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. Buhner
shows that the capacity for depth connection and
meaning-filled communication with the living world is
inherent in every human being. It is as natural as
breathing, as the beating of our own hearts, as our own
desire for intimacy and love. We can change how we think
and in so doing begin to address the difficulties of our
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