Hi! I'm a newbie and here's some info about me:
My life’s journey could fill a book (2 in fact!), and on this journey I was blessed to be awakened to my spirituality and female empowerment by a White Wiccan. At first I resisted, wanting nothing to do with religion, but she persisted as Wicca is a personalized faith, not borne out of any organized religion. Though she possessed great psychic ability she didn’t rely on it to express her belief that women’s exercise of their personal power would be the thing to bring peace and restore our necessary balance with Mother Nature. She simply had faith that it would happen. And it is happening.
In addition to the benefit of spirituality and female empowerment, under Wicca, the practice of herbal healing is known as the “Craft of the Wise,” hence my “in2herbs” identification. In medieval times men in the male-dominated Christian religion were threatened by the power of women who practiced the Craft of the Wise. As a result herbal practitioners were punished, often to death. So when someone dismisses the herbal healing power that Mother Nature provides I take it personal because they are also dismissing the power of women.
I don’t want to bash anybody on this site, but I have found that those opposed to alternative therapies claim that any healing that results is due to the patient’s faith and hope that the therapy will work. Bunk. Alternative treatments don’t always work, but pharmaceutical treatments don’t always work either despite one’s faith in the science of pharmaceuticals and their hope that the take-a-pill-to-heal therapy will work for them.
Here’s some other stuff about me: DU is my go to site for info and the only discussion forum I belong to, my TV is connected to an antenna so my Maddow/O’Donnell/Hayes/Joy fix is on a 24-hour delay, I don’t talk to republicans, I’m not on social media but am grateful to those who are using it as a voice of truth, my cell phone is a flip phone and not connected to the internet, and my phone contract is for 250 minutes per month which is just fine with me because I prefer spending time with my dogs, horses, and the wildlife just outside my door as this is the environment where I am constantly reminded of the truth, balance and harmony we must have with Mother Nature if there is ever to be peace.
Lastly, I like to read, but I only read non-fiction. Though it was published several years ago I recommend the book: “The G.O.D. Experiment: How Science is Discovering G.O.D. in Everything Including Us” by Gary E. Schwartz as it puts credible scientific research behind the science of the spirit.
Does anyone have any reading recommendations to share?
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David Christian, Origin Story
Michael Pollan, How to Change your Mind
Hitchens is pretty good too. 
Sid
Are you enjoying the beautiful strawberry full moon tonight?
Strawberry Moon, AKA the Hot Moon, because the summer solstice – the longest day of the year – marks the start of summer heat and it's right on time
I'm in Chicago and we may hit 95 degrees tomorrow and there is a haze around the full moon tonight
I am also in to herbs and flowers some are very powerful some are very sweet some bitter all good and on this earth with us.
A friend just brought me some new herbs, mushrooms and an unusual tea from mountains in China
I am now in love with a tea I have no name for and is probably only available in a small area half way around the world. Many of the teas there are only grown in one area so I am being thrift in my amounts brewed so I can have it for as long as possible as I may never encounter it again, but i am in competition with other family members who love it too .
Great to have a new taste to explore and know it's valued at it's origin there as good for you too!
It's like no tea I have had before
There used to be a lot of types bashing alternatives here not sure if they are still around. I will not say more except I make use of the ignore feature (maybe that is only for star members not sure) .
and that really I use other online sites more for herbs and nutrition discussion and print and people of course but
I am a du star member willing to donate to this site because I use it not only for news , political banter and comments, but there is a lot of good topic forums also.
And it's a very small 'but' ... nobody is 'psychic', at least not in the common definition of the word. It is absolutely a fake 'thing', just as all 'magicians' ... are not 'really magic'. These phenomenon simply do not exist.
Anyone seriously calling themselves 'psychic' ... is a charlatan and a huckster.
Again, Welcome. Hopefully your personally definition of 'psychic' in this context is something entirely different from the common one 
