I have been a slender sword
A drop in the air
A shining bright star
A letter amoung words
-6th century bard taliesin shamanic writing

such statements were for a long time seen as poetic bombast, But in more recent times they have been accepted as accounts of actual experiences, when a taliesin speaks of having "been" a sword, or a drop of rain or a star, he means that he has literally experienced what it means to be so completely at one with the things he sees and hears in such a way, that he feels as if he were indeed one of them.

-Mathews;shamanism bible

For materialists, our consciousness is nothing other than the activity of our brains. From this point of view, since consciousness is confined to human brains ( and is perhaps present to a lesser degree in higher animals) then neither the Sun nor the stars, nor the Earth, nor anything within it except man and perhaps some animals can have consciousness. The Sun, Gaia and indeed the entire universe cannot be conscious because they do not have brains.
Most materialists suppose that the complex electromagnetic rhythms in our brains provide the interface between brain activity and consciousness. Could rhythmic patterns of electromagnetic activity likely be associated with the consciousness of the Sun? One of the starting points of our discussions was the recent discovery of the extraordinary dynamism of the Sun. The eleven year sun-spot cycles, linked to reversals of the magnetic polarity of the Sun are well known. But the sun has recently been found to reverberate, like a gong, to over a million pitches, each bouncing back and forth through the different layers of the interior of the Sun, with the resonance being determined by their pitch. As well as this extraordinarily complex spatio-temporal pattern of vibration, there are the oscillations, perturbations, and harmonics of the electromagnetic field associated with the phenomena on the surface of the Sun such as sun-spots. Magnetic storms on the sun are so intense that they can disrupt radio communications, cause homing pigeons to lose their way, and in other ways affect what happens on Earth.
A cosmologist at Queen Mary College, London (who prefers to remain anonymous) described some of the ways these investigations are being carried out through an international programme called SOHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) with a special satellite positioned at the point of equal gravity between the Earth and the Sun and orbiting around the Sun together with the Earth, permitting continuous examinations and observations of the Sun’s activity. Meanwhile an earth-based network of observatories, GONG (the Global Oscillation Network Group), is also tracking the Sun’s vibratory activities 24 hours a day, overcoming the interruption of observations by nightfall by means of observatories at different longitudes.
Perhaps the Sun can think in a way barely imaginable to our more limited power of thinking, its thoughts interfacing with its ever changing patterns of vibratory activity. In this way, it is scientifically imaginable that the Sun could be conscious.
The scientists among us were more interested in such arguments than some of the other participants. Some, like esotericist and educator Ida Urso, said they had never doubted for a moment that the Sun was conscious. They thought of the whole universe as conscious; and if there is consciousness in everything, why not the Sun?
Inevitably, it was not long before we found ourselves discussing what was meant by consciousness. Christopher Clarke, a physicist, was opposed to any attempt to see consciousness as a kind of add-on extra, somehow fitted into a world of autonomous physical processes in autonomous space-time. Consciousness, in his view, is somehow fundamental or innate to physical processes and these processes are not separable from space-time itself. Space and time are not absolutes, as they were for Newton, but bound up with everything else, including consciousness.
-Rupert sheldrake

http://www.lifebridge.org/historySun.cfm

I've been working with the plant for about a year now, and have been learning a lot about Shamanism. Shamans believe that consciousness exists within everything including things like mountains, trees, rivers, rocks, etc (even chemical combinations like aya). The Q'ero in the Andes believe they can communicate with the mountains which they refer to as Apus.

I can accept that trees and plants have some sort of consciousness; however, the notion that mountains and lakes have their own consciousness is a challenge for me.

Anyway, my Shaman believes that she can communicate with trees. I live close to a lot of majestic Redwoods so I decided to give it a gander a couple of times but to no avail. I certainly feel "energy" (or negatively charged ions) when I'm out in the woods, but I never receive any kind of communication. Heck I even tried singing to a Redwood once but it didn't do any good.

So I'm curious...is this just some hippie BS? Or does anybody feel they can actually communicate with Nature the way the Q'ero do in Peru?

That's pretty amazing by Sheldrake. I'm reminded of Stuart Hameroff's work regarding Quantum processes ruling Electromagnetic vibrations in the brain. I'm perhaps wondering how this Quantum Mechanical framework would translate into the Sun's inner workings. Also, I think that EM is present in Biological lifeforms. in what way do Mountains etc. fungue the use of Electromagnetic 'Thought-waves' so to speak.

I had a minthe plant. When tripping I would just see leaves and I would hear voice saying 'I don't think I like this new place' .. 2 hour later I saved it from dying.

I still had this plant growing steadily but neglected it's roots. And I did not repot. It developed very thick white roots. It looked like a muscled guy on steroids. In fact, an angry muscled guy with veins popping. it looked threatening and it litterally scared me it took a few minutes and days even to really look at it fully. Perhaps I felt responsible for it's neglect or perhaps I felt an anger in it's growth.

This same plant (we have history) , while repotting I had to use a knife to cut upen the plastic pot because it's roots where holding on the pot so thightly. I was chatting with a friend and leisurely struck my knife (and therefore cut right through all of it's roots) in the pot and suddenly had to stop all conversation because I felt a striking pain in my heart. As like a knife cut into it. Then I said to her I feel this plant's heart. She complied silently. And I let out the knife and the pain stopped. It was amazing. I think I was lingering on mushroom microdose effect.

entheogenic-gnosis, FYI:

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=74032