Communicating With Plants

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Communicating With Plants

Plants' experience of being in the world is very different from the experience of us animals. Because

plants cannot move about, they exist in

a state of profound acceptance and

peace within

themselves. Emotions such as fear, hate, jealousy, possessiveness, etc. are wholly unknown to plants and would

serve no useful purpose. On the other

hand, plants are capable of

experiencing a wide range of higher emotions the like of which we animals could

scarcely conceive.

At the same time, there are feelings which plants share with us animals, such

as love, pain, joy, thirst, etc. It is the feelings we share with plants which

provide the basis of our ability to communicate with them.

Feeling with plants is not so different from feeling with people. For example,

when we are about to have sex with someone who really turns us on, we feel a

palpable surge of sexual energy

connecting us to that person. Similarly, when we walk into a room to face

someone who is madder than hell at us, we feel connected to that person by a

palpable wave of anger and fear. When a baby

smiles at us, we feel a rush of joy that has us automatically smile back.

However, most of our interactions with other people do not have this feeling of

connectedness and emotional immediacy. Most of the time we don't even look the

people we are addressing in the eye, let alone feel with them. Because of our

social training, we tend to regard sharing feelings with other people as

threatening.

We are taught to close up and defend ourselves, and to keep our interactions as

sterile and devoid of feeling as possible.

In order to communicate with plants (or people), you have to be able to regard

them as your equals. If you are afraid (ashamed) to talk with homeless people,

beggars, crazy people, etc. then you'll also find it difficult to talk with

plants.

However, it's actually easier to communicate with plants than it is to

communicate with people because plants don't have defenses and self-importance

agendas in place which engage our own defenses and self-importance agendas. To

feel with plants (or people) doesn't mean to gush all

over them; all it means is to recognize them as beings whose feelings are as

important to them as your feelings are to you.

When first learning to communicate with plants, it helps to be in contact with

the same individual plants on a daily basis. Ideally you should go out,

preferably alone, to the same tree or meadow for

at least a few minutes every day. If you can't do this, cultivating garden or

house plants will work just as well, although it's easiest to communicate with

large trees. This is because from a feeling

(light fiber) point of view, humans and trees are very much alike – the light

fiber (auric glow) configurations of both humans and trees are quite similar,

whereas that of insects, for example, is very different from either. It is

easier for humans and trees to communicate with each other than it is for

either to communicate with insects.

Now even the least psychic person, going up to a large tree, should be able to

pick up something of the personality (mood) of that tree. How does the tree

make you feel – happy, sad,

loving, jolly, heavy? Can you pick up its sex: sense a male or female presence

– or its age: young and vigorous or old and mellow?

This isn't all that hard to do – you can call upon your senses to buttress

your feelings, as in the exercise of seeing pictures in the clouds, except that

you do it by feeling rather than thinking – by

relaxing into the process rather than controlling it.

It's exactly what a rationalist would term " anthropomorphism. "

For example, spiky trees (like palmettos and Joshua trees) have a sassy,

masculine energy. Cedar trees tend to be clowns or wise guys. Banana trees are

joyous and loving. Weeping trees really do

have a doleful air about them. Tall, erect trees have proud and regal

personalities. Trees that seem to be reaching longingly for the heavens are

reaching longingly for the heavens.

A good time to learn to connect emotionally with trees is when they're dying.

The next time you see a tree being felled, pause and quiet down your thoughts

and watch it attentively. You should easily be able to feel the tree's agony

just before it falls, since trees (and all beings) are filled with power at the

moment of their deaths and profoundly affect the beings around them.

Loggers triumphantly yell " Timber! " when a tree falls to cover their

sense of shame and disconnectedness – to block communication with the tree at

the moment of its death.

Another good time to pick up on plants' feelings is when they are in motion.

Plants are happiest when they are moving – blown by the wind and the rain. Wave

back to them when they wave at

you (it's only polite). Watch how they dance in the breeze. See how the trees

which overhang roads and walkways cast down blessings on all who pass beneath

them. See how the young growing tips are more alert, vigorous, and naively

impetuous than the older and mellower lower leaves. Be aware of the awareness

of plants: when you walk through a wood or meadow, feel as though you were

walking through a crowd of people, all of whom are watching you.

Some people pick up on the feelings of plants by seeing faces in the bark or

foliage. They impose that thought form (of a face with a giggly, dour, saucy,

etc. expression) over the feeling of the tree,

since that's how most people are conditioned to interpret feelings – by

associating them with facial expressions.

What we're tying to get at are feelings, which can be apprehended directly, without

any need for sensory cues. However, the senses can provide a useful point of

reference and serve as a bridge

between imagination and pure feeling, which is how they function in dreams.

When you see with your feelings rather than your mind, your visual attention

isn't focused on any one thing, but rather

everything within your field of vision strikes your attention with equal impact

(vividness), as it does in dreams. To see this way you have to have your mind

quiet, and you have to be in a joyous and

abandoned mood. If you're bummed out or grumpy, you won't be able to see what

plants are feeling any more than you'd be able to see a baby smile at you.

Much of our social training entails learning to stifle our senses – to not see

what is right before our eyes, to not listen to what our ears are hearing, to

be offended by smells, discomfited by touch.

Cutting off our senses leaves us feeling apathetic and disconnected from our

world. Therefore, if we want to renew our feeling of connectedness which we had

as infants, we have to start plugging our

senses into our feelings again. And because they are so nonthreatening, feeling

with plants is a good place to start.

Not only do different species of plants have different feelings associated with

them, but also there is considerable individual variation in personalities

between different plants of the same species, between different branches on the

same plant, and even between different leaves on the same branch. By lightly

holding a leaf for a moment between your thumb and forefinger, you can feel

which leaves want to be picked for medicine or food purposes and which ones

want to be left alone. The leaves that want to be picked have a high, vibrant

feel to them, whereas leaves that don't want to be picked feel dead in your

hand.

Even if you can't seem to tune in to the feelings of plants, you can still

telepathically " talk " with them. Plants can talk to you in thoughts,

and these (at first) seem indistinguishable from your own

thoughts. That is, it will seem to you that you are the one who is thinking

these thoughts, when in fact it is the plants which are sending you messages.

That's why it's important to have your own

mind as quiet as possible – to be in a relaxed mood – if you expect plants to

talk to you; if your own mind is buzzing, there's no way the plants can get a

word in edgewise. Any thoughts or feelings you

have while sitting under a tree or working with plants are probably messages

from the plants.

So how do you know if you are actually communicating with a plant, and not just

imagining it? The answer is: you don't.

You just go with your intuition rather than going with your concepts, what

you've been taught. Instead of hypnotizing yourself into believing that the

world of concepts is reality, you hypnotize

yourself into believing that the world of feelings – of magic – is reality. The

only difference between these two equally valid points of view is that from one

of them plants talk to you, and from the other they don't.

If you feel self-conscious talking to plants, just remember that what you have

been programmed to call the " real " world is merely a figment of your

imagination also. And if you start calling

something else the real world, then that something else becomes the real world;

it becomes as real as this one.

If you're dubious, just ask the plant over and over,

" Is this you, Mr. or Ms. Plant talking to me, or am I just imagining

it? " And if you keep getting the same answer over and over, " It's me,

the plant! It's me, the plant! " – then just assume that it is indeed the

plant talking to you, and listen to what it has to

say. You can ask questions and get answers, both questions and answers coming

as though you were holding a conversation in your own mind.

It's easy to learn to talk with house and garden plants, since these are

particularly eager to discuss matters such as fertilization, watering, shade,

grafting and transplanting techniques, etc. But in

addition to such mundane affairs, plants (particularly large trees) can give

you helpful advice on all sorts of matters.

Take them your problems; ask them what they think you should do. Some of my

best friends and most trusted advisors are trees.

Whether you are consciously aware of it or not, you are already communicating

with plants all the time. The soothing, healing, tranquilizing feeling that

comes when you are gardening or are out in nature is in fact your psychic

attunement to the joyous vibrations of the plants around you. To follow this

feeling one step further – to its source – is to put yourself into direct

communication with the plants. It's as easy as smiling at a baby.

(excerpted from Bob Makransky's book Magical Living)

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