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Nature can be a beautiful backdrop, a romantic view, exotic room decoration, food, and much more. Often, we perceive nature as a separate object external to us. Feeling like oneself part of nature is a sublime and blissful experience. Zen is the Japanese meditation practiced for dissolving the limitations of the ego and experiencing unity with oneself and all of existence.
Often, when we absorb information, we imagine integrating it into an existing and stable self. However, medicinal plants are more powerful than our intellect and its constructed identity. The information of a medicinal plant cannot simply be integrated into a previous identity. The information of its healing powers is so potent that previously held conceptions do not survive. In fact, a medicinal plant does the exact opposite: the existing information dissolves within the information of the medicinal plant, like a sugar cube falling into hot tea. In this dissolution, it is integrated into the information of entirely new dimensions of existence.
Medicinal plants cause us to be reborn again and again in different dimensions. Their information and dimension are vibration, oscillation, and sound.
The plant world teaches us to let go of preconceived notions and be open to the unexplored, new vibrations, and above all, transformations. It also reveals important aspects of meditation: Meditation in its original sense does not involve isolating oneself from the outside world and escaping into a paradisiacal, romantically constant inner world. In meditation, one detaches from the focus of everyday life, releases habitual structures of thinking and planning, and focuses on observation – what does one observe? How everything is cyclically interconnected through vibration, sound, and oscillation. What connects in meditation? Above all, our three main forms of being: body, mind, and soul.
Sound healing and medicinal plants have something in common: they make the transitions between body, mind, and soul permeable and gentle, allowing us to surrender to this trinity as a whole. In this merging, our entire individual organism can "dissolve" into new, current, and contemporary collective dimensions of existence and integrate into the present of the future. This is healing, and at the same time, it is the powerful starting point for manifesting visions.