Re: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 1265

"Hi folks...

I need some help.  I have been tapped to give a lecture titled "Our
Spiritual Connection to Plants"........Any and all are invited to take a
second and tell me what those words mean to you....

david king
greenman@ucla.edu"

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"Hi folks...

I need some help.  I have been tapped to give a lecture titled "Our
Spiritual Connection to Plants"........Any and all are invited to take a
second and tell me what those words mean to you....

david king
greenman@ucla.edu"

David,

Not only do I feel a keen spiritual connection with my plants (when I am
not blocked by the struggle of keeping them alive in this drought
situation...), but in my work with mentoring adolescents and helping others
to access their own core creative energies, I use plants as a bridge to the
spiritual. I also specialize in the design of healing gardens; spaces which
heal the earth upon which they are planted, and which can support healing
of persons who enter and work within them. On another note, I believe my
father's first recognition of intelligence outside of his select group of
humanity, was an evening when he went into my orchid house after dark, and
remained there for some time. Upon returning, he mentioned, "it's like
standing in a barn full of sleeping cows",connecting to a memory he
treasured from his own youth as a city boy spending summers on a farm. Now,
recognition of life within plants as developed by my father may not
necessarily be a full scale sort of spiritual relationship, but it
certainly opens an important door. When I work with school kids on
environmental awareness, part of the curriculum involves connecting to the
plant world. While, I don't present it as spirituality per-se, for
political reasons as much as anything, kids' relationship to their spiritul
side is so much more immanent anyway, that they generally get the
connection to and via plants very readily. I also use plants and other,
natural "found" materials in my workshops on mask-making and environmental
art. I feel the literal aspect of using materials from the environment in
which I am working somehow best captures and conveys the spirit of place,
season, and what ever issues my students or I may be trying to bring out.

Feel free to ask for elaboration on any of this, and best of luck!



Erik van Lennep-Hyland
Nemeton Design and Consulting Services

USA and Ireland

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