Many years ago I went through a period of about 3 weeks of what one would call a satori experience.
During this time I had many siddhis (spiritual powers) among which was the ability to communicate with other life forms, including trees.
Once you know, you can't un-know. Though I didn't have any scientific explanation for my experience, that didn't stop me from knowing ever since that trees are self-aware. In fact, in my experience trees are just as self-aware as mammals and sometimes more intelligent. (They just can't run away screaming when we go to chop at them.)
Thankfully there is getting to be more and more research supporting the experience I had with scientific evidence. Here's an excerpt from one such article
Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery: trees talk, communicating often and over vast distances. Trees are much more like us humans that you may think. They are extremely social and depend on each other for their survival. Communication is vital, and a massive web of hair-like mushroom roots transmit secret messages between trees, triggering them to share nutrients and water with those in need.
You might wonder how this could even be physically possible. Turns out Star Trek Discovery's spore drive is at least partly based in science.
Trees converse by chemical and hormonal signals via a network of mycelium.
I won't repeat the entire article here, but if the above intrigues you I encourage you to give the full article a read. It's not that long, but is packed with the information we all need to become more responsible stewards of this beautiful, magical planet of ours.
One thing it includes is advice on how to get wood from forests in the least harmful way, as well as clearing forests to prevent wildfires when we aren't allowing natural periodic fires due to humans living nearby.
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.
This is actually scary to consider as could you imagine what they think about us? Reminds me of some horror movie from the past where nature seeks to get back what is theirs!
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LOL thankfully they are really loving. Some species have that signature more strongly than others in a way we'd identify as "love" but they are all wise enough to see their connection to all life, including us.
This writing is very interesting, I am intrigued to know how trees are managed to communicate, I have seen forests that really amaze for the greatness of their trees and, how close they are, but never, I had heard that they communicated .. I will try to investigate more about about the topic.
This is actually just one of many studies I've come across that seek to explain it. If the subject really intrigues you, take a look at the book "The Secret Life of Plants." It's decades old, but people are still not including this information as "common knowledge" yet.
Do you mind sharing what triggered your satori experience? Maybe a post? I love how "science" is playing catch up to what we already know. Seems to be occurring more frequently these days.
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I wrote a post about it a few weeks back. Basically I've had a number of such experiences spontaneously that lasted between hours and days, but this one was almost a month and much stronger. It came about from touching the shoe of an "enlightened master" about 12 years after he died.
If the trees provide us with oxygen, food, and life, who can say that they can not communicate with each other? It is an interesting theory, it is a question of reviewing the studies that have been done on the subject, to have knowledge of how they do it.
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