#buhner

[vivitequiere]

Aesthesis

[geopsych]

There is a continuous flow of interactive communications in ecosystems, each tiny part a response to the ever-living, never-stopping, always-flowing communications that are coming from all the tightly coupled members of that ecosystem and the environment in which it all is embedded. There is a language in the world, much older than our own...

Stephen Harrod Buhner, in Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of the Earth.

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[geopsych]

After you have done the work, after that burst of understanding comes, you have a jewel visible only to others who have gone this way before you, a jewel of great cost. That jewel contains a deep truth given to you from the heart of the world, one intended to bring you into yourself. ... In this way of being you ultimately find yourself, a truth that comes from the depth of the world that is meant for you, the companionship of ensouled beings that are true and loving and deep, and a journey that all ecstatic humans have taken since humans have been. It is our birthright to engage in this mode of cognition, and there is no human being who cannot do it. For it is essential to our natures, encoded within us as human beings.

Stephen Harrod Buhner, from The Secret Teachings of Plants in the Direct Perception of Nature.

[geopsych]

For when we enter the wildness of the world, begin perceiving with the heart, reading the text of the world, an energy from the world flows deep inside us.

Stephen Buhner, from The Secret Teachings of Plants.

[geopsych]

All indigenous peoples gathered their knowledge of plant medicines in this way, directly from the heart of the world, from the soul of the plants. All said they could talk to plants, that plants could talk to them, that the plants told them about their uses as medicines. This manner of perception, of diagnosis and healing, is the most ancient humans have known.

Stephen Harrod Buhner, from The Secret Teachings of Plants.

[geopsych]

There is tremendous hubris--and dangerous environmental perturbations--in disregarding the wisdom of the ancestors who have gone before us, people who said that they learned about the world not from the ability of their minds to work as analytical, organic computers, but from their hearts as organs of perception.

Stephen Harrod Buhner, from The Secret Teachings of Plants.

[geopsych]

Everything has a hidden face. Hidden, not in the sense that it is intentionally concealed, but in that it can only be seen with different eyes than the physical. A different mode of perception must be used. The hidden face of Nature can only be seen with the heart. ... Everything we encounter in the wildness of the world gives off its own electromagnetic pulse of communication. These waveforms are filled with meanings, living communications that touch us and that we experience as feelings.

Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants.