The plant kingdom is a whole universe, which, for all its breadth, also includes many manifest manifestations of the animal world. Indeed, as numerous studies have shown, plants show that they are happy when they are treated with love, feel fear of violence and anxiety in the presence of dangerous animals. In addition, they react to human emotions and even communicate with each other, but only in an incredibly subtle, almost ethereal language, which we are only now beginning to understand …
Even in the distant past, our ancestors knew that the cultivation of land and the cultivation of many fruits, flowers and vegetables were associated with a "human" attitude towards them. It is on this special connection that many projects today are based to create more dynamic and productive farming, taking into account a number of factors involved in plant growth, such as the phases of the moon when planting and harvesting or when using fertilizers.
In works on biodynamic agronomy by Rudolf Steiner, the creator of anthroposophy, they studied, on the basis of the laws of spirituality, those fertilizers that do not destroy the soil and contribute to the harmonious growth of plants. Farms in Germany that have used his system have achieved superior results in both quantity and quality compared to what is now offered in traditional markets.
It was the same with the most revolutionary and spectacular farming techniques used by the peasants of the Santiago Valley in the Mexican state of Guanajuato in the 70s. A certain "secret formula" was used, and as a result, a cabbage weighing 43 kilograms grew, white beet leaves reached 1.83 meters long, a bulb turned out to be 4.5 kilograms, a celery - a meter, and a clove twelve times larger than usual. The "secret", according to the peasants, could be applied to all plants: flowers, cereals, tuberous … and, moreover, it did not require any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. However, he was associated with astrology and some knowledge transmitted by "non-human beings" …
It should be said that these methods were soon criticized by official scientists, and the peasants left their lands along with all agronomic experiments. But photographs and filmed films are still preserved.
The world at our service
However, let's go further, because behind all these cases there are attempts to communicate with the kingdom, practically unknown to us. Many people know that linguistic experiments have been carried out for a long time with animals, whales, dolphins and dogs, but few people know that the same was done with plants. The very ones that we mostly think of as something immovable and existing only to provide us with food, decorate our homes and heal our diseases. However, remember - it was around them that the whole history of occultism developed for the most part, acquaintance with which continues to surprise us.
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When faced with these mysteries, several key questions arise. Like whether plants have consciousness, whether it is possible to communicate with them in any way, or, more simply, whether they at least communicate with each other. Most likely, most readers will answer these questions in the negative for themselves. Also, who cares if plants are happy and in pain? And yet, still …
"Soul" of plants
Today it is known for certain thanks to the help of supersensitive devices - among them a lie detector (psychogalvanometer) or an emotion meter (emotionometer) - that plants distinguish people, are sensitive to music, have a memory, perceive hatred and love. In a word, they have consciousness and feelings.
Ancient peoples said they have a soul. The magician of the yaki tribe Don Juan, when he talked with his student Carlos Castaneda, pointed out that he should talk to plants, because each of them has its own personality and everyone has feelings and soul. And that, in turn, they can transmit their "feelings" to the person, so that he becomes able to see, feel and hear what they convey to him. Don Juan also argued that the connection between plants and human beings is so strong that when you cut one of them, you must apologize and explain that someday other plants will be able to use your body for food. When Castaneda asked what exactly to say to them, the shaman replied that it is enough just to speak to them from the heart.
But then there is nothing strange in the fact that the Indian chief Smohalla from the Vanapum tribe refused to work on the land, saying the following words: “You ask me to cut grass and hay and sell them for enrichment, like white people, but how do you look at me, if I cut the hair off my mother's head? He knew that all living beings on this planet in their most diverse manifestations of life are interdependent. And that according to the exact fulfillment of the law of cause and effect, a bad attitude towards the rest of the world is reflected in humanity.
Today, every day, we receive more and more evidence that plants experience pain, joy and fear. But Paracelsus, in his Occult Botany, and other medieval scholars even argued that plants have a soul. And moreover, there is practically not a single people who would not revere the plant world, and not just for environmental reasons, which are so fashionable today, but simply because they considered every tree, every flower, every plant organism as a refuge of the spirit, the subtlest manifestation of life …
Talking mushrooms
Some shamanic traditions speak of knowledge transmitted by "mushrooms of power", thalophyte plants, which today are called magic drugs. American mythologist Robert Gordon Wasson, for example, recounts how he was allowed to attend a ceremony in Mexico, during which he was allowed to question a sacred mushroom, teonankatl (an Aztec word meaning "meat of the gods"). He asked about his son and received, through the mushroom shaman, the answer that he was fine, but that he was not at all where Wasson thought. It was also "told" that one of his relatives would soon die. A few months later, it was revealed that one of his brothers had died suddenly some time ago. Wasson again managed to attend a similar ceremony with mushrooms after a number of years, and in 1958 he wrote the following about this:"When everything is going well, the mushrooms start talking and perhaps answering not only the questions asked, but much more."
This is not the only confirmation. The Mazateca Indians from the Mexican state of Oaxaca in the south of the country claim that mushrooms "speak" - in this case, hallucinogenic psilocybits - and if you ask the sorcerer where his foresight, predictions and images come from, he will probably answer that from mushrooms or, better say, from the spirit of the mushrooms.
Is it possible to communicate with plants?
We are not going to talk here about the spectacular experiments conducted at the beginning of the 20th century by the Indian scientist Chandra Bose on the apparatus of his invention, the crescograph, in which he was able to demonstrate that plants have a nervous system similar to that of animals, and that exposure to radio waves accelerates their growth and improves health … This is a matter of bygone days. We will also not expand on the research of American Cleve Baxter, an agent of the CIA, who in the late 60s tried a lie detector on plants to test their reaction to people's thoughts, because his experiments were soon repeated many times, literally causing a chain reaction.
Suffice it to say that many have followed in the footsteps of Bose and Baxter and have achieved similar results: plants are happy when they are watered, afraid of aggressive actions, show alarm when hostile animals approach, and react to our emotions. Russian physicist Viktor Adamenko, on the basis of Baxter's experiments, suggested that some plants that were silent witnesses of crimes could be taken into account and even set out their own, special "version" of what happened when their leaves were connected to a lie detector during interrogation of the accused. In practice, this was tested by psychiatrist Aristide X. Esser, together with physicist Thomas Etter, he interrogated one woman in the presence of a philodendron connected to a detector, which signaled that the accused was lying when answering.
All this makes us seriously ask the question: Do plants respond to human emotions? Adamenko argued - after appropriate experiments - that plants are capable of responding to the thoughts of their owner, both in his physical presence and at a distance of up to 200 kilometers. Paul Souvin, an electrician from New Jersey, conducted his experiments in the same direction, and came to the conclusion that plants can react to human thoughts and emotions at a great distance.
In the same way, plant emotions were studied by the Soviet psychologist V. Pushkin in the early 70s, immediately after the report on Baxter's experiments. Pushkin hypnotized his student Tanya, and the emotional changes she underwent were registered by a plant - a geranium, with which the "patient" was connected. This is how this researcher came to the conclusion that plants have memory, register feelings and even thoughts of the person with whom they are connected in their cells. It was also noticed that over time, a person can establish stable contact with plant cells that act as the human brain.
Man talking to a cactus
Many of the experiments do not require particularly sophisticated techniques, but nevertheless are aimed at improving plant growth, although they are not at all associated with changes in its genetic structure. In this sense, it is necessary to remember the Californian Luther Berbenk, who, among other things, brought out a new species of cactus without needles … by simple conversations. Language was his instrument, and the plants not only understood it, but even obeyed. The result was "untia ficus indica" (needleless cactus) and other plant mutants; for example, a white mulberry tree was bred - the berries were so transparent that one could see a seed inside, a huge, very juicy plum, an entirely white daisy and a fragrant water lily. His method consisted of visualizing what he wanted, and after that, thanks only to "cooperation" with plants, new species arose. Berbenk explained it this way: "During the whole time that I was conducting the experiment on obtaining a cactus without needles, I often talked with plants to create the vibration of love."
In turn, psychiatrist John Meyes announced that plants not only respond to the facts they are told, but also their growth seems to be directly related to the degree of closeness between the plant itself and its owner. But all this was known for a long time by the "primitive" peoples!
Moreover, human verbal language is not so necessary to get in touch or come to terms with plants; sometimes prayer and meditation are enough. Thus, the experience of using prayer was carried out by the healers of Baltimore with rye. The entire operation was led by Dr. Robert N. Miller, who made sure with his recording device that by means of prayers addressed specifically to rye, it grew 84 percent more than normal.
And this is not the only time prayer has been used with good results. The Reverend Franklin Loer, author of The Power of Prayer and Plants, did the same. His reasoning was as follows: if Christ could make the fig tree dry at the root from one curse (Gospel of Mark, II, 12-24), then, turning a good prayer on a plant, you can increase or decrease its growth.
In the same direction, Priest William Rauscher, president of the Spiritual Frontiers Society of New Jersey, used a lighter version: instead of reciting prayers to the plant, he sprinkled holy water on it. By watering the shoots on his reed plantation with baptismal water abundantly for six years, he made them grow 50 centimeters taller than other reeds in the area watered with regular water. He also believed that energy could be transmitted through charity, prayer and the laying on of hands.
Get in touch with the devas
Regarding meditation, a lesser known agronomic experience has been conducted since 1962 by the spouses Eileen and Peter Caddy and their friend Dorothy Maclean on the coast of North Scotland, where they formed the Findhorn Community in order to establish contact with natural energetic entities, whom they identified as devas, and collaborated with them. for several years.
The caddies have worked with garden crops from the beginning, but have not achieved encouraging results, which could be predicted, due to the fact that they settled in, in the Bay of the Seas, on completely neglected lands, regularly blown by strong winds. Despite this, they decided to practice meditation in their free time and generate positive thoughts.
And then one day McLean received a strange mental message, presumably from an angel, who told her something related to the forces of nature and her spirits, with which, as was said, she needed to interact and establish harmonious relationships. During one of these communication sessions, the angels themselves defined themselves as follows: "You must recognize us, beings from the world of 'devas', and cooperate with us." And while members of the research community admitted that beings cannot be seen physically, they nevertheless claimed to feel them as "fields" or "masters of energy."
And immediately after that, their gardens and orchards began to flourish. Where there was a wasteland, 65 types of vegetables, 21 fruit trees and a large number of medicinal herbs have grown.
When they spoke publicly about their experiments and about contacts with these angels or devas in their daily lives, interested people began to gather around them, professing similar ideas. By the beginning of the 70s, the composition of the community (then already a fund) reached 300 people. And to everyone who wanted to hear them, they said that for a miracle you need to work hard, strive for positive thoughts and constantly communicate with the archetypal (special components) forces of each plant species in order to learn how to handle each of them. Today, the Findhorn Foundation includes 1,402 permanent members and offers everyone a spiritual development program.
Dorothy McLean herself left Findhorn in 1973 and a few years later published her work "Listening to the Song of Angels", in which she described her experience of communicating with these creatures. Here is one recommendation from this book: “Start thinking about the spirits of nature, higher, light spirits and try to harmonize with them. This is necessary to get their attention. They feel happy when someone from the human race seeks help from them. This is the first step."
Green dialogue
It seems unlikely that living things, such as plants, which remain immobile all the time in their place of growth, have their own system of communication with each other, and this is without the medium of form, color or smell!
Organic pioneer J. A. Rodale heard that the death of the mother plant affects the shoots and decided to test it on his farm in Pennsylvania. He destroyed the mother cabbage plant by chopping up the head of cabbage, then burned it and buried the remains in the ground. After that, it was found that death somehow traumatized the shoots, and they, from that moment on, stopped growing properly. Was it telepathy or some other unknown transmission mechanism?
Part of the mystery was solved not by botanists, but by the zoologist from South Africa, Van Halen. Conducting experiments with giraffes and antelopes, he came to the conclusion that some plants exchange information using chemicals. Thus, he demonstrated that acacias use ethylene (CH2) for vital communication: in cases when it is necessary to warn about the approach of a dangerous animal. Halen found that giraffes are very picky about food (they eat the leaves of only separate and other acacias), and antelopes devour all acacias in a row and die relatively more often. Conclusion: This tree releases ethylene into the air to inform its nearby relatives of the danger. And the leaves of the warned plants begin to produce a poison - tannin, which can destroy the liver of ruminants.
So be careful, because there are both plants that are dangerous to animals (not to mention "predatory plants") and to human beings.
Both music and dance
Now it is no secret to anyone that plants feel music and that if a shrill rock upsets them to the point that they turn the leaves away from the sound source, then classical music helps them grow better. When this opened, loudspeakers were installed in cornfields in Canada to broadcast classical music on spring days: the result was a 20 to 100 percent increase in ear size.
The studies of the Americans Dorothy Retallek and Francis F. Bromen, carried out since the beginning of the 60s, have clarified this issue even more. More recently, engineer Dan Carlson invented the Sonic Bloom system, which, by combining high frequency sounds, had a positive effect on the growth and ripening of vegetables. Sounds open up tiny holes in the leaf surface, Carlson said, allowing the plant to absorb nutrients more easily. Inventor Marcel Vogel, for his part, showed how a group of plants responded with rhythmic vibrations to the broadcast of Manuel de Falla's melody "Nights in the Gardens of Spain".
But this phenomenon is bilateral. Plants love good music, and in the same way they themselves can produce sounds that, appropriately transformed, are distinguishable by humans. This is called "botanical music", and its effect was first discovered by the American John Cage in 1975, by converting the weak electrical signals emitted by the needles of dry cacti in the desert. Subsequently, he compared these sounds with musical pieces of other plants.
Moreover, plants are sensitive not only to music, but also to the effects of dance. Stella Ponnia, assistant to the Indian doctor Singh (successor to Chandra Bose's work), performed an Indian dance in front of the calendula every morning. As a result, the plants grew 60 percent higher than the control group.
From the book: “XX century. Chronicle of the inexplicable. Opening after opening”. Nikolai Nepomniachtchi
