Emma Farrell - Journeys with Plant Spirits: Plant Consciousness Healing and Natural Magic Practices

For my ancestors

JOURNEYS
WITH
PLANT SPIRITS

The practices, meditations, and insights in Journeys with Plant Spirits expertly offer an accessible foundational practice that will help you deepen your relationship with spirit and nature. Emma shares grounded advice in a practical and generous manner that will not only help beginners on the plant spirit path but provide a supportive framework for those who have been connecting with the plant spirits for some time. Open this book on almost any page, and you will be invited through the portal into the Otherworld and feel the wisdom of the plants.

FAY JOHNSTONE, AUTHOR OF PLANTS THAT SPEAK, SOULS THAT SING

Through shamanic exploration, historical relevance, and meditative connections, Emma shares the transmissions gifted through the ancient roots of plant spirit healing. This is a precious book in which she shares a passionate review of the restorative energies gifted freely by nature, so needed with pharmaceutical pressures and our current separation from the magic of the natural world. A must-read!

SANDRA CORCORAN, AUTHOR OF SHAMANIC AWAKENING

A beautifully written and highly practical guide to plant consciousness. Emma takes us on a wonderful journey into the realm of plant spirits, sharing her wisdom and offering effective tools to help readers have their own unique experiences with plants. She shows us how we can come into deep relationship with the plant world, ultimately helping us remember who we are and why we are here.

CAROLE GUYETT, AUTHOR OF SACRED PLANT INITIATIONS

This is the first time in my 45 years of esoteric and spirit work that I have found a plant spirit guide that is holistic, authentic, disciplined, and ego freebased upon genuine personal experience by an authentic medicine woman who shares safe practice from deep, personal experience, taught by the plant spirits directly. I highly recommend this remarkable book.

DAVID LEESLEY, HIGH CHIEF IARUERI RAWI, YERAMANU AND SKULL KEEPER

An essential addition to the library of anyone working with spiritual healing and the alchemy of plant healing.

JON G. HUGHES, AUTHOR OF A DRUIDS HANDBOOK TO THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF PLANTS

The plants are our elders. They are also master teachers if we but listen. In this practical, inspired, and no-nonsense guidebook, we are invited to do just that. Emma Farrell, through enduring tremendous hardship, takes the reader on a highly sophisticated journey to access the healing power of plant intelligence. At the outset, we meet Sekhmet and Iboga, who provide the wings for Farrell to fly over the vast physical, energetic, and intellectual landscape of the plants and bring us a treasure that is beyond compare.

BILL PFEIFFER, AUTHOR OF WILD EARTH, WILD SOUL

An enchanting and accessible guide to healing our soul and ancestral trauma through relationships with the spirits of plants and trees. By generously sharing her personal story, as well as her extensive knowledge and healing practices, Emma Farrell shows us how to reclaim our ancient and magical relationships with plant spirits using methods that make sense to the modern mind. This fascinating book offers a pathway back to the garden, where physical, emotional, and spiritual balance await.

ELIZABETH MEACHAM, PH.D., AUTHOR OF EARTH SPIRIT DREAMING

We are in a time of human history when we will be tested as never before. As humans we need to develop a healthy relationship with nature and the spirits of nature to ensure our future as a species. This book provides a map of the journeyopening our hearts and minds to the sentience of Great Nature. Blessings on the voyage.

ELLEN EVERT HOPMAN, AUTHOR OF SECRET MEDICINES FROM YOUR GARDEN AND THE SACRED HERBS OF SPRING

This book is a much-needed addition to the shamanic understanding of the importance of having plant allies in helping heal the deep spiritual maladies that plague us on the road less traveled on the path of the wounded healer.

MARTIN DUFFY, DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH CENTER FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES

Acknowledgments

With deepest gratitude to my best friend, guardian, and husband, Davyd, without whom this book could not have been written.

I would not be here today were it not for my husband and all my beloved teachers who have gifted me the light of awareness into new realms and possibilities.

Great thanks to my parents who have always supported me, whichever path I have chosen in life.

Thank you to Inner Traditions/Bear & Co for taking a chance on a new author.

And gratitude to all of my spirit team who have been among my greatest teachers, who have held me, guided me, and shown me that life is full of magic.

A Caution and Disclaimer for the Reader

I make no judgment regarding psychoactive plants that, at the time of writing, could be illegal. In my humble opinion, it is absurd that certain plants and fungi are illegal or that people campaign for them to become legal. Plants and the natural world should not be subjected to the jurisdiction of the government, which decides what is legal and what is illegal. Nature is also our nature, and we do not have to be scared of it, unless we are fearful of ourselves, which many people are. We, of course, need to be discerning and practice common sense. With that in mind, any plant, tree, or mushroom is taken at your own risk. I or the publishers of the book cannot take responsibility for the decisions or actions you take as a result of reading the words here or performing the meditations.

Foreword

Pam Montgomery

I MET EMMA FARRELL several years ago in London at Plant Consciousness, a conference that she and her husband, Davyd, were hosting. I was so honored and excited to be a part of such a gathering that brought together plant lovers, land stewards, and those striving to expand their consciousness to the point of embracing all life, both the seen and unseen, while recognizing their place within this vast interconnected web.

Since that first event years ago, I have taught at subsequent conferences, run plant spirit healing apprenticeships, and brought plant initiations to the British Isles, all because Emma and Davyd recognize the powerful transformation both personally and collectively that can happen when being in cocreation with nature, especially with the plants and trees. As Emma says, Plants can help us transform from an isolated, scared, and conditioned individual to a sovereign, soul-conscious being in alignment both with Mother Earth and with higher purpose. What I found in Emma was a soul sister who deeply embraces raising consciousness to achieve ones higher purpose and who acknowledges that plants and trees can serve as guides on this journey.

Through intense exploration, from an early age, into her own spiritual awakening, Emma has emerged as a beacon lighting the way for those wanting to participate in the telling of a new story to shift the paradigm into a world of cocreation and unity. Her avenue has been via a dedicated meditation practice and her profound love of nature, which includes plants and trees.