Verdant Gnosis: Cultivating the Green Path, Volume 5

Introduction
--Catamara Rosarium, Marcus McCoy, and Jenn Zahrt, PhD

Green Gnosis, Magic, and Plant Alchemy: A Hermetic Perspective
--Karin Di Giacomo

Flowers for the Dead: The Perfumed Corpse in Ancient Greek Lore and Funerary Magic
--Ella von Cosel

Querencia Perfume: Wildcrafting Whole-landscape Smudge and Meeting the Spirit of Place
--Day Host-Jablonski

A Hen on Her Eggs: Magical Lamps in Conjure
--Professor Charles Porterfield

Gift of the Spirit(s): Supernatural Healing in the Ozarks
--Brandon Weston

Plants and the Second Sight: An Investigation into Perceiving the Hidden
--Corinne Boyer

The Verdant Versipellis: Tracking Herbal Allies in Ritual Shapeshifting
--Vex Blòðstjarna

"The Thorn Bush Listens to our Secrets" Thorn Lore in Pyrenean Witchcraft and Folk Magic
--Júlia Semproniana

Axioms of Phytognosis
--Daniel A. Schulke

VERDANT GNOSIS is a poetic rendering of the Latin expression, Viridis Genii, which refers to the collective spiritual intelligence of our botanical environment. Viridis means 'green, verdant, growing'--all that is lush and nourishing; while genii is the origin of the words 'genius' and 'genie'--the spirit, daemon, or guiding intelligence of an entity. Viridis Genii--the verdant gnosis--is thus the spiritual path of working with the intelligence of living nature.

Within this fifth volume you will find a rich selection of international authorities on the Green Way, ranging from professional plant alchemists, shamanic herb-masters, to bioregional animists. Herein you will learn the ways in which you can communicate deeply with the mysterious intelligence of the plant kingdom, breaking down the barriers of anthropocentric thinking that separate humanity from nature. Volume five presents a thread of material focusing on plant alchemy, magical lamps in conjure, querencia, shapeshifting, second sight, funeral rites, thorn magic, and phytognosis.

With contributions by: Vex Blòðstjarna, Corinne Boyer, Day Host-Jablonski, Julia Semproniana, Karin Di Giacomo, Marcus McCoy, Professor Charles Porterfield, Catamara Rosarium, Daniel A. Schulke, Ella von Cosel, Brandon Weston & Jenn Zahrt, PhD. Featuring art by K Lenore Siner.