Plant of Consciousness

Receive, transform, give. The plant absorbs cosmic energy and photosynthesizes it into a form that is compatible to feed all of life. It also on a subtle level transforms this energy to transmit beauty and tranquillity that nourishes all who receive it on a mental plane. Its every action is life supporting and nourishing.

Humans today don’t perform this kind of a role in the scheme of nature until possibly the day they die when their bodies are consumed back by the earth. Then from a life perspective what is the benefit for nature of having a species like humans around? If you look at the damage done in the last 10,000 years you would think that there is absolutely no benefit that nature has derived from this species other than destruction of everything that it has taken billions of years to create. With the exponential evolution ( degeneration?) of our intelligence in such a short time frame, we have reached a stage where we now realise that our misdirected intelligence can destroy life on a devastating scale. There is no proof yet that with this intelligence we can sustain life, let alone even dream of controlling it though many of us may have these delusions.

I have come across texts that say that the purpose of humans is to transmit consciousness. Like plants provide physical nourishment, humans have the potential to provide spiritual nourishment for all of life through the right use of the senses, intelligence and consciousness. Are we flattering ourselves here or can we reach such a noble state given that at the moment most of us are far from providing spiritual nourishment to even ourselves let alone others? Ancient texts talk about wise human beings who lived with nature as her children, keepers and guardians living in harmony with all of life in a perfect balance of give and take.

We are all receivers, transformers and givers. We are receiving various forms of energy every day, absorbing some of what we receive, transforming and transmitting it. The quality of what we are receiving, how we are absorbing what we receive and what this is doing to our minds and bodies is a reflection of our current state of consciousness. This level of consciousness is being projected out into the external world through our actions whether we like it or not and this is having direct and subtle impacts on all life around us.   The question to ask oneself is what am I receiving, absorbing and transmitting? What is the level of consciousness I am projecting and who or what is being influenced and benefiting (positively or adversely) from it? Am i a plant of consciousness living up to my full potential and transmitting at full power? Am I fit for nature, a positive benefit for nature or a liability that nature will tire of and discard when she runs out of patience?

Total awareness of everything we receive and receiving without resistance is the way to learn. Everything we receive from the external world – food, air, sounds, experiences, impressions, all have an effect on our bodies and minds, on our consciousness. Observing the effect that each input has and starting to control this for the benefit of life (not just ourselves as individuals, not even just humans as a species, but all of life) is when we start to transform. What is appropriate for our nature and constitution transforms us into better and better humans. The quality of what we transmit then through our thoughts and actions becomes more focussed and clear and starts to impact all life around us in positive ways that are both obvious and subtle. In this way we could become plants of consciousness and sources of spiritual energy for the less conscious like the plants are sources of physical energy for dependent life forms.

In a world which we humans have almost singlehandedly brought to the brink of the destruction of life through our selfish greed, as we head towards mindboggling adversities on both the physical and mental planes, as nature prepares for a reboot, the quality of life for all of life’s children will depend on what we have learnt and what we can transmit to our descendents. It may be too late to change the current course of things but we may still be able to create a future better class of human survivors, a small number that will be the wise men and women of the future to meet the needs of nature, humans that can then love her as a mother and live as her children, as plants of consciousness rather than as parasites or viruses. Possible??