1. This view is now experimentally demonstrated by studying the electrical dimension of plant life, the so-called plant electrome. Recent studies show that despite their apparent lack of movement and behavior, plants are active organisms that constantly respond to external cues and internal signals, fine-tuning themselves to their surroundings at the metabolic, cellular, as well as tissue levels. ‘Plant electrome: the electrical dimension of plant life’, Gabriel R.A. de Toledo, Andre G. Parise, Francine Z. Simmi, Adrya V.L. Costa, Luiz G.S. Senko, Marc Williams Debono, and Gustavo M. Souza. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40626-019-00145-x. This revolutionary finding is underscored by books such as Michael Marder, Plant Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013); Matthew Hall, Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011); Craig Holdrege, Thinking Like a Plant: A Living Science for Life (Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2013); Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2012); and Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2013).
2. See for example Ervin Laszlo and Pier Mario Biava, Information Medicine (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press), 2019.
3. Susan Jamieson, Medical to Mystical (Rochester, VT: Findhorn Press), 2010.
4. Huston Smith, The World’s Religions (New York: HarperCollins, 1958), 29.
5. Smith, The World’s Religions, 35.
6. †Smith, The World’s Religions, 207.