a consciousness older than you

Plants develop molecular companions that reach out from the abyss of time to be with us. The deep symbolic rests upon these molecular affinities as a requisite from being spun from the fabric of the universe. What plants provide and that humans require are specific molecules that prolong living processes. That's the molecular speech of the world. Our spiritual journey through the molecules that plants provide is a reminder of an older world where simply molecules, without shells, self-organized from the peculiar stuff of their surroundings, freely associated, and passed back into the material to become yet another self-organizing, freely associating, and transforming molecular arrangement in a different time.