Awareness

According to most eastern religions, many native  shamanic practices, ancient religions and philosophies believe that everything posses a form of soul or spirit. A rock will have a spirit   but not the type of soul that lies within the belief of  monotheistic religions, but a type of energy or life.  Hinduism is regarded  as a  polytheistic religions for this reason, for  there is  a god  or goddess for everything; yet at the top of all is Brahma- a single  entity from whence all emanations  arise from, in the form of all the deities.  Thus, all is one and the spark of the creator force is in all and everything. All is alive, including Gaia- our earth; it is a living, breathing  entity in  a specific form. It is why in so many rituals she is honored  and respected and  deified-called "Mother Earth".

Following this trend of thought I got to wonder what  does that huge 150 year old maple  tree thinks at it sits patiently in our back garden by the banks of  Duffin`s  Creek doing nothing but growing?  Is it conscious? Does it have an idea of itself-is it self aware?  Does it possess any emotion though it does not have a brain?  Does it have memory? Is it happy? Can it feel joy? Can it be sad?  Does it grieve in any way? Can it love? Apart form being within the cycle of life diligently through photosynthesis working  and  producing oxygen, removing carbon dioxide which gives life or death  to the planet, does it have any other missions? But, as we know emotions arise mostly from the higher self and is independent from the physical brain. Having no brain, does it have any form of consciousness? 

We all know that plants react to music, to love; they grow bigger and faster in a positive environment -even fear as it has been demonstrated by the Russians a few years ago. When two plants were separated by a wall- and one was held close to a fire, the plant in the other room reacted in a way compared to fainting. So do they communicate in some way? Feel each others emotions? Some experiments have shown that they communicate through their root system. Can they make music? Can they dance? Can they sing? 

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So does it actually think in some way or form? -one can muse as to its thoughts and ask it questions pertaining to life- maybe he has some worthy life lessons to teach us if we listen closely to his biography.