OM.

Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry (part 1). Do watch the other parts. They’re pretty amazing.

I wish there was a concentration called Evolutionary Psychology. It totally degrades the idea of man’s supremacy over other life forms.

Going off on a tangent, you know how I like supernatural stuff like fairies and nymphs and deities and all that fun stuff? I started believing that what makes an organism dead or alive is this life energy that inhabits the physical object and allows the physical machinery to perform its biofunctions. It’s like the battery that powers your portable devices. My life energy is simply the thing that keeps my body functions running, thus keeping me “alive”. It doesn’t do anything with my personality, thoughts, or what people commonly refer to as the soul.

I also like to believe that other life forms can interact with my life energy, or other life forms. I don’t mean they communicate on some supernatural/spiritual weird realm but actually in familiar energy forms such as infared or electromagnetic waves.

Okay, this is stupid. This is only my theory I wish was true. My mom who often avoids such talk about the supernatural, categorizing it all as demonic, told me about this lady from church and how she talks to her plants. For one plant she would complement it, speak kindly to it while for another plant, she would speak the opposite. She claimed that the plant that she praised grew much better compared to the one she spoke down to. Hmm. That’s what I mean by communication, in this case by sending “good vibrations” to the plant’s life energy. Or maybe she just stopped watering that plant and hid it in shade.. in that case, she was a total bitch.

I had a conversation with my friend Morgan and he told me about some Native American tribes in the Southwest that believe that by consuming a plant, you take in or become possessed by its spirit, especially when plants with psychoactive properties are consumed. For them it was peyote. They respected the plant as a great teacher and might have prayed to the plant-being to bless them with wisdom from whatever lessons they come across in their trip.

Anyways, the next time I’m with a plant or I grow something, I’m going to carry a conversation with it and send my love and good vibrations to it. I wouldn’t expect it to communicate back but if the plant’s being enjoys me, maybe it’ll bless me with a good yield or refer me to the bigger deities for special life blessings..

man, I’m pathetic but I love believing this stuff. Grew up a lonely boy.