Testimonials

I have an interesting story to tell, don’t know exactly what to make of it yet because it’s unraveling and ongoing. It seems urgent that I go on FB now and write publicly about the truth of what I know and experienced repetitively concerning my friend and her business.
I began a formal study of herbs and plant medicine in 2010 having a life long interest attraction and passion for this vast subject. in 2012 I was a visiting foreign student at a different herbal college in British Columbia where a big-time famous celebrity herbalist/author was there teaching on a particular weekend. this person had a smug joy and seemed to take delight telling our large class a blatant and clear cut down lie about my friend and mentor, world renowned herbal medicine educator Susun S Weed
I spoke to this “teacher” privately after the class and introduced myself as personally knowing Susun and having never recalled hearing her say any of these dubious things. They barked at me defensively “It’s written clearly in her books!” feeling immediately gaslit, i maintained a modesty, gave them the benefit of the doubt and moved on with my inquisitiveness. 
This experience stuck to me. For the next few years, I actively looked in Susun’s books for this clear as day thing i didn’t know i was missing ignoring about her herbal medicine teachings. I found nothing, nothing. Fast forward a couple of years and this same false teacher was a featured headliner along with Susun at the biennial Green Nations Gathering.  Approaching this individual at their book table,  I told them that i’ve searched high and low all of Susun’s published books and articles and had found zero references of what they had told the BC crowd in 2012 and that they were clearly mistaken and thus spreading plain bullshit about another fellow in their profession.
I proposed that Susun is only 20 feet away at her own book table and that they should go on over right now and apologize to her for spreading a lie and bearing false witness. When i continued to persist with my simple request to them, they began hysterically screaming in a high pitch GET AWAY FROM ME, GET AWAY FROM ME! as if i was threatening them with bodily harm. I walked away quietly and later that same day this person apologized to me in private that they had overreacted earlier, yet were obviously unrepentant and not aware of how or why they need to lie about and defame others.  
Are famous accomplished herbalists capable of being evil scumbag false witnesses? Yes, and i don’t need to point any of them out, because they already know deep down who they are and plainly show everyone who they are by their actions and words spreading these first and second hand lies.
Today in 2022, I see this same shitty person on facebook publicly repeating and spreading an absurd story going around that Susun is imprisoning, drugging and starving her clients who seek out the challenge of completing a shamanic apprenticeship with her at her home in New York which IMO as an in person witness, at times resembles a sadistic sorority hazing/paris island style boot camp, YET after being closely around this scene of women for the past 12 years, I’ve ONLY seen miraculous self confidence transformations with a good to the core emergence of women who find their true self AFTER they endure and complete a mysterious and sometimes cruel process that they of their own free will had signed up for, scheduled a block of Susun’s valuable time and paid for with their own $ in advance. 
What Susun offers and transfers to these women is something that was given to her by her own elders and mentors, and I sincerely believe that she and her methods are not innovative in the least, only a continuing lineage which will continue to continue.
Critics and enemies seem intent on shutting Susun’s business down, yet there are thousands of people around the world like myself who love and respect her and will defend this work whenever and wherever we can. The righteous suffer, enough said.