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Plant intelligence and the imaginal realm, beyond the doors of perception into the dreaming earth, Stephen Harrod Buhner

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-556) and index

index present

non fiction

Plant intelligence and the imaginal realm

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Stephen Harrod Buhner

beyond the doors of perception into the dreaming earth

In Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals that all life forms on Earth possess intelligence, language, a sense of I and not I, and the capacity to dream. He shows that by consciously opening the doors of perception, we can reconnect with the living intelligences in Nature as kindred beings, become again wild scientists, nondomesticated explorers of a Gaian world just as Goethe, Barbara McClintock, James Lovelock, and others have done. For as Einstein commented, "We cannot solve the problems facing us by using the same kind of thinking that created them." Buhner explains how to use analogical thinking and imaginal perception to directly experience the inherent meanings that flow through the world, that are expressed from each living form that surrounds us, and to directly initiate communication in return. He delves deeply into the ecological function of invasive plants, bacterial resistance to antibiotics, psychotropic plants and fungi, and, most importantly, the human species itself. He shows that human beings are not a plague on the planet, they have a specific ecological function as important to Gaia as that of plants and bacteria

Machine generated contents note: FIRST MOVEMENT TOUCHING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD -- Prelude The Soft Flutter of Butterflies -- 1.Reclaiming the Invisible -- 2."The Doors of Perception" -- 3."And the Doorkeeper Obeys When Spoken To" -- 4."Everything Is Intelligent" -- 5.We Want Braaaaains -- 6.Gaia and "the Pattern That Connects" -- 7."Molecular Veriditas" -- 8.The Function of Psychotropics in the Ecosystem -- 9.Inextricable Intertangling -- SECOND MOVEMENT GAIA's MIND AND THE DREAMING OF EARTH -- 10."A Certain Adjustment of Consciousness" -- 11.The Sea of Meaning -- 12.Following Golden Threads -- 13.The Naturalist's Approach The Beginnings of Deep Earth Perception -- 14.The Imaginal World -- 15.The Dreaming of Earth -- 16.Reemergence into Classical Newtonian Space -- BRIDGE BIFURCATION -- 17.The Ecological Function of the Human Species -- 18."The Road Not Taken" -- 19.Becoming Barbarian -- CODA A DIFFERENT KIND OF THINKINGNote continued: Epilogue To See The Shimmer Of Infinity In The Face Of The Other -- Diminuendo Al Niente The Movement Of Great Things