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Originally Posted by moonjava
whenever i get frustrated with how stupid humans are I think about how..perfect trees are. I feel like they're the best, and wisest thing on this planet and I really have this deep respect for them. When I die I want to be a tree.
I was just wondering if anyone else on this forum shared my deep love for trees.
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Can you see auras? :P I always ask people that question. Well anyway, if you can, notice that trees do infact have them. Which means that indeed they have souls. I believe every natural thing has a soul. Trees should be loved and respected at all times. Give thanks to a tree for it's gifts as well, (as I'ved noticed that some of you adore wood furnishings). Here is a piece from a book that I think of somewhat as a sort of Bible almost ,Beyond the Body : The Human Double and The Astral Planes By: Benjamin Walker~
Some people believe that a pathemic relationship exists not only between men among themselves, or between men and animals, but also between men and plants. Plants can recieve our thoughts and feelings and respond with their own. The plant world has exercised a perennial fascination for the human race. The majestic size of forest trees, their great strength, their soaring growth heavenwards, the mighty roots that grip the earth, the strange rustling of their foliage in the wind, all tend to inspire man with feelings of awe, sometimes even of reverence, in their presence. The earliest temples were said to be groves of trees, in which men have felt they could commune with the powers that guided their destinies. It was also believed that every tree was inhabited by a spirit, which was the soul of that tree. The tree was thought to be endowed with consciousness.
People who spend much time with plants have observed time and again that plants respond to love and care. Individuals endowed with a happy faculty in this respect are said to have 'green fingers' and seem able to evoke a response from their plants. In the 1920s a Hindu scientist, Jagdish Chandra Bose, studied the reactions of plants to various stimuli by means of the crescograph, an instrument he invented for the purpose. He proved that plants have a sensitive 'nervous' system and an emotional life, and that they feel pleasure and pain, thus establishing on scientific lines a belief held in India for many centuries.
In 1966 an American researcher, Cleve Backster, tried a simple experiment on a plant, with astonishing results. His specialty was the study of a subject's reaction to questions or situations in order to asses and measure their emotional responses, as in the lie-detector test. An inveterate experimenter, Backster would fix his electrodes to anything that promised to add to his knowledge. One day he fastened them to the leaves of a potted plant in his office. As a stimulant to test the reactions of the cells, he thought he would apply a flame to the stem of the plant. The moment the idea occured to him, and even before his hand moved to his pocket for the lighter, the needle on his polygraph recorded signs of great aggitation and shot upward. It was as though the plant had read his mind and knew that he intended to burn it.
Backster was no amateur. He was a leading expert in his field for more than two decades. He had worked as an investigator in the CIA, and his techniques were the standard methods taught at the military school at Fort Gordon, Georgia. He followed up his discovery with two years of careful work that confirmed his first conclusions, and revealed even more. Plants think and feel; they have extra-sensory perception and react not only to harmful intentions directed at them, but to the hurt that man inflicts on other living beings, plants and animals, in their immediate vicinity.