TNP208 {Special Class Recording} Connecting and Communicating with Plants
09/08/23 • 14 min
We’re doing something a bit different on the podcast today! I’m sharing a basically unedited recording of a recent class I led within The Numinous Network on connecting with and communicating with plants.
What are the steps to communicate with plants?
Do we need to know a lot about horticulture?
Do we have to ingest plants to really know them?
How do I know if I'm just making it all up?
We cover all of this and more.
I’m offering this sneak peek because it’s Free Week in the Numinous Network this month, from Sept 17 - 23 in this year of 2023.
This class includes several intuitive exercises including trancework which may not be appropriate for listening while driving or riding a bike or otherwise operating machinery - take due care, my friends!
Because it's a basically unedited recording of a live video class, some parts may not be as interesting as a normal podcast episode, but I hope you'll feel like you're right there with us in an intuition development class, learning and practicing alongside us. It feels really sweet to me to think of you there in the larger collective field of The Numinous School*.
Referenced in this episode:
Opening Poem: "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January", DENISE LEVERTOV
Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magic, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft, Dr.Cyndi Brannen
Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits, Jen Frey
Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, Pam Montgomery
TNP198 AstroMagic Miniseries: Eliza Robertson and The Sun
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and the Young Adult version by my friend, Monique Gray Smith
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive , Martín Prechtel
Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Collin Varner
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines, Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie with Nancy J. Turner
TNP202 AstroMagic Miniseries: Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask, Mary Siisip Geniusz
Closing Poem: The Tree Agreement, ELISE PASCHEN
*The Numinous School was a year-long intuition development program that ran from 2014-202, a precursor to The Numinous Network.
Now, assembled with nearly a dozen other courses within The Numinous Network, The Numinous School anchors our Spirituality section in the Courses area.
Homework for this Lesson ReciprocityAsk your plant friend what they’d like. Maybe they want to be tended a certain way, maybe they want you to draw them. Stay with the question – at first they might say something like, I want you to take care of yourself, I want you to relax. That’s all good to know, but stay with this question of what you can do for them or offer to them until you get an answer that is truly something they want just for them. When you have the gift, present it to them. Spend time in this space, speaking aloud your gratitude. What do you notice in the days after?
Plant LimpiaPlant bathing: It can be as simple as plac...
We’re doing something a bit different on the podcast today! I’m sharing a basically unedited recording of a recent class I led within The Numinous Network on connecting with and communicating with plants.
What are the steps to communicate with plants?
Do we need to know a lot about horticulture?
Do we have to ingest plants to really know them?
How do I know if I'm just making it all up?
We cover all of this and more.
I’m offering this sneak peek because it’s Free Week in the Numinous Network this month, from Sept 17 - 23 in this year of 2023.
This class includes several intuitive exercises including trancework which may not be appropriate for listening while driving or riding a bike or otherwise operating machinery - take due care, my friends!
Because it's a basically unedited recording of a live video class, some parts may not be as interesting as a normal podcast episode, but I hope you'll feel like you're right there with us in an intuition development class, learning and practicing alongside us. It feels really sweet to me to think of you there in the larger collective field of The Numinous School*.
Referenced in this episode:
Opening Poem: "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January", DENISE LEVERTOV
Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magic, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft, Dr.Cyndi Brannen
Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits, Jen Frey
Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, Pam Montgomery
TNP198 AstroMagic Miniseries: Eliza Robertson and The Sun
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and the Young Adult version by my friend, Monique Gray Smith
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive , Martín Prechtel
Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Collin Varner
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines, Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie with Nancy J. Turner
TNP202 AstroMagic Miniseries: Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask, Mary Siisip Geniusz
Closing Poem: The Tree Agreement, ELISE PASCHEN
*The Numinous School was a year-long intuition development program that ran from 2014-202, a precursor to The Numinous Network.
Now, assembled with nearly a dozen other courses within The Numinous Network, The Numinous School anchors our Spirituality section in the Courses area.
Homework for this Lesson ReciprocityAsk your plant friend what they’d like. Maybe they want to be tended a certain way, maybe they want you to draw them. Stay with the question – at first they might say something like, I want you to take care of yourself, I want you to relax. That’s all good to know, but stay with this question of what you can do for them or offer to them until you get an answer that is truly something they want just for them. When you have the gift, present it to them. Spend time in this space, speaking aloud your gratitude. What do you notice in the days after?
Plant LimpiaPlant bathing: It can be as simple as plac...
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TNP207 {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times
Let’s talk about fascism today, friends. Why is it important? Because in collapse, authoritarianism always increases. Of course we don't like strong man dictators, military coups, or religious fundamentalism – we hate all the different forms authoritarianism takes. But the especially chilling thing about fascism is that doesn't just happen in the political sphere; it happens at the dinner table.
Average people live under authoritarianism, often for generations, without it altering their daily reality much at all. The power struggles of dictators and regime changes might hardly make a difference. But fascism uses the populace and populist movements as part of its social control.
Fascism goes deeper and far beyond fear and military might to secure its stranglehold.
This episode is an excerpt from my online course, Collapse 101, which is accessed as part of my monthly membership subscription program, The Numinous Network. We have a Collapse 101 class lecture, followed by an AMA a week later, almost every month.
In this session, I'm sharing about the hallmarks of fascism so we can be alert to some of the sneaky ways it wends itself into our lives.
Referenced in this episode:
TNP193 How Much Is Enough In Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben
The Rewilding Podcast with Peter Michael Bower, ep. 30: Collapse Care with Carmen Spagnola
End Times/New Times: Numinous Podcast Episode Round-Up for Collapse
Recommended Reading:
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier, published under the title, "Fascist Ecology: The "Green Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents" (1996)
On the Rise of the Right-Wing Mass Movements, (2014)
The Return of Fascism in Contemporary Capitalism (2014)
Economic Collapse and the Rise of Fascism, 1920-1933, A People's History of Modern Europe (2016)
The Pagan and Occult Fascist Connection and How To Fix It, by Amy Hale (2019)
Note the difference in tone regarding America in just one year in the following three articles:
Fascism Is Spreading — And It’s a Sign of Civilizational Collapse, Umair Haque (2022)
How Many Collapsing Societies Does It Take to Teach the Same Lesson?, Umair Haque (2023)
America’s Battle To Save Its Democracy From Trumpism, Umair Haque (2023)
Alternatively...
If you want to end on a more upbeat note, here's a classic:
Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
or
Punching Nazis: Spiritual or No? by me, Carmen Spagnola
Next Episode
TNP208 {Special Class Recording} Contact Nutrition + Attachment
This episode is one of a series of recordings of live classes that I’m publishing on the podcast so you can have a preview of how I teach ahead of Free Week, which is happening in The Numinous Network from September 17-23, 2023. Get on my newsletter to receive the link when it's sent on September 17.
What is Contact Nutrition and why is it so critical to develop secure attachment in a relationship?
Are there socio-cultural components to secure attachment that might be missing from the popular literature?
Are you wishing you could have the Cole's Notes on attachment theory and just skip right to the practical doing part?
Let's get into it!
Referenced in this episode:
Check out the class schedule for our live events, plus a listing of on-demand video courses available with your Numinous Network membership.
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