A beautiful exploration of bees from the perspective of the bees. I loved learning so many of the inner workings of the hive/ bees as well as natural beekeeping practices that the author explains so beautifully alongside the communications and teachings directly from bees. As I work with plants and flowers, this book filled in so many missing pieces which ended up confirming so much of my work with flowers in the world, adding a rich extra texture of layers to the everyday workings of the natural world. This book is for everyone!
The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the "song of increase"-declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are happy in its abundance. Song of Increase takes us inside the world of the honeybee to glean the wisdom of these fascinating creatures with whom humanity has shared a sacred bond for millennia.
Within these pages is a bee-centric approach to living with honeybees, rather than advice for simply maximizing the products they provide. Jacqueline Freeman takes us beyond traditional beekeeping and offers a way to work in harmony with honeybees for both their…
This book provides the most beautiful way of learning about indigenous culture, by being inside it. If only there were more books like this! Not only was it engaging, it holds layers of dreamtime story and cultural experiences embedded into the storyline. Highly recommend!
Balagaan must choose: let his mortal enemy wed the love of his life, or break the lore to be with her and risk certain death. Balagaan comes from a saltwater people; Gawngan comes from a desert people. They are forbidden to marry. But for these star-crossed lovers, their love is worth the risk; even if it means death. After the tribal Elders learn of their secret relationship, they banish Balagaan to live with another tribe for a number of years, hoping that he the love between the boy and girl will die. Entrusted to…
Yunkaporta brings down to earth knowledge of indigenous thinking and embodies it in the very writing of this book. Its thoroughly readable, engaging and with loads of insight and food for thought around wide ranging topics, as well as containing some deep indigenous wisdom. Another must read.
Winner, Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards 2020
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.
Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
Sand Talk provides a template for living. It’s about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about…
Imagine a world where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and blossom to their full soul potential. Imagine a culture that realises personal blooming not only benefits the whole but enhances everyone’s capacity to shine. Could flowers hold a key?
In The Flower Codes, messages and teachings received in conversation with the plant devas, are combined with grounded herbal wisdom, historical knowledge and years of herbal experience to reveal the power of flowers to awaken, heal and guide us to remember and embody our blossoming self. In the first book of the series, the three flowers that contain the ancient encoding for sacred birth are explored in depth – for the first step in birthing a Sacred Earth lies in our own inner transformation.
