Plant consciousness metaphor

intresting idea, will toss it around this weekend w/ a few plants and see what they have to say on it

like crops ..

and drugs..
how powerful is the marijuana plant?
the coca plant?
the coffee? tobacco ,etc?
the same could be said about chickens.. over 1 billion alive in the US alone at this moment, at the behest of 300 million

and remember the white mice, they're the ones really in charge ;)

Plants drive me right now, I have given them control of the superego and swore my loyalty to the Plant Mind - our Gaia Mother. I live for Her and follow Her instructions now. I am Her Car - the Plant Mind needs our hands - look at your hands, amazing things! The plants do not have this. They need our hands and our technology. In alliance we can save the planet - their knowledge and wisdom and our hands and technology - a map for a living future. This is an important map for a future now only promising large scale death and destruction.
You are absolutely correct to give the Plant MInd the steering wheel. Let's face it right now we humans do no know where we are going. Some want love and transformation and wisdom but most want fear and violence and power. We humans left to our own devices will surely steer this planet to its doom with our unfortunately proponderance of ego driven greed, lust and powermongering. The far older Plant Mind of the planet (tapped into via entheogens - telephone, teleplant!) and the great mother of us all approach the planet wholistically - simple as that. The greatet among us with all their technology can begin to comprehend meaningfully the complexity of this planet and its organic and inorganic systems. The complexity of the biosphere is of such magnitude as to constitute a mystery. Simply to fully comprehend one organism in it's entireity is almost beyond our grasp. The complex of relationship of things one to another just on this little planet of our approach an infinitity of possibilites so that our biosphere is incomprehensible to we humans.

Interesting metaphor, but I think that I prefer a model of reality that attributes consciousness to all "things," and I see technologically-proficient primates as being more like the children of plants, rather than as mindless technologies that they created to inhabit and drive. I think that cars and chairs and rocks are actually conscious in some sense, and I also see my car as an extension of myself. (At least when it runs.) All boundaries ultimately blur on some level, because they're all arbitrary to begin with. I think that everything is conscious--at least that's the way that it seems to me on salvia. Evolutionarily speaking, plants literally gave birth to animals--so we're really their children--and through nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and quantum computing, we're, in turn, giving birth to a new species--made of the same stuff that we're made of, Earth, just rearranged in a new way. But I don't see these "species" (plants, humans, nanotechnologically-proficient super-beings) as being actually separate in any ultimate sense, as I think that it's all just one continuous flow of consciousness. It's all just us. I also like the metaphor that psychedelic plants are like neurotransmitter-generating glands in the Global Gaian Brain, and that humans are like brain cells. Anyway, at least this is what the plant spirits told me. ;-)

~David Jay Brown

"Will there be another race
To come along and take over for us?
Maybe martians could do
Better than we've done
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!"

subtitute plants for Martians and you get the creepyzoid idea

lol

seriously
imho
my green allies and me share a
very loving symbiosic relationship

;-D