The Vegetal Imagination
Whenever people wonder out loud what other people are thinking or, especially, when they wonder what their dogs or cats are thinking, I think about worms. I wonder what they're thinking, what that thinking is like, how it is to be a worm. Recently, thanks to The Secret Life of Plants, I've started wondering what the little strawberry sprout in the living room is thinking, how it experiences the world. Only somewhat coincidentally, a few days ago, I read my first few pages of Terence McKenna, these sentences included:
Not sure that really answers much of my question about the strawberry. Sure does make me think about worms again, though.
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable, rather than the animal, approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterized by the solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of the vegetal imagination.
Not sure that really answers much of my question about the strawberry. Sure does make me think about worms again, though.
