The Music of the Plants: For whon the plants play

By Esperide Ananas

Plants perceive sound and love to play music.
This is demonstrated by studies and experiments conducted in academic research and, more importantly, by the experiences of many researchers and musicians who teach plants to use electronic, musical equipment to play and sing along with them.
The research into plant intelligence, plant sensitivity and the willingness of plants to communicate with us opens our minds and our hearts to a new vision of nature and to unprecedented opportunities to dialogue with the plant world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DEVODAMA
• Release date: Feb 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9788899652104

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THE MUSIC OF THE PLANTS

Silvia Buffagni

Graphic design by Daniele Giannusa

Photos by Silvia Buffagni

Translated by David John Sutcliffe

First Edition: december 2015

First Digital Edition - december 2015

ISBN 978-88-99652-10-4

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Silvia ‘Esperide’ Buffagni’, spiritual researcher, writer and international speaker on innovation lives at Damanhur, Federation of Communities, in Italy, where she conducts research on the vital energies of nature.

Plants perceive sound and love to play music.

This is demonstrated by studies and experiments conducted in academic research and, more importantly, by the experiences of many researchers and musicians who teach plants to use electronic, musical equipment to play and sing along with them.

The research into plant intelligence, plant sensitivity and the willingness of plants to communicate with us opens our minds and our hearts to a new vision of nature and to unprecedented opportunities to dialogue with the plant world.

Summary

For whom the plants play

Perhaps we have never seen a tree

The great discoveries are yet to come

A secret life?

Plant neurobiology?!

If you are a plant having a brain is not an advantage

To sleep…

… perchance to dream

There are more things in Heaven and Earth… and especially under the Earth

When plants play music

Practice makes perfect

Concerts with plants

When the plants fall silent

From birth to life: music and nature

Sing your cares away…

The beginning of a new love story…

Appendix

For whom the plants play

Plants can perceive sound and, given the opportunity, love to make music. Just a few decades ago a statement like that would have seemed laughable, the result of an imagination run wild or pitiful credulity. Today, however, there is a wealth of evidence that our green friends have – similarly to us – the ability to listen to and even compose music.

The Music of Plants forms part of a wider field of continuing research into communication with the plant world. Communicating with plants is a reality both for the researchers who have been studying this for years at Devodama – the company of Damanhur, Federation of Communities, that is directly involved in investigating plant communication – and for the many sensitive people who love their own plants and care for them every day. They surely do not just tap into their botanical knowledge – more water, more light, less draughty… – but also (and perhaps especially) listen to what their hearts tell them, Today this plant needs watering, the one next to it doesn’t.

For such people, the rapport they have with their house plants, with the flowers on their balconies, and with the shrubs and trees in their gardens means a two-way communication, one that influences moods, and in turn is influenced by them. We find inner peace in the midst of nature thanks to the relaxing effect of her calming green shades, but the empathy we have with the plants around us also plays a great part in this. Who hasn’t had the experience of feeling better after smelling a rose or entering into the aura of a large tree? Who hasn’t had a sudden intuition or idea, while looking after their plants, as if the plant knew the question we were asking ourselves and came up with an answer?

We only need to look within to realize this has happened, it happens to all of us. All of us are sensitive to the plant world, and in the same way they are ready to communicate with us and seek us out.

This little book invites us on a journey into the dimension of the Music of the Plants. Plants make music for all of us and will do so, hopefully, until their message of friendship, peace and awareness reaches all of us.

S.P.

"If we are going to achieve our goals, it will come from very deep inside ourselves. From the very kind of relationship with Nature that Saint Francis had, that allows no cruelty to the health of our planet.

Every plant has its own song; its own melody, its own rhythm, its own harmony…

The Music of the Plants is just to show that there is much more between heaven and earth than is spoken of in our philosophies.

Our philosophies are too limited."

Ashok Khosla, former President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, during a Music of the Plants demonstration at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference COP15 in 2009.

Plants, Perception and Music