Healing Plants and Animals From A Distance;
Curative Principles and Applications

Preface

The Plant & Animal Nations

The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain. . . . The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.
-Chief Seattle
Suquamish 1786–1866
Traditional Native Americans speak of the plant and animal “nations” because it gives respect to plants and animals, by recognizing their sovereignty.  Each plant, each animal, has its own being, its own life and its own purpose in the scheme of Creation, is loved by Creator and has Creator within it, the spark of life, or “good medicine” that makes it so.  The classes of plants and animals all have their rights and responsibilities, their reasons for being and their authority to be here.
This understanding of nature is quite different from the Western view where we speak of man vs. nature, or “the environment,” as if it was something separate from us.
In a balanced view of the world, we do not have “dominion” over plants and animals; we coexist with them. We are related to them; and we honor and respect the sacredness of their lives and being, as we honor our own life and being. We acknowledge that we cannot live upon this Earth without them – for our food, shelter, clothing, medicines – and never lose sight of this important relationship especially when we must kill them. We are all Children of Earth & Sky; to lose sight of this fact diminishes our own sacredness.

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