RE: What Was It That Tree Just Said?
Thank you very much for this very interesting contribution. I have been following this view for some time that all living beings on our planet communicate with each other in their own special way. And why shouldn't it be like this?
Cooperation and competition are in constant flux with each other. Nature and its living beings are neither in a permanent love relationship nor in one of destruction intent and competition. The forces at work have not been researched by us by any means and we will not reach the final conclusion of wisdom, ... is what I think ...
The fact that plants exchange messages with each other as well as other living beings should have always been clear to us, because where there is life, exchange of information is present and necessary.
People get problems with it when they come to the conclusion that they are outside this web and above things, rather than in the middle of it.
We think that we are not worth nourishing ourselves with the gifts of this earth, and that we would destroy the life we take. In doing so, eating is not a vicious killing, but necessary to survive. How disrespectful we proceed is then a question we ask ourselves.
As long as we do not find a meaningful and spiritual way of dealing with the fact that we receive what nourishes us, we will probably feel guilty. I believe that by nature we humans are able and willing to feel grateful. However, the modern civil world has vehemently distracted us from this need and now we lack the orientation and confidence that gratitude is something we can work towards.
Interestingly, it is not that Startrek has integrated this aspect into the series and includes this fascinating web into the plot of the actors and describes something that does not separate but connects the spatial structure? The invisible connection of space, which does not contain nothing, but merely provides the necessary distance to make communication possible. If there were no such spatial distance, then everything would probably collapse into one another and end in a singularity.
This is how I think relationships between people are, where there is a constant pendulum movement between closeness and distance. If we get too close, there are disturbances, if we are too far away from each other, too. ... It seems that there is no one but the I which is able to regulate and create a balance here.
As you probably know it is said, it means that everything is one and that separation is a figment of human senses. In fact, I am of that opinion too ... unfortunately it starts to sound somewhat pathetic.... It cannot really be explained and remains in the realm of the inexplicable. Which should not be further tragic.
The research you mentioned is, on the one hand, further proof of this assumption. I just often wonder how much more scientific evidence we actually need to understand this.
Human curiosity knows no boundaries. And so it probably goes since we climbed from the trees and started to deal with metaphysical or philosophical contents and not only to dedicate our time to the shelter and the intake of food. We have a lot of time to deal with mind and matter and so we also separated these two from each other, creating the illusion of duality.
LOL, apparently infinite. One part of our human connection is that we are such social animals that we really ignore our own inner knowing much of the time and "go along to get along." We take queues from each other about what is real, and filter out everything we were taught growing up is not supposed to be real. Yet I think it is intuitive for a child to recognize their connection to all life. They experience connection, are easily delighted, and have a baseline state of love and joy even if they sometimes flow into anger or sadness. Everything else is taught.
:) Yes, apparently infinite.
May I ask where you are located?
Greetings from Hamburg/ Germany
I'm in New Mexico, USA right now.