Plant Spirits and the Western Mind

Thank you for posting this article. I absolutely agree with your statement that we humans "are stuck on the importance of human beings... to human beings" for communication and knowledge.
There's entire universes of information that we have shut ourselves off from just because we see ourselves as a separate and the only sentient intelligence on our planet.
I think another way of looking at this problem is that there is a problem of communication between plant spirits and the "human" mind. Although agreeably the western mind is the thickest brick in the wall. One of the main problems I see is that humans respond and think of everything around them in terms of human consciousness and human concepts of communication. Most cannot allow their minds to think in terms outside of the "normal" human concepts of thought and communication. For example say I thought Japanese people were not intelligent or conscious because I didn't understand Japanese language and they made sounds I didn't understand so they obviously cant speak.
Well that's just an obvious example of how much we would have lost if humans had isolated themselves from the other humans and cultures of the world. We had to learn other languages before knowledge could be shared world wide and human understanding has risen greatly because of this cross cultural communication. Well, the communication gap between species is still unthinkably vast because most humans only think in "human terms" of communication and consciousness. If we're waiting for a tree to speak to us using a human form of communication we will be waiting for a very long time.

This is a point I'm always trying to make is that the plant and animal teachers are continually attempting to communicate with us in terms that we can understand. Although it's difficult for most to notice because they speak in non-linguistic thought forms. Most humans can't even think to themselves in a non-linguist thought form. Conscious human thought is almost nothing but linguistic and to think in a purely visual modality is next to impossible for many humans. Fact is there are many other ways to think like visually, energetically, emotionally and even in more subtle forms than those that we don't even have words for in any human language to describe.

Communication with the multitudes of life forms throughout the universe will be possible when we learn to think outside of the human consciousness construct. We will then be able to open ourselves up to the vast unified field consciousness of a pandimensional universe.

Hopefully humans someday will not only be thinking in terms of a "human level consciousness construct" we will also be able to think, as we say, "way outside of the box".

I recently posted a podcast were I'm talking specifically about this very topic. The podcast is called The Chronicles of the Psychonautilus. http://the-psychonautilus.podomatic.com/

Actually it's the last of The Chronicles of the Psychonautilus series that I'll be doing as I've started another podcast called The Portal.

One point I will add though is that I think that the plant and animal spirits do care about our eventual awakening and well being. Maybe it's just because we are making such a terrible mess of things on this planet. But in my experience I have noticed a very patient and benevolent interaction that speaks to me of a very caring relationship as opposed to a non-caring or dissociative relationship. They feel their connection to us even if we don't. Also I feel that human egoistic emotions like jealousy really don't apply and even though it has been spoken of that way by some shamanic practitioners I've never experienced true plant consciousness to behave or communicate that way. I feel it's our habitual anthropomorphic tendencies that we continually attempt to translate things into human thought forms, which is the whole problem really.

I'm looking forward to reading the article on "food as information" thanks for posting this.

Adam

3~' Shanti
Thanks for listening to the "Plant Spirit Awakening" podcast, JIm, and for telling me about this piece. I've been working with this Peruvian shaman, Don Diego, who you probably heard spoken about on the podcast. Well, at least according to him, Ayahuasca is wanting to make its presence known in a big way right now, and that does seem to be happening. It seems we are being prepared for some global shift or shifts which are on the not-too-distant horizon, whether 2012 or whatever, and Ayahuasca appears to be playing its part in this. Whether the plant itself or some "higher" force is directing this phenomenon might be an open question, but Don Diego seems to suggest that it's Ayahuasca itself, or the Spirit of Ayahuasca, which is wanting "to be everywhere" as Benjamin notes in my interview with him. Now we could ask whether maybe it's Don Diego who wants to be everywhere because, let's not mince words, this Ayahuasca shamanism stuff is big business, but at this point I'm not going to make a judgment on that. I'm going to do a ceremony this weekend. Check in with me after that and see what I say : )

Thanks again for posting this, and I just posted it to the Plant Spirit Awakening page on Facebook, here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Plant-Spirit-Awakening/341086963501?ref=ts

Peace, Alan