Plants are an important part of this planet’s ecology and in olden days people worked with the flowers, the herbs and even the weeds, all of which have their many different uses. George Hoyle is a folklorist and I spoke to him about their uses
In this world where complexity rules, it seems we are moving further and further away from simplicity. One of my favourite quotes from Sri Shankaracharya states that our minds can be lost in a labyrinth of words “like a man in a thick forest”.
We take for granted this physical world which surrounds us and in which we’ve all grown up. But a study of Theosophy, especially what is written in The Secret Doctrine, reveals a basis to life that most of the time we’re just not conscious of.
