Ferula Galbaniflua: Exotic, exciting, entrancing, alien, otherness.

• Galbanum is a wonderful tonic for people who think in ever decreasing circles, have run out of ideas, or believe that life has nothing new left to offer. Also useful to stimulate creativity, finding new solutions to old problems, and tapping into aspects of the self that may never have been discovered before.

A wise old man who has been a teacher for many years is sick and in pain. He can't sleep so he goes outside to find solace in prayer and contemplation as he has done for nearly all his life. But the pain keeps breaking his concentration and this night, there is no solace - all seems just an illusion, and the only reality that is left, is suffering and death. He starts to cry but then, a flashing star in the sky above catches his eye.

As he looks up at the star, he hears a far away whisper - and in his heart, a sense of wonderment begins to grow that last he felt when he was just a child.

And with this wonderment, the pain begins to fade away - it leaves him not, but now the night is life once more, alive once more, and death is not yet here.

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