How Did They Grow Such Large Vegetables in Findhorn? Q: Several months ago you mentioned that one of the Caddy’s, from the Findhorn community. Keeping in mind their philosophy and their relationship with the animal and plant kingdom, what would you have to say about your own philosophy, your own relationship, between man and the natural world? Would you agree with the outlook that they have or disagree or what? RK: Well, we are part of all of the life that is on this planet and our human vehicles were evolved within the context of relationship to all other plants and animals. We may not know about them, but, nevertheless, everything has an influence on us. Some of the work that has been done on the sensitivity of plants to human thought—those kind of things that are perhaps hidden to our normal awareness of how sensitive plants and animals are to us—I think what is even more obscure to us is our sensitivity to them. Such a relationship does exist, indeed. Now, the level of consciousness of a plant is hardly a thing that we could be aware of, but, nevertheless, a plant does indicate that it has an awareness of things going on around it. You cannot have a conversation with a plant, but if you talk to a plant and convey to it that you have a loving concern for its well-being, it will respond. That has been determined scientifically. Now, I think the Caddy’s had the idea that if a garden—their vegetable garden, of course, is very famous—they were able to grow remarkably healthy crops on pretty barren soil and they were especially healthy. They attributed that to the assistance of life forces on other than the physical plane which are the devas that were particularly interested in plants. They were showing them how the spirit influences of other intelligences could indeed make vegetables much healthier and more nutritious and yield greatly compared to what other things that were growing just naturally without anybody directing any specific control on them. I think their understanding or idea of what a deva is left something for further clarification. Such nature spirits really are earthbound human beings. They are persons who if they were incarnate would feel just as incapable of doing something special with plants as you and I have been trained that we, as ordinary mortals, could not do. But, we do have that ability. When you are decarnate, you are not limited by the cultural belief that you do not have control over what plants—you say somebody with a “green thumb” is sensitive to what a plant needs and they are paying attention and when a plant needs water they give it water and things of that sort. But, this is really something beyond that. All of us, as human beings, can greatly influence the growth of plants. We can make animals feel a lot happier. If you were raising a pet, your influences on that pet can somehow make it live far beyond its normal lifespan. You really care about the pet, you are feeding it regularly and you really care about that animal, and it tends to respond in a positive way. The same sort of thing, incidentally, happens between human beings as well. So, when we go through transition and we find ourselves on the (business end ??) we, too, can have that same kind of influence on plants. Apparently, there are some individuals, some human beings, who have gone through transition, were concerned with what could be demonstrated to a group of people who were coming together in a spiritually-oriented community such as the one in Findhorn. (06-1981) Did They Use Sorcery at Findhorn? Q: How about Findhorn? Would that be called sorcery? RK: I would expect the thing you are talking about is the vegetables that grew there. That was done by nature spirits from the Astral plane—devas, as some people refer to them. What you really do with plants, you really cannot call it sorcery, directly. It was a mental precipitation on the part of the human spirits who were essentially earthbound who we call “nature spirits.” Those things like sprites and nymphs and satyrs and what have you are actually human beings. They are persons who tended to love the woods so much or water so they tend to always stay around those areas which they consider to be beautiful. All of us have the ability to control the growth of plants—every one of us. But most of us do not believe that or else our conditioning by the society or by parents say that that cannot be done. If you think it cannot be done then you don’t do it. But, after you go through transition, you do not have the conditioned reflexes that were put into your brain by people in that particular environment then you are free to actually have an influence over plants, and your “green thumb” really works wonders. So, those spirits who worked with that are not limited by a brain which says you cannot do that sort of thing. (05-1982)
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