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Conservation Adventures at the Epicenter of Botanical Diversity…

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Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 / Published in Biodiversity, Cacao, Culture, Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine, Rainforest, Sacred Sites

Cleansing Your Aura with Copal

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Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Thursday, 23 April 2020 / Published in Culture, Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine
Don Pablo said, "Copal is something sacred. It invokes rest and peace among spiritual beings. It cleanses darkened auras. Like an opaque metal that needs to be polished. Copal is used for cleansing a persons aura. It is the incense of the rainforest. Used since ancient times, since before the world became divided."

CACAO ~ The World Tree and Her Planetary Mission

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Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Tuesday, 17 March 2020 / Published in Biodiversity, Cacao, Culture, Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine, Rainforest
Cacao, simple in appearance, or so it seems, is an understory treelet native to Tropical America. Leaves entire, bright-green, branches and fruits rich in mucilage. She is modest, as her small five-petaled bone white flowers pollinated by tiny fairy-like flies. At each sprouting node five branches protrude; to obtain maximum yield the plant is kept at five limbs like a hand reaching to the sky. When her colorful oblong fruits, furrowed with five rows of seeds bear on the tree’s trunk and branches though, she shows herself as a sign of divine abundance. We have five organs pairs and five primary senses, five fingers, toes and limbs. In the mind of the ancients, that Cacao and humans share five as a commonality validated even more so our intimate association. Chockablock with history and cultural lore, legends have it that Cacao was gifted to early peoples by the Feathered Serpent itself, so that we may remain heart-centered and energetic. Cacao is a faithful part of the human-fabric, to such an extent that we may say, “To know thyself, drink Cacao”
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Take a Journey Through the Senses of your Elements

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Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 / Published in Ecolodge, Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine, Rainforest
The extensive gardens at Ocean Forest Ecolodge harbor hundreds of species of native and rare ethnobotanical treasures from Central and South America as well as the Asian Tropics. These include fruit trees that guests enjoy seasonally, aromatic herbs, medicinal plants, detox bitters, emollients and adaptogens, many of which are served in teas at lunch and dinner or applied upon request.
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Take a sip of some cinnamon tea…in the Ethnobonical Gardens at Ocean Forest

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oceanforest
Sunday, 03 November 2019 / Published in Ecolodge, Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine, Rainforest
Cinnamon tea ~ freshly harvested
Learn about and meet hundreds of species of native and rare ethnobotanical treasures from Central and South America are tended to here with love and care.

An Indigenous Festival in Southern Costa Rica

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Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Friday, 11 January 2019 / Published in Culture, Ecolodge, Ethnobotany
from Enchanting Costa Rica blog
Every year starting on Dec 30th and going on to Jan 2nd at the indigenous people’s community of Boruca in Southern Costa Rica a great celebration occurs. Known today as the Fiesta de los Diablitos, meaning "Festival of the Little Devils."
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A peculiar vine now flowers

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oceanforest
Monday, 19 November 2018 / Published in Culture, Ecolodge, Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine
Yagé in flower
Each year from December to February, a most peculiar vine flowers. This is the Yagé, that dones the now infamous latin name Banisteriopsis caapi. This mysterious medicinal vine, widely used through out the Amazon basin, is at the central core of hundreds of Indigenous Peoples communities ancestral holistic plant medicine science.
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