Ethnobotanist Jonathon Miller Weisberger has devoted the past twenty-seven years to studying rainforest plant medicine traditions. Since 1996, he has led biannual Rainforest Medicine Councils—experiential workshop journeys created for personal, community, and planetary renewal—offering participants a rare chance to meet and learn from indigenous elders, the living rainforest, and the powerful plant teachers.
He is the author of Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon, and he also serves as steward of Ocean Forest Ecolodge in Costa Rica, where he lives for most of the year.
"[C]ourageous and innovative work. [He is] working to preserve ancient botanical wisdom, not on some dusty bookshelf, but in the hearts of indigenous youths and in the forest itself. This is a bold and crucial step in these times. —Robert Hass, former United States poet laureate
"Presided over by a most benevolent array of plant energies and animal intelligences, leafing and leaping spirits ... like a dark heart of the wave on the sloping strand in wilderness and wonder."—David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous
"Jonathon Miller Weisberger—a 'young Schultes'—is a master with the plants... He helps you listen to their myriad voices, each a wise voice singing a different part in Nature's chorus."—Bill Pfeiffer, Sacred Earth Network