details the steps of creating and facilitating a plant initiation with common plants
We are in the midst of a global transformation where we must heal our separation from Nature and restore our partnership with the living Earth, which is essential to co-creating a world where all life-human and nonhuman-can thrive.
In this groundbreaking book, Nature Evolutionary and Earth Elder Pam Montgomery draws on her decades of working with plants and Nature consciousness to demonstrate that we are intrinsically created to be in relationship with Nature. She examines the co-opting of time, language, and culture to shed light on the roots of our separation, weaving together contemporary research on human physiology with personal experience.
She offers six principles of developing a co-creative partnership, explaining that we can communicate with Nature through vibratory resonance. She details the steps of co-creating an initiation with a specific plant ally, where bonding brings healing, and she shares evocative stories, meditations, and the healing wisdom gained from the profound plant initiations she and her students have participated in, all with common plants.
Through this book, Pam reveals how to restore our relationship with the living Earth and come home not only to Nature but also to ourselves. She shows that when we nurture ourselves, trust our intuition, and allow for joyful encounters, we restore our interconnection with all life. Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, Nature Evolutionary, international teacher, and Earth Elder who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings. A founding member of United Plant Savers and the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries, she is the author of two books, including Plant Spirit Healing. She lives, works, and plays at Sweetwater Sanctuary in Danby, Vermont. CHAPTER ONE
The Roots of Separation from Nature
Co-creative partnership with Nature is a conscious joining between humans and any aspect of Nature, be it plants, trees, fungi, soil, water, air, landscape, animals, insects, birds, elemental beings, or nature spirits. Together, we attempt to bring about a balanced manifestation where all life can thrive. Once we begin to engage in co-creative partnership, we initiate the journey of healing the wounds of separation that the all-consuming plague of amnesia has created. Recovery from the trance of separation is the most profound healing we can undertake. This epidemic has created havoc not only within ourselves but also across our beautiful jewel of a planet, Lady Gaia.
There are various historical moments we could pinpoint as the origin of this epidemic of separation from Nature. One place to look is the advent of agriculture twelve thousand years ago, when humans began transitioning away from the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle they had maintained for the previous hundred thousand years. We began to differentiate plants, animals, and land as domestic or wild. We also began storing grain and accumulating personal property. These adopted actions of owning land, sequestering resources, and asserting power over others led us on a trajectory toward the phenomenon of empire building, which began over four thousand years ago with the first known empire of Akkadian, located in what now is known as Syria.
Empire building involves conquest. An emperor, monarch, or powerful government asserts supreme authority over less powerful territories, their peoples and land. In our modern times we could also look at large transnational corporations,
