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Wendy,

A long time ago I was in a chain nursery and I heard a 
call for help. The sound came from within my head, like 
listening to my own voice, except I wasn't thinking the 
thought and it wasn't my voice. I turned around and saw a 
plant that had been knocked over and was not getting 
watered, so it was withering. I righted it. You could say 
perhaps I had unconciously seen this plant in need and it 
had worked its way into my conciousness.

Then after I moved here, I helped the preacher's son with 
his leaf collection for school. We found a Toothache Tree 
out on the highway, and I thought how I wished I had one 
at my place. I'd pretty much crawled all over these five 
acres and documented the plant life, just as any nerdy 
botanist would. However, the next day I was walking the 
land and I heard my name called out (again the voice 
wasn't external). I couldn't figure out what was calling 
me. Then it said, over here to your left under the tree. 
And behold, there was my very own small Toothache Tree. I 
don't know how to explain that one other than hearing the 
collective mind.

Ironically, since studying with plant communicators I 
haven't heard plant 'voices' again, but I have spent 
entire days with some plant I'll be studying (not easy 
when they move so slowly) and dreamed about its plant 
uses. I don't use drugs and have never been diagnosed with 
multiple personality disorder.

--Sage





On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:04:50 -0400
 "Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net> wrote:
> Yes, Bev, they do communicate through a "collective 
> mind".  It is almost 
> impossible to detect anything from a single specimen, 
> however, when you are 
> in a big greenhouse where there are hundreds, thousands 
> and tens of 
> thousands of a single species, their "thoughts", 
> "feelings" and "emotions" 
> can become apparent and sometimes so overwhelming that 
> it can bring you to 
> your knees.  I worked in a large commercial greenhouse 
> one season as an 
> assistant grower and I can tell you some first hand 
> accounts of the 
> interactions of the plants with the workers there. 
> There are people who 
> seem to be able to pick up on their form of 
> "communication" and there are 
> people who cannot.  I have wondered if the difference is 
> in the individual 
> people or that the plants "choose" to "communicate" with 
> some people and not 
> others.  Whatever the case, I am absolutely sure there 
> is some form of 
> "sentience" in the plant kingdom that we have very 
> little understanding.  I 
> have put some words in parenthesis because am not sure 
> if those words 
> accurately convey the meaning behind what is actually 
> happening.  They are 
> just the words I have that come close to what I mean.  I 
> found that those of 
> us that could experience their "communication" often 
> kept mum about it.  It 
> was best because those who could not sometimes made 
> unkind comments about us 
> and referred to us as "hittin' the peyote".  How people 
> reacted to the 
> plants "communications" differed depending on their 
> personal beliefs and 
> personalities.  For example, I saw one very religious 
> man emerge from a 
> greenhouse obviously shaken but smiling, and said to me, 
> "You know, 
> sometimes you can actually feel god in there."   I saw 
> one young girl come 
> dashing from a greenhouse, in a totally "freaked out" 
> state of mind and 
> yelled to me, "I QUIT!  There are SPOOKS in there!"  My 
> personal feelings 
> are that it is the "life force" that joins everyone and 
> everything together 
> that we pick up on.  Some people call it the 
> Supernatural, some people call 
> it Mother Nature, some people call it God.  I'm not sure 
> what it is, but 
> there is definitely something there that is not us, and 
> yet, I feel, is us 
> also.
>
> Wendy