Vegetable Kindom Shamanism- taken from Vegetarian Forum

Tuning in with the Adi Mantra as part of our practice does a lot to open
us up to all kinds of information and wisdoms, even if we are beginners. We
start listening and trusting our self more. It's a break from the heady,
technological chatter that surrounds most of us.
There is a Dagara shaman named Malidoma who had some interesting things
to share about our place in this world.

An excerpt from an interview with him below:

*The Dagara worldview holds a natural law hierarchy wherein the vegetable
kingdom is closest to a spiritual source, then come the animals, and lastly,
man. Man is the lowest or farthest from spirit and not the other way around
as Western beliefs would hold. Why? *

The hierarchy from spirit to man is based on an understanding of cosmic
order that the earth and its various elements participate in. The reason the
vegetable world---the world of trees and plants and so forth---is considered
to be the most evolved and intelligent species is that it reveals to the
animal and human realms the vortices through which one may access other
dimensions and other planes.



*How does the vegetable kingdom reveal itself to humans? *

This is simply through the detection of some kind of communicative mode that
plants get into at night.



*The humans or the vegetables or both? *

Let me take it hierarchically. First, the animals did notice this
communicative mode. And what was noticed was that the light of the plant at
night is different from its light during the day. And that difference is
about a certain cosmic connection. What they noticed was that a plant was
talking to another plant.



*The animals tuned in psychically to what was going on in the plant world?*

Yes, and a human was there, a hunter, watching. One thing you have to
understand is that communication---like you and I talking---could be seen by
a third party watching us as waves going out of me and lighting up all kinds
of different possibilities. It is possible when someone cannot hear to still
understand what is going on by setting a shock wave. Follow those lights as
they touch on the different wires inside your self. You can get meaning out
of it. What happened is that an animal seeing different lights going off
jumped into that pattern.



*So the human hunter noticed this---he was very observant. *

A lot of what you may call supernatural knowledge was brought to the tribe
mostly by hunters. They'd go out hunting for days or months at a time and
instead of bringing back dead animals, they'd bring back knowledge about the
animal world. And the animal world would get its knowledge from the plant
world. And so you are fed by the very being that is higher than you.



*Okay. Could you explain that? *

You are nourished by the being that is higher in climate than you. What this
means is that if you eat vegetables, there is, in fact, a cleansing
cleansing mechanism taking place. If you eat the body of an animal, there's
also a cleansing, but there's something nourishing in it which is not the
same as the plant that you'd eat. And the reason is that every time a being
is higher, that being is there to help pull lesser beings into that higher
realm.



*Therefore, a more evolved source for me to be nourished by, would be an
animal. And higher yet would be the** Vegetable Kingdom. *

And the next, next, next----the ultimate is what they call the being of
light.
The rest of this interview is in the Archives (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kundaliniyoga/files/ )
It is entitled "African Shaman Shares Rituals".
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