Description: "Find healing and connection by engaging with wild plants. Shares insights from herbalism, ecology, neurobiology, psychology, Irish history, and magical tradition to show how to tap into the flow of communication from the wild world. Explores the seven principles of animist herbalism and the ancient Irish understanding of the "three cauldrons" of the body, showing how they can be applied to the practice of modern herbalism. Introduces thirteen important plant and fungi allies and provides simple practices for deepening your connections with wild plants and your ancestors"--
Brief description: Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue is a clinical herbalist, writer, and teacher who weaves together the insights of traditional Western herbalism and contemporary science. A columnist for Plant Healer Magazine and founder of the Otherworld Well Hedge School, he lives in western Maine.
Review Quotes: "Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue lives as well as dreams this quest-full story that his books and classes tell--intensely, tragically, joyously, and epically. The Silver Branch and the Otherworld serves as a portal into the expressive magic of what is the real and true world, a path leading the reader toward self-understanding and personalized purpose as well as to the profound healings and revelations of the plants found there. It is my pleasure to encourage his continuing sharings, songs of determination, and hopes for you as you enter into the chiaroscuro light of enchanted forests and Druid's groves."-- "Jesse Wolf Hardin, artist and author of Fungi Medica and The Herbalist"