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Research Reveals Plants Can Think, Choose and Remember

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plantsSayer Ji – Modern science is only beginning to catch up to the wisdom of the ancients: plants possess sentience and a rudimentary form of intelligence.

Plants are far more intelligent and capable than we have given them credit for. In fact, provocative research from 2010 published in Plant Signaling & Behavior proposes that since they cannot escape environmental stresses in the manner of animals, they have developed a “sophisticated, highly responsive and dynamic physiology,” which includes information processes such as “biological quantum computing” and “cellular light memory” which could be described as forms of plant intelligence.

Titled, “Secret life of plants: from memory to intelligence,” the study highlights one particular “super power” of plants indicative of their success as intelligent beings: “There are living trees that germinated long before Jesus Christ was born. What sort of life wisdom evolved in plants to make it possible to survive and propagate for so long a time in the same place they germinated?”

According to the researchers, plants “plants actually work as a biological quantum computing device that is capable to process quantum information encrypted in light intensity and in its energy.” This information processing includes a mechanism for processing memorized information. For example: “Plants can store and use information from the spectral composition of light for several days or more to anticipate changes that might appear in the near future in the environment, for example, for anticipation of pathogen attack.”

According to the study, “plants can actually think and remember.” Continue reading →

I am a Saturn Survivor…

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saturnHello everyone, if indeed there is anyone still out there after my 2 year silence…my apologies if you were enjoying my scribbling’s and lucky you, if not. 🙂

Well, I am just mopping up after my second Saturn Return which was an experience and a half and then some. But I have Saturn in crisis orientated SCORPIO anyway – so no surprises there.

But I will back up a moment and give a quick recap for any of you that may not be familiar with the ‘famous’ Saturn return or even, for that matter, the planet Saturn.

How about if we strip everything away and just say that SATURN is astro code for the principle of contraction.  Open your hand – that’s Jupiter, close your hand – that is Saturn. That makes Saturn the ‘reality maker’ in each of us. We close or contract our field of energy around a thought/feeling form and make it real to ourselves. That is one of the reasons that Saturn exalts (works most positively) in the sign of Libra. The SCALES can represent legal contracts and closings – we shake hands and say it is now done, it’s real, it will have consequences…

The astronomers have discovered that Saturn is not alone in having rings but Saturn’s rings are certainly the most dense and obvious to the naked eye. But the symbolism is beautiful, eh? The symbol of contraction surrounded by dense rings made up of rock and ice.

Now, I am afraid that I must diverge here for a moment to air a point that I think is missed over and over in these ‘rationed’ times of scientific materialism. What if, when ASTROLOGY was being formulated, the people at the time did not experience the material world the way we do now. What if they understood something completely different about the phenomenal world around us. For a start, they called it phenomena. The word phenomena from the Greek phainomenon means “that which appears or is seen. Continue reading →

Honor Your Survival System

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Image provided by Oregon artist Roxanne Evans Stout – http://rivergardenstudio.typepad.com/

We all created a finely crafted survival system to bury or numb our pain when we were young.  We had to, as it was absolutely necessary for survival.  Life was too scary, and we didn’t have the skills to meet ourselves in our hearts.

Our survival system can include compulsions, such as drug and alcohol abuse, shopping, work, sex, the Internet, busyness, self-judgment, and chronic worry.  I think back on all those years when I shut down my pain with food, drugs and alcohol.  In one year alone, I gained 97 pounds.  I would have died of the pain if I had not numbed myself with food.  My survival system saved my life!

I want to share a beautiful and inspiring quote by Jeff Brown, author of Ascending with Both Feet on the Ground and Love It Forward, that speaks to this:

“Our survival adaptations are so tough, but our wounds are so delicate. To heal, we have to lift the armor carefully – it saved our lives, after all. It’s like moving your best friend off to the side of the path. You don’t trample on her, you don’t hit her with a sledgehammer. You honor her presence like a warm blanket that has kept you safe and sound during wintry times. And then, when the moment is right, you get inside and stitch your wounds with the thread of love, slowly and surely, not rushing to completion, nurturing as you weave, tender and true. The healing process has a heart of its own, moving at its own delicate pace. We are such wondrous weavers …”

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The Best Firewood For Heating

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“All spruce trees spark no end and are not good for open fires.” Granny Spear

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An Ash Tree

We had an awful lot of trees to choose from to burn in the range, and some were far better than others. Well seasoned hardwood was by far the best. We stored it in a huge shed, more like a small barn really. There were a few holes in it, but that didn’t matter, it let the air circulate! Here’s a list of what we used, and what we didn’t:

Ash: One of the best woods for burning. It gives plenty of heat, flames well and even burns reasonably when green.

Beech: Not quite as good as ash. It makes a good fire, but spits out embers.

Birch: A good heat, but a quick burner. Nice smell.

Hazel: Burns well but does spark a little.

Hawthorn: One of the best woods to burn, but not easy to find. It burns slow and hot.

Hornbeam: Similar to beech. Well worthwhile.

Oak: Must be well-seasoned. Very dense, so burns slow and hot and makes a lovely bed of glowing coals. Only real drawback is the amount of ash that it makes.

Sycamore: Flames nicely but heat is not as strong as oak or ash. Very common firewood and good to mix with others. Continue reading →