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The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth

By Stephen Harrod Buhner

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The Lost Language of Plants

A 1997 report from an international body of conservationists listed more than 33,000 endangered plants out of the 275,000 known to exist, and 869 pages of plants becoming extinct due to human interference. Humans cannot be whole beings without the community of other life-forms on the planet. We literally and spiritually cannot exist in a healthy way without them. As James Hillman says in his book, The Soul's Code, "To what does the soul turn that has no therapists to visit? It takes its troubles to the trees, to the riverbank, to an animal companion, on an aimless walk through the city streets, a long watch of the night sky." Humans have communicated with plants through all of our senses for our entire existence - until recently. Scientists merely look at a small portion of this communication, but not the context or the meaning, thus missing the essence of plants. Plant communications are too complex for our linear minds to comprehend. Plants want to communicate with us.

The Iroquois say that, when a person is sick, the plant needed will signal its presence to the person needing it.
Famous scientists Luther Burbank, George Washington Carver and Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock all stated that the plants they studied told them what they wanted to know because the plants knew they were sincere.
Cleve Baker noted this from the opposite perspective; he hooked up a lie detector to plants and found out that they knew he intended to hurt them before he acted!

Caring and heart connection to Earth is needed in all humans, no matter what age. In order for children to learn this, it has to be modeled for them by their elders and teachers. Following are brief overviews of exercises used to reawaken biophilia (love of nature/life) in people of all ages. 1. Go to one of the suggested places (refer to list following). While observing the overall environment as well as specific aspects of it, take note of your feelings, not your sensory feelings but those a level below them. How do the different aspects make you feel? How do different parts of your body react to these specific items? Write down your feelings. Suggested places: a neighborhood and its stores, a coffeehouse and its patrons, a natural area and its residents, particularly plants. 2. Sit in a quiet place alone. Allow a child version of you to appear. Talk with it and learn from it. Repeat this with a child-self of other ages. Another time, take your child-self with you to some of the places mentioned earlier and find out how your child feels about them.

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