THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS(‘73) & SECRETS OF THE SOIL(‘89 ) by Tompkins & Bird

Rev. micheal sunanda

These 2 great earthy books are organic masterpeaces of comprehensive survey details of what makes plants grow naturally & feel certain things. The ‘Secret of plants’ is "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional & spiritual relations between plants & man" 400 pgs. Its so cosmic, it became a movie & dbl album soundtrack by Stevie Wonder, both very inspiring in mid ‘70s. Secrets of soil is more grounded in practical organic growing systems, like Biodynamic gardening; essential to PermaCulture which blossomed in ‘80s & ‘90s. PC is a natural ‘design process’ of sustainable organic living on land & growing all we need near-by in circles & cycles of evolution.

‘Plants secrets’ revealed are: how humans emotions & love(the green thumb) all effect plants feelings & growth. Their ability to sense music, vibrations, other plants & even the planets & stars. It combines the best science & natural wonders of life, like why & how our ‘green thumb’ really works to grow things better. Plants even have, are sensitive to ESP, as they present vast research that proves our intimate connection to organic life. They describe works of George W.Carver, Luther Burbank, Rudolf Steiner, J.I.Rodale, Wilhelm Reich, Luigi Galvani, Barry Commoner, Charles Darwin, Caddy’s Findhorn Garden of eden, Jagadis C.Bose, Cleve Backster & many other natural energy researchers past & present.

Many subjects are reported with details like: animals with plants, biodynamics, emotions, energy & electricity, fertilizers & food growing, effects on germination, plants & our health, dowsing & auras, light & magnetism, herbs & medicine, music & harmonics, pets & diseases, organic gardening & farming, polarity & orientation, productivity, radiation & radionics, water & weeds, etc. from dozens of countries & intense researchers of life.

"Secrets of the Soil" is huge 440 pgs. in depth expantion of ‘Plants secrets’ spanning all continents, past & present relationship to soils as our food source like: air & water quality(rain/rivers) & weather; varied agriculture, trees & deforestation, animals & cattle, Anthroposophy & Biodynamic growing, compost enzymes & dynamics, Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine, minerals in soil, bacteria & insects, chemicals & fertilizers, cosmic influences, cow manure, Diet & food causes & effects, economic factors, energy & elements, etherics & ESP, greenhouse effects, flowers & fruits, fossil fuels, herbicides & pesticides, homeopathy & health, weather & sun, planets & moon, nitrogen fixing cycles, pollution & politics, radiation & radioactivity, rocks & rock dust, sources of seeds, Sonic bloom, worms, soil study, testing, needs & conditions; grasses & weeds, signs of the Zodiac, etc.

This will may take years of practical work to understand any of the whole systems of plants & soils evolution now. To expand the plant & soil secret behaviors & feelings we need experience & testing their synergy, in combinations with volcanic dust, certain sands, human & animals energy with plants in the unified fields of evolution that constantly change in spiral waves from creative centers in cells, bodies & stars, with gravity & levity always interacting in harmony.