Plant Intelligence and Human Consciousness Panel

Monica Gagliano has single-handedly pioneered the revolutionary new field of Plant Bioacoustics, which is providing the most powerful evidence to date that plants possess forms of cognition that could constitute “personhood.”
Michael Pollan, who has studied the human-plant relationship in such classic bestselling works as The Botany of Desire, has now turned his attention in his new book How To Change Your Mind to what cutting-edge research on psychedelic substances (which are nearly all derived from or modeled on plant molecules) is revealing about human consciousness.
These two brilliant visionaries engaged in conversation hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Senior Producer.
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[@rnunezc.4575]

Monica is a true genius trying to connect us to nature beyond traditional concepts...what a spirit..thank you Monica !!

[@zeropointconsciousness]

Great Spirit/Nature is the same thing to me by now.

[@RitaLynn444]

❤

[@kymchessall7853]

She is brilliant 👍 And empathic 😊

[@annrenee3265]

Its herbal medicine that is traditional; it goes back much further than our more recent pharma methods. Modern methods are quite alien in that they limit separate & try to prove 'objective' hypotheses without including the subjective.

[@billturner4754]

💚👍 beautifull, & well worded

[@KurstinBarta]

We really need to listen to Monica Gagliano

[@sophiedee2557]

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[@pablosearth]

If you're watching this, i'm so happy for you that you had such a meaningful plant medicine journey. Sending Love to you!

[@caterinaalbanj777]

Watching this again after a year, I love Michael but oh, I profoundly admire Monica. We observe ourselves through the observed, and the object observed becomes the self, that’s why when we communicate with plants (or really with Spirit through its infinite manifestations of cosmic wisdom) we need to stay outside the Ego-Self, and this can be through ceremonies but also through dreaming and lucid dreaming (astral projecting) too. I have deep hope in a world when 3D mainstream science will trasmute to spirit science. Looking forward to the event this year! Thank you!

[@Sambasue]

It’s not just understood in an altered state.

[@bevklayman4158]

I agree completely. I respect Pollan to an extent, but I think he is shackled by his western, journalistic restraints. Gagliano is in a very different space of awareness. Listening to her, I'm reminded of Alan Watts who understood and taught that there is no self but Self.

[@alexchetverik3982]

Beautifully and simply expressed, Caterina. Thank you.

[@myrablackburn7040]

I agree wholeheartedly! Setting aside the Ego-self, which is the need to control outcomes, is a game changer. Being open to receive has been a beautiful evolution of my backyard gardening experience. I enter a magical and sacred space in my garden. Often when I speak to the plants, they nod slightly, even when there is no breeze. I “hear” my sunflowers singing to the sun. The large cottonwood informed me that it embraces the entire property and protects us with its roots. ❤❤❤❤❤ I know this may sound a little crazy outside this beautiful community, but once I experienced it, it impacted my entire life in an uplifting and profoundly positive way 💕💕💕✨✨✨. Much love to all 😘😘

[@christianp4796]

@@myrablackburn7040 This absolutely beautiful; I’m happy you have such a sacred space. Having a garden of my own is a dream of mine one day 🌞🌲🍄

[@cjslasinski9841]

Monica is amazing! Finally, someone who can scientifically prove to my family and friends that there is a reason to talk to plants, rocks and any other matter. They all have a consciousness that we must acknowledge for them to exist. Thank you!!!

[@hempwick8203]

Thanks CJS, I didn't even think to study Monica's work. I came to the comments to ask "how can I learn more about communicating with plants and methods of invoking "the other""...

[@razonyespiritu]

rocks?

[@pinchikassandra]

Acknowledge them for them to exist? So if I believe hard enough, a rock will now have consciousness?

[@jennadaigle7508]

I don't think Monica meant their consciousness doesn't exist unless we humans acknowledge it. That would be anthropocentric thinking. (So easy for us to slip into.) Their consciousness exists, but unless we acknowledge it, it won't exist in our perception (and so won't be a part of our shared cultural experience). Some of the ideas she expressed concerning self and other were complex, but I think this is closer to what she meant.

[@cjslasinski9841]

@@razonyespiritu What keeps their atoms going?

[@freebird9646]

This was an awesome conversation !! Monica is A paradigm buster !! Loved it. She describes the ancient indigenous spirituality of Animism in a most brilliant way.

[@elinaroberts8773]

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[@HestiaBHN1]

I often converse with trees and plants...and they have told me things that were later validated in physical reality. This ability is natural in all children snd needs to be encouraged at home and at school.

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[@japes7085]

How does it work?

[@H3alingVib3s]

Monica Gagliano blew my tiny mind a few times during this!

[@venugopal2227]

how beautiful are the insights of Monica....an area of research long neglected for scientific examination and that too with evolutionary perspective.....

[@kristinamazeikiene1959]

i studied medicinal plants.... I always felt like there is more to them than the medicinal properties.... when something happens - like an injury or sickness - the right plant to use comes into my mind... without any effort - i feel like they r trying to help.....

[@lanessarosel]

Yes they carry their own consciousness which we get to perceive upon taking! I study herbology too🤗

[@joedavis4150]

... Kristina, it is interesting that there are only about a dozen plant medicines......

[@r3b3lvegan89]

Can you please list your sources/resources for that claim? It’s common knowledge with backed up proof that there’s 20,000 types of edible plants let alone plant medicines, meaning between food and sick care, it’s abundantly found in plants around the world. The Edwin Smith Papyrus as well as ancient Indian scripts show a helluva lot more than 12 medicinal plants.

[@jds1392]

​​@@joedavis4150 Please tell me which plants and not educated as a scientist or medical training.

[@2bornot2b54]

Kristina Mazeiki... Your comment Wowwed me🌿

[@erikweston209]

My first best friend brought me Michael pollan lately and he led me to Monica whose work corroborates an intuition I felt from my childhood on my family's farm in Appalachia and then again and more deeply in Dharamshala after vipassanana through to Boulder and some landscaping gigs and attending Bioneers sometimes in down to Bogota and working in Colombia for a minute with coffee before bringing it on home back in Appalachia now trying to revive a dying mountain tradition relating to plant life more deeply than export agriculture cares to-- it's interesting to with time see my life's spiraling and feel both that I'm spinning out of control and yet at home if only for the subtle yet persistent pressure resulting from some great centripetal force. I'm feeling it.

[@joshuaellison6356]

Erik Weston After reading that I feel like I’ve taken something and I’m not upset about it ❤️🙏

[@01maax]

English it is not my first languaje so i coudn´t understand the whole picture you write us here, or what do you really wanted to mean. Could u explain it again?

[@2bornot2b54]

Erik Weston 🎶All my feelings coming back again, like the thunder chasing after the wind. Forces from the center of the Earth again, I can feel it. 🎶 Lyric from 'Thunder Crashes' by Live

[@MrCw64]

Let's see if we can take this up another level. Shortly before I came to this world I was talking with a plant on my home world. She told me that when I came to Earth I would eat plants just like her. I was completely mortified and protested , exclaiming that I wouldn't, and she reassured me that I would, that there I would have too in order to survive. To me (at the time) the idea of eating something as aware as a plant was inconceivable. We are aware of your struggle, and every possible means of help is waiting for you, but you have to be open to receive this help, and unless you're lucky enough to encounter an enlightened being in the flesh, the help only comes from within. It is the silent guiding voice from your heart. You are experiencing separation and from here the path back is through the heart. Do what you know to be right, even if it doesn't make sense, even if it seems reckless, even if it (inadvertently) causes pain for others. Get to know and understand the light within you. Be truly humble and ye will be truly mighty. There are many laws that govern reality, the most important one is the Law of divine will. One may not impose one's will over another, the only exception being to stop the imposition of one's will over another. We are entering the time when the darkness becomes the most powerful, this is also the time when the light rises to overcome it. The darkness resides within us all it, is the nature of being in this part of reality, You have a choice, to stay in darkness or move towards the light. Know your actions be one with the light if your heart be in it.

[@ufonaughts8814]

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[@and__lam1152]

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[@jeannemeger5491]

Brilliant describing life before Earth life. The Spiritual dimension knows life energies there have no need for food. A human body is physical, needs to eat, gains nutrients from water, plants, animals, oils, carbs, proteins, vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc. Communication need language which can take 2 or more Earth years. The Spirit Realm talks thru telepathy.... Instant thoughts exchanged. Spirit is light, earth energy is dense., heavy. A spirit incarnating for the first time adjusts to new physical trappings. All is learned. A body is two fold. Chakras 1 thru 3 are the physical connect to the Earth. Chakras 4 thru 7 activate higher spiritual levels. Our Heart is a major soul center where kindness and compassion flow out to others in recognition of the Divine life of another human. Namaste. We are all connected thru the Greater Intelligence we know as God. Healing is Rose Pink, the color of Universal Love. Discovered in a book on color therapy by Linda Clark years ago. Love seeks the good for family, friends, and others, is not vain or puffed up, but rejoices in the truth. Blocked Energy causes illness, loss of energy, motivation, soul sickness. Seek support for repairs, treatment, release. Reclaim full living in alignment. Chakra energy wheels spin clockwise. Sometimes they can be visibly seen. Our human body is made for inner strength, moving to upper levels of spiritual growth. Wisdom, discipline, discernment are wonderful gifts, given as we seek to gain understanding. Takes personal effort. Well worth the trip. Monica is a plant whisperer. Her explanations are stunning. Goodness flows out from her heart and soul to us listening. What a treat, a treasure we are blessed with. Books to read. Sources to follow up. Replies to share. Satisfying to the truth seeker. Wow. What a great program! Kudos to all!

[@mayatheillusion55]

monica's "as brief as a lightning" experience of "opening door of oneself" at 49.00.00 is what Buddhist describes as " emptiness" , " enlightenment" , " awakening", " ego-lessness" ( complete dissolution of ego), "non duality", "nibbana" , "blowing out", "self transcendence", this all equate to "seeing the things/reality as they are" ( without filters/ conditioning) and as Michael also mentions that meditation helps to sustain such experience is in alignment with Buddhist's approach to "awakening". The correct meditation is gradual approaching to that " experience" through different techniques of stilling the mind, developing concentration, analysis of the phenomenas and ultimately ego-lessness. And since it is graduated path to experience, the state of being in that experience ( but in real sense, there is neither experience nor non experience) is not brief but more than just brief depending on one's spiritual progress.

[@corithefrugalflower]

I believe you have confirmed my own theories & conclusions, which I have come to just by really connecting with the plants both in my house and my garden! This Valuable discussion has truly been immensely enjoyable!! Many thanks to this channel and the wise humans on this panel!! 👌✌👏🙏🌍💫

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[@zeropointconsciousness]

I have done some pioneering in this field myself. (pun intended)

[@jamieleeredwood8011]

I'm having guilty feelings about going to pick my dandelions, I want to use as medicine... can you help?

[@TIPPYtoeup]

It doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination. But, I’ve always found that folks whom are bilingual. Find meaning in words that are often overlooked or underappreciated put in sentence. I appreciate the creativity it takes to bring core meaning to the word’s chosen. ✌️❤️✨🌏

[@lrkpr]

Monica Gagliano- what a courageous teacher! Great talk, and I'm going to buy your book.

[@damianjones8300]

Ha ha its not that courageous, but you should check aunty Fran who she mentions. Then you will see what wimps most of us are and privileged. She's an indigenous scientist but more than that. She will drop your jaw and make more sense. Monica is very stuffy, I see it now, she was even outright rude. And showed she lacks spirituality and compassion. She is fighting herself, like not even speaking about animal cruelty in experimentation just inviting science stories showing animals intelligence when theyre getting tortured. If you listen to Aunty Frans knowledge but then her personal story of her life, jaw dropping and sad. Indigenous australians were treated so badly, you get some insight. And the other storiesthat will make you laugh. When she won a spelling award.

[@John-ob6eh]

Monica is on the right track i feel, inspiring actually. One can think and debate for a lifetime, everything is one at its core until we experience and accept we will never know.

[@itsthealiarose]

This was a beautiful discussion

[@h.m.mcgreevy7787]

"When the Power of Love overcomes the love of power, we will know Peace." - Jimi Hendrix

[@majak.t.135]

This women is a genious !!!! :) :) :) Thank you for introducing her !!! :) :) :)

[@balrajbawa1423]

Monica. You opened new windows to see the reality around us. By the way your laugh and smile so infectious.

[@smartartification]

I love what Monica is saying! I will definitely be looking into more of what she has written and said.

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[@kaylathrop5574]

Thank you for all the brilliance of this dialogue....the more I experience Monica the more I love and deeply appreciate this Soul Sister....and Michael's contribution is always wise...enlightening!

[@elinaroberts8773]

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[@TIPPYtoeup]

What a beautiful statement. “ Only animals can be caged, plants can’t be caged.” Pollan Very artistic 🖼

[@dsweedler]

Plants can be potted and like caged animals, their life then depends on the continued application of the correct amount of food and water on a very timely basis. Also waste products in both cases must be removed or disease or death is the result. And lets mot forget about allowing the correct amount of sunlight to ensure proper health and well being.

[@simoneerceg7116]

Monica your courage is liberating and your insights warm my heart. Much respect to you

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[@FG00009]

Fantastic talks!

[@alkbbo51090]

This, all the people gathered and the topics are beyond inspiration, true calling. Lovely

[@rac9152]

So gratefull for this discussion..my string of pearls plants seem to respond to my admiration and parts of them appear in 5D ..ie like a gossamer ribbon as I talk to them.

[@handofgrace5066]

Thank you for your insightful comments and experiences shared in this field of knowledge. :)

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[@bridge12582]

Wow awesome. Excited to listen to this one

[@jimbledsoe9083]

Life is a continuum nothing decomposes, everything recomposes.

[@Fatcello]

Loved this discussion so much. Beautiful moderation, so tenderly held. Thank you!

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[@noellecuisine8912]

I was pretty lucky 🍀 as a child to have a very few friends who did not attributed my extases to the drugs I wasn’t doing anyway! I love this discussion ❤

[@andrew8394]

There Is No Seperate Cosciousness What Is Residing Here Is Also Residing There ( In Plants And Animals ) Common Sense Prevails ! Thanks For SHARING

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[@brianallen8588]

If we sit with a tree for a whole day, we have been with our Standing Brother for one inbreath. When we walk through a forest we appear to the Trees like flashes of light , perhaps.

[@jennadaigle7508]

An interesting thought. I wonder if they might think that anything as short-lived as we are couldn't be very intelligent.

[@coralmonty2330]

@@jennadaigle7508 interestingly thats exactly how we view small mammels and insects. lab mice comes to mind...

[@jennadaigle7508]

@@coralmonty2330 Yep that's so true. When will we learn?

[@Gobberfisch]

you can also try taking LSD (like me) and then time becomes irrelevant und you spend hours lying under a tree and become one with it. Lifechanging...thats why I'm here

[@Olhamo]

i love that consideration. beautiful, thanks. i can remember as a teenager sitting with a tree one night, a tree in a raised box living at the edge of a parking lot -- breathing in synch (synergy) with it. utterly transformative

[@miao6487]

Thanks Monica for your job! ... The origin of the motivations for moving forward are really important to the end-target of the search... could take you in totally different "logos"... This is why we still have the mess we have around, too many negative motivations inside science to pretend to find the truth... is not going to happen like that evidently , the motivation needs to have a pure feeling of joy or help... never nothing related to competition, nature doesnt work like that, only marketing and religion could be understood from competition and those both are human things but never nature.

[@futurecaredesign]

59:27 "At the same time it is also true, that I was talking to me, through that. [...] So its the self, talking to the self." Yes. That is my experience EXACTLY.

[@Gobberfisch]

this made me rethink about a experience I had with a tree. I was on LSD and felt an sudden urge, while walking in a park, to lie down next to a tree. I had a really strong connection with the tree (and nature?) but I had no idea where the pain was from that I was feeling (it was about environmental destruction and how we humans treated trees and nature). I literally was crying while I was laying right under the tree and I felt so sorry and guilty for what we humans do. This sentence gave me completely new perspective on this situation: Maybe I wasn't feeling the trees pain, maybe the tree wasn't feeling my pain, maybe it was the self feeling the pain of itself. ...but I'm not sure yet cause I have to process this

[@truethought369]

Diversity is how Nature covers all possibilities, I believe monoculture or GM stuff is going right against Nature! The bigger the diversity, the better the health of all of Nature is. I am sure Paul Stamets will say that: Mycology is the communication network that is doing its job of keeping Nature in an optimum condition. Also thank you all, for this interesting discussion. And well done Monica for going for it. Have a great day.

[@TIPPYtoeup]

My last perspective here today. For those that are focus tormented like myself. I have to say, I appreciate the ingenuity our technological age has opened up for folks like myself. Enabling abilities to connect the lingual bridge, that we’ve historically/helplessly been challenged by. I love being able to understand a person without the language barrier 🤙 Imo, it’s a great step in our evolution :) Namsayin

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[@williamhayes8864]

Diet plays a huge role in epigenetics expression and modification of genes. Thru the practice of epigenetic modification on both male and female parents the offspring will create new genes. It’s especially important to practice epigenetic modification diet method during pregnancy. That is the most important stage. Over generations of this practice this has the ability to evolve a species to where it can become separate from the original species and become a pioneers of the taxonomic family.

[@1awesomehumanbeing426]

This is what you call a proper seminar 🙂

[@rodger603]

I've used plants as food and medicine for years like my great Grandmother did. She actually ate a little bit of poison ivy and never had the dermatitis from it again. I tried this as well and now I dont get the rash as well. The Indians said there was a purpose to all plants. The purpose of plants like poison ivy show us the benefits of other plants such as jewelweed. There is no such thing as a weed and everything had a purpose.

[@jeannemeger5491]

Well. How similar is the use of the plants by your Grandmother to the discovery of Homeopathy by Samuel Hahneman in Germany. Based on radionics connection I know little about. Research is called for.! 🎉 🤗

[@dianeorr8937]

Gratitude to Monica who basicly pointed out Repentance in HUMILITY in all we bring forward in action TOWARD Glory of light of life. Kuddos in your poise of truth.

[@dianeorr8937]

Love the artwork!😍

[@aptorres01]

Fascinating video,thank you.

[@callmetako8065]

This was really incredible, thank you

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[@fezzypepper8525]

I am a scientist. I have no formal degree (okay...ER RN). My training started with extreme curiosity and a magnifying glass.

[@neenaadams4301]

Life changing therapy thank you all

[@christinehalbot5404]

Monica is so brave and correct in revealing that the "establishment" protects or is afraid of changing present "paradigm", no matter if it is wrong. Egos are impacted, so sad because it holds everyone of us and evolution back in the dark ages. I personally have experienced this myself.

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Excellent Dr Monica. I think one of the reasons that people in general are dismissive of plant and even animal sentience, is so that they can keep abusing them with impunity. If it's a dumb, lifeless nothing, then it doesn't matter if I torture it, does it? For example, a few years ago, the Conservative govt in the UK tried to pass a bill to strip all animals of their sentience. It was clear that it was so that the meat industry could keep torturing, ad nauseum.

[@jamieleeredwood8011]

I'm having guilty feelings about eating plants ... could use a wise word?

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

@@jamieleeredwood8011 try to grow yourself. Treat with respect. Take only what's needed with gratitude. Where possible eat what doesn't kill the plant. Talk to them. Be kind.

[@joelwest5396]

Crapitalism is killing us, everything.

[@nonasnape1177]

@@jamieleeredwood8011 bless your food before you cook/eat it.

[@TheGoofygirl67]

@@jamieleeredwood8011 I’m the same, I’ve been vegan for 3 years and now feeling guilt for eating plants, but don’t know what to do with that. Im really pleased you raised that.

[@heidifarstadkvalheim4952]

Monica Gagliano is incredible to listen to !!!!!

[@davidford5282]

i wish i could give this a million thumbs up

[@AngelEagle44]

We have Interbeing with nature. Consciousness can exist without functions and Functions can exist without consciousness. Love of Consciousness Evokes the Same in Response.

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Thank you very much 💖

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Love your stuff kick on love it

[@neenaadams4301]

I adore this expression of humanity well done. I epuld love to participate in person here in Australia.

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[@danaleonard8649]

Quite interesting, love to learn more 🤗

[@bioneers]

Great! Check out this media collection on the Bioneers website: bioneers.org/intelligence-in-nature-media-collection/

[@danaleonard8649]

@@bioneers Thank you, I most definitely will! Sending ❤️🌈🙏

[@freya5902]

woah, i admire this chick a lot. i'm glad i came across her.

[@Snailcrossing]

These people are on the fro tier of a new science. I fucking love it

[@hommhommhomm]

Amazing talk

[@victorjcano]

What is consciousness, intelligence? Why do we ask, why do we have panels about this, why do we care? Because we are human and that’s what we do, is that intelligence? This is the huge difference that sets us off from all other living things. Our drive to ask the question “why” , our drive to find purpose for our very existence as if there is or ever was one except to ask why.

[@2bornot2b54]

Victor...but why would we want to be set apart from other creatures or healthy energies? Embrace our oneness with our beautiful M💚THER 🌎 and all our brothers and sister Earthlings. 🍃🍀💚🌿🌾

[@MrCmon113]

Asking questions and being curious has nothing to do with a "drive to find purpose". I don't look for "purpose", I look for what this is like and what that is like and whether that may be true.

[@Melody-hf1zn]

Monica hits the nail on the head.

[@ianfreeston3605]

Bless, Michael Pollan has had a few experiences & written a book, as he is a writer.. Now he's a expert???

[@stefanolacchin4963]

Do you have an idea how much research is required in order to write a book?

[@Tirsogonzales]

Good point or question from Michael Pollan: "Self-reflection". Do plants exercise self reflection? Both speakers talk about consciousness. However, do not explain what and where consciousness is. My humble suggestion is pay attention to the Science and Non Duality group and website, SAND. In fact, Bioneers can take the challenge and open up the floor for the Consciousness issue. In light of all the Non Duality sages and practitioners that have spoken about their living experiences and what Non Duality is about. Our dear Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers arquitects, can take the challenge and responsibility on this fundamental issue. It is necessary to balance the equation. Bring the other sciences, the non Western sciences. Tirso

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[@martin36369]

Why no mention of Cleve Backster or Peter Tomkins at the beginning introduction?

[@aheckers]

The eucalyptus lady was my real Opener... Love to you, girl

[@neenaadams4301]

She's a fabulous speaker

[@sekyitara2287]

As I have read Buddhist text of about 180 books or subjects, read with a precision method have an understanding that Buddhist idea of “Emptiness “ and “Interdependent” goes along just like how physic talks of how electron itself is not possible to exist without protons to creat the environment of existence to create and manipulate. In Buddhist text, where-where there is a subject of emptiness is there is interdependence is talked for possibilities.

[@Uri1000x1]

A consciousness takes in needed sensory information and acts on it. Computation based on the information determines the action. A plant computes when it turns toward the sun. Monica agrees, the information enables choosing actions a plant takes. So the plant system makes decisions with intention based on information. A system receiving information means uncertainty is resolved, a plant needing to learn the sun direction is means it has intention to propagate and increase survival chance. A consciousness can receive information in many ways but not strictly by a plant's intention to give it to you.

[@ramaraksha01]

Basic Hinduism says that we are souls that live in bodies - not just human but animal or plant Most people find human life too tough - having to work, make a living, face the world and all its problems - they want an easier life - the life that most prostitutes/gigolos/leeches/freeloaders live, shamelessly sponging off their rich Sugar Daddies Religions take advantage and are happy to promise them such a life in Heaven What they don't realize is that since they don't have a taste for human life they will be reborn as animals like Dogs or Plants A dog's life is much easier - someone takes care of them, fed, protected, sheltered and cared for Life as a Tree is also easy - nothing to do all day, just sit or go to sleep, food falls from the sky - zero work, zero worries - Heaven!

[@HestiaBHN1]

Seeing Entities: I've seen Dryads ( tree spirits) and Nyads ( Water spirits). They are real...but can only be perceived while in a right brain state. I meditate outdoors, and occassionally plug into the tight wavelength where I can see them and talk with them. I did this decades ago...before it became popularized.

[@rac9152]

I see the auras of trees..I also see the spirit eyes and vague bodies of my deceased dog and cat, my constant companions ..guardian angels

[@MrCmon113]

If something is "real" why can you only talk to it "in the right brain state"? In fact having to be in the right brain state to perceive something seems almost like a definition of what is not "real". You talk to yourself all the time and from your perspective what you are saying is actually new. There's an inner narrator and then there is listening/awareness itself.

[@jimbledsoe9083]

@~3:00 i am brought to mind of Descartes' "I think therefore i am" and have a feeling that he did need to look a little deeper.

[@ar-visions]

Monica is absolutely great

[@antiprismatic]

one does not need to redefine someone elses idea of consciousness, one only needs to find a way to describe the consciousness they believe they are experiencing.

[@elinaroberts8773]

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[@immortaljellyfishstudio5181]

The 3rd guy who asked a question--Stephen from Costa Rica--was on an episode of Down to Earth with Zac Effron....that is pretty cool, he is a nutty dude but very cool and doing good things in the world.

[@erikweston209]

Hell to the yes y'all.

[@karenevans8668]

I have just begun watching this and I have a trivial question. Why is the background jumping around when the camera goes from close up to panoramic? It appears that the green frog is on the right side of the screen, then in the close-up it is on the left behind Monica. I find it so distracting, wondering how this is happening. I'll try to get my concentration in order so I can enjoy the fantastic information these experts are offering.

[@bioneers]

Hi, there's actually another piece of art behind her from the camera angle that goes close up!

[@melaniedeason7813]

The distinction of self-awareness (named consciousness) is limiting and becomes a wall of separation from Oneness. Minute 13 Monica nails it: "What is residing here is residing there." Another word is Oneness, thus Universal Consciousness, and might be called God, Alla, YHVH, etc with regards to religion. To individualize consciousness as being a marker for 'better than _____,' is alienating and of lower frequency. In contrast, some consider plants and animals as more connected to Source than we humans are, so... we might want to pay better attention to Nature. They have much to teach us.

[@Olhamo]

"she was an over-giver" ( the last lady speaking to Monica about the Eucalyptus. ) That was like reading a storybook, with pictures. The kisses, greening. a picturebook in the best sense, is a door, that opens.

[@joedavis4150]

... Great video. thank you. It is interesting that there are only about a dozen plant medicines....... they are, Coffee and Tea, tobacco, cannabis, opium, Coca, peyote and San Pedro, psilocybin mushrooms, iboga, ayahuasca, Salvia divinorum, ephedra, and Valerian.

[@tube8854]

How can science try to “define” conciousness without being able to explain WHAT IT IS? They measure, analiza and explore something that is practically the fabric of the universe that exists on EVERYTHING material tools, measuring the immeasurable, knowing the unknowable, explaining with our tiny intelligences the unexplainable. Humankind and all that we know (and what we don’t know), are a manifestation an expression of that universal conciousness that can only be known by becoming “aware of it in us”

[@elinaroberts8773]

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[@Hahamannorth]

Why does the background behind the speakers reverse? I can't unsee it now... The frog switches sides with the jellyfish depending on whom the camera focuses on!

[@douglundy5755]

they've clearly not added the info from Sheldrakes book and the polygraph measurements of plant sensitivity

[@Divinescribe3]

Regardless the physical form Consciousness exists within to experience a physical reality, it still communicates

[@almagirimai8931]

The plant medicines teach us that consciousness is a dimension, not a property. Michael Pollan seems kind of lightweight compared to the way Monica Gag;kano communicates. Evolution is not purposeful? Michael Pollan, evolution is stochastic, i.e randomly purposeful - it works with, builds upon and reuses effective systems and designs.

[@jennadaigle7508]

Monica seems to have much more depth of knowledge on the subject. Also, while Monica is continually trying to rid herself of anthropocentrism, Michael seems comfortable with a certain amount of it.

[@lebron95100]

I would say that is why Pollan is considered by many to be a bridge of two worlds. The completely ignorant who have always been told the same fables about plants & fungi need a Pollan in order to be able to fathom even fragments of what Monica truly reveals about the world around us.

[@jennadaigle7508]

@@lebron95100 Good point!

[@caterinaalbanj777]

lebron95100 absolutely.

[@helentc]

Monica is awesome. Does anyone know if she spoke more about the experiment she did with the Peas in any videos? If anyone has a link, please send me in the right direction? Thanks!

[@ryangoslin6636]

@John SmithI'd appreciate your comment

[@ryangoslin6636]

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[@ryangoslin6636]

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[@ryangoslin6636]

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[@victorjcano]

I just love to hear my Kale scream when I chop up into small chunks

[@joelmab221]

Even though, they have good information it is interesting how cautions they are talking about everything and the "scientists colleagues" don't like what they are saying...this is what happens with many scientists when they depend on someone or some corporation to finance their research...They need to be in a box...

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

Anybody else love that a botonist is named “Michael Pollen”

[@leaseh3460]

Well done Monica!

[@elinaroberts8773]

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[@TheDionysianFields]

Good leftism. Love Monica's style, grace and ways of thinking.

[@pepethecat8050]

Zhaozhou was asked by a monk, “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the west?“ Zhaozhou said: 00:38:04

[@guynouri]

Hooray!

[@jimbledsoe9083]

Time and consciousness, from a tree's place, I wonder; Are they counting time to the beat, That is a Day? Like for a tree one day is a second.

[@brianallen8588]

If you sit with a tree for one whole day you have been with our Standing Brother for one inbreath.🌵

[@dimethaltryptamine1]

Thank god my world view was formed while under the guidence of the sacred plants intellignce! Not the socially accepted theories that don't require insight to form as we are indoctronated thus from the moment we are born. Also thankful I opened the door myself with the help of my plant teachers : PS I'm hoping the comment on "Meglamaniacal people turned that way by psychedelics who were authors of many books decades ago" wasn't aimed at Timothy Leary, Dick Alpert (Ram Dass) or Ralph Metzner &/ or Terrance & Dennis Mckenna???

[@shobhabhatt6205]

I feel the trees respond to us if we feel them n understand them ...I have one tree near my wall and people passing by would ruthlessly pluckflowers and dining this they would break branches to n this used to hurt me Nd I used to talk to this plant why you blooming flowers on that side as its painful and after few weeks I show that my side of the tree was full of flowers and veey few on the other side ...

[@Gobberfisch]

Okey I'm gonna watch this now, after I became one with a tree on LSD...there has to more to it^^

[@Gobberfisch]

okey nice, I m not crazy :)

[@kinpino]

I love herrrr Monica Gagliano

[@brandtgill2601]

Interesting stuff. I'm not even remotely spiritual and like psychedelics. I've had thst oneness experience with plants and people while on shrooms and LSD. But I'm a staunch skeptic, so though this is all intriguing I can't fully take the concept of things without a nervous system having consciousness seriously. Plus im a pro mortalist who believes causing unnecessary harm to sentient life is immoral. So I already think being alive is unnecessary, but if plants are sentient and we need to eat them to survive this gets a bit tricky.

[@brandtgill2601]

Its already tricky because agriculture causes animal death no matter what. But I belive it would be extra bad of plants could think.

[@simeondawkins9685]

Intelligence and are 2 Consciousness things one is making calculations and the other is the awareness behind it all the awareness watches the mind and can exist even with out thoughts.

[@angelariley5403]

I wish the whole world could see this, in many ways 😉

[@angelariley5403]

@@pinbioneers4122 Very kind. The consequence of man's disconnect from nature is evidenced when observing the egoic 'nature' of society today. Namaste.

[@simeondawkins9685]

u lot r heading towards enlightment :) for sure :)