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["Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

You "heard" them.  It is not like hearing a voice, but more like having the 
knowlege that you heard a voice.  Same as with "visions".  You don't see 
anything, but you suddenly have the knowlege that you had a vision.  It is a 
weird thing.  I could tell a few plant stories, but the men in white coats 
might show up.  lol

Wendy

> 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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