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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plant life ethics --for real
  • Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:27:49 -0500

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




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