This makes me so incredibly happy! Have you seen the guy who uses biodata sonification to talk to plants? Here’s one of his videos. It’s the coolest thing. It reminds me of using a spirit box to talk to ghosts. The plants are so chatty!
wow I love this!! there are definitely some similarities between ghosts and nature, the spiritual world is so much vaster and stranger and more wonderful than we know 🌱
Two things I have learned in my bioacoustics class this quarter: mycelium respond to songs, thunder, and distant footsteps (Paul Stamens); and the reason humans have such a limited range of hearing is because it was most important to our survival to understand each other, less so the environment (David Haskell). There's some profound beauty in both of those things, and in the idea that the world is always communicating with us.
Wow!! I love both of these. Mycelium is definitely very aware and communicative 👀 so magical and strange to think of all the songs around us that we can’t hear but possibly sense. Also a bioacoustics class sounds absolutely amazing, I’d love to hear more!!
I read the title and was like - ahhh yeahhhhhh - it always astounds me at how much people don't realise this! Thanks for bringing their voices to more people...
I completely agree - they're nature's way of showing us that it knows we're not listening and we're destroying it not realizing we are all one of the same. I also believe art has a critical role to play in healing this rupture. Thanks for sharing and creating and being a part of such necessary healing :)
Wow thank you so much, this is a complement of the highest order! So glad it brought up synchronicities for you; I really believe those are ways the divine shows itself to us :)
I love the way you weave science together with spirit to reconnect us with the magic of reality. Thanks for this Monday reminder to wake up and listen!
Thank you so much for reading! I really do think blending these two things is the key to connecting with the “magic of reality,” as you so eloquently put it :)
I love this so much. The Druidic path is so powerful, and all these paths are so combined and intertwined...Christianity can be so Pagan and ecological at its core, I've often found :) And quieting the mind, or at least removing the distractions and noise of modern life from time to time, seem absolutely critical to any part of this process. Thank you for reading and sharing!
I often wonder if, rather than waiting for science to confirm it all so we can believe it, we just accepted it. And in accepting it, just started engaging in the conversation. The shift from being in a forest with the mindset: I wonder if it is sentient - to: the sentience is all around me - is a huge shift of experience. Talking to trees I don’t think comes from learning from an instrument. It’s much simpler - just give that big beautiful being a hug, share your love and go from there. The rest… you work out as you go and learn each other’s language. That’s been my journey, and there is no going back 😊
Totally agree, I think there's definitely something to the idea that what we believe in automatically becomes more real and apparent in our lives (and god appears to those who believe, etc.) so we can't just wait for science to confirm this. Though I firmly believe it will continue to and eventually will prove that magic and divinity, in every sense, has been real and with us this whole time. Thank you for reading and sharing, and best wishes on your own journey!
I’m glad you’re giving voice to this - my world changed completely when I realized that plants are listening and speaking. Just tonight I walked outside at dusk and said hello to the sagebrush at the edges of the driveway. Thanking them for being here. I’m always filled with a very deep joy when I take the time to communicate and commune in this way with the wildness.
So beautiful! It's definitely an idea informed by books like Braiding Sweetgrass and Indigenous ideas about how much the world is communicating with us. This is such a lovely practice, and what a nice way of developing kinship with your local plants :) thanks for reading!
Thank you so much for reading and for sharing this Markael — her music continues to come up in my life in very interesting and particular ways so I took this as a very benevolent sign/synchronicity!
It is not in distinguished and exact words how we have learnt to think. They rather give universal moods. Our subconsciousness and non verbal communication works similar.
If the lactobacillus in a yoghurt emits negative energy when we stir jam into it, imagine the complexity of messages coming from our bodies and every single person we walk past. Thank you for this beautiful piece.
Of course, it is a living organism. It changes, and has adaptations like a any living organism. It has always been this way. The Schumann Resonance(s) is just one way it speaks to us.
Yes, in the silence we can hear 'us', the universal current moving us. We hear nature because we are nature. We are not separate. And yes nature speaks, but it's not only screaming of stress, it's also singing with joy. It's a balance. And yes, 'hearing' can also be feeling, inner knowing. It's a good idea to relax and let go of any wanting to 'understand' mentally. That doesn't work. Just sit, relax, and hang out with yourself, and slowly you tune in to the real world, your nature which is nature itself.
This makes me so incredibly happy! Have you seen the guy who uses biodata sonification to talk to plants? Here’s one of his videos. It’s the coolest thing. It reminds me of using a spirit box to talk to ghosts. The plants are so chatty!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT28aP8Ye/
wow I love this!! there are definitely some similarities between ghosts and nature, the spiritual world is so much vaster and stranger and more wonderful than we know 🌱
Holy crap that was wild!!! I have chills
It's so cool!! I have to figure out how to get my hands on one. I want my houseplants to tell me when they're pissed at me.
Two things I have learned in my bioacoustics class this quarter: mycelium respond to songs, thunder, and distant footsteps (Paul Stamens); and the reason humans have such a limited range of hearing is because it was most important to our survival to understand each other, less so the environment (David Haskell). There's some profound beauty in both of those things, and in the idea that the world is always communicating with us.
Wow!! I love both of these. Mycelium is definitely very aware and communicative 👀 so magical and strange to think of all the songs around us that we can’t hear but possibly sense. Also a bioacoustics class sounds absolutely amazing, I’d love to hear more!!
I love when people talk about the more-than-human world and how it speaks to us in myriad ways. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reading!! So glad it resonated!
I read the title and was like - ahhh yeahhhhhh - it always astounds me at how much people don't realise this! Thanks for bringing their voices to more people...
Thank you sooo much Cari! So glad it resonated in that way:)) thanks for doing your part as well!!!
Interesting! I do believe that nature has a voice & natural disasters are in part caused by us not listening. I always try to show this through art.
I completely agree - they're nature's way of showing us that it knows we're not listening and we're destroying it not realizing we are all one of the same. I also believe art has a critical role to play in healing this rupture. Thanks for sharing and creating and being a part of such necessary healing :)
You’re welcome, same to you.
So, so beautifully written. Shades of Inayat Khan here. A synchronicity of things I've been absorbing recently.
"Perhaps forests are really choirs that we cannot hear — symphonies of invisible signals, webs of tongues carried on invisible vibrations."
Wow thank you so much, this is a complement of the highest order! So glad it brought up synchronicities for you; I really believe those are ways the divine shows itself to us :)
I love the way you weave science together with spirit to reconnect us with the magic of reality. Thanks for this Monday reminder to wake up and listen!
Thank you so much for reading! I really do think blending these two things is the key to connecting with the “magic of reality,” as you so eloquently put it :)
One thing that my father suggested when I brought up this question/notion was the Bible saying “be still and know God”.
While I’m by no means Christian, and largely consider myself more to the Druidic path, I think that it relates here.
Personally I interpret God as the heart, and the light that binds all.
Quieting my mind seems to be much harder these days but definitely trying to get there again. I’ve witnessed its benefits firsthand.
I love this so much. The Druidic path is so powerful, and all these paths are so combined and intertwined...Christianity can be so Pagan and ecological at its core, I've often found :) And quieting the mind, or at least removing the distractions and noise of modern life from time to time, seem absolutely critical to any part of this process. Thank you for reading and sharing!
I often wonder if, rather than waiting for science to confirm it all so we can believe it, we just accepted it. And in accepting it, just started engaging in the conversation. The shift from being in a forest with the mindset: I wonder if it is sentient - to: the sentience is all around me - is a huge shift of experience. Talking to trees I don’t think comes from learning from an instrument. It’s much simpler - just give that big beautiful being a hug, share your love and go from there. The rest… you work out as you go and learn each other’s language. That’s been my journey, and there is no going back 😊
Totally agree, I think there's definitely something to the idea that what we believe in automatically becomes more real and apparent in our lives (and god appears to those who believe, etc.) so we can't just wait for science to confirm this. Though I firmly believe it will continue to and eventually will prove that magic and divinity, in every sense, has been real and with us this whole time. Thank you for reading and sharing, and best wishes on your own journey!
Cool. I recently wrote about this for an academic paper which has now been accepted for publication. I’ll share the link when it comes online.
I’m glad you’re giving voice to this - my world changed completely when I realized that plants are listening and speaking. Just tonight I walked outside at dusk and said hello to the sagebrush at the edges of the driveway. Thanking them for being here. I’m always filled with a very deep joy when I take the time to communicate and commune in this way with the wildness.
So beautiful! It's definitely an idea informed by books like Braiding Sweetgrass and Indigenous ideas about how much the world is communicating with us. This is such a lovely practice, and what a nice way of developing kinship with your local plants :) thanks for reading!
This reminds me of one of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCU4y8tyoR0
Thank you so much for reading and for sharing this Markael — her music continues to come up in my life in very interesting and particular ways so I took this as a very benevolent sign/synchronicity!
I’m going to listen more carefully from now on. What a fascinating article.
It is not in distinguished and exact words how we have learnt to think. They rather give universal moods. Our subconsciousness and non verbal communication works similar.
If the lactobacillus in a yoghurt emits negative energy when we stir jam into it, imagine the complexity of messages coming from our bodies and every single person we walk past. Thank you for this beautiful piece.
Of course, it is a living organism. It changes, and has adaptations like a any living organism. It has always been this way. The Schumann Resonance(s) is just one way it speaks to us.
Yes, in the silence we can hear 'us', the universal current moving us. We hear nature because we are nature. We are not separate. And yes nature speaks, but it's not only screaming of stress, it's also singing with joy. It's a balance. And yes, 'hearing' can also be feeling, inner knowing. It's a good idea to relax and let go of any wanting to 'understand' mentally. That doesn't work. Just sit, relax, and hang out with yourself, and slowly you tune in to the real world, your nature which is nature itself.