Teja

Charismatic and magnetic people are CONFUSING.

They’ve got edges. Beautiful, fascinating, craggy edges that give people something to hold onto. The kind of edges that snag people's attention like a ring catching on a sweater.

They start a podcast about medieval brewing techniques while learning to code so they can personally figure out how to replace... See more

When we take herbal medicine we are taking in part of the plant's environment. Everything it ate and drank and experienced has formed the medicine you're depending on, so you better make sure it gets all the best. When we are healed by plants, we owe it to them to look out for their kind and the places where they live. Traditional plant-gatherers o... See more

The most interesting insights, the most compelling art, the most innovative solutions come from connecting dots that don't obviously go together.

Your brain doesn't work in straight lines — it's more like a spider spinning a web while on psychedelics, making connections through intuitive leaps and seemingly random associations.

it is a well-known psychological fact that it’s the most incompetent who are the most confident of their abilities and the most intelligent who are full of doubt. (Really. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect.) It’s equally well established that the more readily you admit you don’t know things, the faster you learn.

So stop beating yourself up for ... See more

Research is conventionally understood as occurring within academia—and potentially in government or corporate research labs, think tanks, and similar institutions. But the phrase “research as leisure activity” suggests, for me, a form of research that is explicitly not isolated to traditional institutions.

Research as a leisure activity includes the... See more

The bioregional concept is important to this model of healing. Plants' actions in our bodies are really quite limited by the chemicals they can produce from sunlight and soil. For every big-name herb on the market cut from the rainforest or dug from the mountains, there is most likely a plant with a similar action growing in your watershed. Some of... See more

Mostly, we are the intermediaries. The people of the middle road. This is the road of plant magic and we help build the bridge between plants and humans, humans and plants. We do not stand between but humbly lay down the crossing blocks so that each person who seeks this contact, this connection can walk the path and back again and again.