I was thinking about what Buhner teaches about the heart and I was thinking about Paul's conversion

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Also, it is a little like a resurrection . . .

Stephen Buhner's stand-alone masterpiece (book), "The Secret Teachings of the Plants" is a door-opener for two reasons: There is a section ( the first third of the book), where he reveals things about the heart that were a watershed teaching for me. And, after talking about the heart, and introducing heart-brain entrainment, and the heart as the organ of perception, he goes into how to use that as a stepping stone for communicating with plants.

My wife's sermon this morning was about Paul's conversion, ( He was "Saul" before his conversion). Saul (Paul) was on his way to Damascus to testify against some followers of Jesus when he was converted and fell, blinded by the light. He was blind for three days and then he became a great evangelist. I was thinking about what Buhner teaches about the heart and I was thinking about Paul's conversion and I wrote this: To be fully alive we have to be converted to living through our hearts . . . before anything big can happen, our brain has to be "blinded", at least temporarily, before the eyes of our heart fully open. (Only our brain is blinded by the light of Spirit. Our heart is not. I just know this is true. I'm not sure why and am open to suggestions!) It's not like a relay though. It's more like you have to get out of your car (In some cases after we totalled it!) before we climb onto our horse. If your brain is a Tessla, you may never choose your horse over your car. Big changes are not a "change of heart", they are a change to heart.

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Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.