Spiritual aspects of gardening
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Title & link Photo First lines of article Media Why to learn cultivating and using plants 
For many people gardening and learning about plants is a hobby. But it can be much more than that. First, when we have a garden, we need to take well care of it. When you sow seeds in pots in a greenhouse, preparing these to plant out later, you'll have to take regular care of them. The energy reality of a garden 
All that exists also exists on the level of energy.Sometimes we tend to think that energy is just energy, but in fact, there are many types of energy. Each energy has a certain inner character and it has a special effect.
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- There's something about plants that not everyone realizes. Plants, through the process of photosynthesis, transform the energy of the sun into a form that humans and animals can receive in their food. Without plants, our bodies would not be able to live and grow. What is true for the physical body, is also true for the spirit body. We need the food and energy that plants provide for the growth of our spirit bodies. But so that our food also really benefits us spiritually, crops need to be taken very well care of not only in a physical sense but also in a spiritual sense. 'We are what we eat' may be a somewhat simplified statement, but 'we are what we eat'.
- Plants are sentient beings, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants. It means that they respond to how we feel about them and how we relate to them. Personally, i don't have a sentimental relationship to plants, or at least it's not what i aspire. But i do see plants as gifts from God, treasures in many ways. In most cases we haven't yet discovered the uses of most plants. Plants are very much part of our being. We grow from them, they can heal us. All these gems were given to us from the start, before we even existed as human species. I think that the main demand for growing crops in a good way is the attitude of gratitude and wonder in relation to plants. Of course, there are many details in how to grow plants in the right way, to prepare your soil well, to be attentive to the plants you grow, to make sure the environment of the garden is well prepared and protected both spiritually and physically. It's a learning process. Dive in it and discover about yourself and about plants!
- From a spiritual viewpoint, attitude is often more important than external factors. For example, vegetables grown organically but by an arrogant farmer can be inferior to those that were grown in what has now become conventional commercial farming, but with respect for the food quality.
- How did the great array of naturally healing substances in plants and other living beings come about? No single living being can be understood as existing in isolation. All the animals and plants and micro-organisms were made to be dependent from the environment in which they live. The bodies of animals should not be seen as having a life independent from that of plants and other living organisms. Imagine a beautiful painting. If you isolated the parts of the painting, a figure here, a tree there, then you would not get any good painting. Likewise, all of creation was made in a single symphony of harmonizing elements, in which each element of creation, each animal and plant plays a good role only when understood in harmony to other creations. Health is nothing else than the state of existence in which an animal or a human being exists in good harmony to all surrounding entities in this symphony of life.
- We have been working with one plant in particular to study its energetic properties. It's an ornamental tobacco plant. My own plants are only just beyond the stage of seedling, therefore i show a photo here that i got from the internet of a regular tobacco plant. When i write 'we' i mean myself and some people in the spirit world with whom i am doing this project together. I cannot show the original plant that is object of our research as it now grows in the spirit world after a ceremony of offering. This particular plant has been and is given extra care to bring back the original energetic qualities. Most plants now on earth don't have these original energetic qualities anymore. I don't know how exactly these energetic qualities got lost in the course of history. It may be partly due to ignorance, partly because of people messing around with plants and using them for lower materialistic purposes. When a plant is taken well care of, its energy qualities can improve greatly. This can be seen by some people whose spiritual senses developed for this particular way of seeing. Here follows a listing of some major energy connections and fields of each plant.
- There is an energetic connection to the earth. This connection of course goes through the roots of the plant.
- There is an energetic connection to 'heaven' or the cosmos. This connection goes through the leaves and flowers and fruits.
- There is an inner energy channel that runs through the stem, connecting the earth and heaven energy inputs.
- There is an energy field that surrounds the entire body of the plant and that is very near to the plant, extending maybe from one to a few cm. This energy field protects the plant and is strong when the plant is healthy.
- There is an energy field around the plant that extends for maybe a few meters. Through this energy field the plant connects to its environment, shares of its own energies and receives energies from neighboring plants and other objects and beings in the environment.
- There is an energy field that extends very far and that connects to all other plants of the same species around the globe.
Note that all living beings, also humans, have similar energy connections in and fields around their bodies. This listing of 6 energy connections and fields is based on observations. I'm presently trying to get deeper understanding of how these connections and fields are related to one another.
Gallery
Field with circled crops. This photo is from when I planted and sowed in my garden for the first time. Because it was already late in the gardening year I had little choice, but I planted courgette, leek, Brussels sprout and strawberries and I sowed spinach and chard. The photo shows that I did it in circles and ellipses. There is a spiritual reason why it is done this way. It's an old tradition in some or more Native American tribes.
A field of rapeseed 'cut off.' The rapeseed was sown in circles but the field was cut to make room for a path.
See also
External links
- Harvesting kale and considering the energetic qualities John Eagles note on Facebook (Photos not yet uploaded to ERW
- Plants in the spirit world John Eagles note on Facebook
- The energy reality of a garden John Eagles note on Facebook
