Mental and emotional awareness of trees and plants ( 3 , biodiversity)

I once stood before a very beautiful beech, pretty sure two hundred years old. I looked admiringly at the beech and said aloud: " Oh what are you a beautiful tree ! " .

I was overcome by a sense of awe and respect and felt suddenly that this was a very powerful being full of wisdom and consciousness. I got a distinct and clearly strong feeling back what I did not expect. I felt at once a oneness with the beech. The beech made me feel she extremely appreciated that I admired her beauty and that this was one of her tasks: to support mankind. I was very impressed. The feeling the beech had given me stayed with me for days : the unity with that wonderful and living consciousness !

And now I found on the Internet this story of Mike Hernandez *

The grove had a beautiful mix of young and old shade trees, and I especially enjoyed walking by them every morning. I’m not very fond of heat (meaning anything over 63 degrees) and the trees provided a cool shade that made me feel good and helped me wake up enough mentally to prepare myself for the day’s work ahead. Little did I know that one of these trees would change my life forever in a very major way. ……..

I noticed that there was a construction crew with a few backhoes working behind a fenced area located in front of the trees………

As I walked down the sidewalk toward the grove of trees, I happened to glance to my left. To my horror, I saw one of the backhoes knocking and whacking the trees with its long arm, apparently in an attempt to knock them down and clear them from the area. I was stunned. I was speechless. I was horrified……..I immediately felt compelled to run to the grove of trees and stand in front of the larger, older tree. I looked straight up into the tree and said, “Oh my god! Why are they doing this? Why are they trying to tear you down? What’s going on here?!” I was just about in tears.

In a voice that was crystal clear and quite audible in my head, the tree said, “Fear not, my son. There’s nothing to worry about. This is the way of the Universe. This is part of our lives. Do not mourn – be happy instead.” “But they’re tearing you down! Why are they doing that? Oh, no!” I said. At that point I wanted to burst out crying. But the elder tree wouldn’t let me! “Do not cry, my son. This is merely part of our lives as death is certainly a part of yours. Rejoice that we are moving on. Be happy for your life. Be happy that the Creator has blessed you. Do not cry, just laugh. Just laugh.” From that point forward, I couldn’t cry regardless of how much I felt like doing so. All I could do was laugh.

Then something occurred to me. I was talking to the tree! I was talking to the tree!

“How is it that I’m talking to you? Why does your voice sound like mine? Am I going crazy? What’s going on here?” Then the tree said, “This is but one of the many hidden gifts you have that is now ready to reveal itself to you. ……….You will speak to many more trees and have a council of trees that will help you in various aspects of your life from this point on. You will hear them in your own voice so that you can understand what they’re saying to you. You will surely know when a tree is speaking to you.” As he said that, I could feel a very specific tingling sensation and motion in my mind and in the middle of my chest. To this day, I know when I’m truly speaking to a tree because I get this same exact feeling. ……….

To say that I couldn’t believe what had just happened to me is a gross understatement. I felt changed. I felt like a different person. Like a truly blessed person. Elder Native Americans say that you can talk to Nature, to animals and to “the winged” ones if you will only open your mind to do so. They are so right. This brings me to mind a quote I read from Walking Buffalo of the Nakoda first nation (circa early 1960’s):

“Do you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk to you, if you will listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never listened to the Indians, and so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to the other voices in nature. But I have learned a lot from trees, sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit.”

So now it’s up to You, My God.

My son, thank you for the kick-off.

Everything on earth has consciousness, how could it be otherwise. But that does not mean that a tree has the feelings of an animal or a human being, or that a nettle experiences as much as a beech. Some nuance is needed.

You and Mike have been in contact with the spiritual counterpart of the tree. The spiritual counterpart is having more mental abilities, of course, than the physical tree. Your spiritual body is having generally spoken more power than your earthly personality. And your soul has more capabilities than your spiritual personality, and your Spark of God and God of course even more. And that’s the end of course.

This will be the message in this blog: man sees the physical appearance of plants and trees, but that's only a small piece of reality. Every plant and tree has a spiritual "colleague" as well, who cherishes and cares and loves the earthly appearance. And this spiritual colleagues are in turn supported and nurtured by the devas or group soul of the concerning plant and animal species.

And it is obvious that a nettle, with all respect for this beautiful plant species, has no brains like an animal, and has no emotional life and developed chakras like man has, but this has to be said:

Everything man does with plants and trees, appreciating, growing, breeding, eating, chopping, trampling or polluting is experienced, and this experience is taking place not only physically but also emotionally and mentally. This is done in close connection between the plant, its spiritual counterpart and the devas of the plant or tree.

And this wonderful, spiritual and God-created connection, by evolution refined, must not be underestimated or neglected by man.

• A tree "experiences" it when man is enjoying him
• A head of lettuce "knows" when it is bred to be eaten.
• A plant "likes"  to be picked when it’s needed for healing.
• A flower lives among other things to be cherished by man for its beauty.
• A flower "is ready" to live a shorter life when she is picked for a vase, because her beauty then will be more appreciated.
• A lawn “loves to get informed” there will be mowing or a bush there will be pruning, see blog http://watchthegod-english.blogspot.nl/2015/08/tell-first-start-pruning-afterwards.html
• Plants "appreciate" it, when they are growing in a vegetable garden with a wide variety of flower and plant species.
• A potato "feels" more limited in growth and prosperity and wholesomeness in a monoculture of potatoes than in a field with other species.
• Plants in a natural garden "are happier" than those living on the edge of a garden full of tiles.

And the quotation marks are deliberately placed to indicate something. Here is just left open where the mental and emotional experience  is happening, at the physical level (plant or tree itself), at the spiritual level (it’s spiritual colleague) or at the world level (the deva). And left open is as well how the interaction is. This is not the topic now. But emotional and mental experiences from plants and trees are the case.

In short, once, like it’s the case in the gardens of Findhorn ** mankind will  deal with the plants and trees around him with a conscious and respectful attitude. But nowadays there is still much disrespect, laziness, carelessness and cruelty. And the consequences of this attitude are poured out among men.

Decreased resistance, depression, diseases, psychiatric disorders even among young children, mental restlessness and anxiety are just some of the consequences.

The plant world is the second powerful realm on earth, has more historic rights above the realm of men, and is not to be trifled with.

Mike Hernandez is blessed.

May you all be blessed

*The Gift of Talking to Trees, Posted on 01/30/2013.

See:  https://mjhernandeztarot.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/the-gift-of-talking-to-trees

**See: https://www.findhorn.org

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Mental and emotional awareness of animals (2, biodiversity)

 

I watch my master walk away. I know he is going to kill me. I have seen him shoot other animals. The energy around his body is heavy, filled with sadness. I live only in the moment, so I do not fret. There is only now, and right now I live.
When he comes back, he is carrying a gun. He is very upset. I wag my tail furiously. I am not afraid, even though I know my death is here, I need to work cattle, not live on a chain. I want to run free, chasing on the heels of huge herds of cattle. A dull thud smashes my head to the ground, an explosion of light, and I am up and running. Free as the wind……..*

Is this an useful quote?

Rest assured, well chosen!

Michael Roads is a gifted medium and is very capable of phrasing the thoughts and feelings of animals.
Still it’s all very idealistic and there is a perception of anthropomorphic projection or a perception on a different level than the earth level, and over there much more is possible of course. So the thought and emotional life of man is too much imposed in this example.

But animals do have brains and a certain mental consciousness, with a certain "thinking."

And animals do have a sense of emotional life and experience a lot more in life and also in dealing with man than one suspects.
People dealing intensively with animals can tell you more about this all. And there are plenty of stories.

Such as:

• A guide dog for the blind sacrificing himself for his blind boss
• A whale slain by man, and knowing that man does wrong here
• A pig in his too small loft, nevertheless blaming the farmer nothing
• A bird in a cage noticing the different feelings of his boss
• A dog who willingly takes the stresses of his boss
• A horse feeling someone is afraid for him.

One recognizes man has a life of thought and feeling.
One recognizes man, thanks to evolution, is coming from the animal world.
Why should animal life not experience some thought and emotional life? Possibly different, less, less developed, less strong.

But every animal has a spiritual counterpart, and every species has a group soul who cherishes and nurtures this species. And these group souls or devas are mighty spiritual beings.

Animals are more open to their spiritual counterpart and to their deva than man with his delusions in the thought and feeling area is standing open for his soul.

That is why animals are knowing a storm or a tsunami will show up.
Therefore, birds find their way back flawlessly.
Therefore even insects are observing a greater whole and listening to it.

So who is mankind to despise the thought and emotional life of animals, to neglect or deny it?
There will surely come a time when mankind will live in a more respectful relationship with the animal world, and will treat seriously the thought and emotional life of animals.
The first signs of it can be observed.

My blessings to you all

From Journey Into Nature, p. 83, Michael Roads

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Mental and emotional awareness of animals and plants (1, biodiversity)

 

I read this newspaper article.

“In the article about cuddling cows (Trouw, December 30, 2015) I recalled my brother. He was a farmer and had a special bond with his cattle. Especially with a cow, which he had held from the age of calfs. If he had not just hugged the cow before milking, the cow put her left leg forward so that my brother could not connect the milk machine. After the hug she let herself being milked willingly"(a letter writer, January 2, 2016).

Would You like to comment on this issue?

Animals and plants do have an emotional life.

Animals and plants do have an mental life.
Maybe not as developed as the human life, but still.
Actually, there are animal species having a richer feeling and thought life than some individual humans have.
But let’s not focus on primitiveness.
Let's focus on abundance and variety.

The emotional biodiversity on earth has increased dramatically since the arrival of mankind, still plants and animals do have an emotional life for themselves.

The mental biodiversity on earth has increased dramatically since the arrival of mankind, still plants and animals do have a thought life for themselves.

Let's go into this.

Many people think they can treat animals and plants as inferior beings, subordinate and subservient to mankind.
And that's a big misconception.
The animal and plant life are generally underestimated by mankind.
And severely abused.
And severely beaten.
And severely exploited.
And severely destroyed.

And exploitation and abuse and destruction are always coming back to the perpetrator.

The deeds of mankind towards animals and plants are from the perspective of the spiritual world a crime.
And crime has always repercussions, sooner or later.
Mankind can wait for the repercussions, and it will be soon.

Meanwhile, the peasant in the newspaper article is very blessed. He was an enlightened man in this respect, and an example for the future mankind.

My blessings to you all

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Man is contributing to mental biodiversity (Evolution, 4)

Did the emotional diversity explode with the arrival of thinking of man, simultaneously the mental biodiversity increased enormously with his emotional development. For as richer emotions lead to deepening of thinking, in the same way deepening of thinking is leading to richer emotions. They are interacting.

The joy of the spiritual world concerning every creation of man is great. We in the spiritual world do wish to help you all with a better perspective, with more truth, with more awareness of the spiritual side of life. For you are suffering anyway of a inferiority complex despite all the pride and conceit of the ego.

Know that you are beloved and cherished and respected in everything you do and think and feel. And don’t be fixated on the excesses and miseries of the world, do consider life as a whole.

Your mental biodiversity is grand, compelling, intended and supported and nurtured by God .
Because of your focusing on misery and difficulties, I do deliberately leave out of consideration the concentration camps, the nuclear bombs and instruments of torture.

I recall a few glorious aspects of mental biodiversity:

• Science: A heart transplant, where before someone would have died. Healing of AIDS, this new leprosy. Cataract surgery, so someone can see again. Pedagogy, with new insights into the psyche of children. Astronomy, bringing mankind to the cosmic community.
• Technology and inventions: Autonomous making of fire has inspired thinking. The wheel making you explore the world. Electricity enlighting your dark houses and nights. Photography and film helping you to relax in tough times.
  Internet, bringing you all together and changing the world into a village.
• Art: the paintings of the masters, moving you into your heart. The works of composers bringing you into heaven. The directors of theater and choreographers helping you to be distracted from hard life and showing you beauty and truth.
• Architecture: The houses with heating and lighting and plumbing giving you a sheltered place in a tough world. The architectural structures giving you a glimpse of heavenly structures. The Dutch cities with its canals and parks. The African villages with their protection and nurturing of vulnerability. The skyscrapers of New York with their inspiring creativity and their spirit of commerce. The houses of worship of the world summoning to God.
• Society. The guardian of the sick by a joint insurance. The protector of vulnerable through its institutions and professions. The custodian of the rights of liberty (USA) and of equality (China) and of brotherhood (Russia). The stimulus of morality and thinking and philosophy. The breeding ground of culture and recreation and happiness.
• Working with nature: The growers of rose varieties, blueprints of heavenly flowers. The upgraders of species for feeding, for beauty, for variation. The architects of parks, integration of culture and nature. The builders of tropical greenhouses. The discoverers of materials in nature for medicine (antibiotics) and beauty (precious stones, pigments).
• Theology and Mysticism: your philosophies on life and God and cosmos. Your prophets and the religions inspired by their messages. Your mystics, coming nearer to God than the ordinary man. Your saints bringing The Kingdom of God on earth.

Mankind is indeed the crown of creation, and in the next centuries you will act increasingly on behalf of a real kingship: guardian of nature, of mother earth, of vulnerable fellowmen and of spiritual values.

My blessings to you all

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Man is contributing to emotional biodiversity (Evolution, 3)

How can it be better described than as emotional biodiversity: the variety and diversity of life, but on emotional level.
Although plant and animal life do have an emotional life, and this will be subject for another blog, is the emotional life of man a source of inspiration for all "lower" life on earth.

For the colorfulness of the emotional life of man is energetically more valuable than the emotional life of animals and plants. The total of emotions is inspiring life, is lifting it up and is leveling up life energetically. For life is ONE and is showing thus more variation.

The darkest emotions of loneliness, depression, fear and jealousy until the lightest emotions of love, humility and joy are belonging all to a colorful palette of life. This is by the spiritual world observed as clearly as mankind is observing the physical nature.
And the spiritual world is supporting and guiding ALL emotions, because they exist, because they have a reason, because they bring man to experience, to understanding, to deepening, to consciousness, to growing and to spiritual wealth.

And in places where once was pasture, or water, or mountain or forest, now people are living. And the biodiversity of the total life per M2 has increased thirtyfold, where man is living, despite the physical decline of biodiversity. As previously different plant and animal species covered the earth, the earth is now populated with a greater wealth of emotions. Thus is the total wealth of life, and the overall ability to gain experience, enlarged considerably.

It is obvious that the required balance between physical and emotional wealth, which is disturbed in may places on earth, will be restored.

My blessings to you all

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Man is contributing to biodiversity (Evolution 1)

Next blogs I will have a talk on the great positive and evolutionary consequences of the mass presence of man on earth.

The threatening of the physical, biological diversity, the extinction of plant and animal species and the attack by man of the environment, of mother earth and her nature are subject for other blogs.

In places where once plant and animal species were omnipresent, and where now a new housing development is created, nature seems to be stale and depleted and threatened. This is not the case. I do like to explain to you all what the real situation is, on the basis of some starting points:


1. Man is nature as well.
2. The emotional biodiversity has exploded by the presence of man.
3. The mental biodiversity has exploded by the presence of man.
4. The physical and biological biodiversity is under serious threat, but also under a transformation, this is subject for other blogs.
5. Plant and animal species' do have emotional qualities ", but this is subject for other blogs.
6. Plant and animal species' do have mental qualities", but this is subject for other blogs.

4., 5. and 6. are subject for future blogs, because mankind is realizing insufficiently she is belonging to one of the realms of the cosmos. The first realm, the mineral world, the second realm, the plant world, the third realm, the animal world and the fifth realm the spiritual world, are subject for other blogs. These next blogs are focusing on the emotional and mental biodiversity of the fourth realm, mankind, a glorious contribution to the evolution of the earth.

We are briefly going into 1., 2. and 3.

1. Man is part of nature, is nature, and the separation between mankind and nature does not exist. Both are one glorious and undivided part of the evolutionary and spiritual creation which is called earth. More on this in the next blog.
2. The biodiversity of the earth from emotional perspective is showing a unparalleled beauty and wealth, this by the arrival of man on earth. The last 100,000 years, this emotional biodiversity is booming. In remote villages of the world, in the slums of large cities and in the homes of even degenerated rich the emotional variety is important and valuable and is at all levels supported and guided by the spiritual world.
3. The biodiversity of the earth from mental perspective is of a abundantly variegated beauty: mankind has made a major contribution to new forms of mental processes such as inventions, works of art, science, architecture, music and theology. Where for example monotonous swamps or bare mountains were before, now man is living. His mental labor, his mental creations and his mental achievements are monitored and cherished by the spiritual world.

My blessings to you all

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