Grassroots Magazine, Oct-Nov 1993 A BOTANICAL GARDEN? Every Town Should Have One ALAN WHITEHEAD – Mullumbinby, NSW “An enterprise with absolutely no losers,” says Alan Whitehead with regard to the development of community botanical gardens, such as the one he describes in Mullumbinby. That this small area beside the Brunswick River has been transformed from […]
BOOK: Sacred Flora
Sacred Flora: Esoteric Plant Classification
12 DAYS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE An Esoteric Plant Classification I suppose that I should have regarded by sentence as quite clement really, especially in these days of heightened nature consciousness. I could have gotten away with the crime in the 20th Century without comment, except by a few rabid conservationists of course. All I said […]
Sacred Flora: Seven Geographic Plant Mansions
I HAD A GOOD TEACHER Seven Geographic Plant Mansions In my early years in anthroposophy, I had the best Botany teacher for which one could ever wish. As a young high school teacher in a Steiner school, teaching the natural sciences among other things, I had constant recourse to a tall, wiry, bronzed, Anzac-type Aussie […]
Sacred Flora: The Four Elements
“SPIRITUAL SCIENCE? I SAW IT ON TV!” The 4 Elements A Spiritual & Natural Science Perspective The attractive spiritual scientist, Molly Phyll, was being interviewed on a television variety show. She had achieved some notoriety due to a recent book she wrote on the supersensible realities of the plant world. Oddly, she was not a […]
Sacred Flora: Spectrum Signatures in the Plant World
ANNUNCIATION TO ASCENSION Spectrum Signatures in the Plant World For once, Amateur Botanist had prepared his evening talk well, on the display side at least. He had spent the afternoon wandering around his bountiful sub-tropical garden collecting leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds of kaleidoscopic variety to illustrate is talk, Color in the Plant World. The […]
Sacred Flora: Seven Planetary Influences on Plants
THE WORLD GARDEN Seven Planet Influences on Plant Life “Good evening listeners, on tonight’s program of The World Garden, we have a direct link with the seven planets of the Ptolemaen System. Yes, from the closest to the furthest we’ll speak to Moon; Occults Mercury and Venus; Sun (even Old Sol; though really a star […]