by Mark Pitstick MA, DC

If you’ve not already, please read . . .

  1. ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
  2. ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
  3. Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
  4. Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)

The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:

  • realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy 
  • receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
  • heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
  • create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
  • help others by sharing your greatest gifts
  • make our world a better place

As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold. 

 

Messages from Plants

I love plants and have throughout my life.  In my youth, I thought of becoming a landscaper since it felt so good to get my hands in the dirt and help plants thrive.

I’ve always had ‘a green thumb’ and my many plants do well.  A number of people have given me their dying plants and I somehow help them bloom again.  My ‘secrets’ include:

  1. follow the watering, sunlight, and spacing recommendations for that plant
  2. observe them for signs of too much sun (burning of the leaf edges), too little sun (pale leaves), insufficient drainage (root rot and plant fails), too much water (soggy stems), or not enough water (dry leaves)
  3. I talk to them — either mentally / telepathically or aloud — and tell them how beautiful they are and how I appreciate their presence in our home.When they aren’t thriving, I ask them to communicate what they need.
  4. I fertilize them every two months and water weekly
  5. I make sure the pot size is appropriate for the plant since too little or too much space can cause problems

That’s about it.  We live on 5 acres with lots of trees, bushes, and flowers.  Caring for indoor and outdoor plants is one of my hobbies.  I get more out of it than they do.

Over the years, I’ve learned to greatly appreciate the healing power of plants.  My fiance Andy is a certified clinical aromatherapist as well as an RN, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and evidential medium.  I’ve learned much and seen firsthand the extraordinary healing properties of the leaves, stem, and roots of plants.  I shudder when hearing that nearly 600 plant species have become extinct in the last few centuries.  What potential healing powers have been lost?  What common diseases might have been relieved or cured if we cherished instead of destroyed valuable plants?

One of the reasons I’m a vegetarian, and have been for most of my adult life, is the impact of meat eating on our environment.  Cattle require much grazing land that is created by destroying rainforests and trees.  They and pigs also produce much methane that depletes the ozone layer.  Excrement from chicken’s fouls nearby water.  A plant-based diet involves none of these major problem.

In this article, I’ll share a few of my favorite plant stories.  Those may validate your experiences and/or encourage you to increasing love and respect plants.

One of my favorite songs by Cat Steven’s is called ‘King of Trees’.  His music and lyrics really spoke to me in this song about a huge tree that was cut down in the name of progress.  A portion of the lyrics . . . “He was the king of trees, keeper of the glades.  The way he lightened my life, makes me so amazed.  We used to meet by him, many years ago.  I loved you, now they’ve come to lay the road. Oh, oh, oh!  Don’t lay the road.”

During a two-year period in my twenties, I prudently and occasionally used consciously altering plants.  The old three-story house I shared with two other college students had a window seat facing a huge oak tree.  After ingesting magic mushrooms, I experienced a long and soulful conversation with the tree.  I stared at its beauty and magnificence as lessons seemed to transfer in a deep, calm, and loving voice.  Forty-five years later, those lessons still resonate with the totality of my knowledge and experience.

Starting in the late 1990’s and for nearly 20 years, I gave many workshops to people around the country.  Those were primarily given at Unity Centers, Centers for Spiritual Living, and other New Thought / enlightened venues.  I learned as much as I taught from the real life stories that attendees share.  The following one still gives me goosebumps.

A woman who lived next to a large span of woods heard a beautiful melody one day.   It was at once flute-like and angelic — the most wonderful sound she had ever heard.  She hiked onto the private land even though she never had before.  As she walked, the sound became louder and clearer.  After nearly two miles, she found where the sound was emanating from . . . a huge stately tree.  She fell in love with this plant being, hugged, and thanked it profusely.  She considered it a personal miracle.

The next week, she took a friend with her to see the grand tree even though the music had stopped.  As they approached the area, they saw signs of forest clearing by machines.  The gigantic tree was gone.  In retrospect, the woman wondered if she may have heard the tree’s song that it sent out before being destroyed.  Hearing this was especially meaningful to me since my daily prayers include: ‘Thank you for helping me to share my greatest gifts, shine as brightly as possible, do all that I came here to do, and sing all my heart’s songs.’

I’ve lived on the same wooded 5 acre lot for 34 years.  Most recently, our neighbors huge oak tree had to be cut down.  Its dead limbs were larger than most trees and could kill someone if they fell.  The tree crew estimated that it was over 350 years old.  Just imagine all that tree has witnessed.  After the crew left, I walked up to the tree to thank it for all the beauty, shade, and inspiration it brought.

Initially, I felt sad as I saw the trunk that was too large to cut.  Everything else had been hauled away.  Then I sensed some messages from the tree (no mushrooms required):

  1. it had a great run, a super long life
  2. its life force / energy will be shared in other ways: the trunk a home for animals, its wood to warm homes, its branches and leaves to become new dirt
  3. it understood the cycle of life and considered it no big deal; perpetual change is part of life on earth
  4. the one that made me smile: don’t worry, there are lots of mini-oaks sprouting up all around here

Several neighbors agreed to find oak saplings and plant them in our yards so that tree lives on as new trees that will be appreciated by many people far after my earthly body has returned to the earth.

I hope this article encourages you to appreciate the plant world — different manifestations of consciousness to which we each are sacredly interconnected.

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Thank you for telling others about this article!  Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:  

  1. read the article again so you really know it.
     
  2. discuss with close family and friends to more deeply internalize it.
     
  3. take action steps that seem right for you.
     
  4. share it with others via social media, discussion groups, and other ways.

Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark

Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs

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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist.  He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings.  His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity. 

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I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator.  My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings.  This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.