New research at Michael Pollan's laboratory at UC Berkeley confirms what Cambridge scientist J.C. Bose, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird, Tel Aviv University researchers, dryads, sensitives, empaths like Dr. Doreen Virtue and Dr. Caroline Myss and gardeners everywhere have known and been telling us for a long time.
Talk to plants? While we may not be able to hear them, plants could very well be talking back. [Perhaps they are not great listeners, after all, but they are conscious enough to "speak"]. They talk all the time and especially if they are having a bad day. (Did we forget to water them again?) For the first time in the world, Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers recorded and analyzed sounds distinctly emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, resembling the snap of popcorn, are emitted at a volume similar to human speech but at higher frequencies, beyond the hearing range of the human ear.
Professors Yosi Yovel and Lilach Hadany (TAU)
Researchers: "We found that plants usually emit sounds when they are under stress, and that each plant and each type of stress is associated with a specific identifiable sound. [That is a distinctive mark of speech rather than just sound making.] While imperceptible to the human ear, the sounds emitted by plants can probably be heard by various animals, such as bats, mice, and insects." More
Science already knew plants "communicate" with chemical signals and scents (VOAs) through roots, leaves, stems:
(The Independent) April 3, 2023: Plants emit [high pitched] sounds when they are "stressed," a group of scientific researchers has discovered.
A team at Tel Aviv University in Israel recorded and analyzed click-like sounds resembling the popping of popcorn.
They found that the sounds plants emitted are at a volume similar to human speech, but humans cannot hear them due to the high frequency.
"Each plant and each type of stress is associated with a specific identifiable sound.
"While imperceptible to the [ordinary] human ear, the sounds emitted by plants can probably be heard by various [naturally more sensitive] animals, such as bats, mice, and insects," the researchers said.
Meditation journeys with specific plant and tree spirits? Yes, Mugwort, Rosemary, Dandelion, Yew, Elder, and Wormwood do it. How can we [humans] achieve a calm mind, cleanse our energy fields, and connect with our hearts in preparation for meditating with plants?
Journeys with Plant Spiritsincludes a progressive series of introductory meditations, adapted from ancient wisdom traditions, to lay the foundation for working with plant spirits.
Emma Farrell explains how to take a connection and relationship with Nature to a deeper level to access plant spirit healing through meditation with plants.
Exploring the nature of plant consciousness and how plants perceive, she details how to achieve a calm mind, cleanse an energy field, and connect with heart in preparation for meditating with plants and trees [dryads], showing how the plants can support us not only in the cleansing process but also in teaching us how to sense what is in our energy field.
Offering a progressive series of preparatory meditations adapted from shamanic and indigenous wisdom traditions, the author reveals how to lay the foundation for communicating, working, and developing relationships with plant and tree spirits -- for spiritual connection, personal development, and inner peace.
She then presents meditation journeys with specific plant spirits, focusing on the frequencies within the plant’s bioresonance that can assist us.
For example, meditation with Mugwort works with the plant spirit’s qualities of alignment and self-awareness to assist with grounding and developing inner vision, whereas Dandelion helps break old habits by working with the plant’s qualities of release, reconnection, and fearlessness.
Each plant is an expression of the spiritual force of Mother Nature and carries a unique blend of her medicine and wisdom. This book details step-by-step how to effectively work with plant spirits for emotional and spiritual healing, enabling us to awaken spirit to become truly multidimensional and whole. More
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The danger of seeing what others don’t: Alan Watts
(Alan Watts Daily Wisdom) Oct. 10, 2025: Alan Watts Collection. Ever feel like you see too much? In this profound lecture, let's explore the experience of the highly perceptive person—the one who walks into a room and instantly feels the unspoken tensions, hidden sorrows, and secret truths.
This Alan Watts talk reveals why this "gift" of clear-seeing (vipassana, "insight") can be the most dangerous thing you'll ever possess.
Discover the four hidden dangers of being deeply intuitive:
the profound isolation of living in a different reality,
the impossible choice between speaking truth and losing yourself,
the pain of becoming a target for those who prefer illusion, and
the devastating risk of losing your own identity by absorbing the emotions of others.
I can even meditate in city traffic and chaos.
This isn't about being "too sensitive"; it's about navigating a world that isn't ready for your clarity.
This is a complete guide to transforming this potential curse back into a gift. Learn the art of "conscious distance"—how to see clearly without the compulsion to fix, how to protect your energy, and how to hold your awareness as a quiet strength rather than an unbearable burden.
Stop trying to WAKE UP the world and, instead, learn to live peacefully with your own eyes wide open.
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“Jagadis Chandra Bose’s wireless inventions antedated [preceded] those of Marconi.” [Bose was the Tesla of India in England, with a lab at Cambridge, inventing the most sensitive instruments of his day. Marconi is credited with developing the radio and wireless telegraph.]
Overhearing this provocative remark, I walked closer to a sidewalk group of professors engaged in scientific discussion. If my motive in joining them was racial [Indian] pride, I regret it. I cannot deny my keen interest in evidence that India can play a leading part in physics, and not metaphysics alone.
“What do you mean, sir?”
Read the original first edition.
The professor obligingly explained. “Bose was the first one to invent a wireless coherer and an instrument for indicating the refraction of electric waves. But the Indian scientist did not exploit his inventions commercially. He soon turned his attention from the inorganic to the organic world. His revolutionary discoveries as a plant physiologist are outpacing even his radical achievements as a physicist.”
I politely thanked my mentor. He added, “The great scientist is one of my brother professors at Presidency College.”
I paid a visit the next day to the sage at his home, which was close to mine on Gurpar Road. I had long admired him from a respectful distance. The grave and retiring botanist greeted me graciously. He was a handsome, robust man in his fifties, with thick hair, broad forehead, and the abstracted eyes of a dreamer. The precision in his tones revealed the lifelong scientific habit.
If John Travolta were a genius (Phenomenon)
Journeys with Plant Spirits
“I have recently returned from an expedition to scientific societies of the West. Their members exhibited intense interest in delicate instruments of my invention which demonstrate the indivisible unity of all life.1 The Bose crescograph has the enormity of ten million magnifications. The microscope enlarges only a few thousand times; yet it brought vital impetus to biological science. The crescograph opens incalculable vistas.”
“You have done much, sir, to hasten the embrace of East and West in the impersonal arms of science.”
“I was educated at Cambridge. How admirable is the Western method of submitting all theory to scrupulous experimental verification! That empirical procedure has gone hand in hand with the gift for introspection which is my Eastern heritage. Together they have enabled me to sunder the silences of natural realms long uncommunicative. The telltale charts of my crescograph [2] are evidence for the most skeptical that plants have a sensitive nervous system and a varied emotional life. Love, hate, joy, fear, pleasure, pain, excitability, stupor, and countless appropriate responses to stimuli are as universal in plants as in animals.”
“The unique throb of life in all creation could seem only poetic imagery before your advent, Professor! A saint I once knew would never pluck flowers. ‘Shall I rob the rosebush of its pride in beauty? Shall I cruelly affront its dignity by my rude divestment?’ His sympathetic words are verified literally through your discoveries!”
“The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. Come someday to my laboratory and see the unequivocable testimony of the crescograph.”
What secrets do plants hold?
Gratefully I accepted the invitation, and took my departure. I heard later that the botanist had left Presidency College, and was planning a research center in Calcutta.
When the Bose Institute was opened, I attended the dedicatory services. Enthusiastic hundreds strolled over the premises. I was charmed with the artistry and spiritual symbolism of the new home of science. Its front gate, I noted, was a centuried relic from a distant shrine. Behind the lotus3 fountain, a sculptured female figure with a torch conveyed the Indian respect for woman as the immortal light-bearer. The garden held a small temple consecrated to the Noumenon beyond phenomena. Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.
Bose’s speech on this great occasion might have issued from the lips of one of the inspired ancient rishis.
“I dedicate today this Institute as not merely a laboratory but a temple.” His reverent solemnity stole like an unseen cloak over the crowded auditorium. “In the pursuit of my investigations I was unconsciously led into the border region of physics and physiology. To my amazement, I found boundary lines vanishing, and points of contact emerging, between the realms of the living and the non-living. Inorganic matter was perceived as anything but inert; it was athrill under the action of multitudinous forces.
“A universal reaction seemed to bring metal, plant and animal under a common law. They all exhibited essentially the same phenomena of fatigue and depression, with possibilities of recovery and of exaltation, as well as the permanent irresponsiveness associated with death. Filled with awe at this stupendous generalization, it was with great hope that I announced my results before the Royal Society—results demonstrated by experiments. But the physiologists present advised me to confine myself to physical investigations, in which my success had been assured, rather than encroach on their preserves. I had unwittingly strayed into the domain of an unfamiliar caste system and so offended its etiquette.
“An unconscious theological bias was also present, which confounds ignorance with faith. It is often forgotten that He who surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand. Through many years of miscomprehension, I came to know that the life of a devotee of science is inevitably filled with unending struggle. It is for him to cast his life as an ardent offering—regarding gain and loss, success and failure, as one. More (crystalclarity.com)
The thing about white privilege, like implicit bias, is that we don't know we have it. We would notice if we lost it through sudden poverty or loss of looks. We enjoy it, fail to check it, and offend a lot of people who are not similarly privileged in a deeply racist society. It's deep because it's not always on the surface, like when someone says we had a Black president. That proves we're not racist as a country? Let's ignore who has been president every other time (except for the first nine, who were also Black, and maybe Lincoln, but those nine do not count because technically we were not yet a country due to the Articles of Confederation not yet being ratified or something; we've covered this). We don't see our own privilege, yet seeing someone else's can be painfully obvious when we have been sensitized to what others have been talking about. It's good to be in the know rather than oblivious. Generational wealth, health, better treatment by police and clerks, courts and officials, being given the benefit of the doubt constantly... Watching Matt Walsh's recent "Am I Racist?" movie did more to make us think whites really are oblivious to the advantage(s) they enjoy and take for granted or who others are systematically mistreated and disadvantaged. White guilt is not the solution, but neither is white fragility. We have to awaken and work toward equality and equity or something approaching fairness and inclusion, not just those in power deciding what's "fair" enough.
We stand for justice...for lions.
The local Shambhala Buddhist Center in Los Angeles used to have an occasional white sensitivity class to discuss our privilege and issues that never get talked about but affect us all. Remember on "Seinfeld" how when race would come up, everyone would go silent and awkward? It's really like that. Was it because Kramer was in the room (on the set) and he might ad lib something? It would have been great to have a national conversation. Walsh's film didn't advance anything, only shining negative light on a new industry of DEI profiteers, as if it were all only them. Oh, before they came along everything was all right, right, Matt?
the mosaic of me (the video that got me rejected from NYU)
(NatalieAlbaugh) Sept. 24, 2024: I needed to make a video about myself to submit for my NYU college application back in 2023. This is that video, and although I may have not gotten into NYU, I'm so grateful to have this video to represent the first few chapters of my life. :)* Please watch until the end!
The treatment has been raved about by the likes of [American actor and Goop capitalist] Gwyneth Paltrow and Kourtney Kardashian.
A woman who "lost her sexuality" after heartbreak got a celebrity-approved "orgasm shot," costing $1,400.00 per session, and said it's made her "feel alive again."
Glória Vieira, 50, felt she'd "lost" her sexuality after the end of her 16-year marriage.
It's "science." And I get to give the shots.
She said her sexuality has always been a "big part" of her identity, and she wanted to bring it back.
After some research she stumbled across research about the "orgasm shot," said to increase sensitivity and improve sex.
It is a series of injections of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) into the intimate areas to stimulate tissue development.
Within two weeks Vieira began feeling the effects of the shot and said it was "as close as I could get to a miracle."
Vieira, an accountant based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK, said: "When my marriage ended, I wondered what I could do to make me feel like myself again. More
Jennifer Aniston has been starring in comedies for nearly 30 years, from the launch of NBC’s Friends
in 1994 to the upcoming release of her latest Netflix movie Murder
Mystery 2 [which is getting horrible reviews as unfunny garbage], which means she’s had a front row seat to watching comedy
tastes change over three decades.
Aniston recently told France's AFP (via Yahoo News) that “comedy has [d]evolved” so much that it’s a bit tricky these days to be funny.
“Now it’s a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which
makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that
we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life,” Aniston said.
“[In the
past] you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh: that was
hysterical. And it was about educating people on how ridiculous people
were. And now we’re not allowed to do that.”
“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to
episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive,” Aniston added.
“There
were things that were never intentional and others…well, we should have
thought it through — but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like
there is now.” More: variety.com
“I had to turn my Blackness up” - comedians on being Black
(Comedy Central Stand-Up) Deon Cole, Sasheer Zamata, Roy Wood Jr., and more great comics talk about being Black and sometimes having to turn up the Blackness in one of the rare forums left for the open discussion of race in America.
Spiritually Sensitive Folks Are Complaining about Their Energy Changes Due to CERN
When some on social media complain about “CERN being turned on,” what they are really discussing is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was built in the 2000s and first began operations in 2012. This particle collider caused a massive outcry when it was first operated, and after coming back online after being down for a few years due to repair, it has got folks talking again.
In a video a woman claims that the energy disruption caused by the collider may cause any of the following symptoms in “spiritually sensitive” people:
ringing in the ears,
headaches,
nausea,
anxiety,
loss of appetite,
sleep disruption, and
pains in the neck.
And here I thought that was just a factor of living here in 2022!
In the comments, other people discuss their uneasiness ever since the LHC resumed operations. (One wonders if they noticed the last time it went offline). But if you need something to blame for the free-floating dread you feel, why not a giant piece of machinery halfway around the world? Spiritually Sensitive Folks Are Complaining about Their Energy Changes Due to CERN - Exemplore
Science Correspondent Victoria Gill, BBC News, March 13, 2019; Jim Carrey, Cannibal Corpse; Six Feet Under; Bloodbath: S. Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Jim Carrey Ace Ventura Pet Detective deleted scene, Cannibal Corpse "Hammer Smashed Face" WARNING: Violent lyrics by American death metal pioneer Chris Barnes of Cannibal Corpse here replaced by George Corpsegrinder, "Stripped Raped and Strangled"! "They think they know who I am. All they know is I love to kill. Face down, dead on the ground, find me before another is found. I come alive in the darkness. Left murdered and nameless. Dead unburied and rotten, half eaten by insects. She was so beautiful, I had to kill her. Tied her up and taped her mouth shut. Couldn't scream, raped violently. Rope tight around her throat. Her body twitches as she chokes. Strangulation caused her death just like all the others. Raped before and after death, stripped, naked, tortured. They're all dead, they're all dead, they're all dead by strangulation... It felt so good to kill. I took their lives away. Seven dead, lying rotten, unburied victims. Their naked bodies putrefy. Strangulation caused her death just like all the others..."
"I've had one desire since I was born/To see my body ripped and torn." The lyrics of death metal band Bloodbath's cannibalism-themed track "Eaten" do not leave much to the imagination. But neither this song nor the gruesome lyrics of other death metal bands inspire violence.
Bloodbath perform "Eaten" live in front of European fans.
That is the conclusion of Australia's Macquarie University's music lab, which used Bloodbath's track in a psychological test. It revealed that death metal fans are not "desensitized" to violent imagery.
This latest study is part of a decades-long investigation by Prof. Thompson and his colleagues into the emotional effects of music. These effects, he explained, are complex.
"Many people enjoy sad music, and that's a bit of a paradox: Why would we want to make ourselves sad?" he asked.
"The same can be said of music with aggressive or violent themes. For us, it's a psychological paradox: So [as scientists] we're curious, and at the same time we recognize that violence in the [mainstream] media is a socially significant issue."
How do scientists test people's sensitivity to violence? Chris Barnes's Six Feet Under chants "Die, motherf**ker, die, die!" in "No Warning Shot."
A classic psychological experiment probes people's subconscious responses, so scientists started by recruiting death metal fans to take part. The test involved asking 32 fans and 48 non-fans to listen to death metal or to pop rock while looking at some very unpleasant images.
Lead researcher Dr. Yanan Sun explained that the aim of the experiment was to measure how much participants' brains noticed violent scenes and to compare how their sensitivity was affected by the musical accompaniment.
To test the impact of different types of music, they used a track they deemed to be the opposite of "Eaten." [They chose Pharell's popular hit song "Happy."] More
This opening allows dormant energy to move up from the pelvis, along the spine. The movement of this life-force energy can help heal us by loosening constrictions in the body that have developed over time.
The expansion of the energy body increases sensitivity, empathy, and the ability to connect with others.
Partners bow to one another as goddess and god in union, as in video below (SheKnows).
Tantrism is a contested concept, according to The Origins of Yoga and Tantra by Geoffrey Samuel, who says that Tantra Yoga may be described as practices in 9th to 10th century Buddhist and Hindu (Saiva, Shakti) texts that included yogic practices with elaborate deity visualizations using geometrical arrays and drawings (mandala), fierce male and particularly female deities, transgressive life-stage related rituals, extensive use of chakras and mantras, and sexual techniques, all aimed to help one's health, long life, and liberation.
The expanded ability to connect with an intimate partner draws many to tantra. Aside from improving communication and intimacy, tantric practices can expand the energy body toward a higher purpose — meditative absorption, cosmic union, merging [consciousness] with the breath called pranaor chi.
There are ecstatic benefits to tantra in an of itself. And it feels good to practice it for its side benefits with a partner. But how can we be open and intimate with anyone else when we have yet to be that way with ourselves?
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“A universal reaction seemed to bring metal, plant and animal under a common law. They all exhibited essentially the same phenomena of fatigue and depression, with possibilities of recovery and of exaltation, as well as the permanent irresponsiveness associated with death. Filled with awe at this stupendous generalization, it was with great hope that I announced my results before the Royal Society—results demonstrated by experiments. But the physiologists present advised me to confine myself to physical investigations, in which my success had been assured, rather than encroach on their preserves. I had unwittingly strayed into the domain of an unfamiliar caste system and so offended its etiquette.
The expanded ability to connect with an intimate partner draws many to tantra. Aside from improving communication and intimacy, tantric practices can expand the energy body toward a higher purpose — meditative absorption, cosmic union, merging [consciousness] with the breath called prana or chi.
