Jesse Cornplanter commented on the Iroquois philosophy of Muskrat Root also Known as Water Hemlock,

“The old people say that Muskrat Root is like any other herbal medicine you want. When you want it, it stands up where it grows calling to you. That is why it is easy to find a medicine you seek.” [1]

In this case, interestingly it is those who want to die that is being referred to here, as this plant is highly toxic and just little bits will kill. It is recognized by the tribe as a plant with this aim only, and for this particular species, they may argue with the idea that all things are both healing and toxic, and that this difference is keyed by the dose. This teaching, that comes from many of life’s experiences, contains the message that intention is very important.

Really knowing plants, and food items is to clear your stomach on a one day fast. Go ahead and clear the mind while you are at it. Stand with the plant, talk to the plant, treat the plant(s) as if it is a member of your family. Bring it water, play music for it, talk with it, and protect it from the bad guys. This plant likes you so much it will let you pee on it, do that urea is a main ingredient in commercial and home fertilizers and many medications for us, nitrogen. A breathing mantra practice for yourself there in front of it wouldn’t hurt. Remember this biology in front of you in your bio-dependence, it like you are breathing with it. I know this all sounds a little hippy-dippy but stay with me, it’s pretty scientific actually. The love and appreciation of plants can be earned, and if so the plant will communicate a new level of truths to a body able to receive them.

The Nutritional Diversity diet concept is focused mostly on edible plants largely, although arguably, all plants are edible considering a proper dose is known for it. On your clear stomach, now having spent time clearing that stomach with the plant, or Nutritional Diversity of plants; eat one plant by itself at a time over the next course of days so that your body and mind can meet each plant in your Nutritional Diversity individually and so your body has a chance to get to know, recognize and appreciate that plant on a one on one basis.

After doing this you will be rightfully hungry with a dynamic choice of what next to do. “Should I go ketogenic?” It is one likely response in modern diet culture people. “Should I fast again and really put my metabolic engine to self-cleaning mode on my system?” Many studies say yes. “Let us get some red meat going in this monster animal of a human system I have here!” will be some practitioner’s anthem. Many others will go back to the high school wrestlers main dish of chicken fish and rice, which was a pretty functional personal favorite of mine for a long, long time. Vegan’s and vegetarians have a hearty standpoint and using the narrow grocery store supply they have a well-studied regimen. For the most part, I must say to leave all of this information in the background, as none of these diets have anything real to do with knowing your food, or the nature you come from.

I would recommend that the practitioner use this moment of fasting and hunger as an opportunity for discipline building. Push yourself to see how long you can take it for. This time in discipline formation, will be spent by your body releasing ketones, that start burning off fat as running fuel, and this will also help NDer’s getting into the ketogenic diet which most humans do not have an operational mechanism for right away, at least not in a sustainable fashion. I myself get the idea mostly that while ketogenic release is a healing mode, it’s not necessary to be a constant continuous mode, and there are even risks associated with overplaying the technique. Diverse functionality, and what I call dynamic metabolic dexterity to remain my goals in nutritional planning. Eating and fasting alike can be more dynamic processes than simply chewing and swallowing things or abstaining from doing so for a time.

Keep in the back of your mind throughout this getting to know your ND process that certain plants and food items have both helping and inhibiting elements to them. As Nutritional Diversifist’s we are looking to come to know what plants work well together and what plants cancel each other’s essences out of play. As a Nutritional Diversity community, we cannot at this time answer the question, “If they grow well together do they, consumer, well together?” In the case of the most functional and well-covered attack team of specie, turmeric root, and black pepper, for this to be true there would need to be a third and maybe even more plants to the equation being that, the black pepper vine, would rather grow on another structure type than the small hedge green leaf of the turmeric root, or even it’s cousin ginger.

Through this very practice, most users begin to develop an appreciation with nature in general and lose the hard heart it takes to throw seeds in garbage bags while preparing their food. They may find themselves picking up trash when they see it in nature, they may have done this before but now it is with a new attitude. To see proposals to cut down thousands of tree’s for whatever purpose may come up on the job, and the once well-acclaimed pro now has emotional problems making the big new road. He may, later on, become one of the “funny,” or “crazy men” we see running around picking leaves and having long beards, no longer at all invested in their outer appearance.

Prepare yourself. To get to know nature, in a deeply personal way, according to my suggestions, is an extreme thing. Any of us familiar with Sean Penn’s movie “Into the Wild,” based on the book, and story of Christopher Mcandles’s early 1990’s adventures into the wild eventually dying on his last a deepest trip from starvation and toxic plant consumption of a look-a-like to something in one of his books. If he had used a different method of plant identification and better planning, he could have met different ends. Also, if he had been consuming a full range Nutritional Diversity Diet, he likely would have been just fine consuming the toxic plant.

To really know a plant, is to grow a plant, so get out there and do that.

Without the 25 million square miles of leaf, humans, and livestock we don’t eat and we don’t breathe. If used correctly it is plant essences at the base of all healing and providing for every need of the human and the animal.

“All life is brought through the sweetness of photosynthesis,” as so eloquently put by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, in the book “The Secret Life of Plants.” This book was a fundamental metaphysical science concept underpinning the peace revolution movement of the 1960’s that no one has heard of today, not even many young permaculturists. It contains experiments and data that have become vital and fundamental knowledge in my own progression in the diet.

I have two old schoolers I picked out to love here in Panama as they are both wizards in their own right, highly intelligent beings who tell me things for my benefit, not for theirs. One is named Bruce, and the other is named Lee and they are both “Masters Bruce” and “Master Lee” to you. Black belts of life you can see them as. Thanks to Masta Lee for this piece of the puzzle.

Agriculture for most, and for most of the time determined the wealth of the nation or state. Uphof did a six hundred and some page “Dictionary of Economic Plants,” which has remained a good reference on the subject of plant economics.

Carl von Linne, the grandfather of modern botany declared that plants only differentiate from other species in movement, or lack of. Charles Darwin smacked that down when he proved each tendril could move independently, later citing the observation that only when it is of great advantage to them, they will display the movement which is so slow that most will not notice.

Cleve Backster a 1966 expert lie-detector examiner, and teacher to the world of polygraph examiners around the U.S., and the world, one day in sheer curiosity hooked the machine up, to small palm in the office chosen by his secretary, happening to be a very sacred, but popular house plant known as the Dracaena. The plant secrets a sap is known to the homeopathic world as “dragons blood,” and many homeopaths claim it is a miracle. The red sap with medicinal properties goes for about eight dollars for half an ounce worth.

Long story short, Backster discovered that the plant knew when he was a threat to it, and knew when he was faking threat to it. Under real intention of damaging the plant just before actually doing it, he was able to create electronic surges in his machine concluding the plant knew he was going to attack it and released a response. This is now a  term in botany called the “Backster Effect” and it refers to the recognition that plants have a very perceptive intelligence, and the likely communicate with these very electric pulses to other plants.

2013 research from the University of California, Davis showed that couples in love did not only skip a beat when seeing each other, but their hearts and respiration cycles would also synchronize with one another. Being in love releases healthy young hormones. That’s why a newly fallen-love person appears to be glowing. Fall in love with things, and really mean it is a lesson here. Fall in love with your plants and really mean it. Get to know them. Get to grow them, and get a specific blessing just for you from the highest and longest-living biologically connected intellect in return.

Lew Childre, Jr., did some interesting research like this which he called ‘tapping into coherence,’ which he described as a sort of personal fluency or attention to being calm and happy at all costs, and inner peace of mind in which people are able to synchronize themselves and their heart rhythms with a worldwide happy, healthy frequency.

Today his Heart Math Institute has focused on stress management techniques and identified life stressor s and the permitted effectiveness on us that they have to be a leading cause of illness both physical and mental.

Dr. Ricky who introduced me to Ozone therapy a powerful tool, one of the more powerful tools in the ND toolbox, also practiced a physical form of tapping specific body parts and areas as reset medicine to the overall system. It involved tail bone and some uncomfortable taps at the beginning as a protocol of access like the starting protocol in hypnotics, followed by anatomic location taping to tell the body where next to access and then other taps to try and program a solution. There is so much about healing physiology packed in the Wizard-of-Oz-like tropical adventure that I had to skip this one.

Professor Backster continued his research, living out his day with various plants connected to the galvanometer, when the making of his breakfast started triggering a response in one of the plants, as he cracked his eggs open; accidentally finding out that an unhatched egg, which he eventually hooked up to his galvanometer had a faint impulse at 160 to 180 beats per minute, matching the heart rhythm of a one to four day old chick.

New Jersey cytologist Dr. Miller concluded that some sort of “cellular consciousness” must be common to all life.

Backster eventually found that across all living things near to the local, there is a reaction to dying tissue, and intentional murder of the living thing, realized from real examples such as small as mixing a jam preservative into a pure recently made yogurt that was killing some of the micro-bacteria in the yogurt.

Marcel Vogel, an expert in luminescence picked up the study and in the interesting realization of quantum physics’s role in the newly discovered dynamic ability, determined that one plant reacted to the pain of another plant more so when Vogul was paying attention to it. Little did he know at that time, that his journey would eventually theorize that plant’s were able to read minds; not just intentions, but attentions which increased the response level.

I see some level of this in my dogs.

Vogul an also expert interest in Native American knowledge and culture, said that the American Indians knew very well about these facilities and would go into nature, putting their back against the pine trees to rejuvenate themselves with the tree’s power.

Finally Vogul demonstrated to the producers of a TV show called “You Asked For It,” the plants abilities to read his mind and emotions, their minds, and emotions and then showed how they can attune back to nature. Mythbusters and various comic experiments for show ratings have duplicated similar results, very easy to duplicate but curiously are completely ignored by mainstream science?

Furthermore Vogul felt that there was realm of essence we could not detect, with out organs or with our science, based on the new scientific discovery – that held a instant form of intelligent communication all it’s own.

Other scientific expressions of this modality also imagine this example as the innate and perception of certain dogs, who can tune into a persons intentions, character, spiritual consistency or fears. Also of certain ants and other biological creatures. It is a realm of perception we are yet to experience.

Another lack of experience that maybe, that we believe to be attributed to do lack of sufficient diversity, lack of adequate gut culture to interpret.

Mr. Vogul was able to determine this, by exhalation strongly, from first one foot away to later one hundred feet away, achieving the same response in the plant. At 100 feet away it became very clear that there was some other force of energy or communication with the plant that doubles with reperation. Vogul theorizes that possibly with a concentrated thought made while holding the breath in, could make the communication more specific and complete.

After tons of experiments Backster went on to form elaborated theories such as that plants and maybe certain animals, wish to be eaten, and assimilated into life forms but only under a communicative relation like that of a kosher ceremony or something akin to the Christian rite of Communion, or the Ancient Asian self-donation of self to nature at old age.

He observed that the plants would give a calm if not no response when this type of communication happened between Backster, others and the plants hooked up to the meters. He continued to favor the Dragon plant for many tests, and realized that mindless brutal slaughter of living specie did provoke a very emotional reaction from her, a reaction unseen when a self-made ritual of thanks and honor would be performed.

Another plant’s ability of physical perception can be easily tested by any Gardner and that is when they plant a vine, near to a pole or stem. Any observer will notice the vine crawl ever so slowly towards the pole over a few days. Then just before the vine reaches that pole, move the pole and notice the vine also changes its direction to find the newly placed pole.

The conflict of interest could be another pole near to the example. But the results of the test of moving the pole with the conflict will also produce an important result for the observing gardener. You will have to do it to get this level, as it is too hard for me to describe in a fullness. Most “next-level” things our current modern culture is unable to grapple with are like this.

I keep harping away in this region of thought because you basically need to accept that much of your optimal nutritional and performance experience will be far outside of the English language and should remain this way.

I pose the question and idea that the plant can speak to birds and birds can deliver their seed for them to certain nearby or worldwide locations as we have seen happen to many species.

Human is the only things that live outside of nature, that have lost the message, the way and has followed his ego rather than nature thinking that he is nature, and that nature is him – which is also a dynamic truth. It is the basis for quantum physics. What is a divine access point should not become an extremely dominant lifestyle point, but a balanced focus that contains the vast diversity of dynamics included in its considerations.

Should we regain this dynamic communication, we will no doubt find empowerment at the level we see in the animal residents who have it.

I mean as to take pills, develop chemicals, take those, and building cities and structures where most biology dies or weakens could rationally be somehow the link to our separation?

If so would this type of future development style would be to our benefit or demise? Obviously if this is in fact the case,  that we are lacking something and missing something that all other biology has, that can’t be to our benefit.

It must contribute to our loosing. Certain studies in permaculture have well illustrated that if we live in harmony with nature we can support, many billions more humans, animals, fish and trees.

It seems like I have started writing really basic stuff here, which is in the fact of really basic error that makes no sense to be featured in a culture that sends rockets to space.

It almost seems as though right now the earth is in communication to try and rebuild itself and utilizing well the few resources we have left her with to maintain a perfect balance of gases and local constituents to save a life in the face of our odd and drastic efforts to kill it.

From me, now having read this information if you believe you can know your plants better, that’s a fun experience. One that I myself am most thankful for.

I definitely is a stupid belief, the city idea itself, the central distribution idea itself, lack of diversity or focus on mono-anything itself, and stupid ignorance regarding diet and nature that has killed the human soul, physiology and potentially dynamic, rich and free life experience.

We could say that the whole result of  the psychedelic experience is the understanding that nature wants to communicate with us.

Terence McKenna

This clip was from our education in permaculture for kids pilot series.

Rerference

1. 1Robbins W. W. J.P Harrington and B. Friere-Marreco. Ethnobotony of the Tewa Indians, Smithsonian Institution: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 55, p.9, 1916
2. The Secret Life of Plants by Tompkins and Christopher Bird 1973, Harper Perennial
3. ucdavis.edu/news/lovers-hearts-beat-sync-uc-davis-study-says/