Nature is speaking

EVERY PERSON needs to read this post.
thank you oh so very much for taking the time to share this.

you have just made my week : )

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” -Albert Einstein

thanks for that info, that is very interesting

So you and I merrily met each other just the other day when I posted an invitation here to a local festival. One of the verifiable credentials of the place where this festival occurs is that the nearby forest has been studied. It has been documented by researchers that the natural process of succession toward complexity is accelerated there. While at the festival this weekend I met a person who is actually in the process of writing a book about this place. And while we were talking, I was explaining how important I think it is that Elinor Ostrom has won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work in the economic governance of the commons. One of my favorite quotes of hers is "communication, simply communication, combined with research in the lab leads to 92% of optimal!" (re managing our common resources, like forests, waterways, internets). So this person says to me, "Well you know she was part of the team that studied this place don't you?" I think I might have just opened my mouth for a second while nothing came out.

The way this connects with plant communication for me is this. When humans express their joy and freedom and love unhindered by the normal rules of the developed world (i.e. in a space where they have permission to be themselves), it helps the forest become healthier.When healthy forests inspire people with their own gentle communication, people become healthier. I've experienced both of these arms of the spiral and I know them to be true. But they're bidirectional, and mutually reinforcing. One of my guiding intuitions is that all this natural magic is just bursting to come back, and all we have to do is listen to our true selves and the wilderness.

So anyway, I'll follow up on this author's progress, and I reckon I'm going to meet my neighbor Ms. Ostrom pretty soon now I think.

I wish I could come to hear the amplified "plant talks." The mp3 link on the goharrison site is currently not working for me, but I'll check again later.

For science buffs, I can recommend a great book called "Plant Energetics" which goes deep into the electrochemical mechanisms of plant talk. It came out in 1998, so it's probably a little dated now, but still a great read if you like that kind of lingo.

Okay, last thing, I promise (you got me all kerfluffle here). Several years ago I took a trip to the badlands, drove all night and arrived, stoned, under the full moon. When we got out of the car the air smelled like honey, but that's not it, like living honey, like honey breath. And I could clearly hear the plants talking about our arrival. I couldn't understand what they were saying, of course, but I could hear the energy move from a patch over here to a patch over there, to a patch or family group still further away. it was like ripples moving through a party. It blew my mind because I'd never experienced that as an adult. It was a major realization to have my old understanding from childhood validated in my adult brain! So yeah, nature is speaking!

the plant kingdom in its diversity is enormous within the dreamtime one can feel the tendrils of its love projecting multi dimensional states of mind...la flore beso mi ojo tercero y me canto...

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My apartment and myself always gets filled up with an incredible sense of well being and 'thanks' when I water my plants.

Just two evenings ago I was watching a video- I believe it may have been an episode of the old TV show from the 1970s called "Land of the Lost" - and pointed out to my mate, "oh look, there are some mushrooms - and some fiddleheads too -"

So when I had an opportunity to open your blog here and take a look, imagine my surprise when these images are combined in the photo accompaniment! In my life I have found synchronicities signal things of utmost importance, and in the case of your post, I feel absolutely compelled to mention the work of Cleve Backster, a lie-detection specialist, who used a polygraph attached to plants to document their electrical emissions. Initially he was testing basic plant physiology, but soon he found that the plants seemed to be exhibiting intelligence. Amazingly, he found that plants exhibit what appears to be not only physiological reactions to various human activities like watering them, singing to them, and caressing their leaves, but also cutting the leaves, for instance....the plants seemed to register trauma in their electrical signatures when they were intentionally (or unintentionally) damaged.

This makes sense in a way many of us can understand. But what I found most interesting was that Backster was also able to expand his experimentation to include remote testing of plants who apparently registered the THOUGHTS of participants, i.e., the plants responded favourably to someone thinking loving thoughts about the plants from another room or another building entirely, whereas the plants registered trauma signatures if the human participants even merely imagined cutting the plant's leaves with shears, or otherwise injuring the plants.....indicating, quite possibly, that plants not only are sentient, but exhibit a *psychic* connection to the world around them - just like other living (and perhaps so-called "non-living") things do. (I qualify using "so-caled" because even plasma and quantum particles have exhibited what might be considered intelligent behaviour.)

Here are a couple of links to very basic, introductory info on Backster's work:
http://primaryperception.com/scientific-instincs/
http://www.theastralworld.com/psychic-powers/are-plants-psychic.php

I apologise in advance if Mileece already referenced Backster's work, as I'm not sure when I'll have an opportunity to listen to the interview. Thank you so much for sharing the link!

Stace Tussel

very cool!

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