When I was a little girl there was no absolutely no peace in my home. So I would often hide outside, squatting among the bushes along the side of the house to regain my calm and my strength. I can still see the lush green leaves overhead, and little red twisting blooms of the Turks caps, and smell the honeysuckle nearby. As I snuggled there, the plants healed me of the pain I had absorbed . I might have been about two-and-a-half-years-old when I fist began going into nature to seek refuge and healing.
Ever since, I have had a lifelong love affair with plants. They are my friends; I commune silently with them. There is a certain pine tree in Memorial Park, here in Houston, that has a thing or two to say about dogs chasing squirrels. (The plants find domesticated animals chasing wild animals quite disruptive and unfair.) In my healing room at work I have a very talkative jade plant. Recently, just out of curiosity, I asked for confirmation that it is all right to toss "negative" energy onto plants, something I had heard years ago in a magnetic healing class. The jade plant and the giant pecan tree out back agree. They can transmute that energy. Just like they feed on the carbon-dioxide that we exhale and transmute it into oxygen, they can transmute our pain and fear and anger into peace and love and tranquility. Apparently there are scientists who think similarly regarding plant awareness.
Cleve Baxter, inventor of the polygraph machine, has a new book out called, "Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods and Human Cells." In it he furthers his earlier scientific investigations which prove that plants are sentient, in fact this is how the polygraph was actually invented, first by testing plant reactions. One early experiment involved a group of police officers. An officer was instructed to murder a schefflera plant with only another such plant as witness. The surviving plant was hooked up to a lie detector machine and a line of police officers walked by it one at a time. Its reaction to the officer who killed the other schefflera was dramatically different than to the other officers. Another example: once while alone in the lab in 1966 with the machine hooked to a plant Baxter thought, "I am going to burn that leaf," and when he visualized that, the machine went off the charts. The plant had read his mind.
Last year I learned something new about plants while taking an advanced class in BodyTalk System, (a system of energy medicine for humans, based in quantum physics, which uses muscle testing to communicate with the innate wisdom of the body.) Because they cannot move about, plants have had to develop other ways of interacting with their environment. Plants long ago became very psychic, and they can send energy tentacles out to interact: to love, heal or reach out in less gentle ways. Think about this the next time you decide to twist off that extra branch rather than clipping it cleanly. If you were having an amputation, which method would you prefer?
Here is an example of a plant interaction from my healing practice. A regular client came to me with a sudden, unexplained, pain in her neck and shoulder. While doing BodyTalk, using the advanced protocol, I came upon a vine type of plant which was angry with her. I asked her if she had done anything to a vine. She had indeed. It was summertime, and she had separated a potted mandevilla vine, at her beach house, from another plant just like it. She took one home to her house in Houston, to give it some rest in the shade, because it was not doing well. This plant had apparently sent out a tentacle and pinched her because it did not like being separated from the other mandevilla plant. I dissolved the tentacle. She went home and apologized to the plant for moving it, took it back to the beach, and placed both of them in the shade under the beach house. Within 24 hours, her neck and shoulder were back to normal. If this upsets some people, they might need to remember that an! imal pets can bite or scratch when they get upset, too. It is the same kind of behavior.
This is only one plant story, and I have more. There are other stories out there, too, and further scientific investigations into consciousness within "objects" we once considered "inanimate." Learning all about them and our living earth is part of becoming fully awakened ourselves.
