Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00032)

Cass, 

I did not say plants think as humans, although you should be surprised by their intelligence and pre-emotional reactions if you read "The Secret Life of Plants" or a similar book. 

I said that Nature, through them, makes choices, hence they make the vegetable equivalent to human judgement.  

I didn't think this common sense theosophical idea would be so difficult to understand!

"Choices", "judgments" or their equivalents,  are present also in the mineral and chemical world,  through the process of affinities and non-affinities. 

Everything is alive and conscious, in the Universe,  although not necessarily self-conscious.   

Not only stones and plants  but also Dhyan Chohans or Planetary spirits, for instance, are not "self-conscious". Raja Yogis aren't, either, when they  get to a meditative state. 

Can we have some rest now?   Carlos. 


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