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Margery's post  at Trickster's Hoard    late last night

"….perhaps the land imagines us.  The exterior landscape interacts with our interior landscape,  and in the resulting entanglements,  we become something more than we otherwise could ever hope to be."

my comment there:

this connected to where i was/am trying to get to the other day when i wrote about the dopamine drip triggered by those blossoms.   "the land imagines us"….even more,  I'm thinking,   the land and Her plants are designed to specifically act upon us,  or,  with.  To be able to alter neurological response needed for their and our,   OUR,   continuation.  Further, ….more…. to answer the Why  of the complex magical elegance of attraction and interaction of plants,  insects, birds   the Beauty and intricacy  of design that accommodates,  that is reciprocal,  one to the other so we,  human beings can eat.   Plant Intelligence   ACTS   upon us.  Deliberate.   Causing human beings to cultivate and CARE.   It is not so much human beings that cultivate plants,  but that plants cultivate us.

Back to those words of Elizabeth Gilbert…"…an intelligence in the universe that wants to communicate with us"

I feel lately like a small flickering,  no….,  pulsing …light.   I am seen.  I am being Given.   Small things…mundane.   but all with a recognizable thread.   Late last night,  Margery's …tricksters hoard….so so Beauty Full post.   This morning,  first thing,  on Facebook i watch a Giant African snail eating a carrot.  Eating a carrot.  Eating a carrot.     Then,  Utube,  an episode of Omeleto.  then,  Futurism   Astrobiologists Suggest the Earth Itself May Be An Intelligent Entity…a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology.   And Sandi Meegan,   in comment on a post…  Sandi,  from way back,  so long ago with Spirit Cloth.   The Temple of Sun and Sky,  held up to the Morning….the Cloth i thought wasn't anything,  is Everything…..

 

 

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  1. maria Avatar
    maria

    most of the time IS that wath is ,
    nothing in our personel vision ,
    but if we look more we see that IS … everything , part of the ALness of al there is .
    i love the light shines through…. no metter through what …sunday hug to you and your plants and annimals and….and….,

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  2. Saskia Avatar
    Saskia

    this resonates with something that happened to me yesterday whilst walking in the nearby woods with old Django by my side: the bright & clean afternoon light, the kind of light you experience after a storm has passed and cleared the skies, that light shone through the tree branches and for reasons I cannot quite explain, I felt ELATED, my heart & step felt so light and I was ONE with the world, I felt CONNECTED to everything…..xXx

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    “Plant Intelligence ACTS upon us. Deliberate. Causing human beings to cultivate and CARE. It is not so much human beings that cultivate plants, but that plants cultivate us.”
    Read this and it all felt so right based on my own experiences: took myself outside, as I usually do, breathed in deeply and thought about the many kinds of connection in this world:
    We have always gardened but giving up our home in CA all those years ago to go on a vagabond journey across the country, the one given was that each place needed to let us get hands in the dirt, needed to let us plant seeds, grow food.It is how I felt I could connect to the many places that we lived in and now I realize that this is what the land wanted as well, for you come to know of place by listening to the elements, putting your hands in the various soils, accepting the sense of reciprocity between you and the land, taking that leap of faith that what you planted will grow.
    I am taken back in time to Tennessee where the place we rented came with about 1/2 an acre, was horse country and a small bale of hay had been left out in the field that I took as a sign that this would be our new home. The field behind the house was full of wildflowers and I wanted to know about them, the crab apple trees, the blackberries that grew along a little ditch near. It did not look like any of the land had been used for a garden and I wanted/needed to grow some food.
    Our landlord belonged to a farmer’s co-op, told us to go there, give his name, and ask my questions. He had never had tenants who wanted to have a little garden so he felt that the members of the co-op would be helpful. We went and went many times and what we found was this: when you want to know about the land, when you demonstrate that you are willing to learn, to listen to the advice,it is given. We bought seeds and starter plants but we were also given some for free. One old timer told us that no one, who was not a member of the co-op, had ever come so that told him that we were good people. Imagine this, Tennessee, the hardest state for me to live in politically but one where connection and respect for the land can help in a small way to trump (no pun intended!) some prejudice…
    So this is a long round about way of saying that I have felt, in every place that I have lived, plant intelligence invitation. Robin Wall Kimmerer: “Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”

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  4. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    so much to consider here … once again thinking about “agency” … defined by m-w.com as the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power …. and also as a person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved … a person OR thing … plants … the very earth itself
    and I think I will check out Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire … I’m not sure if I ever read it or just read of it … but it seems like it might shed some light on these musings

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  5. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    Sometimes when I read your posts, I feel such exaltation I have no comment. But then I try to comment anyway, just so you know!

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  6. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    If I remember right Botany of Desire gets into some of this. I was thinking of Michael Pollan as I read Grace’s words too.

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  7. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Community…it happens on many levels.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Years ago my mom gave me a book The Findhorn Gargen .. a book a still treasure as it brought to such an understanding of who she was and what she so desperately believed in. This conversation has been wonderful in bringing back wonderful memories of my mom.

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  9. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    Gosh I do so love this community, human and other. This is important work, important discussion. Thank you all.

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  10. dee Avatar
    dee

    I have The Findhorn Garden. Wanted to go so badly at one point in my life. A full post. This idea of land imagining us will stay with me. Meanwhile, I am mid-nest making to prepare for leaf blower season. So very very different. I’m making a nook in my basement where I will be able to sit and read when the law breaking yard crews make their rounds. Im already dreading it. Hardly elation or the apple blossoms of delight.

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  11. maria Avatar
    maria

    Marti so it is , pay attention and communicathe with the place we life ;
    they have so match to say thanks for

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  12. maria Avatar
    maria

    o .. in my had i made the trip to Findhorn , it was the first time i heard/wread about that world , that way to go on with the plants and deva’s and more ….

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  13. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    Your posts almost always make me think and look up people and books and spend way more time than my comments would indicate.
    “Perhaps the land imagines us” reminded me of my mom. She hated sewing, but otherwise I think she would have fit in with many ragmates. She appreciated needlework, she painted, she gardened and she definitely would have liked this discussion.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i receive
    your Sunday Hug

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…what cannot quite be explained…the elation. I
    open to This.
    Thank you for adding to all this..your own apreture…OPEN
    aperture of Heart/Mind Thank you.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i remember Tennessee. It is your Gift, marti, that
    you joyFULLy Receive. Always.
    Thank you for this Telling

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    his recent On Being. and he has recently begun exploring
    psychotropic plants.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    CatherinE…to me this means you are comfortable here…
    like we are just all of us together, it’s good. I was
    so happy when you began coming…i “knew” you already from
    your comments on Spirit Cloth…
    Thank You for YOU

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it is natural

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    …Tina’s Mom…maybe she is here.
    and yes. Findhorn. Maybe that was my earliest introduction to this experience of living…except for my childhood at
    the creek.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Beth…to explore with an OPEN Heart…not knowing….
    sensing am so glad you are here…hello now or soon to
    your Peepers

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i wish i had magic to clog the blowers. Your back yard
    is so BeautyFULL
    Could you Organize a NO BLOW day, or days on your block
    so people could experience what it is like? to sit in their lovely yards with the birds?

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    I think about this…from now. it is some different.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    so…Tina’s mom, yours. Maybe they DO sit near…watching
    from what they know now.

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  25. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    My noisy neighbor across the street used his big leaf blower last weekend -to blow the ice off of his driveway!

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  26. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Findhorn is new to me … and not finding it in our local libraries, I ordered a used copy from abebooks, $7 including shipping … thanks to you and Tina for making me aware of it

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  27. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    a very large new development is going less than a mile away … huge earth-movers that seem to work only in reverse, their beepers ripping the air to shreds day after day after day …

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  28. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    and now I’m remembering the books by Helen and Scott Nearing … reading them in the early 1970s when I was in high school …

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  29. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    Yes, I am comfortable here! This is a wonderful community. It is so rewarding to be involved.

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  30. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    Liz A, my husband and I had both read Living the Good Life when we were young and didn’t know each other. It made a lasting impression on us. We now live near the Nearing’s place at Harborside ME and have visited there. So much to admire!

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  31. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I love knowing this … I’ve put a library hold on Helen Nearing’s Loving and Leaving the Good Life …

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