Ami Sohi: Hello, everyone, and welcome to module 2 of plant spirit immersion. How plants are guiding us in our spiritual evolution. Module 2 is all about communication communion, common union.
Ami Sohi: So before we get started, and I just like to cover some logistics. 1st of all, about all the email communication, please note that all the emails are being sent from sacred planet and not from Pam. So everything that you receive the reminder emails, for example, they're coming from sacred planet. Okay?
Ami Sohi: And the other thing I'd like to mention is that we do have a telegram community group now for you to be part of during the duration of this course. So should you choose to be part of it, it's optional, it's not compulsory. So you can choose to be part of this beautiful community using telegram.
Ami Sohi: This is a safe space in which you can share what's arising for you as you take the plant spirit immersion journey. It's a great container to connect and communicate with other participants of this course between the live session. Okay, so this is really for you to connect with each other and share your experiences and stories. And if you do have any specific questions
Ami Sohi: related to the content of this course, you can bring those questions to this class
Ami Sohi: to the classes. Okay? And also, the other thing I want to mention is that in order to use this telegram group, I'll post the link in a minute in the chat.
Ami Sohi: So you do need to download the telegram app to your device. If you haven't already done that, or you don't have the telegram app. You do need to download it to your device. I will also put a link, a web link where you can actually
Ami Sohi: download the telegram app. So you get connected with the others, and you also need to have an active account on the telegram app for the link to work. As I mentioned, I'll post a link in the chat in a few minutes.
Ami Sohi: And as I mentioned, you're not required to join the telegram group. It's completely optional. Okay? And yeah, if you have any questions about telegram, you can write to Sacred Planet at Hello, at wearesacredplanet.com. Okay? So yeah, thank you for your attention. And I'd like to hand it over to Pam. Now over to you, Pam.
Pam Montgomery: Thank you, Ami. That there was I want to just thank Myra, who who requested that we have that that you all, all of all the students, participants
Pam Montgomery: have an option to chat with each other because you have so many rich experiences to share. So thank you, Myra, for suggesting that, and I jumped on that one right away. I'm like, Oh, yes, let's do that. And again, as Ami mentioned, if you have content questions, just bring them to this this live class, and we'll try to answer as many questions as we can.
Pam Montgomery: Now, speaking of questions, we have a couple from last time that that Nancy wanted to have answered right in the beginning. So she makes Nancy, I hope you're here to hear this answer. So you asked about. You watched the rose making the rose distilled water
Pam Montgomery: bonus video. You watched that. And your question was, What is the shelf life, and how do you store it. Which is a really good question. So thanks for asking that, you know, because it's water based, you definitely have to refrigerate it. If you leave it out. I mean, you could maybe leave it out for
Pam Montgomery: couple days, but you can't just leave it. Leave it sitting out all the time. You'd have to put some kind of preservative in it, and you don't really want alcohol in something to that. You might potentially put on your face or your skin, so you need to refrigerate it to save it, and it'll last in the fridge, you know, a month.
Pam Montgomery: maybe 2, if you're lucky, but about a month refrigerated. So that's the answer to that question. The other question was about plant initiations. I thought we answered that in the last time around. But I'll just mention it again. The plant initiations that are available this coming year. I am doing
Pam Montgomery: 2 2 weekends of motherwort initiation, the last weekend of June and the 1st weekend of August, and when I say weekend it's a 3 day weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You can find that information on my website@wakeuptonature.com
Pam Montgomery: Emma Emma Farrell Fitchet, Emma Fitchet Farrell will also be doing some plant initiations. She's going to do another online one, and she's going to do another in-person one. She doesn't have those up on her website yet. But just pay attention. Just go into
Pam Montgomery: her website is plant consciousness, plant consciousness.com to see when those initiations are and she's in the Uk. I'm in this. I'm in Vermont, in the States. She's in the Uk. Other plant initiations. You can check in with Carol Gallette.
Pam Montgomery: She's in Ireland, and she does plant initiations. I'm not sure what she has going on this year, but she has done them over the years. There's a Canadian woman, Wendy Redfern. She's in the Toronto area in Canada.
Pam Montgomery: She will be doing a dandelion initiation this year. You can check in with with Wendy. Actually, she's on my website. I have Wendy's initiation listed on my website underneath plant initiations. So you can check in with Wendy, Jen Fry. She lives in Pennsylvania. She has done initiations in the past. Her website is Brigid BRIG. ID. Comma
Pam Montgomery: S. Bridget's way.com. That's her website. She I'm not sure what initiation she might be doing this year, but she does do initiations. So those are folks that I know of right now that are doing initiations. So I hope that helps everybody to be real clear.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? So
Pam Montgomery: all right. Today, we have a fabulous topic, communication communion and common union. So I'm going to share my screen.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, now, let's see here, I want this to all move
Pam Montgomery: up here. Yeah. And then this is gonna move down here a wee bit.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, there we go.
Pam Montgomery: Okay. All right.
Pam Montgomery: Now, we need to go back to the 1st slide. Actually, oh, what's that?
Pam Montgomery: Get rid of that?
Pam Montgomery: Let's go back to our 1st slide.
Pam Montgomery: We're at the end instead of at the beginning. Here we go. Okay, communication through light.
Pam Montgomery: So, as you all know, this is this is nothing. That is new. Information, of course, is that
Pam Montgomery: plants are really masters and mistresses of light, because they have this unique ability to take the sunlight
Pam Montgomery: and transform that into their tissue which we eat their tissue, and then we receive that light through their tissue. That process is called photosynthesis.
Pam Montgomery: So these plants have that amazing ability. The only plants, trees, and sea vegetables are the only beings on this planet that have that amazing ability which is major because it also is
Pam Montgomery: the
Pam Montgomery: intake of carbon dioxide. The plants uptake carbon dioxide, but they exhale oxygen. So oxygen is a byproduct of photosynthesis which
Pam Montgomery: carries on that. You also know you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for being having an oxygen. Rich environment which the plants have created.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? So so they're transmitters of light.
Pam Montgomery: And here's the important piece is that
Pam Montgomery: at the nucleus of the cell.
Pam Montgomery: on all living beings, that's plants, humans, animals, all living beings at the nucleus of the cell.
Pam Montgomery: There, there are these, the points of light called biophotons.
Pam Montgomery: So this is a. This is a. The photons are contain a weak photon current.
Pam Montgomery: and it covers, it goes, covers all biological systems.
Pam Montgomery: The entire spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared.
Pam Montgomery: And the biophotons take the role of regulating the whole biochemistry and biology of life. I'm going to say that one more time biophotons, which are the nucleus of the cell. That's the DNA level. The nucleus of the cell is at the DNA level of all
Pam Montgomery: biological systems have the ability to regulate the whole biochemistry and biology of life.
Pam Montgomery: So we have biophotons, plants have biophotons.
Pam Montgomery: And
Pam Montgomery: when we talked about coherence quite about, we talked about heart coherence last last class, when there's coherence, which means that
Pam Montgomery: when a beam of light is made between a plant
Pam Montgomery: and a human, let's use ourselves as an example when when we we, when we in. In put, our our intention toward being able to communicate.
Pam Montgomery: One of the basic ways of communication is via light.
Pam Montgomery: It's foundational in the biological world is light.
Pam Montgomery: So we have the ability to create coherence, which is a beam of light between us. And it's it's
Pam Montgomery: this is the vehicle for communication. It carries intelligence. It carries intelligence at the speed of light.
Pam Montgomery: So here's the other incredible thing about plants is, plants have the ability
Pam Montgomery: to fine tune their resonance to us, meaning they can. They can
Pam Montgomery: They can create the coherence between us
Pam Montgomery: if we would just allow it to happen. Kind of a little bit. Get ourselves out of the way a little bit, and just allow that to happen. So we can train ourselves to
Pam Montgomery: resonate at the same frequency as the plant.
Pam Montgomery: thus receiving the entire holographic story of the plant.
Pam Montgomery: So light, very, very important form of way of communicating is via light.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? So the second very foundational way of communicating is through sound
Pam Montgomery: and sound occurs when you have 2 objects that contact each other so that creates sound so
Pam Montgomery: when you have 2
Pam Montgomery: pulsing, vibrant, vibratory resonances or vibrations. When you have them encounter each other, then sound is created. So it's not just like clapping your hands together, or something like that. It's actually 2 vibrations coming together can create sound.
Pam Montgomery: Now you also have to remember that both light and sound have we hear and see in a very narrow band of the spectrums, so sometimes we might not hear the sound with our ears. But it doesn't mean that it's not, doesn't exist. It still exists outside of our range of hearing, but we can sense it through the vibratory resonance of it.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, so these are called biophonons. So biophotons are light, and biophonons are sound. So we have each of these that helps us in our communication.
Pam Montgomery: And so together. Biophonons and biophotons create a quantum hologram.
Pam Montgomery: which is an intricate communication network that throughout all living cells.
Pam Montgomery: so all plants have vibratory resonance that is unique to them. Actually, I you know, I'm going to wait until I get to that vibratory resonance part before I share all that piece with you. What I want to say about the songs
Pam Montgomery: is that they're
Pam Montgomery: are. There's there's 2 different kinds of of sound that is created with plants. One I kind of call it like, you know, it's like the household song it's and that would be unique, perhaps to you you have a particular vibration. The plant has a particular vibration, and when you exchange those 2, then there's a particular sound, and there's, you know the light is in here, too, but there's a particular sound in which you can communicate.
Pam Montgomery: This is between you and the plant, and if another person is working with the same plant, it might be different.
Pam Montgomery: So just to be clear that it has to do with the combining of our biophonons and the plant's biophonons.
Pam Montgomery: Now there's another kind of song that's called the Medicine Song of the plant. The medicine song of the plant is
Pam Montgomery: the same. It's the medicine song is the medicine song is the medicine song. It does not change, depending on the person.
Pam Montgomery: And
Pam Montgomery: this this type of sound that comes from the plants is very big medicine, I mean, in many native tribes there was like one person that learned all the plant songs because it was like a really big job. So the thing to realize about medicine songs is that
Pam Montgomery: they're not handed out willy-nilly. It's not like
Pam Montgomery: you will not receive a medicine song from a plant unless you are really ready and are super prepared, because the deal is that you absolutely must
Pam Montgomery: cooperate and work with this medicine song in a healing capacity.
Pam Montgomery: So if you're not ready to take on that that big of it's big work, it's big. So if you're not ready. If you haven't spent enough time with the plants, or you're just not able to fit it into your life, or whatever. Then don't even ask. Don't even ask for the medicine song.
Pam Montgomery: Now, having said that there definitely are people who receive medicine songs. But it's but it's a commitment. It's like a huge commitment to actually work with these medicine songs.
Pam Montgomery: So I just needed to be super clear about that, because everybody goes off and says, Oh, well, how do I learn the medicine song? It's not a you know. It's not like that. It's
Pam Montgomery: it's like you're you're like, you're dedicating your life to this kind of work. When you ask when you when you receive a medicine song.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? So
Pam Montgomery: Then we have.
Pam Montgomery: Then we have communication through breath. And we talked a bit about breath, exchanging breath and all that last class. But Breath is one of the ways that we're.
Pam Montgomery: I'm sorry to be using a computer term, but hardwired to be in relationship with plants. I mean, because
Pam Montgomery: we breathe, we're already in relationship. So it's not like we have to work at being in relationship. We need what we, what we're going to do from that point of relationship is to to build it into partnership. So that's where we move from already being in relationship, then the work that we do with the plant is building into a partnership.
Pam Montgomery: So
Pam Montgomery: I mean, and the beauty, of course, is that we all breathe all the time, everybody, everybody. So everybody
Pam Montgomery: across the planet is in relationship with plants, trees, and sea vegetables because they breathe.
Pam Montgomery: That's a given.
Pam Montgomery: So whenever you're working with people and say, Oh, but I don't. But I don't know how to do that.
Pam Montgomery: Start at the beginning. Start in a simple way of
Pam Montgomery: helping a person bring it into conscious awareness that they are exchanging breath with the green beings.
Pam Montgomery: and that is where they begin. Just begin where a person is at, and breath is a really good place to do that, even even when you've been working with plants for a really long time. If you don't consciously breathe with the plants, then you're missing something that's actually quite profound.
Pam Montgomery: So breath carries this vibratory resonance. That spirit rides upon it's like it's like, there, you know, there's the resonance, which is a way. It's a wavelength, and the frequency which is the ups and downs and and spirit, like like rides on that wave.
Pam Montgomery: So.
Pam Montgomery: And the word spirit actually comes from the Latin spiritus, spiritus and spiritus means breath.
Pam Montgomery: So this breath is a really important piece here of of the communication with plants and trees and sea vegetables.
Pam Montgomery: So
Pam Montgomery: So when we consciously breathe with the plants and the trees and sea vegetables.
Pam Montgomery: Then we have direct transmissions that we can receive from spirit.
Pam Montgomery: So that's pretty powerful.
Pam Montgomery: Okay?
Pam Montgomery: So now we're going to look at sensory awareness as a way to learn from the plants.
Pam Montgomery: And we're just going through our senses. That's what sensory, sensory awareness means. Now, just to say, you have handouts for all of this.
Pam Montgomery: So everything. You know what we just talked about. You have a handout for that. You have a handout for sensory awareness. So you have handouts for all of this. So you don't really need to be making notes right now just to say
Pam Montgomery: and you know it will go into, it'll go into. It'll it'll share with. It'll tell you what we're talking about right now.
Pam Montgomery: So sensory awareness starts with observation, and in observation you 1st you get the aerial perspective which you get the big overall picture like, and who is who lives? Who are the other neighbors that are around this tree or this plant. So you look at the big perspective, you look at the aerial perspective.
Pam Montgomery: and then you also want to look at the close up. Then you get you get yourself a little loop. They're called loops. They're little, tiny magnifying lenses, and you can look up closely. You can look at all the little hairs, and you can look at all. Look up really all the little dots that are on the plant. So you want the aerial perspective, and then you want the close up view as well. So try to get yourself a loop to be able to. It's about a 10 x magnification, so it will help you. Look at things that you can't see, perhaps, with your naked eye.
Pam Montgomery: and it's really quite beautiful to look close up at the plants.
Pam Montgomery: Then you always want to be observing the concentration of energy, so
Pam Montgomery: concentration of energy is is it in full sunlight?
Pam Montgomery: Is it in full shade? Is it a little bit sun, a little bit shady like. What's the kind of energy that's being concentrated. So shade tends to be calming. Soothing. Sun is like, you know, very bright and stimulating, and then there's a little bit of both, a little bit of sun, a little bit of shade.
Pam Montgomery: You also want to be observing proximity to people.
Pam Montgomery: is this plant? Do you have to take a hike to find it.
Pam Montgomery: or do you walk outside your door? And there's a whole bunch of it.
Pam Montgomery: So the proximity to people is a very big message. It means here I am
Pam Montgomery: probably going to use me for medicine, or maybe it's edible right outside your door.
Pam Montgomery: Generally speaking, plants that are edible
Pam Montgomery: are not way off in the woods somewhere. They're right outside your door, and I know you all know the big one which we're going to talk about today, which is dandelion. It is right outside your door. You don't have to go more than 10 feet
Pam Montgomery: out your door, and there you're going to have some dandelion to eat in the spring especially so you want to be paying attention to the proximity to people. The other thing with proximity to people is
Pam Montgomery: you really want to pay attention to how
Pam Montgomery: it was the plant there in your yard
Pam Montgomery: when you move there, or since you've lived in this place, has that plant come to you? And you notice it? And you say, Oh, that plant used to grow in the in the place that I used to live. Oh, here it is. Very big message.
Pam Montgomery: Plants tend to follow you around because plants are they tune into your energy, and they know exactly what you need. They know exactly what you need for healing. They know exactly what kind of nutritive qualities you need. I know it sounds like, Oh, come on, really, yes, really, when we're talking about these massively biointelligent beings, plants so pay attention to ones that follow you around
Pam Montgomery: and then pay attention to ones that come into your yard, and you're kind of like. Oh, but I had that happen in in which year was that? 2020, the the big year and
Pam Montgomery: I had poke plant come into my yard.
Pam Montgomery: poke, poke, root, poke, poke plant, big, tall plant beautiful dark purple berries. You know, very magenta colored stalks. It does not grow
Pam Montgomery: as far north as Vermont.
Pam Montgomery: Generally speaking, it's too cold for it. It likes to grow a little further south, loves to be in the Hudson Valley, where I used to live. There was tons of poke.
Pam Montgomery: and then it came in my garden. I was like, Whoa, what are you doing here?
Pam Montgomery: I always ask my that question like, when I see a new plant coming in. It's like, Okay.
Pam Montgomery: what do you do? What? Why did you show up?
Pam Montgomery: Well, Poke happens to be one of the best plants there is for the immune system, and it showed up just about when everybody needed a huge immune boost to keep them healthy. So I was like, Wow, thank you very much. So I said, and is it okay to be harvesting your root? Which, of course it was. So I harvested a bunch of the root that year and gave lots of that tincture away over the course of the next 2 years. So so you're going to be paying attention to that quantity I already mentioned that you're paying attention to the quantity.
Pam Montgomery: pay attention to growth cycles. Is this, an annual comes and goes in one year. Biennial a 2 year life cycle or a perennial. It's going to come back every year. You really, it's really important to know that because you want to know if it's going to show up again next year, because it's a perennial.
Pam Montgomery: or you want to know if you're not going to see it again, because it's an annual.
Pam Montgomery: or you're going to want to know if it's a biennial biennial. At the end of the second year of a biennial.
Pam Montgomery: a two-year plant like, for example, burdock, you would never harvest the root of burdock
Pam Montgomery: at in the fall of the second year, because it's done. It's going to be all woody and pithy, and you need to know that that plant is a biennial, because you're going to want to harvest that root in the fall of the 1st year. So this is all really good stuff to know
Pam Montgomery: reproduction. How does this plant reproduce? Does it have male female parts within the same flower
Pam Montgomery: lot? Most a lot of plants do, or does it have a male flower and a female flower? Or does it have a male plant and a female plant? Does all know the everybody know the very famous one that has a male plant and a female plant, you all know. Surely, cannabis. So it's really good to know that.
Pam Montgomery: How do they reproduce? Because if you end up with.
Pam Montgomery: and if you end up with a plant that is a male plant and a female plant, and you want to make seeds
Pam Montgomery: in your female plant that's not going to happen unless you have a male plant to pollinate it.
Pam Montgomery: to cross, pollinate to it. So these are all super important things to know. You want to pay attention to the colors.
Pam Montgomery: So
Pam Montgomery: and you know, we're talking. I mean, we're talking beyond the rainbow spectrum. But you know, like there's pinks, and there's whites, and there's other colors that are not just the rainbow spectrum. But you really want to pay attention to the colors. You have a whole handout that the color color correspondences to the chakras.
Pam Montgomery: So that's a handout that you have, that you can look over that, and you can see which Chakra is, for what part of the body is, for, you know, identifies with what element with the glands. All of that. It's you know the operating force. All of that information is on your handout of the Chakras and the color correspondences. So
Pam Montgomery: it's important to know that the yellow color is all about. You know, it's in the in the digestive area. Solar plexus. And
Pam Montgomery: again, a plant that we're going to talk about today. Big solar plexus plant is dandelion.
Pam Montgomery: It's a very yellow flower.
Pam Montgomery: Solar plexus is the color is yellow. So you want to be paying attention to that. That's there are other color correspondences as well, which you can look into like the color correspondences of the medicine wheel. There's lots of other color correspondences I happen to like to work with the Chakras because the chakras are energy organs. So it's part of our makeup.
Pam Montgomery: Okay. Now, all right. So then, we have hearing
Pam Montgomery: and the sound of hearing. This is where you're going to listen with your big ears. I mean, you're going to also listen. Does it? Does the plant rustle? Does it squeak? Does it? Crunch, you know. Is it kind of dry? So it makes that, you know, crunchy kind of sound.
Pam Montgomery: So you also want to pay attention to
Pam Montgomery: like listening with your big ears. So what does that mean? Listening with big ears is listening through your with your intuition.
Pam Montgomery: And you know there's this thing like it's not that people don't have intuition, it's just you don't listen very well.
Pam Montgomery: Intuition means about being a good listener, so you want to be listening with your big ears to be working with your intuition.
Pam Montgomery: What do you hear through your intuition? What is the plant? What is the plant telling you.
Pam Montgomery: listen to your body. What is your body telling you as you're listening?
Pam Montgomery: And then, of course, this is where the plant song comes in is listening. Listen for the plant song, and this is the song that's between the 2 of you.
Pam Montgomery: This is the song between the 2 of you.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? Then you want to touch. You want to engage. Your sense of touch
Pam Montgomery: and touching is you're feeling all the different parts of the plant. And is it smooth.
Pam Montgomery: Is it scratchy? Does it have thorns? Thorns oftentimes protect? Really yummy something really yummy to eat like raspberries? That's a great example of thorns. Is it juicy. Is it dry? If it's juicy, well, it probably has a lot of mucilage. It's probably a very demulcent plant. It's probably soothing to the mucous membranes. If it's very dry, it's probably very astringent. It's going to dry up excess liquid. These are all things that you can learn through touching the plant.
Pam Montgomery: and then, of course, you want to smell the plant, and smelling is a really incredible sense, because
Pam Montgomery: it puts you in touch with your ancestral memory.
Pam Montgomery: And so that means you could have memories about the plant in from another time period.
Pam Montgomery: and you don't want to discount those. Don't discount the memories that come up.
Pam Montgomery: and you also want to pay attention to like when you're smelling like, where does that smell go in your body? Oftentimes the smell like lands somewhere you want to pay attention to that. Perhaps that's the part of the body that this plant is going to be helpful to you. You also want to plants that are have a really strong smell, have lots of volatile oils
Pam Montgomery: and volatile oils. It usually means that it's a very medicinal plant. So you know, peppermint is an example of a very strong volatile. So there's lots of strong, volatile oils, but it's that real strong smell. Now you don't. Ingest volatile, volatile oils are the most concentrated part of the plant, and you don't want to ingest that unless it's food grade.
Pam Montgomery: and to making essential oils yourself, you need a you need a a still.
Pam Montgomery: So yeah, it's a whole. You have to have a still to do it. So it's not something that most people do at home, unless, of course, you have a still and lots of plant material. It requires lots and lots of plant material. However, there are lots of good companies out there that sell really good
Pam Montgomery: essences. I think we mentioned that last time about some of the companies for essential oils.
Pam Montgomery: Okay. And what does the smell invoke?
Pam Montgomery: What does it kind of bring up? Does it make you want to gag? Does it go? Oh, I can't stand that smell, or is it like really inviting. So you want to pay attention. All of this is just ways of paying attention to the plant and and learning more bits and pieces of this plant.
Pam Montgomery: then you want to taste.
Pam Montgomery: So here I am tasting dandelion. There are 5 different tastes. Again. You have on one of your handouts the 5 primary tastes and what they correspond with. So I'm not going to go over all that right now, because you can read that just as easily. But there's the sweet taste, the sour taste, the bitter taste, the spicy taste, the salty taste.
Pam Montgomery: We're real familiar with sweet and salty.
Pam Montgomery: That's kind of the 2 tastes that we're real familiar with.
Pam Montgomery: but the other tastes are, I mean bitter. I mean, it's so good to to have bitters. It is such a healing aspect that you can bring in is the bitter tastes
Pam Montgomery: so, and what you'll find here's a little tidbit about taste is that
Pam Montgomery: when you put a plant in your mouth.
Pam Montgomery: You're tasting it. You are not eating it.
Pam Montgomery: taste. So you're going to chew it
Pam Montgomery: for about 2 to 3 min. You're going to get a sensation on the tip of your tongue.
Pam Montgomery: That's primary constituents and on the back of your tongue. That's secondary constituents of the plant.
Pam Montgomery: So you want to chew it enough to get these 2 tastes in 2 different locations. When you're done you spit it out. You're not swallowing it.
Pam Montgomery: even if it's an edible plant. It's just a good practice to get into when you're tasting to not eat it.
Pam Montgomery: If you put a plant in your mouth, and it's feels like
Pam Montgomery: knives on your tongue. Well, then, spit it out. You need to use a little common sense here.
Pam Montgomery: Hmm!
Pam Montgomery: Most plants are not. Kill you dead plants by tasting them.
Pam Montgomery: There's a couple that you probably want to really not put in your mouth, which is
Pam Montgomery: poison, hemlock, and water hemlock. So get identify those 2 plants, because you do not want to put those in your mouth. And we're talking wild plants. We're not talking cultivated plants, cultivated plants are another whole ball game. We're talking wild plants. So tasting is very, very important, and it really helps you learn a lot with the plants. But
Pam Montgomery: you want to be conscious of of your tasting.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? So now.
Pam Montgomery: moving right along, which is this is the next really important piece, the felt sensation. We've been talking about vibratory resonance here. And this is where vibratory resonance comes in. So the plant
Pam Montgomery: has a vibratory resonance. You experience that as a sensation in your body, so a sensation can be like
Pam Montgomery: Oh, tingling in tingling in your hands. You might. Your hands might tingle, or you know, palpitations in your heart, or a tight gut, or it could be. A feeling of one of mine is softness. Everything is soft, soft, soft.
Pam Montgomery: like the air is soft, you know. I feel soft. My clothes are soft, my skin is soft, it's soft, soft, soft. That's 1 of one of my felt sensations that I have. And so what you want to do this is this technique is called focusing. So you want to take it from way out here, and you want to focus it.
Pam Montgomery: bring it into focus. So how? What kind of soft.
Pam Montgomery: soft as velvet, soft as silk, creamy, soft like butter? So you want to bring it in like, like, really really hone in on like, what kind of soft is this?
Pam Montgomery: And so then, once you really hone in on it, you put what's called, put a handle on it. So okay, it's soft as silk, so that would be my handle soft as silk after I honed in on it. So you really want to. You really want to make sure, and only just a few words, not a big, long paragraph you need. And you're describing the sensation you're receiving in your body.
Pam Montgomery: So.
Pam Montgomery: So you receive the vibratory resonance in your body as a sensation. You experience that you hone in on it. You give it a handle.
Pam Montgomery: part of giving it a handle is that it's then makes it very easy to call it. Call back up this vibratory resonance of this plant, and it also means that you can.
Pam Montgomery: Don't have to be present with the plant. I would suggest that the 1st time you're doing this it's nice to be present with the plant so you can receive that vibratory resonance. But after that, because now you know what that sensation is. You know the resonance, and you can call it up. It's like you can have a direct connection.
Pam Montgomery: I can say soft as silk, and be right there.
Pam Montgomery: So this is a really powerful way of working with the plants in communication. You to make sure with the handle, you know. I just bounce it back and forth. Soft silk, yeah.
Pam Montgomery: soft to silk, and not really. I bring it into my heart. Do the ping thud method here? Does it go, ping? Or does it go thud? And so you want to be really clear about what the handle is, because then, instead of it just being this random thing of like, Oh, maybe if I'm lucky, I'll be able to
Pam Montgomery: to, you know, connect with this plant again. If I'm lucky it takes it out of the place of randomness. It's like soft as silk, and you're right there in that resonance with the plant.
Pam Montgomery: Okay?
Pam Montgomery: So the other thing, the next thing you want to do
Pam Montgomery: oh, vibratory resonance! There we go. So we're talking about this vibratory resonance. So it is this vibration that's coming to you.
Pam Montgomery: Light, sound, and breath. So you're receiving that resonance.
Pam Montgomery: And so what happens here is the next thing that happens is this emotional response bubbles up from the sensation.
Pam Montgomery: from the sensation.
Pam Montgomery: So.
Pam Montgomery: and it's not to be judged. Just let it happen. What is it that you're? What's the emotional response? Are you joyful? Are you sad? Are you angry, you know? Are you afraid like what is coming up.
Pam Montgomery: and don't judge it.
Pam Montgomery: If it's not, you know a lot of people were like, well, it wasn't joy. Well, okay.
Pam Montgomery: not everything. Not, you know, not not all of the responses are joy. I mean, that's kind of the initial one, because you're so excited that this is actually happening. But
Pam Montgomery: let it, you know. Let it sink down and see what bubbles up 9 times out of 10. If you're getting angry, that's because this particular plant really helps you to deal with inappropriate anger.
Pam Montgomery: Anger is not a bad thing. It's an emotion it's very useful sometimes helps you to be, you know, helps with, you know, has the energy of growth. It has that strong energy of growth, but inappropriate anger. That's another story. So you want to be just paying attention to that emotional response, and realizing that throughout all of this, through sensory awareness, felt sensation, breathing, experiencing light and sound. You are in the daydream of the plant.
Pam Montgomery: It's not your daydream.
Pam Montgomery: It's the plant's daydream.
Pam Montgomery: And when you begin to experience all of this.
Pam Montgomery: and you're communicating through all of these things that we just went through. This is what happens next communion.
Pam Montgomery: You come into this space where you're like
Pam Montgomery: you, you know, the plant spirit of the plant starts to live inside you and the healing gifts of that plant which are on all levels, all levels, not just physical. All levels start to live inside you. And you can call them up at any time, either for yourself or others, or for the planet, or for the animals, or for whatever is needed. But you move into this space right here, this lovely lady.
Pam Montgomery: This is Lillian. She's a longtime student of mine, and she's in deep communion with this tree right now
Pam Montgomery: this is possible for all of you. You have it. You have it in you
Pam Montgomery: because you're so symbiotically related to the plants.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, but you're in that daydream of the plan.
Pam Montgomery: So, as your plant begins to affirm all that you're receiving.
Pam Montgomery: you know the communication begins to flow back and forth.
Pam Montgomery: and now, you know, along with your other communications, you move into this. You're taking all the little bits they're like puzzle pieces and fitting them together so that a whole, a whole picture of the entire plant emerges within communion.
Pam Montgomery: And then we experience this place of common union, where where
Pam Montgomery: you're so connected that the merge happens, which is, I mentioned that I said, you know you're like this. This is where the merge happens that you and the plants are one. You're not separate anymore.
Pam Montgomery: This is all totally available to you and possible.
Pam Montgomery: Does it take a little bit of practice? It's only because it's all here
Pam Montgomery: you were born with it. It's just you've fallen into some amnesia. You've forgotten that you are connected to the plants in this way.
Pam Montgomery: So now this is a remembering process.
Pam Montgomery: It's a remember, you're going to wake up and start to remember that. Oh, I actually do know the language of plants.
Pam Montgomery: The language of plants is everything. We just talked about light, sound, breath, vibratory resonance
Pam Montgomery: that we experience through sensory awareness and felt sensation.
Pam Montgomery: So this is possible for you.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, all right. So now we want to move into
Pam Montgomery: some of our plants here. So we're going to start with dandelion. We've already said a few things about dandelion here, but I really dandelion for me. I call it the kick butt plant. It's kind of like dandelion is like.
Pam Montgomery: you know. Come on, now, let's get on with it. I'll tell you just a little story about dandelion is that
Pam Montgomery: in 2020
Pam Montgomery: we I was going to do a dandelion initiation, and then, of course we went into this place of not being able to be in person together.
Pam Montgomery: and so I go out to Dandelion, and I said, Oh, Dandelion, I'm so sorry.
Pam Montgomery: But you know I'm going to have to cancel this initiation because we can't gather together. And Dandelion said.
Pam Montgomery: Well, I'm not on lockdown, and I went.
Pam Montgomery: good point, so I was like, and so what would you suggest? Well, you you can do an online initiation. I was like
Pam Montgomery: online. We're going to do plants on, we're going to do initiation online. Really.
Pam Montgomery: I was like, Okay, dandelion here. Now, I'm
Pam Montgomery: I'm not a tech person at all.
Pam Montgomery: I wouldn't even know how to put this together.
Pam Montgomery: So I'm gonna need help. You're gonna have to help me with this one.
Pam Montgomery: So
Pam Montgomery: that's what I put. That's why I said to Dandelion, I wouldn't have a clue to how even how to begin this.
Pam Montgomery: So about a week later, I get a phone call from this woman out in California. We had done a redwood redwood tree initiation out there, and she had attended that. And so she said, Hey, you got anything coming up online? I said, well, funny you should ask.
Pam Montgomery: I said. You know, dandelion initiation potentially. But I'm clueless how to do this.
Pam Montgomery: Oh, she said, Oh, well, I'm working for the university system in California. And all our classes went online. And you know, I'm really adept at Zoom. Right now, I can do that for you.
Pam Montgomery: And I was like, Okay, alrighty. Then let's do it. It took Dandelion one week to line that up.
Pam Montgomery: I didn't do that Dandelon did that.
Pam Montgomery: So it was so amazing. It was just like, Oh, yeah, you're going to do this. And this is how you're going to do it, and I said, I need help to do this, and they lined it all up.
Pam Montgomery: I hadn't been in touch with that woman from California for a long time, and she out of the blue, called me up, which, of course, it was not out of the blue, because Dandelion said, went knocking at her door and said, Hey, why don't you be in touch with Pam?
Pam Montgomery: This is how it works. Everybody just to say, this is how it works. Okay, dandelion, kick butt plant and just says, Okay, we are going to do that initiation, after all. And it turned out to be a great initiation. I was really skeptical. I was like, Oh, I can't believe we're going to do this online, but it worked
Pam Montgomery: Dandelion is at, you know, quantity. We talked about quantity, lots of dandelion everywhere. So
Pam Montgomery: a plant to eat, you can eat the leaves definitely eat the leaves in the spring. There's some of them. It's 1 of the best spring tonics there is is dandelion. So, eating the leaves you can eat the flowers, you know. Pull this little flower head apart and sprinkle it all in your salads. So really, really wonderful, for it's a plant of these times. It's relatively new on the evolutionary scale of plants. And so this is a plant for our times. And and so that means that it helps you really deal with
Pam Montgomery: toxic input, both physically and spiritually, because there's a both in there's in both departments. There's a lot of toxic input. Right now. I don't need to give you the long list of what's happening, you know, kind of in our environment. But on a spiritual level there's lots of intrusive energy out there. There's lots of funky energy. And it it can be intrusive. So you really really want a plant that can help you deal with that.
Pam Montgomery: So dandelion really helps to remove that toxic energy or toxic
Pam Montgomery: chemicals really good for chemical sensitivities. All you know like that. It is one of the best liver plants, and the liver, of course, is the organ that filters all of those toxins out. So if your liver is sluggish, guess what? It's not going to be able to to do its job of filtering, filtering the blood and dandelion can be like a tonic to the liver to get it. You know, working good.
Pam Montgomery: Dandelion has a lot to do with strength and resilience. I mean, it's a very strong plant, as as I mentioned. I call it, the kick butt plant, and it's very resilient, you know. You can. You can like
Pam Montgomery: chop off the the head of the flower off the dandelion. Well, it'll be right back before you know it. So it's very resilient a plant that really can help overcome obstacles and challenges. So when you're challenged, when you have those obstacles, just go right into the spirit of dandelion to help you with that
Pam Montgomery: highly nutritive, I already mentioned that best spring greens to put in your salad. Highly nutritive lots of minerals, lots of vitamins.
Pam Montgomery: It's very regenerative. Not only is this like a survival plant. But if this is a plant that thrives, I mean
Pam Montgomery: this plant, I mean, like it comes out of about the city cracks in the sidewalk. I mean, this plant is persistent, and it's here to stay. And it's thriving. It's not just a survival plant. It is a thriving plant, so
Pam Montgomery: it helps survive loss and change and and then it. It really moves into that place of transformation
Pam Montgomery: to bloom again. So this plant is is one that you're going to really want to bring in. If you're feeling that sense of loss, or you're feeling that sense of overwhelm. Or you know you're not quite. You're only at a survival level, and what you really want to be at is a thriving level. Ask for help from the spirit of
Pam Montgomery: dandelion as she will come and help you.
Pam Montgomery: It also has a lot to do with abundance. Look at how much dandelion there is.
Pam Montgomery: It's an abundant plant, so it brings abundance into your life any kind of an abundance.
Pam Montgomery: any kind of abundance. So again, if you're feeling like Oh, gosh! I just need a little. I just need a little help here. I need some abundance to come to an end of my life. Fall upon dandelion.
Pam Montgomery: We already mentioned solar plexus plant, which is the solar plexus. It's the will center. It's where you're going to bump, bump up against self-esteem where you're going to be like. Oh, I just need a little more confidence, or Oh, I don't really feel I don't feel good about that. I don't have enough, you know, self-esteem, to do that. Then work with in your solar plexus with dandelion.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, so many of you may know this is, you can make wine with these blossoms. You just want to
Pam Montgomery: pick the green sepal part that's underneath the blossom. You don't want to put that in the wine because it makes it a little bit bitter, but just the blossom makes great wine.
Pam Montgomery: It's a coffee. Substitute the root. You can use the root as a coffee substitute. It's a good diuretic. It's great for digestion. It's a good liver tonic
Pam Montgomery: good for the kidneys. It's antioxidants.
Pam Montgomery: It supports the immune system, reduces cholesterol.
Pam Montgomery: It helps regulate the blood sugar level
Pam Montgomery: reduces inflammation and lowers blood pressure, all in this little plant. That is an amazing, amazing being. So you got to get with dandelion. Okay, how are we doing on time? I know I'm talking a lot, but that's what you got to do when you got these awesome plants. Okay, Yarrow, let's look at Yarrow.
Pam Montgomery: The namesake of this plant is
Pam Montgomery: well, its Latin name is Achille. Wait a minute. That's that one. There's another one before that. Oh, wait! What happened? Oh, there's that one. Okay, Achillea milifolium.
Pam Montgomery: So it's Namesake Lero's namesake is Achilles.
Pam Montgomery: Achilles was the
Pam Montgomery: part God, he was part God. It's where where the Achilles heel comes from, because his mother, who was a goddess. She wanted him to be immortal, so she grabbed him by his heel and dumped him into the river. Styx. It's called sticks. STYX. Sticks dumped him into the River Styx to become immortal, but where she held his ankle right there did not get covered in the immortality
Pam Montgomery: juice and so his heel was vulnerable, vulnerable, and was weak. So that's where Achilles heel comes in. It usually means some kind of weakness or vulnerable point.
Pam Montgomery: So Yarrow is this amazing wound. Healing. Plant it on all levels, on all levels, it heals, wounds and it heals weaknesses, it heals vulnerable points. It heals
Pam Montgomery: It especially heals wounds of the patriarchy.
Pam Montgomery: This plant is like.
Pam Montgomery: It's like they talk about the wounded, the wounded warrior, and the what
Pam Montgomery: I and my associates have found is that this is one of the best plants to heal the wounds of the patriarchy. And there's a lot
Pam Montgomery: you know there's the wounds of
Pam Montgomery: women. Within the patriarchy. Women are inferior, inferior inferiority of women. The separation from nature nature becomes a resource instead of a living being
Pam Montgomery: power over versus power from within
Pam Montgomery: binary thinking, which is either or either, or kind of thinking. These are all bits of the patriarchy I'm mentioning here violence and warring mentality.
Pam Montgomery: It supports other oppressive systems like racism, classism, resource, distribution, those other oppressive kind of systems.
Pam Montgomery: Now, it's important to realize that men are also wounded by the patriarchy. It's not just women that are wounded by the patriarchy, you know. A good example was back in my day. Many of the young men, against their will, were sent to a war that
Pam Montgomery: turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes in American
Pam Montgomery: history. The Vietnam War, and the draft still happened back in those days. So
Pam Montgomery: so many men I mean, I was in college, and they got drafted right out of college. Even I know it's hard to believe. But back in those days they did.
Pam Montgomery: and a lot of them didn't come home. So imagine living within a system. Now I know we don't have the draft anymore. That might change
Pam Montgomery: But imagine being an a 19 year old boy, almost kid, man, boy, man, and having the threat
Pam Montgomery: of being sent to war to kill people kill people.
Pam Montgomery: I mean what a huge like Whoa! And I still think many of the men in my generation are damaged from that.
Pam Montgomery: from that whole threat to their life.
Pam Montgomery: So
Pam Montgomery: And then, you know, then there's also men who are displaying feminine
Pam Montgomery: tendencies, and usually they are very much looked down upon or frowned upon.
Pam Montgomery: So so this is the, you know. It helps heal these wounds all the ones I've just listed. This plant really helps heal the wounds of the patriarchy. It also helps balance the masking, but we all we all have masculine and feminine in in us, and it helps balance that
Pam Montgomery: So right side is masculine. Left side is feminine.
Pam Montgomery: and we are able to balance those 2. If if you feel one out of balance, then you can. I have a little thing that I do a little.
Pam Montgomery: It's a little motion which is on the right side. I use my hands so on the right side it's pushing out. That's the outward movement of the masculine. And on the and this one I do, my left hand facing me. And so it's this kind of motion
Pam Montgomery: where you're pushing out the masculine and bringing in the feminine.
Pam Montgomery: So it's this kind of motion.
Pam Montgomery: So you want. And this is a balancing. If you're feeling like there's too much masculine, or you're feeling like there's not enough feminine, or or, you know.
Pam Montgomery: just bringing in the balance, so helping to balance the masculine and the feminine.
Pam Montgomery: Another saying of this plant is cut to the bone and
Pam Montgomery: So it really helps heal deep wounds. And it's not just
Pam Montgomery: physical wounds, it is physical wounds, but it's also a deep emotional wounds, deep spiritual wounds.
Pam Montgomery: The spirit of Yaro really helps to heal those, and it also really is good for cord cutting, so kind of along with its ability to cut cords are energetic cords that you have between other people, and they're make so like. For example, if you have ended a sexual relationship.
Pam Montgomery: then in your second Chakra is where the cords are that connect you to a partner that you've had sexual relations with.
Pam Montgomery: So if you've ended that, then it's not appropriate to have cords in your second Chakra with that person anymore. It's not appropriate. You need to cut those cords. You ask Arrow to come in and cut that cord because it's not appropriate any longer. So that's an example.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, couple other things. It's good for divination.
Pam Montgomery: Yarrow stocks were the original divination tool for the I Ching.
Pam Montgomery: So divination enhances, enhances one's psychic abilities.
Pam Montgomery: It's a great protector plant, really, really kind of wards off negative, non-serving energy, so great protector plant protecting your whole energy body.
Pam Montgomery: It's good. It helps with lucid dreaming and astral travel. It helps to really ground. You really need a ground wire if you're going to be traveling all around and other dimensional realities. You got to have a ground wire to keep you connected to the earth. So it's really good with grounding you. It stems, stems the flow of blood physically and spiritually. So
Pam Montgomery: when there are times when there might be energy leakages, when you're kind of operating in other dimensional realities. And so you don't want that. You don't want leakage, so it will stem that it's like a it's like a styptic. It stops the flow of bud, so it stops that flow of leaking energy as well.
Pam Montgomery: It transmutes pain and trauma.
Pam Montgomery: which is that wounding into love and light. This is a fabulous I, Yarrow is so much one of my favorites. Okay, physically, anti-inflammatory
Pam Montgomery: stops bleeding. I mentioned that fights infections. A really good plant infection so antimicrobial antiseptic
Pam Montgomery: reduces fevers. I mean, this is, this is a great you have kids that are getting real high fevers or something. This will bring, and what I what I have done in the past with when my daughter was young, was I made an infusion of yarrow and dipped a cloth in it, and just, you know, put Yarrow
Pam Montgomery: infusion with a cloth. I just wiped all her body when her temperature was reaching 105, which is dangerous. That's when she started to hallucinate. And once she started to hallucinate, I was like, All right, that's it. We're gonna we're done with this fever we got to do something quickly, and so it was Yarrow that brought the fever down.
Pam Montgomery: Really, really good at that good for indigestion, good for muscle spasms or cramping, it really helps relieve anxiety.
Pam Montgomery: So this plant is fabulous. Okay, we are getting to the point where I need to talk faster. But but we still need to. So let me just go back that one because I want to show. Oh, no, that was dandelion. That was dandelion with its fluffs. Okay? Oh, there we go. There's the close up
Pam Montgomery: flower of Yarrow, and then the leaves. The leaves are like feathers, kind of like the very feathery leaves.
Pam Montgomery: so, and it's primarily the flower. That's the medicinal part of this plant. But you could put a little leaf in there as well. Okay.
Pam Montgomery: So then we're going to go to St. John's work.
Pam Montgomery: And this is another incredibly fabulous plant
Pam Montgomery: that I just love so much. So there's so much to say about Saint John's wort. You do. But I'm gonna I was gonna say, you have a handout, but you don't. You have. You have another handout that I'm going to show you also. Okay, one of the best things with that. Probably many of you know, with St. John's wort is depression. It really helps relieve depression both physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, on all levels.
Pam Montgomery: It is
Pam Montgomery: it's this plant that is just so full of light. I mean, look at that yellow flower. It's just kind of like Whoa! And when you go out in your garden or out in the field, I mean, it grows wild all around, and you go out there and you see this plant blooming. It's kind of the one of the ones that just catches your eye because it's so
Pam Montgomery: brightly yellow and so light filled. I mean, it blooms Saint around Saint John's day. That's the name which is I think it's June.
Pam Montgomery: St. John's Day is like June 18, th or something like that, but it's around the summer solstice, and it depends on what climate you're in. I mean, I'm in a northern climate. So ours starts to bloom a little later, a little bit after solstice. But by the 1st week in July it's definitely blooming. You will also see it's always in 3 stages. So if you see, look in this photograph you've got, you've got the.
Pam Montgomery: You've got the the open flower right here.
Pam Montgomery: Then you've got a bud. Here's a bud right here, and then here you can see there's a spent flower. It's already. Here's here's another one. It's already gone by. It's in 3 stages.
Pam Montgomery: So this plant has to do with the Trinity. It also is the 3 3 stages of life
Pam Montgomery: made in Mother crone. So it helps you, helps people with their health in all stages of life.
Pam Montgomery: It's a solar. It's a solar plexus plant like dandelion was so it really aids digestion. It really helps with any kind of tension that you might feel in your stomach or in your gut.
Pam Montgomery: So it really because it's this in 3 stages. Here it really helps with the transitions transitioning from one stage of life to another, including the transition of crossing over and dying.
Pam Montgomery: So it really helps with the dyeing process this plant spirit. Now it has other colors besides yellow. If you take one of these buds and you rub them between your fingers. The color that will be on your fingers, which is the oil of the plant, is red, and it ranges from red to purple, but red
Pam Montgomery: so red, but ranging from red to purple
Pam Montgomery: crown, Chakra, purple root, Chakra red. So here we've got, you know, we've got crown
Pam Montgomery: root, and then we have solar plexus.
Pam Montgomery: Then we, of course, have the green color which is heart Chakra. So this plant almost covers all of the Chakra. When you look at all of the colors.
Pam Montgomery: Now the leaves which let's go
Pam Montgomery: here you can see the leaf, and then you can see these
Pam Montgomery: close up. So you see this blossom here, and you see all these little black dots along the edges. Here's the black dots along the edges. These are oil glands.
Pam Montgomery: and so in the bud up here.
Pam Montgomery: That's when there's the most amount of the oil in the plant. So I if I'm going to make an oil out of it, I harvest the buds as much as I can get the buds, because that's got the most amount of the volatile oil in it. But that's what these little black dots are are oil glands, and then I don't know if you can really see it in this leaf picture.
Pam Montgomery: If you hold the leaf up to the light with this particular species, the hypericum perforum. There's lots of species of St. John's word. This particular species
Pam Montgomery: perforatum means perforation. You'll see what looks like little holes in the leaf, and that's how you can identify it. Just hold it up to the light. And you see those what appears to be little holes. They're actually a kind of gland that has like a really transparent film, like thin little
Pam Montgomery: film over it. It's not really a hole, but it gives you that sense that.
Pam Montgomery: and it's and and it's called perforatum, which perforation indicates that there actually is a hole. But it's really just a very thin membrane that
Pam Montgomery: that
Pam Montgomery: what should I say? Energy can move through. So it's but it's a membrane. It's not an actual whole hole. Okay.
Pam Montgomery: so it's like a hole. But not because it's so thin things can. Trans can can move through it. Okay, so
Pam Montgomery: so, energetically speaking, sometimes there's this thing that happens that
Pam Montgomery: it's like your auric field. So your energy, body, and your energy body is about as far as you can stretch in every direction with your arms out every direction. That's your energy body, generally speaking, and sometimes because of certain activities you might engage in, or other things that might be trying to come into you. I call it Swiss cheese. Aura is. There's holes
Pam Montgomery: in your in your org field which leads to spiritual malnourishment which leads to depression
Pam Montgomery: so spiritual malnourishment just like it sounds. Your spirit. Flame is not burning very brightly. It's like burning real low. It's not, you know, doing a nice little fire like this. It's burning very, very low.
Pam Montgomery: So St. John's wort is one of those plants that helps fill up those holes in your oic field.
Pam Montgomery: It fills them with light. So my my handle, my my felt sensation for St. John's work is
Pam Montgomery: the handle's liquid light.
Pam Montgomery: I my sensation is, feels like liquid light throughout my whole body, and it's like taking like a pitcher or something like that, and pouring liquid light down through the top of my head, and it fills my entire aura, and it can fill in all those holes. If I were to have holes in my aura.
Pam Montgomery: very, very helpful and very, very useful. The last thing you want is holes in your aura holes in your energy body. It's like an open door policy. It's like all the doors and the windows are open, and like whoever and whatever and whatever kind of energy, can just wander in and out, you do not want that you do not want, that you want your energy body to be your energy body, and nothing enters into your energy body unless you invite it.
Pam Montgomery: So it's really important to to keep this in mind. It's a super duper great protector plant because of this ability that it has.
Pam Montgomery: So so it's holes in the aura, but it's also your skin, I mean, you know, when you look at the holes, the you know the apparent perforations. It's like the pores of your skin, so it's really good for your skin as well. I use it. I use the oil as an after sun, some people say, Oh, it's it's like a sunscreen. It is not a sunscreen.
Pam Montgomery: but if you get a little red in the sun because you didn't cover yourself up, or whatever, then you apply St. John's Fort oil like. So it's after sun oil the next day. You're nice and brown. That's what I have experienced.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, so let's see other things I want to say is
Pam Montgomery: Oh, and the light part of it. When I meant to mention the transitions. It helps light the way for a soul to cross over when they pass on.
Pam Montgomery: So that's how it can be helpful in that transition because of its light quality. It just lights the path.
Pam Montgomery: Which is quite handy. All right.
Pam Montgomery: So other kinds of things you want to know is that this plant
Pam Montgomery: is good for the skin. It's good for nervous conditions.
Pam Montgomery: It's tension and pain relieving. It relaxes the muscles.
Pam Montgomery: I mean, I even like, you know, I might take some St. John's worth. If I know I have to be doing some heavy labor. I kind of try to avoid the heavy later labor these days, but in my day I've done some fairly massive, heavy labor, and if you take some St. John's wort tincture and it's the it's, you know. The flowering top of the plant is what you tincture
Pam Montgomery: before you go. Do that. All your muscles just kind of relax. It's like you don't tense up, you know. You're not like that. And it just, and it makes it so. You don't be aren't sore at night, after doing lots of lots of heavy labor.
Pam Montgomery: it really helps with headaches, even migraines. Low back pain burns fabulous plant for burns, as I mentioned, after sun oil for a sunburn. But other kinds of burns, too.
Pam Montgomery: It's antiviral. It's a really good antiviral.
Pam Montgomery: It's very expectorant, very calming and soothing helps relieve anxiety. So just another incredibly fantastic plan. Okay, I'm going to show you now, that is the end of these slides. I'm going to stop this
Pam Montgomery: share, and I'm going to do another share. You have this one as a handout
Pam Montgomery: this. Oh, my goodness! Can I stop that one up there? Oops!
Pam Montgomery: How come this one didn't stop?
Pam Montgomery: Go away.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, I want this one.
Pam Montgomery: Okay.
Pam Montgomery: I don't know why, that's in the background. Okay, let's pull this one over. Oh, there we go, all right. So
Pam Montgomery: depression. I mentioned depression.
Pam Montgomery: There's points just like we talked last time about the heart meridian and the heart points. These points are kidney points. K. There's a k in front of them. So there's Kidney 27, kidney 26, kidney, 2524, 23.
Pam Montgomery: The ones you want to know about as mentioned down here, depression, light points, the 1st degree of spirit, loss, lifeless quality, flat, tired, is called spirit spirit burial, burial ground. So it's Kidney 24.
Pam Montgomery: So he asked St. John's word to go to that point the second degree of spirit, loss.
Pam Montgomery: spirit, weariness, accumulated. Trauma being terrified. Shock
Pam Montgomery: resistance to going to painful places is called Spirit Storehouse. That's Kidney 25?
Pam Montgomery: Asked St. John's work to go to this light point.
Pam Montgomery: So I'm going to show you it's here. But it's you know. You find your center line like, find the little hollow in your throat, and this is your center line. This is your center line and your ribs come off of your center line, the 1st one being way up here that curves around this one that curves around. You can see that in the picture. And so you come about
Pam Montgomery: about
Pam Montgomery: feel the 2 little knobbies. There's 2 little knobbies right here. Feel your knobbies.
Pam Montgomery: and you want to come over about
Pam Montgomery: a thing about how much is that? Maybe a thumbs width just about thumbs, width, and it will be tender.
Pam Montgomery: Remember, I said to you last week, acupuncture points when you hit them are tender.
Pam Montgomery: so that is kidney 27. This is how to really help identify where 25 and 24 are. So you've got
Pam Montgomery: 27. You drop down to the next rib.
Pam Montgomery: and right there you'll feel it tender, tender.
Pam Montgomery: Kidney 26.
Pam Montgomery: I'm gonna have to really bare my chest here.
Pam Montgomery: drop down one more rib. Feel the tender, tender spot right there. Kidney 25. Here's kidney 25.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, this is the second degree.
Pam Montgomery: So this is when you're really
Pam Montgomery: you're you're really experiencing it, and then you drop down one more rib.
Pam Montgomery: Know if you can hear it. Let me try to hope. You see that
Pam Montgomery: one more rib. And now you're you're just at the top of your breast
Pam Montgomery: for those of you who are big breasted. It might be a little harder to find me. I'm not. So it's easy for me to find. But you'll so this is kidney 24. This is the one most usually you will want to know this one, and it's tender. I mean, you can feel how tender it is when you press.
Pam Montgomery: You're going to ask St. Johnsworth, the spirit of St. Johnworth to come right here
Pam Montgomery: to help you with that kind of lifeless, flat.
Pam Montgomery: depressive quality, you know, when you're just kind of like, you know, or you can rub Saint John's work oil on these points. That's a really nice thing to do, too. So really wanted you to be able to identify these points. And this little chart which you have in your
Pam Montgomery: and your handouts. You've got this in your handouts so you can go back to it. But it's just, you know. Just find your knobs, you know. Find that 1st one. You know that 1st one that comes around right there. You just go over from the knobs just a little bit, and you'll feel it, and you just drop down from rib to rib.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, I hope that was
Pam Montgomery: easy to understand. All right. So now we are at the point where we want to have time for our
Pam Montgomery: meditation.
Pam Montgomery: So I want you all to get yourself comfortable if you need to turn your screen off because it's distracting. Then do that, and we will have our
Pam Montgomery: have our our meditation for this week.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, all right.
Pam Montgomery: So I want you to begin by breathing deep, breathing deeply into your heart.
Pam Montgomery: and as you breathe, become aware of how grateful you are for the gift of the day
Pam Montgomery: the gift of your life.
Pam Montgomery: How grateful you are for your family and your friends.
Pam Montgomery: and how grateful you are for the beautiful nature all around you, and be grateful
Pam Montgomery: for your own beauty, and all the gifts that you carry, and all the gifts
Pam Montgomery: bestowed upon you from life, feel
Pam Montgomery: your own incredible beauty, and the gifts that you carry and be grateful.
Pam Montgomery: Bring into your awareness. Now one plant or tree
Pam Montgomery: that is one of your particular favorites.
Pam Montgomery: or maybe one of the plants we've talked about today.
Pam Montgomery: But bring that into your awareness right now, whoever's calling to you.
Pam Montgomery: Perhaps this is an ally of yours.
Pam Montgomery: and you feel such deep gratitude and love for this plant or tree in your life.
Pam Montgomery: feel that deep love.
Pam Montgomery: And now you want to bring your conscious awareness of this plant or tree.
Pam Montgomery: and bring them into your being as much as you can.
Pam Montgomery: Bring them fully into your beingness.
Pam Montgomery: Begin to visualize this plant or tree, and what it looks like.
Pam Montgomery: Visualize it in your landscape.
Pam Montgomery: Visualize the minute details of this plant.
Pam Montgomery: and take a moment to fully bring this into your being, being able to see this plant ally.
Pam Montgomery: As you deeply observe this plant in your mind's eye, see all the beauty
Pam Montgomery: of this beautiful plant.
Pam Montgomery: and now, in your conscious awareness begin to experience the smell of this plant or tree.
Pam Montgomery: perhaps the sweet fragrance of a flower.
Pam Montgomery: the aromatic aroma of an evergreen
Pam Montgomery: or a deep, rich, earthy smell.
Pam Montgomery: or the smell of green chlorophyll.
Pam Montgomery: Take a moment to bring into your awareness the smell.
Pam Montgomery: and now begin to bring into your conscious awareness how this plant feels to the touch?
Pam Montgomery: Is it soft, rough, or prickly, or smooth?
Pam Montgomery: Bring the feeling sensation of this touch into your awareness, and take a moment to experience the touch
Pam Montgomery: of this plant, of how you touch it and how it touches you.
Pam Montgomery: And now bring it into your conscious awareness.
Pam Montgomery: The taste of this plant.
Pam Montgomery: Perhaps you've tasted this before, or maybe not
Pam Montgomery: what that be aware of what that taste might be like.
Pam Montgomery: Bring it to the tip of your tongue, and imagine what this tastes might be like.
Pam Montgomery: Take a moment to bring the taste of this plant or tree into your imagination.
Pam Montgomery: and now bring into your conscious awareness the sound of this plant or tree, and what it might be
Pam Montgomery: waving in the breeze rustling, or the crunch of leaves as you listen.
Pam Montgomery: listen within as well as without.
Pam Montgomery: Listen to your own inner voice.
Pam Montgomery: Listen to your intuition.
Pam Montgomery: What does your intuition tell you about this plant or tree.
Pam Montgomery: Perhaps you know this plant really well.
Pam Montgomery: and perhaps it has something new to share with you.
Pam Montgomery: Listen to that inner voice telling you about this planter tree.
Pam Montgomery: Now listen to what your ancestors have to say about this plant.
Pam Montgomery: This memory is in your blood.
Pam Montgomery: Let the blood that runs through your veins bring the memory of this plant
Pam Montgomery: that perhaps your ancestors knew very well.
Pam Montgomery: And that's why this plant is one of your allies.
Pam Montgomery: It is familiar, because your ancestors knew this plant or tree.
Pam Montgomery: Take a moment to bring this memory into your conscious awareness.
Pam Montgomery: and now bring into your conscious awareness the vibratory resonance of this plant or tree bring in its vibration?
Pam Montgomery: Where does this vibration land in your body?
Pam Montgomery: What is the sensation you receive in your body from this planter tree?
Pam Montgomery: Is it a fluttering in your heart, or expand in sensation in your hands?
Pam Montgomery: What is the sensation you feel in your body? That is the vibratory resonance of this plant or tree.
Pam Montgomery: put a word or image to this sensation.
Pam Montgomery: hone in on exactly what it feels like by giving it a word or words to describe it.
Pam Montgomery: And now, becoming consciously aware what is the emotional response that bubbles up from the sensation?
Pam Montgomery: Is it joy, fear, anger, sadness?
Pam Montgomery: What is the emotional response without judgment. Just let it bubble up.
Pam Montgomery: And now, coming back to your breath.
Pam Montgomery: exchanging green breath with your plant or tree, you breathing out carbon dioxide, breathing in oxygen.
Pam Montgomery: breathing in a cycle of breath with your plant ally exchanging breath, exchanging green breath.
Pam Montgomery: This daily activity of exchanging breath becomes profound when you realize you are the breath of another being.
Pam Montgomery: you breathe in another being and another being breathes in. You feel the intimacy of the experience.
Pam Montgomery: experience, this intimacy of sharing breath with another being.
Pam Montgomery: take a moment to breathe together.
Pam Montgomery: And now, being in deep gratitude, we give thanks to your plant ally coming back into your space.
Pam Montgomery: returning to your normal reality
Pam Montgomery: and being in deep gratitude for this tremendous gift.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, everyone. Well, I know that that was a lot to cover, and I was.
Pam Montgomery: I know I was going at top speed, but I wanted. There's so much to share with you, and I just wanted to get it all in. And
Pam Montgomery: so we have time for questions. Now.
Pam Montgomery: It will take a little extra time today for those of you who can stay and
Pam Montgomery: and maybe some of you have questions. Then. We'll try to answer some.
Pam Montgomery: Do you have some questions for me, Ami?
Ami Sohi: Yes, thank you so much for another amazing class.
Ami Sohi: Pam, that was beautiful.
Ami Sohi: Okay, yeah, we do have questions.
Ami Sohi: So
Ami Sohi: yeah, so there was so much plant medicine here in this container. So Cheryl's asking if if taking should we only take one plant at a time for healing? So that's a good question.
Pam Montgomery: Yeah. I personally like to work with like one plan at a time. I mean.
Pam Montgomery: you can. You can do more if you feel like it. But I I mean, I'm sharing 3 plants with you. So you know, I'm kind of like going against my thing. But it's because I want, you know, because this is only a 4 week course. I wanted to give you at least a dozen plants to, but you don't have to be working with all 3 of them in one week's time you can pick the one that's calling to you the most and work on that, and then, you know you carry on with the plants beyond this course so ideally, it's 1 because
Pam Montgomery: I mean, it's kind of like, how many best friends can you have at once.
Pam Montgomery: That's how I look at it, because that's what I'm aiming for. I mean this, and it's not just a best friend. I mean, these plants will become your beloved's.
Pam Montgomery: And how long does it take for you to
Pam Montgomery: to to have a beloved? It takes some time, perhaps. I mean, it takes spending time together and communicating a lot and
Pam Montgomery: and and having sharing those love vibrations and all of that. That's what it takes. And that's what happens with these plants? Is they really become your beloveds? So
Pam Montgomery: yes, I would say, that's what works for me is like one plan at a time.
Pam Montgomery: and you don't need like in in your plant repertoire. You don't need hundreds and hundreds of plants.
Pam Montgomery: really. I mean one of the things that I
Pam Montgomery: I think Jocelyn wrote this down as a quote from me, because I said it to her one time. It's like, if you know, 12 plants really, really well.
Pam Montgomery: that's all you need, because 12 plants can cover a lot of ground.
Pam Montgomery: So, and the other, the other thing that I've I've seen happen is
Pam Montgomery: people get overwhelmed, especially when they 1st begin working in this way because, you know, it's like all these plants like me, me.
Pam Montgomery: and they're just like overwhelmed by like, it's too much. There's too many plants. And I said, Well, you know, if this is a co-creative partnership.
Pam Montgomery: Co means you each get an equal. Say here, co-creative partnership that you're building. So you get to say, oh, sorry. I'm so sorry I'm working with this plant over here for now, but but we'll get together at some point I mean, you could say no, you can say no when the plants are all screaming at you to, you know.
Pam Montgomery: Pick them, anyway. That's that's how I feel about it. Yeah, don't try to do too many plants at once.
Pam Montgomery: because you'll get overwhelmed.
Ami Sohi: Yeah, thank you for that, Pam, and Jennifer is asking how best to ask a plant for permission to cut or harvest. I use your voice thought, and is there a ceremony when you harvest it? Or is it just permission.
Pam Montgomery: You always want. Well, there's a couple different things, one is, and if you want to kind of
Pam Montgomery: be, really, I'll say, what's the word formal. I don't know if that's quite the right word, or or be really then so like, if you were going to go into the wild and let's say St. John's work, and you're going to go out. And in the field there's a whole bunch of St. John's words. You would find the mother plant or or grandmother plant, as the case may be, like the one that's just like, you know, stands out. And there's just this plant is like Whoa. It doesn't necessarily mean the biggest. It just means the one that's like.
Pam Montgomery: And you would go to that plant and ask for permission to harvest
Pam Montgomery: some of the plants that are here in this field is that always leave a some call on an offering. I don't really like to use that word. It's really, you're really gifting, you're feeding. It's a whole different understanding of of what you're how you're engaging with the plant plant spirits and the spirit of the plant, because you're going to be asking the spirit of Saint John's word to
Pam Montgomery: to be able to do some harvesting, and that. And you assure the the grandmother plant that you will be harvesting in a good way, and you'll only be taking, you know. You'll only be harvesting as much as
Pam Montgomery: you know. You're not going to go in there and harvest everything, obviously, and you'll be doing it in a prayerful way and in a conscious way. And so you assure her that that's what you're going to be doing, and and the spirit spirits love to be fed.
Pam Montgomery: So this is part of the reciprocity of working with plants is giving back.
Pam Montgomery: So you might. So you would leave something for this. Plant. Plants like food.
Pam Montgomery: They like handmade things you've made with your hands because we have the this.
Pam Montgomery: Plants don't have hands with opposable thumbs. We do so. That means we can make beauty with our hands. So the spirit of the plants or spirit in general really really values that which you make with your hands, because it carries value because you took time, energy, and effort to make it yourself. So anything you would make
Pam Montgomery: and and that's I mean, it could be a beautiful painting it could be it could. They love food? Food's always good
Pam Montgomery: beads. I you know, my teacher, Martine Prectel. The 1st thing we did in in his course was
Pam Montgomery: We started making beads, and we made beads from shell and flint.
Pam Montgomery: What makes a bead is you put a hole in it that makes it a bead. So that's what we started with. We started making beads that were kind of like our currency. When we were going to ask spirit for something or other, we gave a bead, and as a way to feed the spirit. So so you want to feed the spirit. So that's 1 way of doing it. And that's probably the best. Is that a ceremony?
Pam Montgomery: It's it's kind of more like a ritual. It's like a little ritual that you might want to engage in, but I would strongly recommend that you that you give
Pam Montgomery: a gift ideally, one that you've made.
Pam Montgomery: Now, having said that, it's like, you know, you might be given lots of gifts, and you could be spending lots of time making your homemade gifts. I carry around with me a pouch of beads, not ones that I have made, but I get jade beads I get, you know, certain kinds of beads that I know plants really like. And so I just carry that pouch around with me. And so then I've got it. I've got it whenever I need to
Pam Montgomery: be in reciprocity and feed the spirit
Pam Montgomery: of the plant, and I'm asking for something like, especially when I'm asking for something. So that's what I would say now, if you if you feel like that. Oh, you oh, I don't know who the you know I don't know who's the grandmother here. I'm not quite sure. And all of that. Well, then.
Pam Montgomery: go to a plant and just ask from your heart in deep respect.
Pam Montgomery: And here's the other thing to remember about plants is that
Pam Montgomery: the gifts that plants carry 2 of the main gifts that plants carry, there's others as other gifts as well is
Pam Montgomery: food and medicine.
Pam Montgomery: They came in as food and medicine.
Pam Montgomery: If you deny them their ability to be in service to life by gifting their food and medicine. You're denying their gifts. Why would you do that? Well, you know. Of course not. You want them to be able to share their gifts, and that's what they're doing. So just keep that in mind as well is, they want
Pam Montgomery: to be your medicine and your food
Pam Montgomery: so, but you still approach them with respect and kindness and love. Of course I mean.
Pam Montgomery: what do you do when you go over to your grandma's house, and she's made you a big, old fat yummy dinner
Pam Montgomery: like you're like. Thank you so much, granny. So that's how you treat the plants. So there you go.
Ami Sohi: Okay, yeah, thank you. Annabelle wants to know. Does this also apply to plants that you may buy for your garden, ie. You're drawn to buy plants that are medicine for you.
Pam Montgomery: So are you asking about giving being in reciprocity with them? Is that what we're talking about?
Ami Sohi: Everything that you've discussed. And it's not just plants that you that are. You know that in the.
Pam Montgomery: Oh, yeah, no. All your plants. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I'm a big time gardener. I have lots of medicinal plants in my garden. Oh, absolutely.
Pam Montgomery: Absolutely. You want to do this with those 2.
Ami Sohi: Okay, great?
Ami Sohi: So yeah, Donna Gates, she's sharing that when she was working with Rose this week Donna felt soft and centered in in her body? And does that make sense.
Pam Montgomery: Absolutely that the soft one is is rose with me. That's that's fine. So yeah, that makes sense.
Ami Sohi: Daniela asks, do drying herbs, minimize the volatile oils.
Pam Montgomery: Well, that's a good question. Not always, I mean.
Pam Montgomery: if they're dried properly, they retain
Pam Montgomery: volatile oils, I mean, and some plants have more volatile oils than others. I mean lavender is a good example. If it's dried properly, then it's it retains a lot of its volatile oils, and so when it's dried. I mean, you know, they make those little bundle things with with lavender sticks, and so
Pam Montgomery: really the key to to good drying is, don't let moisture get back in it.
Pam Montgomery: So you need a really like, attics are usually good, but place where it's warm and dry.
Pam Montgomery: and and moisture doesn't get back in. That's what that's what damages the quality is when when you you just it's just about all the way dried, and then it rains for 5 days. And this is classic in the State of Vermont, because it rains a lot there, and you know you just almost have it. And then it starts to rain. And you're like, Oh, no. So. But yeah, yeah, just you just got to really, properly dry them, and they'll retain a lot of their volatiles.
Ami Sohi: okay, Andrea is asking, Andrea loves the oneness with the plant, do you have a process where you teach merging with all the plants around you. Example in a forest, a sense of oneness with nature all around.
Ami Sohi: Andrea practices this and loves it. And she's saying an important personal practice for her is, you know, is this what she's doing and would love to hear? If you have a process, you also teach around oneness.
Ami Sohi: Okay, we make sure, sharing, really loving your your teaching.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, good. Thank you. I want to be clear. Are you saying when you go into a particular landscape? And
Pam Montgomery: so it's every
Pam Montgomery: thing or I'm not I. Yeah, I just need a little more clarity on that question.
Ami Sohi: Okay. So Andrea? Oh, yes, she's saying yes.
Pam Montgomery: Oh, okay, okay, so like, into a forest setting or something like that. Do. I have a particular? Well, I mean.
Pam Montgomery: what I like to do is I have. I I'm kind of. I have kind of a special
Pam Montgomery: situation. That where I live in Vermont, anyway, is that
Pam Montgomery: It's the land is very
Pam Montgomery: sacred there, I would say, and and I've lived there for 20,
Pam Montgomery: 5 or 6 years now, and we've done lots of ceremony there, and we've done lots of. So we've done a lot of a lot of work with the land and everything. So I like to connect in with the nature spirits of the land, which in some places that can be tricky, because in some places where the land's been abused or nature spirits have left.
Pam Montgomery: And so then you have to go through the whole process of inviting them back in and kind of creating spaces for them, and all of that. That's not the case where I live. They're there, and they're alive and well and thriving. So I go into my forest, for example, and I connect in with the nature spirits, and it because the nature spirit, I mean.
Pam Montgomery: they're part of the nature. Trinity. It's it's, you know, the nature Trinity is planted trees, nature spirits. And then animals which includes humans. So that's the Trinity. And it's really this
Pam Montgomery: 3, these 3 working in concert together. So you can't leave out the nature spirits. And there's so much about like caring for the actual manifestation of the plants and the trees. And so when we work together, then it creates that feeling of like, oh, here we are. We're all in this together, and we're all working together in this amazing, intricate web
Pam Montgomery: that's here that we call life. And so that's what I do. I connect in with the nature spirits. And then that's what connects me
Pam Montgomery: to that greater oneness. I would say
Pam Montgomery: so I'd love to hear yours. Maybe you'd
Pam Montgomery: some write a little thing out that that you could send out on on the telegram on the telegram platform and and let let everybody know like what what you actually do. That would be a great thing for people to know. I'd love to hear that.
Ami Sohi: Yeah.
Ami Sohi: And Kayla is asking, or Kyla, if dandelion is not around when you say, call on dandelion, do you use dandelion flower essence? Can you? Can you use that.
Pam Montgomery: Sure you can always use the essence of any plant if you don't have the plant present for sure.
Pam Montgomery: Yeah.
Ami Sohi: Yeah, okay, there's a question from someone
Ami Sohi: saying, I grew up in a country where there was plenty of dandelion, but where I live now there is no dandelion, so I tried several times to bring the seeds to my new place, but it is not possible to grow. What does it mean? Do I have to look for an alternative plant plant.
Pam Montgomery: Interesting. Wow!
Pam Montgomery: It won't grow there. Hmm!
Pam Montgomery: Is this an area that's been really
Pam Montgomery: a lot of chemicals and spraying and all that.
Ami Sohi: Can you?
Ami Sohi: Can you write anything? Mediterranean.
Pam Montgomery: Oh, there, yeah, no, it's it. Is. Majorca.
Pam Montgomery: Okay? Well, I I'm sorry about my geography. What's the? Well.
Pam Montgomery: okay. So it sounds like sounds like the climate, which is so unusual because dandelion pretty much grows everywhere. How about if you tried starting like dandelion in a pot?
Pam Montgomery: Start that way. Oh, it's an island in Spain. Oh, my gosh, it should definitely grow there.
Pam Montgomery: Hmm, I would. Okay. So
Pam Montgomery: 1st of all, you need to make sure that your seeds are viable
Pam Montgomery: means, meaning that you know they still have life in them.
Pam Montgomery: And so that's number one. You can have viable seeds.
Pam Montgomery: and I would start by putting them like in a window box or in a in a pot like, just give them an environment that you can that you have control over so that you can really tend to them so that you can give them what they need, perhaps.
Pam Montgomery: and then perhaps transplant them from that. That's my best suggestion. I'm really surprised they don't grow there, and I don't know why I can't answer that. Why, that would be a good question for you to ask of the land.
Pam Montgomery: Why don't dandelions grow here? What's the reason? And then listen to what the land has to say about that, because you can communicate with any aspect of nature. We're just focusing on plants, but you can. You can communicate with any aspect of nature. I would I would I would ask the land.
Pam Montgomery: and I would also, I mean, because the nature spirits are part of the manifestation process. I would also look into that. Are there nature spirits on this land, or are they gone? Have they left?
Pam Montgomery: Because the land's been abused in some way or another?
Pam Montgomery: That's that's what I would suggest, and then report back.
Pam Montgomery: I'm curious what the land might tell you.
Pam Montgomery: You're you're you're muted, ami.
Ami Sohi: Sorry staying with Dandelion and Rachel's asking. I've noticed, where I live in North England. The dandelions seem to flourish the most nearest to the road. I never pick plants near the road, etc. But is there a reason? Dandelion grows so well, there? Is it somehow possible to detox itself, and therefore be okay for us to use when near pollution.
Pam Montgomery: That's very interesting. Yeah, I mean it. It is a plant that grows in adversity.
Pam Montgomery: adverse conditions, I mean, it's kind of known for that I mean it grows in lawns and all that, too. But I mean, look where it grows in the cities.
Pam Montgomery: And so I'm not surprised that you say that? Yeah.
Pam Montgomery: I mean, there's not really lead gasoline anymore. That's been gone for a while. So there's not
Pam Montgomery: pollution as far as lead goes.
Pam Montgomery: Going into these plants. That was always the big concern back in back in the day when that was going on.
Pam Montgomery: So I would say that, yeah. Well.
Pam Montgomery: if it's if it's the difference between having dandelion and not having dandelion.
Pam Montgomery: then I would have some dandelion. I would go to the dandelion and say, I really want to be working with you. I would love to bring you into my physical body, if that's what you're intending. What it sounds like is you're intending to bring it in your physical body. Otherwise it's not a problem. Making a flower essence is not going to have anything toxic in it, because it's the vibratory resonance.
Pam Montgomery: That's another thing you might consider is working with the essence instead of
Pam Montgomery: the physical plant to ingest it.
Pam Montgomery: But it sounds like you want to ingest it. So I would
Pam Montgomery: go with Dan. Go to Dandelion and say, Look, I would really love to work with you and cooperate with you. But I'm a little concerned with you being so close to the road. Is it possible that you could, you know, bring yourself into a
Pam Montgomery: free of any potential toxins so that I could bring you into my body.
Pam Montgomery: That's what I would do. I would ask Dandelion to do that.
Pam Montgomery: Yeah.
Ami Sohi: Okay, the Catrine asks, what do plants feel feel about when you cut them both the smaller ones when you cut flowers or leaves, but also when you cut bushes or trees in shape, I've often asked myself if I'm hurting them, or if they maybe sometimes need this kind of care to stay healthy.
Pam Montgomery: Well again, I I tell plants what I'm going to do or what I feel like I need to do.
Pam Montgomery: So if if anything's going to get pruned, which I think is kind of what you're talking about here. I tell them ahead of time.
Pam Montgomery: It's kind of like.
Pam Montgomery: you know. I mean, you want to know when something is going to change with you.
Pam Montgomery: So you tell them
Pam Montgomery: this is what I am planning is that I would really like to prune you, and the reason is, I think it might help with your growth
Pam Montgomery: and what it and and what do you think? Give them the give them the option of putting in their 2 cents worth on it. And and listen to that.
Pam Montgomery: Now again, a lot of the questions you're asking here are are strictly about you having the ability to communicate. We just went through a bunch of stuff about how to communicate. You need to practice it
Pam Montgomery: until it becomes second nature and it will, it will. It's just going to take a little bit of time. So you need to to hone your communication skills and
Pam Montgomery: and say, and just, you know, you communicate clearly, this is what I'm what I would like to do.
Pam Montgomery: What do you think?
Pam Montgomery: Well, how do you feel about this? And and and answers may come to you.
Pam Montgomery: It's not always in words, it can come in other ways. It can come in images. It can come in, you know, memories. It can come in, you know the vibratory resonances we've talked about and come in that way, and then, you know, and all of it. You put it together and and put together the bits and pieces, and to begin to derive meaning. That's what you want to do is you want to derive meaning from what's coming to you now?
Pam Montgomery: Sometimes there are words in your head.
Pam Montgomery: but what's important to know is, the words are a translation of the vibratory resonance, because that's what's familiar for us is words
Pam Montgomery: we speak these words. That's how we communicate primarily, even though it's not as effective as other kinds of communication to be honest. So you just want to. You know.
Pam Montgomery: you know, if you do receive words, listen to the words and realize it's a translation, and also realize that it's another language you're translating. And if you don't know the language really well, like, you know, when I went to my in-laws in Costa Rica, and all the church members came, and my sister was there, and I went around, and I pointed at my sister and at me. And I, said.
Pam Montgomery: Hermosa, Hermosa! And they all looked at us, and they looked at us with this, and I go home and tell my my daughter-in-law that night. I said I did this with all the church people, and they looked at me really funny, and she started laughing
Pam Montgomery: and laughing and laughing, she said, you wanted Hermana. Hermana. Hermana is Sister Hermosa is oh, beautiful. So I was telling him that we were really beautiful. Okay, well, that was not so bad. But I was just like totally got the wrong word, because
Pam Montgomery: my translation wasn't quite accurate. So I'm just trying to say to you. If your translation is a little bit not accurate, don't beat up on yourself about that. Just be like, try to get as clear as you can. You want to be clear about what they're saying to you, and one of the easy things I do I do like. I bring it all into my heart. I bring all that, all the bits and pieces, and all the information into my heart. Is it like a ping? Yep, good. You're good, that's right, or is it kind of like, oh, thud!
Pam Montgomery: Are you drained of energy, or are you given energy?
Pam Montgomery: And that is a quick way to let you know? Yeah, you're you're on the right track here. You're you're right on. So
Pam Montgomery: that's what I would say to you is like, bring it to the plants
Pam Montgomery: and let them know what you want to do, and see what they, if they agree, or what they might want to do, and then move forward in that way, but it's not, you know. I mean, pruning is a good thing, generally speaking, so long as you know how to prune, and you know, and
Pam Montgomery: cutting plants back or harvesting plants. I mean, it's all part of it, and it's not
Pam Montgomery: one woman said to me one time is like, Oh, my God! I'm stepping on the plants. And I'm like.
Pam Montgomery: Okay, yeah, I mean, they are underfoot a lot of them. And if you go barefoot, then you're getting, you know the pores on the bottom of your feet are the largest pores in your body, and you're getting like all those Nano nutrients in the in the plants that you're walking over top of. It's not. It's you're not damaging anybody's, and especially when you let them know what's
Pam Montgomery: what you're planning. What would you like? What you would, how you would like to proceed.
Ami Sohi: Okay, I think. Just a couple more than pam. Yeah.
Ami Sohi: Okay. So with Yarrow, Rachel Alanak, she's saying, I have Yarrow, but it has pink flowers. Does this variation have the same properties.
Pam Montgomery: Is this a plant? Is this a yarrow that was planted? Is it cultivated
Pam Montgomery: because there's red ones? And there's yellow ones. And the pink. I actually think
Pam Montgomery: sometimes the white ones are the wild are the wild yarrow. It's it's the Achilles millifolium. Then there's other species which are which are hybrids.
Pam Montgomery: so they're cultivated. So so it depends on how pink it is. Sometimes there's a little range of pink in the white ones.
Ami Sohi: Yes, it was planted. Yeah.
Pam Montgomery: They were planted. Okay? So it's not the wild variety, so it won't have the same medicinal properties.
Ami Sohi: Okay, running.
Ami Sohi: And when we take this medicine from the plants, we need to consume them physically, or the healing could take place energetically with the intention, if we don't have the plant close to us.
Pam Montgomery: Well, I mean, I feel like I mean, spirit and energy works together. You know, energy can't be created or destroyed, and I mean it just it has a particular expression. Energy does so the spirit and the energy work work hand in hand. So the Spirit Spirit guides the energy, and so
Pam Montgomery: What I have found, as far as healing goes, is the ideal is go to the source of the
Pam Montgomery: whatever it might be. The
Pam Montgomery: the challenge or the discomfort, or whatever it might be, go to the source of it. The source is on the spirit level.
Pam Montgomery: and so ideally you go to the spirit level and work at it there before it even starts to manifest physically, because once it, you know your your challenge or your dis ease manifests physically. It's been hanging around for a very long time, because it goes through the layers to get to the physical level. So in plant spirit healing like that's that's was always the was. The goal is to identify the
Pam Montgomery: misalignment, or whatever it is that you know a closed Chakra, you know, in your energy body, and you work with the spirit of the plants to to get that Chakra cleared and spinning. Well, so you go to that before you have something happening on a physical level, because that Chakra is blocked up.
Pam Montgomery: So that's the ideal you work at that level. So to answer your question. Yes, I would do that 1st before you run to all the tinctures and all the physical things.
Pam Montgomery: unless you're feeling. I mean, the big thing is when people are in a lot of pain.
Pam Montgomery: Pain is like
Pam Montgomery: people want to be done with pain, like right now it's hard. It's a hard one when you're in pain. So you know, you work a little bit with some physical aspects of the plant to remove the pain, and then you go to the source.
Pam Montgomery: So yeah.
Ami Sohi: Okay, I think. Thank you. We'll that's all we have time for. And last final words, Pam, from you.
Pam Montgomery: Well, I just. It's I'm so excited to be sharing this with you, and I know that I I'm giving you a lot, and I know it might feel a little bit
Pam Montgomery: like overwhelming. And I'm I talk really fast. It's because I want to fit it all in, but I hope it's working for you. And next time we are going to be talking about
Pam Montgomery: energy hygiene, which we're going to be moving into like a little bit about what we were just saying about going to that spirit level and working with the energy body. So we'll be doing energy hygiene, which will include energy anatomy which that'll be part. That will be partly Chakras, because that's part of your energy anatomy and Limpias, which is clearing Olympiars.
Pam Montgomery: you know, means to clean Spanish word Limpia is cleansing, so we will do Limpias different kinds of Limpias. We'll go over that. We'll do an alignment treatment that'll be with mugwort and our plants next time will be mugwort, rosemary, and white pine.
Pam Montgomery: really, really great ones, and your bonus this time is making flower essences or making essences, so I hope you enjoy that. So thank you all for being here, and I hope you have a fabulous week and enjoy talking to each other on telegram. All right, bye, for now.
Ami Sohi: Thank you. Everyone for joining us and see you next week for module. 3.
Ami Sohi: Okay, bye-bye.
Pam Montgomery: Bye.