Pam Montgomery is one of those people who spoke to plants ever since she was a little child because her Granny did that. The Granny told her little granddaughter that plants want our friendship. Pam Montgomery's beautiful book, Plant Spirit Consciousness, that was published in 2009, not only tells her personal story but carries on where Secret Life of Plants leaves off,describing recent scientific research and subsequent explanations of how the process of human communications with plants occurs.

"Plants and people have at the core of their being, within their very DNA particles of light that can become coherent... It is this light that carries intelligence and is the foundation of the ability for plants and people to communicate with each other.“

Apparently, there is now a newly designated scientific field of study called Plant Neurobiology with a magazine devoted to its discoveries called Plant Signalling and Behaviour that says in its mission statement that "plants emerge as dynamic and highly sensitive organisms... More over plants are also capable of a refined recognition of self and non-self... as information processing organisms with complex communication throughout the individual plant...“ and so on.

While the academic scientific community is thus exploring the material workings of plant organisms, healers are taking the next step. In the forward to Montgomery‘s book, Stephen Harrod Buhner talks about the difficult time that western cultures have with "invisibles“.

"most important interactions in the living systems of the earth are invisible... There is a feeling to plant medicines...that feeling is the initial stage of understanding the deeper meanings of plant medicines as ancient and indigenous peoples did. It is the key to the invisibles that surround us and shape the movement of meaning into our patient's lives.“

Pam Montgomery describes her transition from being a traditional herbalist to working with plant spirit medicine.

"People were taking their herbs and got well for a while, until the illness showed up in a different way. Nothing was really changing, especially not consciousness. It was then I began to investigate how to go beyond symptomatic treatment to source level treatment, a way of working that shifts consciousness so true healing can take place... never doubting my abilities to work with them, I went straight to the plants...

Plants are vastly intelligent multidimensional beings with tremendous capacity for healing at a source level. Working with their whole being, not just the chemical constituents is what can effect this type of healing.“

Though a lot of her insights from plants arise from simply visiting and resonating with plant worlds, Montgomery also uses the shamanic journey for deeper, clearer messages.

Similarly as Montgomery realized that spirit is the most important component of true transformational healing, many other people around the planet have been coming to the same realization. In 2009, Terrence Youk and Ann Armbrecht of Brook Hollow Productions put out a film called Numen, „numen“ being the Greek word for the lifeforce in everything. In this film, they interview many people, who talk about their relationships with plants. In between the interviews, the film shows how it is that the North American society that spends the most money of any place on earth on health care is also the one with the highest rates of all chronic diseases.

The film proposes, that this is due to our society being disconnected from the natural world and furthermore, disrespectful of nature and her needs. By hurting the wild world around us, we are seriously hurting ourselves.

The twenty or so people interviewed in the film offer moving and inspiring stories about the amazing healing ability of the living whole plants. How just being with plants in a loving way is powerfully transformational.

Every gardener knows this, of course, whether they have consciously articulated it to themselves or not. How much richer and more meaningful our time spent with plants is then when we appreciate that they are spiritfull intelligent beings, conscious of us as co creators in the world we share.

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