The Alchemy of Plants
Plant Alchemy
Plants are mystical beings with the intelligence of the cosmos in their cells. We have a profound symbiotic relationship with plants. They have the ability to charm, nourish, intoxicate and heal us with their various individual properties. Plants in all their myriad forms communicate with us through our senses and through other, more abstruse means, telling us about their attributes and functions. They are adaptable, mysterious and alchemical.
For Instance:
The rose is beautiful and fragrant. It can enchant us and cause us to spend resources and hours cultivating and appreciating them.
The poppy, when refined, yields an intoxicating opiate that can make us commit crimes to obtain it. It is also used to relieve pain.
Certain plants give us a lift, like the coffee bean or coca leaf; some bring on hallucinations, like peyote or forms of wild mushrooms. Some plants, like the Iboga shrub in Africa are used as a once in a lifetime rite of passage to enlighten and transfigure the initiate.
Seeds and leaves, fruits and nuts, sprouts and vegetables all serve to nourish us and the animals that share our planet with us.
Corn is worshipped by the Navajo Tribe and is used in religious ceremonies. In the mountains of Peru, a culture places the potato at the heart of their society and religious life.
Various herbs, plants, grasses, weeds, roots and fungi have mysterious healing properties when used to restore balance to our bodies when we are ill.
Plants transform our lives and are the basis of our survival. Yet, by and large, our modern civilized society has under-appreciated them, exploited them and ignored their warnings, their value and their innate wisdom. We find a usefulness for a single variety of plant—like corn, for example—and then over-cultivate it, genetically modify it and grow it in monoculture, thus altering its natural form. This has been our approach to food in all its forms.
We see the result of our warped food system in the form of diseases, overweight, animal and plant extinction, ecological ruin and pestilence—and yet, we don’t really see the obvious cause.
Plants are meant to be cared for in symbiosis with their natural state, which is to be grown in diversity alongside other plants, in harmony with nature.
We can begin to turn away from the harmful, exploitative relationship that we have to our environment and the plants that share it with us. We can return to our natural place in the web of life by starting to listen to the whisperings of the alchemical plant life around us…listening for cues to our mutual survival and most beneficial evolution.
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