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This tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours
This tree stump is kept alive by its ne…

Such scientific findings give new levels of meaning to indigenous understandings of “plants as teachers.” Compounds that may have originally emerged to facilitate communication of informa-tion within and between plant cells, now continue to serve as messenger molecules, transmitting information across multiple levels: the intra and inter-cellular, the inter-organismal and biospher-ic, as well as among multiple beings across different layers of the cosmos. By bringing indigenous understandings into dialog with biochemical insights, native and scientific concepts can illuminate one another, without privileging one perspective over the other. The empirical, sensory properties of plants can be seen, both by scientists and shamans, as concrete chemical signs that emerge with-in a complex web of information, transmission, communication and ultimately, relation between diverse beings, each with its own syntax, semantics, pragmatics and goals. The concept of plants as teachers is more than metaphor: it is a profound and accurate description of shamanic biosemiotics.
---Glenn Shepard
Spirit bodies, plant teachers and messenger molecules in Amazonian shamanism (80)

UWA Staff Profile : The University of Western Australia : The University of Western Australia
UWA Staff Profile : The University of W…
Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants can learn from experience
Pavlov's plants: new study shows plants…
Tuned in: plant roots use sound to locate water
Tuned in: plant roots use sound to loca…
CABINET // Thinking Like a Plant
CABINET // Thinking Like a Plant
The Social Lives of Forests
The Social Lives of Forests
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropolo…
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