Plants Speak with Us

On my walk home the other evening I noticed this notice outside a florist near Ebisu. It made me stop, take this picture, and think about what it said.
I tend to think that flowers and plants share aspects of Mind, and that we should try to talk with them. The various plants at home have names.
There was a German experimental psychologist called Gustav Theodor Fechner who wrote a book called Nanna in 1848 (translates roughly as soul-life of plants). Fechner posited that plants contain a central nervous system like us and that we should talk with plants.

In 1970, George Milstein released an album called 'Music to Grow Plants' (ESC Records #121). It has a wonderful cover.
Not to mention the profound historical relationships we have made through plants with a panoply of sacred visions and imaginings. Entheogen is the term used to describe the use of plants in sacred contexts.

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