Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Buhner, Stephen Harrod -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Image Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents A Note to the Reader First Movement: Touching the Foundations of the World

Prelude: The Soft Flutter of Butterflies Chapter 1: Reclaiming the Invisible Chapter 2: “The Doors of Perception”

The Doors of Perception Sensory Flow Through the Brain Gating “Deficits”

Chapter 3: “And the Doorkeeper Obeys When Spoken To”

Intentionally Shifting Gating Repression-Driven Gating Unconscious Overrides

Chapter 4: “Everything Is Intelligent”

Self-Organization Juggling Everything Is Intelligent An Elegant Symbiosis

Chapter 5: We Want Braaaaains

(Our) Resistance Is Futile Bacterial Intelligence Plant Intelligence Plants and Perception The Plant Brain Plant Social Communication

Chapter 6: Gaia and “the Pattern That Connects”

LUCA Symbiogenesis Clouds, Rain, and Bioprecipitation The Pattern That Connects Pattern Formation Gaian Sex The Sense of Aesthetic Unity

Chapter 7: “Molecular Veriditas”

Serotonin Desert Locust Stories Gaia and Serotonin Serotonin and the Plant Root/Brain Serotonin Innovations

Chapter 8: The Function of Psychotropics in the Ecosystem

Serotonergic Neurognostics Psilocybin Coevolutionary Interactions in Complex Ecosystem Networks Psilocybin and Ecosystem Neural Networks DMT The Neuroactivity of Neurognostics Cannabinoids Neurognostics and Ecosystem Function

Chapter 9: Inextricable Intertangling

Second Movement: Gaia’s Mind and the Dreaming of Earth

Chapter 10: “A Certain Adjustment of Consciousness”

Sound Synaesthesia The Secret Kinesis of the World

Chapter 11: The Sea of Meaning

Developing Perceptual Acuity Developing a Perceptual Database

Chapter 12: Following Golden Threads

Golden Threads in Writing Wood Music Depth Immersion

Chapter 13: The Naturalist’s Approach The Beginnings of Deep Earth Perception Chapter 14: The Imaginal World

To Be Called Beloved by the Earth The Imaginal Realm

Chapter 15: The Dreaming of Earth Chapter 16: Reemergence into Classical Newtonian Space

The Song of Earth

Bridge: Bifurcation

Chapter 17: The Ecological Function of the Human Species

What Are People Anyway? The Ecological Function of the Human Species Autumn

Chapter 18: “The Road Not Taken” Chapter 19: Becoming Barbarian

Coda: A Different Kind of Thinking

Appendix 1: Sensory Overload and Self-Caretaking

Sensory Overload Reducing Sensory Gating Channels Some Comments about the Concept of Safety Paranoid Events Taking On Someone Else’s Stuff Depression Consciousness Modules Inner Council Work A Moment in Which the Author Makes a Crucial Point or Two The “Ego” The Exercises: Self-Caretaking Expanding the Exercises to Every Developmental Stage Dealing with Specific Problems A Few Last Words

Appendix 2: On the Healing of Schizophrenia

One: Accurate Information about the World Two: Depth Work with Multiple Conscious Modules Three: Heart Field Synchronization Four: Training in Accurate Responses to and Identification of Incoming Data Five: Training in Control of Sensory Gating Channels Six: Freeing Segregated Parts Seven: Seeing Them through to the End

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