I look at me; I look at you; I look at a plant. You both look different than me. My brain - the basic filtering machine armed with my five senses, past experiences, memories, and perceptions so that I don't get eaten by a lion or hit by a car, scans you and tells me things. Basic information: She looks nice, she looks dangerous, she is ok. Depending on the information I get, I either talk to you or stay away from you.
This is us living by the limitations of our five senses - the basic filtering machine.
On the other hand, without a single word exchange, the divine in you and the divine in me communicate effortlessly on a moment-to-moment basis. You think of someone, and that person calls you, or you call only to learn that they were thinking about you. "I was just thinking about you", you say, fooled by your five senses, thinking this is just a coincidence.
The same is true for plants as well. All ancient and indigenous peoples said that they learned the uses of plants as medicines from the plants themselves. For, they insisted, the plants can speak to human beings if only human beings will listen and respond to them in the proper state of mind.
And yet, we all have formed our lives around the basic information we have gotten so far through our five senses.
We become materialists.
We ate healthy food for vitamins.
We use healthy skincare for minerals.
We forgot the invisible, the unheard, the silent yet powerful language between you and me, you and the Nettle in your balm.
Beyond the doors of your five senses, perceptions, and memories - the basic filtering machine into the dreaming Earth, the mind of Gaia. Earth is speaking to you in your balm, the grass underneath your feet, the tree on your way.
Are you listening?
Nettle says "Hi" every night inside the Night Balm, waiting for a hi back, waiting to share millennia of knowledge and wisdom gained. The materialist in me, fooled by my five senses counting vitamins & minerals - eyes and ears closed, and I do not hear the hi back refusing my own divinity, depriving myself of my own power of communicating with the Earth.
You and I and every living being on Earth are on an evolutionary journey. Open your eyes and ears to the unknown, the unseen, the unexplainable, the magic. Don't wait for science to fully catch up. Be the magic, be the magician, be the mystic, broaden your thinking, and leave the materialist, counting only the vitamins and minerals behind. Speak to the nettle in your balm to be able to hear what she has to say...
This is called evolution. You are evolving to a greater truth, discovering a forgotten sense.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the "mysterious". It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
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with all my love
Ezgi