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Quantum Elemental Herbalism

Meditation / Nature

Quantum Elemental Herbalism

A new—or very ancient—way for plants to share their medicinal gifts. Moving beyond extraction and utility towards sensitivity and connection, where relationship with the other being comes first…

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The Call to Reconnect

Meditation / Nature

The Call to Reconnect

Whales that sing, trees that speak, bees that dance, birds that make art, fish that navigate, plants that learn and remember. We are surrounded by intelligences different from our own…

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Reconnecting with Nature

Meditation

Reconnecting with Nature

Reconnecting with Nature expands our consciousness and our understanding of reality. It is only a doorway. #espiralika #plantcommunication #meditation #consciousness #reconnectingwithnature

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Plantañol

Nature

Plantañol

Speaking Plantañol also brings mental agility, confidence and awareness, and enriches memory and decision-making… among its other gifts. Contact @espiralika for details. #plantcommunication #meditation #plantañol #espiralika

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The Rose of the Cosmic Heart

Art / Meditation / Nature

The Rose of the Cosmic Heart

The rose of the cosmic heart radiates luminosity from its centre. It calls us to release what is outdated or disharmonious and expand our light, with roots firmly in the earth and a vibrant heart…

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Tips for Connecting with Plants

Exploration

Tips for Connecting with Plants

Once, communicating with plants was ordinary; we lived in closer connection and harmony with everything. When we change our paradigms, we change our realities. Reconnecting with Nature—and recognising ourselves within her—contributes to…

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Ariel’s Laboratory

Art / Science / Nature

Ariel’s Laboratory

A four-metre quartz cylinder, percussion-playing metal spiders, and a beautiful lute made especially for plants to play are some of the wonders I encountered in Ariel Guzik’s laboratory…

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Messages from Plants

Nature

Messages from Plants

Plants share messages in many ways: songs, geometries, still and moving images, sensations, scents, sounds and phrases. Once they showed me planetary alignments and ancient engravings I could not interpret…

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Chilli, Aloe and Comfrey

Nature

Chilli, Aloe and Comfrey

Nature’s loving embrace unfolds at every moment. She is present and available, eager to share herself and accompany us towards a fuller recognition of who we are…

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Listening to Nature with the Heart…

Meditation

Listening to Nature with the Heart…

Listening with the heart allows us to enter subtler realities, always present but often unnoticed because we are conditioned towards material perception. As we reconnect with Nature, we begin to…

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Meditation, Quantum Vacuum and New Realities

Meditation

Meditation, Quantum Vacuum and New Realities

For thousands of years, we lived within patterns of scarcity and struggle, learning to see almost everything through fear. Looking back at recorded history, we can recognise great episodes of war, hardship and violence…

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From Duality to Neutrality

Meditation

From Duality to Neutrality

It is said that in the beginning everything was—and is—united in an absolute source, in full consciousness and unity. To experience itself, this source begins to unfold and become fractal, reaching denser dimensions…

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Rosemary

Meditation

Rosemary

After a friend told me he felt an affinity with Rosemary, I entered resonance with this beautiful plant’s energy. It showed me a six-pointed star and suggested that connecting with it could support…

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Ramie (Ramio)

Meditation

Ramie (Ramio)

The other day, Ramie—the plant in the photograph, of the genus Boehmeria—told me it wanted to share its gifts. Its message spoke of connecting with what is elevated and divine within us.

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Should We Wait? I Say Let’s Begin Now.

Science

Should We Wait? I Say Let’s Begin Now.

Many books and scientific papers have explored plants’ abilities; you might look into Stefano Mancuso, a plant neurobiologist at the University of Florence. Experiments such as MIT’s Elowan, a wheeled robot guided by a plant’s signals…

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Rooting

Meditation

Rooting

Several people have asked how to connect more deeply with Nature. There are many ways; for me, rooting is fundamental. When we root ourselves, we attune to the Earth and open our channels of perception…

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www (Wood Wide Web)

Science

www (Wood Wide Web)

Trees are connected through complex relationships between their roots and certain fungi with which they live in symbiosis. Through these relationships they share nutrients, care for one another and communicate…

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Bamboo

Meditation

Bamboo

Online and in books, bamboo is associated with energetic and spiritual qualities. Today it shared this with me: ‘I help untangle knots and tangles, bringing harmony to what is stagnant with light, golden energy.’

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Orayu

Meditation

Orayu

I dreamed of a flower similar to passionflower, but with much broader petals, each embraced by a thick sepal. I had the impression it was not a variety that exists on Earth, at least today…

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ORYNGHAM

Science

ORYNGHAM

In the language of plants, Oryngham means ‘thank you for listening’. It is not a word as humans understand words: its meaning cannot be spoken or heard, but it can be experienced through the body…

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Wind

Meditation

Wind

The wind carries information about you and your surroundings. It is one of the ways we come to know you.

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Learning Quantum Mechanics from Plants

Science

Learning Quantum Mechanics from Plants

Plants, experts in photosynthesis—absorbing photons and converting them into energy—also know about quantum mechanics. To achieve their efficiency, they work with the principle of superposition…

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Monster…a

Meditation

Monster…a

A little botanical joke for the season. A T-shirt I saw at Plant Parents Store inspired me to connect with Monstera. It shared the image of a tiger relaxing and playing in the vastness of night…

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Collaborating with the Forest

Exploration

Collaborating with the Forest

In the forest of Valle de Bravo, a tree with a young, tender energy told me there were elemental beings trapped in a kind of ‘mud’ beneath the ground. Something that happened 20 years earlier had set it in motion…

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Connecting with Your Inner Map

Meditation

Connecting with Your Inner Map

‘Angel’s Trumpet, the other day you told me you could guide me along rough paths, or when I did not know which way to go.’ ‘When the path seems to end, I can help you connect with your inner map…’

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Where Will This ‘Madness’ Take Us?

Meditation

Where Will This ‘Madness’ Take Us?

Plants offer not only food, oxygen, well-being, textiles, wood and fuel, and beauty for our surroundings… they also communicate with us, offering messages and revelations unique to each relationship…

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Pear Tree

Meditation

Pear Tree

Today, talking with you, Pear Tree, I sensed the energy of birds: condor, pelican, eagle. I saw a nest with a lotus flower at its centre, a safe place to incubate as we take our next step…

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Rewilding Exploration

Meditation

Rewilding Exploration

Books like this are treasures for those of us who feel the need to rewild exploration, make room for different ways of perceiving, and interact with ourselves and our surroundings more freely…

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Tourmaline

Meditation

Tourmaline

In mid-June, I received a message about a reconciliation between the shamanic nation of wolves in America and elephants in Africa. I offered support, and was told it would be resolved when I found a tourmaline…

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