I was riding in the car today looking out over acres of sunflower fields that were past their prime, and I was struck with awe at just the sheer amount of biomass these things have.
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| What if we could hear them? |
Like, from one tiny seed, they have these stems several feet tall, complete with leafy green and big ass flowers that contain a multitude of seeds. Is there a more abundant flower? Maybe a dandelion, but they don't sell taco flavored dandelion seeds at gas stations.
Yet.
I know the same can be said about the majesty of trees and all, but they take much longer than sunflowers. Sunflowers are up and over in one season and yet create so much actual tangible plant matter.
Where does it all come from?
The seed contains a bunch of protein and other goodies to get it started - kind of like an egg- and all the genetic instructions so that the flower can build itself from the inside out.
Wow, so spiritual.
Mike and I even contemplated on how fast ducks grow - from sweet little chicks into gross poultry section teenager dinosaurs into fluffy soft feathery birds. It's like- we saw it happen before our very eyes. I remember being able to see changes with their feet and legs within hours, but where did all the feathers come from?
Anyway, back to sunflowers:
The seed doesn't have a mouth or internal organs like animals. It's just, like, planted, puts out some roots and then does its thing from there.
So where do all the stems and leaves and petals and other seeds come from? What builds them? What supplies them? It's actually crazy to think about and consider how it just knows how to take minerals and energy from the earth, combine it with sun energy to photosynthesize, and then builds itself according to its little sunflower programming.
Energy transmutation. It's so cute.
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| Spirographic / sacred geometry |
It's like physical creation is consciousness expressing itself in space and time via the conduit of an electromagnetic field. In the flower's case, it's creating physical structures like seeds, petals, stems, and leaves seemingly from thin air, but it's the energy conversion from the earth below and light above that makes it bloom from the inside out.
Oh, and it's so cool because the flower part at the top is so intricate with all the little seeds in their pattern, staged for the next season of creation, which is just like our brain on top of our body, right, containing the arrangement of our consciousness which produces the reality that we experience depending on what seeds we plant and tend to in the garden of our mind...
If you think I'm crazy, mushrooms are even crazier.
It's always been you,
TWS
I'm a little behind in my reading...wish I had seen this earlier. So when you say "...it's creating physical structures...seemingly from thin air", well, that's exactly what it's doing. Most all of the plant matter is carbon compounds. It gets the carbon from the air. It is also, recycling energy, in a way. When you burn plant matter it releases CO2, which other plants then take out of the air, and turn back into fuel (matter).
ReplyDeleteThat's a very philosophical question... it depends on how you define "wasted". Hey, if you burn marijuana and don't use the heat generated for anything useful, then both the energy and the person burning are wasted!😜
ReplyDeleteHow you define "wasted" also depends on how you define "useful". I think there are purposes that appear wasteful but actually aren't. For instance, art isn't useful in a practical sense, so at what point is it a waste of paint? I think this is what I'm finding out about energy: if we deem something wasted, it's for a purpose that we're not privy to yet. Much like your stoner, 'tis merely a building block of something else yet unseen.
ReplyDeletePun much intended.