You must repeat the whole process again: Attend to the plant itself once more, reexperience the moment of first contact, let it build to great intensity, send out your plea to know, then slightly disengage once more.
This process must always be repeated, usually many times.
Not through an extraordinary spiritual gift, not through momentary inspiration, unexpected and unique, but through constant work did I eventually achieve such satisfactory results. ⚘ Goethe
You must reengage with the phenomenon and repeat the process over and over and over again until, in a burst of understanding, an articulation of the meanings occurs naturally within you in a gestalt filled with highly charged understanding, complete and whole. It is in this moment that the plant stands revealed to you, the moment when it has completely unconcealed itself. You literally see the living reality of the plant within you on the field of your imaginal vision. This living reality of the plant is not composed merely of its physical shape, its energy, engendered feelings, or those preliminary linguistic bursts, pictures, or random thoughts that you experienced. There is a depth to the phenomenon now that is far beyond those things.
⚘ Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature