Mars Brigitte - The sexual herbal : prescriptions for enhancing love and passion

To Tom Pfeiffer,
Eternal beloved.
You are forever my hero!

I met you one cold January night.
You gave me a ride home.
You had a mandala on your Jeep.
I took it as a sign
You were meant to keep.
And keep you did
And keep you well
Its been heaven.
Its been a bit of hell.
Weve endured
Weve delight
Weave our love
We walk in light.
Thank you for saving me
Believing in me
Asking me
your bride to be.
Thank you Tom
Om
Home
Shalom
We go on!
DNA strands
Sharing a destiny.
Why even our angels are friends!
Through universe journey
what the future may bring
This has been more than a fling
Thank you for
your
Kiss of bliss.
Namaste.

THE HEART CHAKRA: COMPASSION
Scarlet
Can you float through the universe of your body...
And not lose your way?
Flow with fire-blood through each tissued corridor?
Can you let your heart pump you down long red tunnels?
Stream into cell chambers?
Love with your heart?
Let your heart become central pump-house
For all human feeling... pulse for all love...
Beat for all sorrow... throb for all pain...
Thud for all joy... beat for all humankind...
Burst... bleed... into warm compassion
Flowing... flowing... pulsing... out... out

Life
Scarlet
Drum

DR. TIMOTHY LEARY,
THE PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS

THE SEX CHAKRA: FUSION
Rainbow
Can you float through the universe of your body
and not lose your way?
Lie quietly engulfed in the slippery union of male and female?
Warm wet dance of generation?
Endless ecstasies of couples?
Offer your stamen trembling in the meadow
for the electric penetration of pollen While birds sing?
Writhe together on the river bank While birds sing?
Can you coil serpentine While birds sing?
Become two cells merging?
Slide together in molecule embrace?
Can you... lose... all fusing
Rainbow

DR. TIMOTHY LEARY,
THE PSYCHEDELIC PRAYERS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A heartfelt thank-you to Inner Traditions, especially to Jon Graham for his belief in this project and to Laura Schlivek, Gail Rex, and Nancy Ringer, editors extraordinaire.

Tom Pfeiffer, beloved husband of more than thirty years, none of this would be possible without you. You were so brave to take on a young single mother and love her children as your own. I love you forever and find you beautiful and wise.

My daughtersSunflower Sparkle Mars, firstborn, always bright, child delight, and awakener of my heart, and Rainbeau Harmony Mars, child of fortune and constant source of inspirationhow I love you both!

To the midwives and herbalists of days of futures past. Thank you for helping to preserve the time-tested techniques of healing with natures allies.

Thanks to my teachers on the path of healing sexuality: Light and Bryan Miller, Charles and Caroline Muir, and Margo Anand and Annie Sprinkle.

I am so grateful for my raw inspirations: Juliano, Tonya Zavasta, the Boutenkos, Happy Oasis, and David Wolfe.

Many thanks to the Garlic Queens: Rosemary Gladstar, Mindy Green, Diana De Luca, Kathi Keville, Beth Baugh, Sara Katz, Cascade Anderson Geller, Pam Montgomery, Jane Bothwell, Linda LeMole, Rosita Arvigo, Margie Flint, Chanchal Cabrerra, and Rebecca Luna. Herb sisters in my life, you are beloved! Susun Weed, Amanda McQuade Crawford, Debra St. Claire, Feather, Farida, Lilja Oddsdottir, and Gitte Lassen, you inspire! Marjy Berkman and Briggs Wallis, your spirit of adventure is refreshing.

To Laura Lamun for joy, laughter, and song. To friends and celestial artisans Bob Venosa and Martina Hoffmann. To Steve McIntosh and Tehya Jai, always on the path of truth, beauty, and goodness. Rebecca and Robbie Gordonsuch amazing friends you are. Elysabeth Williamson and Kate Bullings you have great healing gifts. To Mo and Jennifer Siegel and Chris Halverson for Urantia study groups. Thank you my beloved friends at Pharmaca, Kimba Arem, Jirka Rysavy, Alana, Richard Rose, Donna Eagle, Alex and Allyson Grey, Alicia Bay Laurel, Jeane Marie Swalm, Deb and Eddie Shapiro, you all bring wonderful contributions to the planet.

Matthew Becker, herbalist extraordinaire, you always comfort and heal with your kindness and wisdom. Thanks to herbalists Michael and Lesley Tierra, Christopher Hobbs, Roy Upton, Herbal Ed Smith, David Winston, David Hoffmann, Ed Bauman, Mark Blumenthal, Stephen Buhner, James Green, Paul Bergner, Rick Scalzo, Ryan Drum, and the late and great ones: Rosemary Woodruff (and the good doctor) Leary, Jeannine Parvati Baker, William LeSassier, and Terence McKenna. Thanks also to Miss Halls School for young ladies.

Bob Ramey, you are extraordinary, as is your ability to heal on so many levels! Norm Allardyoull go down in history! Much gratitude to Dr. Jia Gottlieb for his knowledge of medicine, and great thanks to Dr. Ann Mattson for her ob/gynecological and holistic medicine wisdom. Merci mes amis. Thank you Adam and Eve for coming to this isolated planet about 38,000 years ago from the star system Edentia, and doing your best.

Mom and Dad, I am so grateful for all the wonderful blessings you created in my life. Dominique Roberts and Rachel Tufunga, so glad to have you as my sisters.

I am grateful for The Urantia Book, which has answered so many of my questions about life on Earth and beyond. Thank you, Universal Father and Mother Spirit. Thank you for this beautiful planet, for the gift of love that heals, and for the passion that makes life worthwhile. Blessed be!

CONTENTS

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

INTRODUCTION

The Healing Power of Sex and Love

WARM GREETINGS! Sex is an extraordinary form of communication (usually) between two people. When sex is joyous, body, mind, and spirit bond together as one. In its highest form, sex leads to a transcendent, mystical experience and simple, total bliss. How do you bring that kind of joy to sex? Tend your relationship as if it were a garden. Treat your body as a temple. And practice making love as if it were a sacred adventure.

A natural, healthy lifestyle is one of the fundamental ways of honoring the sacred temple of our bodies; it brings us greater health and a vastly deeper awareness of our connection to all beings. As we become more in tune with the world that grows outside our doorsteps, we begin to recognize that plants have even more to offer us than basic sustenance. In fact, green medicine is one of the ways the plant world shares with us its vibrant, fertile good health.

This book is intended to embrace the vitality of plant medicine as it relates specifically to sexuality; it is an herbal compendium of botanical blessings that have long served humanity. It is also a modern guide to dietary supplements, exercises, and practices for supporting your sexual health and vitality through the many stages of your life. It includes much information that I want to share with my brothers and sisters, providing many ways of tending to your body and your relationship so that you can continue to discover new paths of sacred sexual adventure.

THE BODY: HOLY TEMPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Our incredible biological complexity is a sacred miracle; evidence, perhaps, of that Greater Mystery that people of different faiths (but similar beliefs) have loved, traded, argued about, and fought over for centuries. Yet awareness of and appreciation for the physiological beauty of the human body seems to have been lost from modern culture. We are affected by waves of technological ingenuity. It is interesting that there are sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of fortunes, and sixty-four codons of the DNA code. We now have the ability to take ancient information and combine it with modern research. We come to realize that nature has long held wisdom.