The Evolution of Green Medicine

Originally published at http://www.flowcoach.tv . Have been with ideas for Part 2 lately , and so thought to share this here.

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“We, the People of Earth, are living within an era of Transformation. We now find ourselves on the tipping point of an epic shift. The diversity of this situation includes planetary changes in climate, geomagnetics, and biodiversity; radical changes in our species regarding genetic variations, microbial ecology, and consciousness; a functional break-down in communities, governance, and economics is fast becoming the cultural norm.

What now awaits us is the opportunity to stay grounded, vibrant, and aware while these changes occur. We can develop a relationship with the Planet by the most accessible, experiential, and evolutionary means possible. Cultures throughout time and across the world have had varying understandings of this relationship and ways of pursuing it. In the English-speaking world, it is understood most simply as:

You are what you eat.

The science of nutrition and diet has become incredibly sophisticated. The types of nutrients and metabolic pathways now discussed in relation to what you eat are, perhaps, comparable to the rational complexities of cybernetics and astrophysics. To carry out a fully informed relationship with your food by maintaining the references of nutritional science would be a full-time, over-worked, high-stress career. The rational, logical, and linear perspective of the mind has created a rift between our dietary culture and our ecological relationships. Fortunately, the science of nutrition has come far enough to hint at the possibility of a healthy, stress-free, and illuminating relationship with our food. And so, let us explore the dietary science of evolution, biological communications, and the consciousness of the Heart.

Becoming a Mutant

Our evolution is embodied within the mutations of DNA. Mutation occurs as a communication process between our genetic code and its environment. DNA possesses codes of radiation (light), vibration (sound), and chemical-signatures (amino-acids and minerals). When it interfaces with similar information-types in its environment, there begins the process of mutation. In this two-way exchange of information there follows a diversity of results, including the entrainment of one coding to the other, a coherent integration of the two codes, and a seemingly chaotic re-organization of the ‘weaker’ coding.

The biological transformations that we predominantly see in our modern age are evolutions taking place within an environment of toxins, electro-smog, and fear-based emotions. The scientific community has observed that the agents of these conditions, i.e. heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, radiation, frequency, and neuropeptides (the chemical manifestation of emotion) all have a mutational affect upon our genetic code. To continue life within the aforementioned conditions, DNA allows itself to survive by evolving the tissues of our body in to cancerous tumors and our living cells in to pathogenic organisms, while allowing for the build-up of calcifications and the hosting of parasitic worms, bacteria, yeast, and molds. Many regard this process as a devolution.

Within our culture’s vision of evolutionary mutations, we are speaking of improved health, abilities, and awareness. These aspects of our humanity have their representation in the genetic coding of our DNA. To facilitate the necessary mutations , we may look to the same forces that are the environmental conditions creating the degeneration more commonly observable in our society. Though producing for yourself a healthy environment of radiation and vibration is conducive to beneficial mutations, the focus here will be on doing so at the level of chemical-information, that which is readily perceived within food. Just as our DNA goes through various mutations as it communicates with toxic chemicals and metals, it also goes through mutations in relation to the nutrients that present themselves within its environment.

Nutritional Evolution

The People of Earth are one of only several mammalian organisms which do not synthesize their own Vitamin C. Most other organisms have within their DNA the genetic coding to synthesize Vitamin C. Within our ecological history, humans have been able to provide themselves with foods very rich in Vitamin C. As Vitamin C became rich in the environment within which our DNA communicated, the abundance of this nutrient and its relationship to human genes resulted in a removal of the coding for its synthesis from other nutrients. Here is one example of chemical mutation via food.

For every phyto-nutrient, vitamin or mineral, and calorie that science can determine is in a food, there is a natural communication of nourishment that your body is able to receive. In the ability to perceive light, fragrance, taste, texture, and feeling we are empowered to know what is in a food and how well it will bring sustenance and balance to our body.

Pigments are those elements that appear as colour and shade. We see them in our skin, in the peel of a fruit, in the colour of juice, and they correlate to one of dietetic sciences most talked about nutrients: the antioxidant. Pigments have a relationship with light, biochemistry, and genetics that goes much deeper than the surface though.

Melanin, the compound that produces the tan and browns of human tissue, gives us a clear insight in to the powers of pigmentation. Melanin pigments interact with radiation, light, heat, and kinetic energy. This means that melanin can both protect you from harmful radiation (it transmutes it in to harmless heat energy) and assist the neurons in making beneficial radioactive transmissions. As a neuropeptide, melanin also functions at the genetic level, aiding in DNA repair through protection against genetic damage and mutations. Melanin is found concentrated in those neurons synthesizing monoamine neurotransmitters like seratonin, dopamine, and epinephrine

What we see is that the element which colours us in the world is so very related to many of the aspects which constitute our humanity: heritage and our genetic integrity; perception and state of consciousness; our relationship to and being-ness of light. These are the attributes of humanity being exemplified in spiritual traditions across time and culture. They are recognized as being the People of Earths Divine qualities. Our colour expresses divinity within our earthly embodiment, the bio-chemical showing of our spiritual existence in reality.

Look at the Pretty Colors

The image “http://key2healing.com/chakra,%20heart.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.So, too, does the colour of the botanical world share with us the earthly embodiment of plant nutrients and medicines. We see the green of chlorophyll, a magician pigment that transforms light in to nutrient. Running through the veins of edible vegetation, green speaks to our creature of vital life fluids, the flow of energy in cardiovascular vessels and organs, corresponding to the etheric energy of the Green Heart Chakra. As our body attunes to sensory orientation, the many shades of green seen in Nature signal feelings within us. Those feelings are the responses of our internal chemistry to the ‘meaning’ of green. Our motivation to consume or avoid the various representatives of ‘green’ is an intelligent process leading to balance and nourishment.

Red berries, blue corn, and purple fruits are all sending out similar communications regarding their unique, inherent qualities and relationships. Each pigment has its own meaningful ability to bridge the world of light and chemical, manifested in the appearance of pigment. Our ability to sense the pigment informs us of these abilities. The feelings generated by our sensing communicates to us the inner value and necessity that would result within a meeting of our personal chemistry and that of the plant.

As we come to know the divine properties of the pigment in depth and essence, we can also appreciate the physical revelations that come with fragrance, correlating to compounds often known in the scientific literature as polyphenols. Fragrance is the messenger of Nature that speaks to us outside the boundaries of sight and light. It is a more direct communication of chemistry, informing us of the possibilities for nourishment in our environment through the very same pathways a creature picks up those messages of fertility and emotions in its fellow beasts.

Alliesthesia is a scientific term referring to the phenomena of a stimulus having a variety of responses depending upon the internal state of the organism experiencing it. That is, the same smell could be both pleasant and repugnant, depending upon the internal chemistry of they who are smelling. The scent of blackberries warming in the sun can attract those who would be nourished by them, and after eating one’s fill, the fruit looses its sweetness and the flavour lessens. This is a change in the chemistry of the one eating… the berry’s flavour remains the same. Alliesthesia speaks of the relationship between us and the unprocessed foods of Nature, where our quest for nourishment is fulfilled through our sensory awareness of botanical sights, smells, touches, and tastes.

Light, fragrance They are very real, observable, and experientially measurable phenomena. Whereas they are direct informants of the constituents that make up the nutrition of our food, there is another element to Nature with which the People of Earth have had an intimate relationship, so close to our relationship with food as is heard in the proverbial advice:

Let Food be thy Medicine, and Medicine be thy Food.

What is the essential medicinal quality? A plant may act as the staple of food for one creature, and for another, it can be a precise healing and transformational catalyst. We find this quality in what can be understood as Form.

The Doctrine of Signatures is a law within the herbal tradition that guides one towards understanding the action of a plant to be in affinity with its meaningful appearance. We may see the colour, shape, and size of a walnut, and it is our sensations of these qualities that informs us of its nutritional compatibility. Yet it is our recognition of the walnut’s affinity with a mammalian brain that shares to us an aspect of its meaning, and it’s propensity to carry out a healing, transformative relationship with our body.

The Doctrine of Signatures is a useful cultural tip-off to the meaningful landscape of the biological world. The challenge here for our modern culture, in both the conventional and alternative paradigms of medicine, is that we need to experience form in order to access and actively work with the medicines in the plant world and within ourselves. It is in activating the intuitive modes of intelligence that we come to feel our world and communicate meaning between us and the plants.

Green Medicine and Nutrition, when considered within the paradigm of Instinctive and Intuitive Communications within Nature, has the potential to take exponential leaps in effective treatment and nourishment such as we have seen this past decade in the advancement of technology and networking. That each individual person is able to communicate directly with a plant that is then able to produce medicinal compounds adapted specifically to their condition, ranging from genetic, neurological, and radioactive functioning, is a science unavailable to pharmaceutical and technological medicine practices, and a science always available to You!.”