Francois Demange learned over many years from indigenous wisdom about the communication with plants and the energies of life that are inherent in nature. In working with people from all over the world, he experiences that we all can find ways to communicate with the natural world in deeper ways. In an interview with evolve he says:
“Nature itself can communicate, and I refer to the language of energy or the life force. And I make parallels with other cultures, particularly with the Chinese culture, when they talk about the qi and the universal life force. In that reality, stones, the water, the wind, the earth, the fire, and the plants have that life force. In the case of plants, and in the context of indigenous Amazonian people, there is a whole system of healing where you engage with plants to improve your connection to nature.”
For finding this deeper connection it is helpful to immerse one self in wild nature again, to tune into its energy: “Nature has a certain vibration of just being nature. We live a human life eating, putting things in our bodies with all sorts of different elements and having behaviors that don't necessarily match with the environment of nature. We live in cities or in villages where we have a different lifestyle than in the old times when we were living much closer to nature. I don't want to judge it, but to be closer to nature’s energy, we have to tune in.
That is what indigenous Amazonian people do with certain rituals, where you spend a long time in the forest, eating particular foods, taking certain plants or bathing with them. Then your internal energy matches the external energy of the natural environment, and an energetic communication can be established. You also are not distracted by the technological influence or human affairs of everyday life, but you are fully immersed in a natural environment. You establish a bridge to the natural world, and you start to embody a quality that is more susceptible to feel the natural environment and subtleties of perception.
When you do that for a certain amount of time, your capacity to listen to that energy of plants and their language roots within yourself and develops itself. It demands a certain intentional openness, intentional listening, more than just a rational approach. I would call it supra-rational.”
In our evolve LIVE! Seminar we will investigate with Francois what we can learn from the indigenous wisdom of communicating with nature and how er can find and develop this in our lives. We will also explore how the dialogue itself is a way for tuning into the lifeforce on a level of our shared human awareness.
