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🗓️ 27 September 2023
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0:00.0 | I'll see you in the next video, bye! |
0:30.4 | Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. |
0:38.1 | Hey there, how are you? Welcome to Destiny. Come on in, have a seat. |
0:44.8 | We're talking about plants and foliage this week. And about 40 years ago, |
0:55.8 | a book came out called Secret Life of Plants. And it was written by one of my favorite authors, |
1:03.0 | a guy named Peter Tompkin and his co-writer, a guy named Christopher Bird. I actually knew Christopher |
1:10.8 | Bird. He was at a number of whole life exposents in San Francisco in the late 1990s. But between them, |
1:18.9 | they were focused and they wrote a great deal of scientific evidence that plants, |
1:26.8 | trees, foliage in general, was sentient. They had that plants had consciousness and could feel pain. |
1:35.2 | And they were aware of their environment and most notably, their human counterpart. |
1:43.5 | And a lot of people were up in arms when this was published. And in fact, there were a number of |
1:49.7 | scientists that tried to just prove it. Of course, now we know that plants do feel pain, are aware |
1:57.7 | of our presence. And this is all evidence-based scientific testing that's proving all this. |
2:06.0 | But what makes this topic so fascinating is that, and we'll hear from my guest today on more |
2:13.2 | details, it really looks like these are plant allies is what I'm going to call them, or plant |
2:19.7 | spirits are here to help us. And it's funny because I talk about going out for a walk in nature |
2:28.1 | once or twice a week, sometimes more if I can, whether permitting. And there is a real |
2:34.8 | healing and reconnecting of the earth with living us, the living beings on the earth. |
2:43.8 | And when you get out and you turn your phone off, you leave your phone in the car, whatever, |
2:49.7 | and you are uninterrupted in your walk hike, whatever you're doing in nature, |
2:56.5 | it actually is a great health benefit. It's been shown to reduce stress, |
3:02.8 | quiet the mind, help with anxiety, depression. There's a huge list of benefits of simple hiking |
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