SPIRIT FOREST
By
John Potts
(Arriving Home at the Source)
Spirit
Forest
Recently, I went a
little eccentric, not ever having any experience with them, and bought via
mail-order, seven (yep, 7) indoor Bonsai Trees to keep in “my” room where I
hangout in my man-cave. I had sense
enough to buy a book on the subject and did some research online… but seven…
well, that’s me. (Don’t quit reading –
there are terrific videos from You-Tube down below you can’t miss!)
I had an idea of
putting them on water trays as close as possible on this small table 27”x18”
next to my laptop and pretty close to the bed in a small bedroom. I would utilize a growing lamp in place of
the sun. Well, all seven trees and
related supplies and equipment came within 3 days of each other two or three
weeks ago.
I felt inspired to
make this a unique forest with a spirit world fantasy theme. However, let me say here that I am one of
those people who say that everything in this world (and universe) is connected
somehow by something I call spirit; indeed everything we can see and feel is
not reality but is whatever holds the tiny molecules, atoms, etc together
beyond the visual that we see… I will call it “spirit”. You may call it something else, but it is
mind-boggling and trying to understand the science of it all and integrate it
with our knowing/belief system is interesting and exciting when we get into it.
Anyway, this “Spirit
Forest” of Bonsai Trees I put together is decorated with tiny statues, ground
moss, a few fishermen, colored stones, tiny gold fragments, and drift wood
which I have been saving for over a decade.
I am inserting photos of this creation.
When I awake in the
morning, I can actually feel the presence and joy of my Spirit Forest. I speak with the creation and lightly rub my
hands over the leaves in a nurturing way.
I can actually feel the life in the trees communicating with me. I think that they like the theme of the
forest in which I placed them.
Click on
this video link for my first ever YouTube video production!
Yes, I think plants
have more than just biological life as there is online research complete with
videos which I intend to show you further along in this blog.
Plants are very much alive. Not only do they dislike human noise but they also
posses the capacity to learn and communicate.
Perhaps
even more astonishing is that plants can also make music.
Have
you ever heard the incredible music of the plants?
Plants
can actually sing and compose music and listening to it is truly beautiful and
relaxing!
Ever
since 1975, researchers at Damanhur, in northern Italy have been experimenting
with plants, trying to learn more about their unique properties.
Researchers
use devices which they have created to measure the re-activity of the plants to
their environment. The devices judge the plants' capacity to learn and
communicate.
Using a
simple principle, the researchers used a variation of the
Wheatstone bridge, an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical
resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes
the unknown component.
This
device has 3 fixed resistances and 1 variable one. Electrical differences
between the leaves and the roots of the plant are measured. These differences
can then be translated into a variety of effects, including music, turning on
lights, movement and many others.
There
is no danger to the plants as the researchers use very low intensity electrical
currents.
Researchers
state that every living creature whether animal or plant, produces variations
of electrical potential, depending on the emotions being experienced at the
time. Click on this video link:
The music starts at around 2:11.
Credit: www.damanhur.org
The plant sends
impulses to the midi-instruments. The midi-signal goes to a midi-thru-box and
from there to the software. Click on this link:
The device that takes the measurements
is a tool from damanhur called U1.
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The plants have the
most sensitive variations when they signal the arrival of the person who
cares for them, when being watered, when spoken to, during the creation of
music, etc.
Sensations felt within the plant induce a physiological
reaction, which then expresses itself in electrical, conductive and
resistance variations.
These variations can be translated in different ways, including
into musical scales.
The experiments have shown that plants definitely appear to
enjoy learning to use musical scales and also making their own music with the
use of a synthesizer.
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Although there is currently little scientific research conducted
on this subject, one cannot deny that listen to these beautiful plants is a joy
for the soul.
A growing body
of research shows that birds and other animals change their behavior in
response to human noise, such as the din of traffic or the hum of machinery.
But human clamor doesn't just affect animals.
Because many animals also pollinate plants or eat or disperse
their seeds, human noise can have ripple effects on plants, too, finds a new
study reported in the March 21, 2012, issue of the journal Proceedings of the
Royal Society B.
In cases where noise has ripple effects on long-lived plants like
trees, the consequences could last for decades, even after the source of the
noise goes away, says lead author Clinton Francis of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North
Carolina.
In previous studies, Francis and colleagues found that some
animals increase in numbers near noisy sites, while others decline.
But could animals' different responses to human noise have
indirect effects on plants, too?
To find out, the
researchers conducted a series of experiments from 2007 to 2010 in the Bureau
of Land Management's Rattlesnake Canyon Wildlife Area in northwestern New
Mexico. 
The region is home to thousands of natural gas wells, many of
which are coupled with noisy compressors for extracting the gas and
transporting it through pipelines.
The compressors roar and rumble day and night, every day of the
year.
The advantage of working in natural gas sites is they allow
scientists to study noise and its effects on wildlife without the confounding
factors in noisy areas like roadways or cities, such as pollution from
artificial light and chemicals, or collisions with cars.
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As part of their research, Francis and colleagues first conducted
an experiment using patches of artificial plants designed to mimic a common red
wildflower in the area called scarlet gilia.
Each patch consisted of five artificial plants with three
"flowers" each--microcentrifuge tubes wrapped in red electrical
tape--which were filled with a fixed amount of sugar water for nectar.
To help
in estimating pollen transfer within and between the patches, the researchers
also dusted the flowers of one plant per patch with artificial pollen, using a
different color for each patch.
Din
levels at noisy patches were similar to that of a highway heard from 500 meters
away, Francis said.
When
the researchers compared the number of pollinator visits at noisy and quiet
sites, they found that one bird species in particular--the black-chinned
hummingbird--made five times more visits to noisy sites than quiet ones.
"Black-chinned
hummingbirds may prefer noisy sites because another bird species that preys on
their nestlings, the western scrub jay, tends to avoid those areas,"
Francis said.
Pollen
transfer was also more common in the noisy sites.
If more
hummingbird visits and greater pollen transfer translate to higher seed
production for the plants, the results suggest that
"hummingbird-pollinated plants such as scarlet gilia may indirectly
benefit from noise," Francis said.
Another
set of experiments revealed that noise may indirectly benefit some plants, but
is bad news for others.
Scarlet gilia, which attracts hummingbirds, was a
subject in one "noise experiment."
Credit: National Park Service
Credit: National Park Service
In a
second series of experiments at the same study site, the researchers set out to
discover what noise might mean for tree seeds and seedlings, using one of the
dominant trees in the area--the pinion pine.
Pinion
pine seeds that aren't plucked from their cones fall to the ground and are
eaten by birds and other animals.
To find
out if noise affected the number of pinion pine seeds that animals ate, the
researchers scattered pinion pine seeds beneath 120 pinion pine trees in noisy
and quiet sites, using a motion-triggered camera to figure out what animals
took the seeds.
After
three days, several animals were spotted feeding on the seeds, including mice,
chipmunks, squirrels, birds and rabbits.
But two
animals in particular differed between quiet and noisy sites--mice, which
preferred noisy sites, and western scrub jays, which avoided them altogether.
Human noise affects plants such as pinion pine,
whose seed-dispersers avoid the clamor.
Credit: Clinton Francis
Credit: Clinton Francis
Piñon
pine seeds that are eaten by mice don't survive the passage through the
animal's gut, Francis said, so the boost in mouse populations near noisy sites
could be bad news for pine seedlings in those areas.
In
contrast, a single western scrub jay may take hundreds to thousands of seeds,
only to hide them in the soil to eat later in the year.
The
seeds they fail to relocate will eventually germinate, so the preference of
western scrub jays for quiet areas means that pinion pines in those areas are
likely to benefit.
In
keeping with their seed results, the researchers counted the number of pinion
pine seedlings and found that they were four times as abundant in quiet sites
compared with noisy ones.
It may
take decades for a pinion pine to grow from a seedling into a full-grown tree,
Francis said, so the consequences of noise may last longer than scientists
thought.
"Fewer
seedlings in noisy areas might eventually mean fewer mature trees, but because pinion
pines are so slow-growing the shift could have gone undetected for years,"
he said.
"Fewer
pinion pine trees would mean less critical habitat for the hundreds of species
that depend on them for survival."
So, there you have it. Oh, did you hear the lady in one of the
videos say that she “meditates” together with the plants?!
What an interesting subject which clearly draws me closer to unity with
everything in this fascinating universe of ours and… it helps feed my concept
that there is something eternal within my body which will continue to live
forever after this body lies lifeless in decay.
The real me, my spirit, or whatever you wish to call it, will continue
to exist, perhaps even in… a life between lives… then reincarnated… Well, why
not; the more science and humans who are in touch with their spirit tell us
about this earth and universe, the more plausible it seems! Check Amazon.com for books by regression therapists on life between lives and reincarnation... there are many.
(Most
of the plant research printed above came from http://www.messagetoeagle.com/singingplants.php )
Feel
free to let me know what you think
I would LOVE to hear from you!
John
Potts
(Arriving
Home at the Source)
They are so beautiful! I have always believed that plants have a great potential for knowledge. Thanks for sharing this info!
ReplyDeleteYour forest is very beautiful indeed, thank you for sharing :)
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