Plant Communication
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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Science is starting to believe that we must learn to communicate with plants. The Secret Life Of Plants (1973) quotes a Russian Chertkov, is his article, “What Leaves Tell Us,” as saying, “Plants Talk...yes, they scream.” Further, he writes about an experiment, “Before my eyes a barley sprout literally cried out when its roots were plunged into hot water.” It seems that plants have feelings just as humans and animals do. He found this out by attaching electrodes to the plants and measuring the electrical output as various experiments were performed. There are definite responses from the plants as events happened. At times when nothing was happening, the electrical impulses were slow, normal and steady.
The more science researches the lives of plants the more it is sure that a life force is there that we have yet to completely understand. However, it seems that the experimenters that are written about in The Secret Life Of Plants (1973) become intimately involved with their plants. Vogel is even reported as comparing his relationship and the reactions of the plants as being similar to the reactions of two lovers. It is also suggested that people would feel better and understand more if they connected to plants in this way and developed a relationship with plants. We all know that houseplants that are “talked to” by their caregivers thrive more than those that are not!
A German poet named Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was criticized in his time because he tried to combine the ideas of science and poetry. His words are printed in The Secret Life Of Plants (1973). His views are shown in this passage, “All plants are thus seen as specific manifestations of the archetypal plant which controls the entire plant kingdom and gives the value to nature’s artistry in creating forms. It is in ceaseless play within the world of plant form, capable of moving backwards and forwards, up and down, in and out, through the scale of forms.” Later in life his idea of an archetypal plant expanded to viewing the entire earth as an archetypal deity. He wrote about the earth as an organism who breathes. He connected the breath of the Earth to the mystery of gravitational pulls. He writes about how the earth inhales and draws water into the sky which condenses into clouds and rains, and then the earth exhales, allowing the water to dissipate into the outermost regions of the atmosphere and space.
Also in Germany, a professor named Gustav Theodor Fecher developed an idea of plants having a life and a soul. He continued to say that plants must also have some sort of nervous system that he thought may even be more sensitive than that of a human’s. He also wrote about the way flowers might communicate with their perfumes. Plant communication was also explored by an agricultural chemist George Washington Carver who was called the “Wizard of Tuskegee” in The Secret Life Of Plants (1973) because he seemed to perform miracles in agriculture by making land, which could not produce crops anymore, to grow crops again. Though most of his secrets were simply natural fertilizers and crop rotation, he said, “All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.” Also he said, “Nature is the greatest teacher...” and “The secrets are in the plants. To elicit them you have to love them enough.”
There are many scientists who have experimented with the ability of plants and animals to be alchemists within their bodies. In The Secret Life Of Plants (1973) there are many scientists, professors, and experiments written about on this subject, such as Pierre Baranger who was a professor and had an organic chemistry laboratory. Baranger performed many experiments and came to the conclusion that “plants know the old secret of the alchemists” and “plants can transmute elements.” In more recent times, scientists have done research on the microorganisms in the guts of termites. They concluded that these microorganisms change the methane inside the termites and turn it into nutrients that the termites can use rather than releasing methane the way cows do.