Do plants have chakras?

[Callista]

I was sitting and trying to see the aura of my little bamboo plant when I had a thought; do plants have chakras?
They have auras, they are living beings and so on, but I guess if they did have chakras they'd be somewhat different from human chakras.

Anyway, I'd just thought I'd put that thought forward  

[daidaluz]

HI Callista

 Well chakras are not just energy pools; chakras are conscious centers  which manage storage and provide the conscious energy that we use every day as human beings.

 Animals have chakras but less developed , being the  greater one for them the solar plexus chakra.

 For plants I have noticed that there is an energy center at the spot where the "trunk" splits into brunches. This is specially noticeable in trees.

 If you practice making pass energy from one hand to this spot and then back to the other hand  making a circle over and over you will feel something "particular" which is different than doing this in any other spot.

[You]

I'd guess yeah, but only the lower chakras.

[knucklebrain1970]

Although I don't know if plants have chakras, but they do have not only energy, but consciousness

This is no BS. There were several scientific documented experiments where plants were hooked up to lie detector type machines.  A specific part of the test measures emotions. When the person doing the experiment said "I'm going to cut off a leaf" the emotional measurement went haywire. Next, he said "I'm going to cut my arm with this knife"
Again, the emotional measurement went haywire. To take it a step further, he threatened in his mind silently to burn the plant and guess what happened


The emotional measurement went haywire. Now mind you this is a plant. What I derive from this is that there is a consciousness between all life forms and all Earthly matter, whether it be a plant, rock, animal or human. Granted a rock doesn't have the same level of consciousness that we have, but a rock does emit energy.  All life is interconnected and precious, from a plant to an ant to a human.

Conclusion? Be nice to your plants. Of course I can't have any plants as my Siamese cat Prince has a plant eating fetish.

Kevin

[You]

That really is rather strange, but I would like to see a link to this study and know if it happened with all kinds of plants and all kinds of people, just not this one guy and this one plant.

For all we know this guy might be using his psychic powers to make it seem like the plant's conscious Then again, I do like the idea of living trees.

[Tom]

I've read about more than one study of this kind. There were other scientists who tried to recreate the experiment and failed so they complained. When asked, they admitted that they hadn't actually been prepared to harm the plant involved. They got the correct results when they actually formed the intent to cause harm and when it was empty words it didn't work.

[You]

That makes sense. So basically get some cheap plants (you don't want to hack up anything expensive) and say that unless there is emotional feedback then  you will cut it with a machete. I'd suggested having a couple dozen plants ready for the experiment.

[knucklebrain1970]

Well, it doesn't seem very weird to me that plants have consciousness and perhaps even feelings. Why the hell not? What are feelings? Electricity or energy basically. Do plants not have electricity/energy ? However in the body, these electrical impulses are transformed into physical symptoms. I truly believe in collective consciousness. Look at the planet and look at people. Basically, people are suffering. They try to ease the suffering with stuff that is made from the environment. In turn the environment suffers and the person is no better off. I know this. I have lived in excess for the majority of my life and I'm still miserable. Less miserable in the past year that I've become spiritual. It's time people woke the ***k up and realized the pain that we try to ease, causes pain for the planet. The planet and all it's living organisms, that we are connected to, whether we know it or like it, is suffering. Look at what's happening. Things are getting worse and worse and nobody will admit it and wake the ***k up. Hell, I'd be the first one to tear down my house and burn it and build a cabin and start living like were supposed to. In harmony with the environment. The best example for this is karma. This does not just apply to people, it applies to the planet and universe as well. All we do is take, take, take, take and the Earth is plain ticked OFF. There's no denying this.

Kevin

[RD]

I sometimes think that it is too late to change the way of living in modern society. I hope I'm wrong though.

About the plants:

I heard something like this a couple of years ago. There was a test too, but not with threatening cutting comments for the plant, but with playboy magazine. They claimed that when the plant 'saw' of sensed nude pics of women, that it responded, or shall we say got 'aroused'.

Ofcourse tests like that are more likely to make people laugh instead of making them realise that they are living the wrong way indeed.

Same thing with the oil industry. I heard years ago about techniques to make cars drive on other things then oil. I think it was Steven Seagal who mentioned this in one of his movies. He said that the new techniques would not be used until this planet is totally drained from natural resourses, so that the people in charge can keep making their money.

I think this is true. I think it could already be realised but they pretend it can't and just say that they hope to get the new technique ready on time, before we run out of natural resources.

You know what; I bet they will be on time indeed...

[knucklebrain1970]

Bush is the antichrist.
Kevin

[Tracerammo]

LOL.  I think it's funny, all the talk of loving plants and then you with "Bush" would die.  Bwa ha ha!  Oh!  Uh... please forgive the horible pun.

I know of some studies done on plants.  I can't remeber all the types of plants specificaly, but they do change with human interaction.

Some plants change, geneticaly over time, to become more appealing to humans (so the theory states).  An example of this is the internode.  I've personaly seen two examples of this:

A friend of mine (the fellow that introduced the concept to me) has been doing his own research on the area of tri-foilate or tri-caudalidan (SPELLING CHECK) plants.

His idea is that a plant strain that is nurtured by loving humans will change to be better for the humans.  (I'm not isolating this phenomena to human interaction, but that's the only variable he's tested so far....)  At the internode of a plant (where the branches leave the trunk) a bifoliate plant only has two branches, one on either side.  My friend has two strains now that he's gotten trifoliate plants from.  The only conditon that is any different is that fact that he proigated them with love.

Could that be a conscience in a plant doing that?

Another idea:  Life is energy.  We all know that.  Anyone that puts enough thought into the idea will see it's true.  Nobody needs to convice anyone else, because everyone CAN figure it out for themselves.

If everything is made of the same excrement (atoms and such), what makes one thing more alive than anything else.  What makes the carbon and calcium of a human more capable of thought than a bug?  Nerves?  A brain?  Electricity and chemicals don't mean life.  Life is awarness.

[knucklebrain1970]

If everything is made of the same [edit] (atoms and such), what makes one thing more alive than anything else.  What makes the carbon and calcium of a human more capable of thought than a bug?  Nerves?  A brain? George Bush?

ROFLMAO

[You]

Energy does exist even in subatomic form, but the existence of the energy body, since the energy and physical bodies are supposed to resemble each other, depends fully on the physical body (or vice versa, I dunno). We are more complex than most plants. We have different cell walls than all plants (meaning none). Plants eat sun, water, and soil nutrients. We eat plants and other things that eat plants, absorbing their complexities into our own.

My thoughts are that whoever is on the top of the food chain is probably going to be the most aware. Don't take this as a cue to become a cannibal though