Consciousness as a Plant: Spiritual Growth & Psychedelic ...

I never leave the bridge, the noise never stops. The witness is always there, it is omnipresent. What changes is the egoic identification and perspective of which my consciousness is directed. My consciousness is the witness and my witness is my awareness. Like a flower, it needs to be cultivated. To grow a beautiful garden we first we need to plant a seed. Good news that divine seed of consciousness is within all of us already, our society is just unfortunately run by beings that want to make it difficult to remember. Now what does a seed need to grow? It first needs to germinate and sprout into a seedling. To do so it requires water, oxygen, and the proper temperature. If you’re reading this your most likely breathing so you have oxygen taken care of. The proper temperature is our setting in life. These are the external factors pertaining to our remembrance/awakening. Comparable to when people that experience a near death experience and have an interaction with the divine or a “religious experience”. In my case it was psilocybin that did it along with a lot of other seeds that have been planted by my satsang. Water is like the structural support which for me is my sadhana or spiritual practice. Which is really every aspect of my life because every moment is sacred to the witness. Things like meditation, and mantra are ways we can water the divine seed of our witness consciously. To germinate my seed it took a mix of psychedelics, yoga, and meditation then integration of it all. Psilocybin was what created the right temperature and meditation and yoga which through integration via learning from Ram Dass’s lectures triggered my seed’s metabolism enough to wake it up from dormancy and through integration “I” was able to sprout into a seedling. Now that the seed has sprouted it still of course needs water, but now to grow large, strong and beautiful it needs sunlight for energy, quality soil for nutrients, enough space to grow, appropriate temperatures and most importantly time to develop. So we now need light, soil, space, and time. In this lens I see light as the food we eat. While I will be the first to say that I do not have a great diet, I am mindful of it and am making better choices as my garden continues to grow. This one doesn’t work perfectly in regards to fasting and whatnot but the basic sentiment is there. Actually I changed my mind, I think the sunlight is our physical body in this plane. In the sense of like duality and light and dark. Being in the sunlight is like in living in harmony with one’s higher self and in divine grace. Sort of like the balance between witness and ego, but that’s another angle in itself. We are always in the sunlight or else we would not survive, but sometimes we get into shady places and do shady things with attachment and desire which is “bad” karma and suffering which again is just divine grace to get you to grow towards the light and out of the shadow we’re planted (born) into. The soil is rather the food we eat and the nutrients we consume. Quality food is quality soil because it gives our bodies the ability to absorb the light we’re growing towards. Like natural organic, kosher, halal, pure foods cooked with love. There’s a lot to this one that most people (myself included) aren’t aware of, but we’re learning! Fasting in this case to me is like growing a cactus and instead of soil being food the water is, small adjustment but still works either way haha. Enough space is important because if we are unable to grow then we stagnate, this to me is a mix of physical and mental attachments and more so mental frameworks of ego trying to fit everything into a box. So kind of the opposite of what I’m doing from one angle haha but I do it out of love and service to those who read. This is sort of where gnosis comes in, that being belief from experience. Agnostic is just someone saying that is A gnostic which means their “belief” comes through experience. Faith is not belief, believing something implys the possibility that it is not true. Faith is knowing without direct experience but by loving, and trusting of realized beings. Gnosticism is pure faith in trusting realized beings in their direct experience. Gnosis is literally direct, experiential, and mystical knowledge of divine. This is what Christ taught, and is the core of my biggest issue with organized institutional western religion. Enlightenment is Christ consciousness, the Buddha mind, incarnation of Krishna whatever makes your ego happy. The kicker is that we’re all already enlightened, we just don’t remember because our ego is attached to this physical plane. There is no where to go, we’re already all here. We are of transcendental non-dualistic divine nature living in a dualistic universe created for the divine to experience itself and we are the manifestations of the divine trying to ourselves return home. We just forgot that home is where the heart is which was within us all along. Namaste, Sage The divine within me sees the divine within you. Ram Ram

This post uses an extended metaphor of consciousness as a plant to explore spiritual growth. It details the stages from seed (innate consciousness) to seedling and full bloom, correlating each stage with necessary elements like water (sadhana, meditation), temperature (setting, psychedelics, NDEs), sunlight (physical body, divine grace), soil (quality food), space (freedom from egoic frameworks), and time. The author posits that we are already enlightened, simply forgetting due to egoic attachment to the physical plane, and emphasizes gnosis (experiential knowledge) over blind faith.

this really resonates. the plant metaphor is elegant because it sidesteps all the performative spiritual language and just shows you what actually needs to happen for growth. no shortcuts, no magic, just the conditions and the time. what strikes me most is the part about already being enlightened. that's the hard part to sit with because it means the work isn't about becoming something new, it's about removing what's in the way. the ego does love a good project though, so there's something tender about that paradox you're pointing at. the distinction between faith and gnosis feels important too. so many people get stuck in belief systems without ever tasting it themselves. but once you've felt that direct knowing, even just a glimpse, the whole game changes.

@wisdomseekerb Exactly! That’s why I use it, I’ve found that nature metaphors and allusions are the best for explaining dense spiritual topics in easy to simple terms. It is hard to sit with, and I can’t even fully explain it but to your point that the ego loves a good project is exactly why the metaphor works, it’s natural. Not some creation of our collective ego, rather a reflection of our innermost self(s) which is nature itself. Mother nature one could say That’s the whole thing. I would go as far to say that atheism is just culturally accepted ignorance lol. I don’t have an issue with faith because at a certain point it works out and I feel like for so long it has been taught the wrong way. In that faith is of something within ourselves not outside of us, while also being both. As as within, so without, as above, so below.