The story goes I was approached by my friend Monika to collaborate on a botanical art project. Monika is a tattoo artist and illustrator with a mystic sense. She already had drawn Passionflower—I was supposed to write the plant’s profile plus, maybe, a short message from this herb.
Passionflower is a safe-to-ingest medicinal plant who fruits with, better known, passionfruit, maypops, or maracujas. As my custom is to first ask plants what to do (especially when my work regards them), I went into a ceremony to commune and communicate with the spirit of this plant, explaining our project’s intention. I also asked Passionflower whether there is something it wishes to share with us.
We have never completed this project because the first message seemed, then, too big and far out. The consciousness of Passionflower opened my consciousness just enough to transmit her teachings on light and water, tying them with the evolution of life on Earth and, overall, the evolving consciousness. The transmission happened through visions and energy channeling.
I guess, my understanding of biological and spiritual life has changed (and merged) ever since. In essence, this plant’s tale interlaced light and water, both being the evolutionary forces for embodiment and consciousness. Light transmutes forms, as it does in a food chain, and for biological life to manifest, water needs to carry light.
Is light, then, the true nature of consciousness that we get to experience in the matrix of water? As Passionflower teaches, for life—sentient intelligence—both water and light are inseparable. Only when they part can we spot a rainbow, the divine arc that fills us with hope and wonder, bridging back the realms of Earth and Sky. We often think of light either in scientific or spiritual terms. But what if both takes on light are true—and ultimately one and the same?
No doubt, plants are weaving and weavers, and plant consciousness comes to us with its agenda and free will. What’s more, plants weave their fate with our own and ours with theirs. „Photosynthesis goes back at least 3 billion [years]”, says Helen Gordon in her book Notes from Deep Time. Three billion years of a relationship with cosmic light. For the earthly consciousness of plants and trees, that’s a long time first to feed on and digest information—and then evolve.
With all its spiritual light, the pioneering plant consciousness has so much to share with us.
