Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth

by Stephen Harrod Buhner

By enhancing your feeling sense and using it continually to build a library of feeling experiences you learn how to read the world around you as you would a book of words you learn how to move through, to live in, the metaphysical background of the world as a way of life Eventually, as Twain puts it, he “had learned to read the face of the water as one would cull the news from the morning paper.” This constant focus on the craft, Twain says, resulted in a tremendous store of knowledge about the river, so deeply ingrained inside him, that he came to know the river as well, or better, than he knew the hall in his own home. The river became a living part of him and he a part of it. He knew every part of the depths that flowed beneath him. When he then traveled across its surface, piloting a steamboat, he was immersed in a living communication with