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Communicating With Plants
By Bob Makransky
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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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