✨🌿 The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs ✨🌿

✨🧚🏼. The Invisible Harvest: A Microhistory of Heretical Herbs by Bethany van Rijswijk ✨ Bethany van Rijswijk is a writer and collage artist based in nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania. Offering up new worlds created from the remnants of our own, van Rijswijk seeks to challenge some of the "oppressive phantasms" of our time through a critical engagement with fantasy and folklore. "An experiment in historical method as a means for re-enchantment, The Invisible Harvest challenges the materialism of "big history" by presenting a microhistory of heretical herbs. An analysis of obscure botanical folklore and heretical histories, in which poisonous and psychoactive plants open up passages into contrary states of being, The Invisible Harvest is concerned, variously, with visionary sacraments, owl-chemists, fairy forts, otherworld commons, mystic root-cutters, forking paths, vermicular angels, dancing plagues, mushroom cults, and shamanic lineages. Reveling in synchronicities, liminalities, and demolished hierarchies, The Invisible Harvest wonders what these histories might disrupt, and how these old heresies, half-obliterated, might renew our thinking and re-enchant our world." Limited edition of 100, numbered by the author. 62 pages, full colour. In excellent condition - back cover has slight bent mark and some discoloration (shown in photo)