The Art of Spiritual PhytoEssencing

Deep Soul-Level Healing Work with Essential Oils

The basic premise of Spiritual PhytoEssencing is: In order to be able to ameliorate soul-level disharmony, the essential oil blender must engage with the archetypes embedded within the fabric of the soul rather than with the archetypal images which manifest as emotional and physical symptoms.

Spiritual PhytoEssencing is a synthesis of certain aspects of: aromatherapy, doctrine of signatures, classical homeopathy, modern physiology, Kabbalah, philosophy, anthroposophical science, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and folklore, depth psychology, gemstone healing and color therapy.

Dr. Berkowsky has used this synthesis to develop individualized portraits of the inner soul nature of each of the oils used in Spiritual PhytoEssencing blending. Thus far he has elaborated highly detailed portraits of 120+ different oils. 

Since each soul is characterized by an array of archetypal patterns, soul-level healing work is best approached with a customized blend of essential oils rather than a single oil. In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, the construction of a custom essential oil blend is similar to painting a portrait. Accordingly, the custom blend development process can be characterized as “painting a portrait in oils.”

The relative effectiveness of a custom oil blend will depend upon the degree of congruence there is between a person’s inner soul image and the soul image constructed by the combination of plant souls within the blend. It is this congruence that will encourage the person’s soul to absorb the soul-force generated by the plant soul combination and use it to reorient toward its divine source.

Given the wherewithal, the soul’s first priority is to overcome the estrangement between the self-conscious personal self and the higher self. When these aspects of soul existence are reintegrated, the latter reassumes its natural hierarchical superiority and once again contextualizes and guides the operations of daily existence. Clearly, this wholeness of being is a crucial component of mind/body wellness.

Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis of Essential Oils and the Spiritual PhytoEssencing Repertory Of Essential Oils are the reference material to practice SPE. The materia medica is over 760,000 words spanning across 120+ chapters with each chapter covering one plant. Individual Chapters from Synthesis Materia Medica / Spiritualis of Essential Oils are also available. 

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SPE will include the in-depth study of specific essential oils and gemstone essences, guided blending exercises, case-study analysis work, the basics of blend formulation, interactive cosmic light projections, and more.

Articles on Spiritual PhytoEssencing

Therapeutic Value of Gray Light

Therapeutic Value of Gray Light

Learn about the Therapeutic Value of Gray Light, Left/Right Brain and Psychical Balancing with Gray Light, Gray Agate, Gray Agate Gemstone Essence, and Frankincense Essential Oil

Soothing the Abdominal Brain with Synergy of Blue Chamomile Essential Oil, Labradorite Gemstone Essence and Blue Light Therapy

Soothing the Abdominal Brain with Synergy of Blue Chamomile Essential Oil, Labradorite Gemstone Essence and Blue Light Therapy

Disturbances of the abdominal brain require a broad spectrum therapeutic response featuring dietary change, nutrient supplementation, exercises, breathing exercises, hydrotherapy, therapeutic sunbathing, improved rest and sleep habits, etc. The protocol presented in this article is being offered as an example of adjunctive measures that may prove of good service when implemented in concert with the more fundamental elements such as said dietary changes and breathing exercises, etc. .

Spiritual PhytoEssencing and the Tao of Essential Oil Blending

Spiritual PhytoEssencing and the Tao of Essential Oil Blending

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The Bloodstream: The River of Life

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The Neutral Bath: A Relaxing Bath for 21st Century Stress

The Neutral Bath: A Relaxing Bath for 21st Century Stress

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Neutral Bath—a type of full-bath—served as an important sedative therapy for institutionalized, emotionally agitated individuals. In this era of unrelenting emotional and physical stresses, the Neutral Bath may be effectively used to soothe and relax the mind/body organism, affording it the opportunity to restore equilibrium. Learn how to take a Neutral Bath and the complementary essential oils for the Neutral Bath.

What Inspired Me to Develop the Art of Spiritual Phytoessencing

What Inspired Me to Develop the Art of Spiritual Phytoessencing

In the mid-1990s, after nearly 20 years of clinical practice, I came to two crucial conclusions. The first is that all chronic disease, and to a great extent human unhappiness, is characterized by inertia or “stuckness.” The second is that disharmony on both physical...

The Inner Nature of Essential Oils

The Inner Nature of Essential Oils

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The Self-Actualizing Tendency, Real Self and Ideal Self

The Self-Actualizing Tendency, Real Self and Ideal Self

The self-actualizing drive is the innate creative force within the soul regarding the actualization of one’s potentials. A person who is continually evolving on a deep psychospiritual level is someone whose self-actualizing  drive is active and sustaining its...

Homeopathic-Style Potentized Dilution of the Custom Blend

Homeopathic-Style Potentized Dilution of the Custom Blend

Given my background as, among other things, a classical homeopath, and my focus upon the bioenergetic potential of essential oils, the use of a homeopathic-style potentized dilution is prepared from a customized essential oil blend (in addition to the use of the blend...

Miasms

Miasms

In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, one of the central archetypes that needs to be determined in each case are the miasms. A miasm is the homeopathic concept that I have adapted into Spiritual PhytoEssencing, of an archetype with a characteristic pattern of archetypal images...

Archetypal Blending

Archetypal Blending

In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, the practitioner is taught how to identify the archetypal pattern that characterizes a particular individual’s soul dynamics. Various components of this pattern are then proficiently matched with corresponding essential oils. The resultant...

A Holiday Miracle, Santa Claus and Douglas-Fir Essential Oil

A Holiday Miracle, Santa Claus and Douglas-Fir Essential Oil

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Essential Oils, Fearfulness and the Arrow of Time

Essential Oils, Fearfulness and the Arrow of Time

The faster the pace of one’s daily life, the shorter the duration of periods of time seem to be. Learn how to prepare
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Gandhi Root, Camel Jasper and the Long, Rewarding Journey of Self-Actualization

Gandhi Root, Camel Jasper and the Long, Rewarding Journey of Self-Actualization

Learn about the properties of a lesser known essential oil called gandhi root and its spirit-level synchronicity with the gemstone camel jasper, the mystical symbolism associated with the camel, and when correlated, how all of these reveal the inner nature of an individual for whom gandhi root oil is specific.

Essential Oils And The Divine Feminine

Essential Oils And The Divine Feminine

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Peppermint Oil and The Phosphorescent Personality

Peppermint Oil and The Phosphorescent Personality

Archetypes and Archetypal Images Plants are living organisms and all living things, plant and animal, are ensouled. Accordingly, the essential oil is the carrier of the most concentrated portion of the plant's soul essence. In this reference, anthroposophy founder...

Roman Chamomile and the Theme of Ambiguous Loss

Roman Chamomile and the Theme of Ambiguous Loss

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The Art of the Blend Part I: Creating a Customized Blend for Deep Soul-Level Healing

The Art of the Blend Part I: Creating a Customized Blend for Deep Soul-Level Healing

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Essential Oils and the Transition from Life to Afterlife: The Art of Dying

Essential Oils and the Transition from Life to Afterlife: The Art of Dying

Typically, when a patient is dying, conventional medicine switches into palliation mode. Accordingly, all its efforts are directed via pain medications and other drugs to control suffering. Certainly, the control of suffering is a leading priority. However, there is another equally vital aspect of treatment that is virtually ignored: the need to prepare that person’s soul for its transition to the next plane of its existence.

Essential Oils and the Transition from Life to Afterlife

Copyright 2011-2022 by Joseph Ben Hil-Meyer Research, Inc.By Bruce Berkowsky, N.M.D., M.H., NCTMB I am going to devote this issue of the Journal Of Spiritual PhytoEssencing to some of the important insights I gained through my all too brief work with Eve Rosenbloom, a...

The Trauma of Birth, Separation Anxiety and Essential Oils: Part II

The Trauma of Birth, Separation Anxiety and Essential Oils: Part II

Many essential oils, within a soul-level healing context, have varying degrees of relevance regarding birth trauma or particular aspects of birth trauma and/or separation anxiety. In this article I focus primarily on cinnamon oil. Topics include the Death-Rebirth Miasm; Using Homeopathic Remedy Cinnamomum; Cinnamon Oil and more.

Essential Oils and Soul-Level Healing 3-Class Webinar Series

Copyright 2010-2022 by Joseph Ben Hil-Meyer Research, Inc.By Bruce Berkowsky, N.M.D., M.H., NCTMB Dr. Bruce Berkowsky will be presenting a 3-class Essential Oils And Soul-Level Healing Teleseminar Series with the first 2-hour teleseminar class scheduled for Wednesday,...

Anxiety, Solar Plexus and Essential Oil

Anxiety, Solar Plexus and Essential Oil

Read this article to learn about anxiety; it’s connection to the solar plexus chakra; essential oils, gemstone and homeopathic remedies for anxiety based on the spiritual phytoessencing.

Maternal Essence: Mother’s Day Essential Oil Blend Project

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Interpretation of Rose Oil’s Plant Signatures

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Remembering a “True” Holiday Gift

When I was young I enjoyed the Christmas season even though I'm Jewish and never celebrated it. The Christmas season coincides with the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, the Festival Of Lights. However, it went beyond that for me because the 1950s and 1960s Christmas had a...

Essential Oils and Birth-Family Relationships

Essential Oils and Birth-Family Relationships

Dysfunctional birth-family relationships are major catalysts in the development of an individual’s pain body. Learn which essential oils can be important regarding dysfunctional family relationships.

Archetypal images, Juniper Oil and Cowboy Jack

Archetypal images, Juniper Oil and Cowboy Jack

In June of 1973 I was teaching biology and general science in a very rough school in Brooklyn. Like many people who eventually became practitioners of the natural healing arts, I am driven by a strong Tubercular miasm current. Thus, like a fire-horse straining at the...

Basil Oil and the Scorpion-Type Individual

Basil Oil and the Scorpion-Type Individual

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The Soul-Nature of Essential Oils

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