Viridis Genii

Select titles from the featured presenters at the 9th Annual Viridis Genii Symposium, an Herbal conference focusing on Esoteric and Occult Herbalism and the Ethnobotony of Plant Magic.Select titles from the featured presenters at the 9th Annual Viridis Genii Symposium, and Herbal conference focusing on Esoteric and Occult Herbalism and the Ethnobotony of Plant Magic. Within this volume you will find a rich selection of articles written by International Adepts and their voices sharing wisdom on plant magic, medicine and mysticism. With contributions by leading authorities Jesse Hathaway Diaz, Gabriela Sarna Wiraszka, Jeremy Bechelli Ph.D., Katarina Pejovic, Phoebe Hildegard Finch, David Simmons, Albert Björn Shiell, Sean Croke & Z Hudelot.Featuring articles on the subjects of Ethnobotanical research and practicum on A Magico-Medicinal Overview of the "Rose of Jericho, The Wheel of the Year in Polish Slavic Traditions, Icelandic Jurtagaldr, Constructing Living Spirt Settlements and FetishWork, Balkan Herbal Magic of St. George's Day, Ghost Pipe, The Devil in English Folklore of the Autumnal Harvests, Plants and Spirtualism from Victorian Superanatural Botany to Carribbean Creole Espiritismo, & a look at San Pedro, St. Peter and the Keys to Heaven.The Viridis Genii is the green spirit, the intelligence and life-force that is both hidden and revealed. It is the animating force of the wild wood and the depths of the sea. It shrouds us, it engulfs us with its veiled green mist that awakens the heartbeat that delivers fecundity to the earth, the very essence of life. It is the Green Gnosis one receives from their deep connection and communion with the genus loci.