Unlock Your Medicine Powers with Shamanic Herbal Teacher Matthew Wood

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Matthew Wood is a master teacher of the plant path who has shown thousands the way to find their spiritual and herbal medicine through his institute and many books, including one of our favorite InnerVerse regulars, Kyle Denton of Tippecanoe Herbs, who joins us in this conversation to discuss the highest truth: nature is alive! In his new book "A Shamanic Herbal", Matthew Wood conveys the ancient and universal wisdom of shamanism, and in this episode we discuss "medicine powers," the green language, and how to learn from the plants themselves.

ChaptersInside the full 2h 46m episode31 chapters

0:00Welcome and Matthew Wood Joins InnerVerse

4:36Matthew's Path Into Herbalism

9:50Nature Is Alive: The Foundational Teaching

14:25The Philology of Elder, Ruach, and Spirit

16:34What Medicine Really Means in Native Traditions

23:54The Watai Stone and Sacred Objects

27:05The Walnut Tree That Spoke Back

31:49Plant Journeying and Active Imagination

35:08The Burdock Dream and Hormonal Elimination

45:32Plato, Aristotle, and the Birth of Syllogism

50:03Hebrew, Greek, and the Death of Spiritual Language

54:47Cayenne and the Green Language of Plant Names

56:35The Red Clover Vision

1:00:07Deserving to Know vs Democratic Education

1:04:17The Doctrine of Signatures Intuitively

1:06:38The Mystery Tea Exercise

1:08:19Agrimony as Wolf Medicine

1:10:43The Magical Reliability of Agrimony

1:15:27Biofield Tuning and Reading the Vital Force

1:21:15The Dream of Four Pillars Revealed

1:23:53Why Archetypes Are Fixed Not Fluid

1:26:27Vital Force and Commitment as Pillars

1:31:32Detoxification as the Fourth Healing Pillar

1:39:10The Three Selves Human Animal Spirit

1:48:44Dreaming Your Medicine Animal Into Being

1:53:22Susan's Alligator Dream at the Galactic Federation

1:58:27Meeting the Fairies and Inorganic Beings

2:03:32Mullein as an Exceptional Fairy Medicine

2:06:54Mullein and the Third Eye Connection

2:13:14Pineal Calcification and the Coming Separation

2:21:21Closing Thoughts and Where to Find Matthew

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Herbalist and author

Matthew Wood is the founder of the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism and a longtime shamanic/vitalist herbalist and author, known for teaching the doctrine of signatures and plant-spirit approaches to medicine.

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Website matthewwoodinstituteofherbalism.com