Matthew Wood, (L) Herbalist, understands the Language of Nature. We met at the 3rd Festival of Traditional Medicine of the Americas at Rancho Los Chabaconos. The event was help May 11-12-13, 2013.
BOOKS BY MATTHEW WOOD, HERBALIST
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Spent time with Matthew Wood, herbalist/teacher
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We had a wonderful meeting at the 3rd Festival of Traditional Medicine of the Americas at Rancho Chabacanos outside Tecate, Mexico.
BIO OF MATTHEW WOOD FROM
Matthew Wood--Biography from
http://www.naturasophia.com/greenmedic.html
Matthew Wood was born in 1954. He spent the first two years of his life on a remote Indian reservation in the Florida Everglades. Although he does not speak Muskogee he does not consider English to be his first language. He had a great deal of trouble learning to translate his thoughts into English. The study of astrology gave him a vocabulary with which to express his thoughts, which followed intuitive patterns rather than cause-and-effect rationalism. He had his first experience of the 'living Nature' at age 10, while attending First Day School at the Northern Half Yearly Meeting of Friends in Wausaw, Wisconsin. He was raised a Quaker and has been a student of Nature Wisdom since he was 13 years old.
From the age of 2 onwards Matthew was raised in Minneapolis, where he attended public school and the University of Minnesota. He graduated with a BA, major in history, in 1986. Matthew began practicing herbalism at Present Moment Herbs and Books in 1982. He has been in private practice since 1990. "I remember what it was like before our field was invaded by all these know-it-all scientists and doctors who have never used herbs began to tell us how herbs worked. That was before the very fabric of herbalism was warped by modern commerce." In 2003 he completed a Master's Degree in Herbal Medicine at the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, accredited by the University of Wales, one of the largest accrediting bodies in the world.
From 1992-2005 Matthew lived at Sunnyfield Herb Farm in Minnetrista, Minnesota, seventeen acres dedicated to herbs and herbal teaching. He now lives in the tiny burg of Martell, Wisconsin, across from the Rush River, in a 157 year old log cabin.
Matthew Wood is the author of six books on herbal medicine and is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild.
MATTHEW WOOD WEBSITE
http://www.matthewwoodherbs.com/Mattwood.html
OTHER ARTICLES BY MATTHEW WOOD
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Intuition, Imagination, and Magic
The Basis of Jacob Boehme's Doctrine of Sophia
Matthew Wood MS (Herbal Medicine)
Registered Herbalist (AHG)
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) was a German cobbler who fashioned a theology that encompassed and developed the concept of Sophia (Wisdom) based on his intuitive and visionary perceptions. The doctrine of Sophia includes Natura Sophia (the Wisdom of Nature) and Divine Sophia (Theosophia). The following is an extract from Matthew Wood's writing on Boehme's life and theosophy.
Jacob Boehme is known as a visionary. In order to understand his perceptions and writings we need to understand what that means. The cobbler of Gorlitz makes clear that it is not possible to understand divine and eternal realities through reason. It is a captive of the material and temporal world and, as such, he says, pays obeisance to the devil. Yet, God has provided humanity with faculties by which we can perceive Divine reality. Boehme describes two basic functions that touch the Divine. These are the intuition and the imagination, or visionary faculty. Since these are not well understood, we must exert ourselves to comprehend them if we wish to understand Jacob Boehme.
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Intuition & Spiritual Path
Shamanism
The Three Selves of the Shaman
Paracelsus
Doctrine of Signatures
Herbalism
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PS. The response to my class at the 3rd Festival of Traditional Medicine for the Americas was very well received. It is heart warming to see the eyes and hearts so responsive.
The Basis of Jacob Boehme's Doctrine of Sophia