Book feature – Gnosis: Growing Sacred Culture: A Reclamation of Seed Spells and Divine Marriages

This book’s concern is with Gnosis; spiritual knowledge about our sacred origins and those of the ‘man-made’ world that has enveloped us.

This is not a colonial version of history or the story of accidental discoveries from which we built western civilization. It’s an alternate version of history about how we intentionally married the divine and how these Gods birthed culture. How the spells that grew from these pivotal ‘seed’ marriages with the natural and unseen world set our course as a species to this day. This book’s concern is with Gnosis; spiritual knowledge about our sacred origins and those of the ‘man-made’ world that has enveloped us.

Unlike academic studies that evoke objectivity and distance, “Gnosis” brings these divinely seeded moments from which our culture grew into the room-of-the-present in a palpable intimate way. He emphasizes that we are continually perpetuating our modern western reality through unseen spells, some of which we’ve repeated for thousands of years. By fully realizing the power of our past actions and thoughts as ‘spells’ we are given the keys to change our culture in a most mysterious and unexpected way. Not through organizations, demonstrations or even political actions but through small doings attached to large truths. Through spells, that when planted well will grow over or under any wall.

Author: Steven Martyn, M.A. (traditional plant use), B.F.A. honours, artist, farmer, wildcrafter, builder, teacher, writer, visionary.

Steven has more than thirty years experience living co-creatively with the Earth, practising traditional living skills of growing food, building and healing. Steven created Livingstone & Greenbloom in 1986, Toronto’s first green landscaping company.

In 1996, he created the Algonquin Tea Company, North America’s premiere bioregional tea company. He has given talks and run workshops internationally for more than twenty years and taught plant identification and wilderness skills at Algonquin college for 11 years, and at the Orphan Wisdom School for eight years. In 2014, Megan and Steven started the Sacred Gardener Earth Wisdom School. Steven released his first book The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden in 2016, his second, Sacred Gardening in June 2017 and The Roundhouse in 2022.

For more information visit:  https://sacredgardener.ca/the-sacred-gardener-school/