They have formidable jaws, sticky leaves and killer thorns. Woe betide the insect that comes too near;
venus
fly
trap,
killer
plants,
jaws,
insects,
fly,
flies,
meat
eating
plant,
botany,
cultivation,
digestion
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An introduction to photosynthesis. Learn the raw materials and products of the photosynthesis equation and see how the sun helps plants survive.
how
photosynthesis
works,
simple
explanation,
visualization,
how
plants
convert
water
light
and
carbon
dioxide
to
oxygen
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Added: 228 days ago by
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Terence McKenna - Plants, Consciousness & Transformation
Terence K. McKenna (1995) Plants, Consciousness, and Transformation.
Two-day workshop, April 8-9, 1995 in which Terence talks about a wide range of topics, including the evolution of consciousness, the role of psychedelics in prehistory, politics and his theory of the timewave. A very complete introduction to the latest thinking by this intellectual pioneer. Terence answers the questions: What are the psychoactive plants? How do they affect human consciousness? Why do they exist?
The "Stoned Ape" hypothesis of human evolution:
McKenna hypothesized that as the North African jungles receded and gave way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began to live in the open areas outside of the forest. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted, physically and mentally, to their new environment.
Among the new food items found in this new environment were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing near the dung of ungulate herds that occupied the savannas and grasslands at that time. McKenna, referencing the research of Roland L. Fisher, claimed that enhancement of visual acuity was an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and supposed that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including sexual arousal, and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave selective evolutionary advantages to members of those tribes who partook of it. There were many changes caused by the introduction of this psychoactive mushroom to the primate diet. McKenna hypothesizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed psilocybin-containing mushrooms from the human diet. McKenna argued that this event resulted in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to the previous brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.
Photo: Psilocybe Semilanceata (Liberty Cap)
Terence
McKenna,
psilocybin,
plants,
consciousness,
mushrooms,
stoned
ape
theory,
primate,
transformation,
evolution
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Added: 477 days ago by
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Moving Art takes an inspiring and beautiful look at the planet and all we have to be thankful for.
moving
art,
gratitude,
give
thanks,
stop-motion,
nature,
natural
sights,
wildlife,
plants,
animals,
earth
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Added: 490 days ago by
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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture - Synergy of Land and Water
Sepp and Veronica Holzer, Austrian mountainside permaculturalists from before the term was invented, at their farm the Kramaterhof, became well known only after publicity in 2000. Sepp Holzer narrates the history of synergistic ideas that have made his farm a high production combination of agroforestry, aquaculture, terraces and raised beds, water heat exchange, self-produced electricity, pig raising, and fish farming without toxic pesticides, herbicides, or having to buy additional foods to feed the pigs and fish. The Kramaterhof farm is more biodiverse than his surrounding "pine tree desert" landscape and it generates its own Mediterranean microclimate through ingenious techniques--despite being 1500 meters up in the Austrian Tyrol. The Tyrol, with some of the finest skiing in Europe, under Sepp's care can grow lemons and kiwis. The film and his discussion provide a treasure trove of abstract techniques you can use. Learn how to integrate these techniques based on his 40 years of experimental expansion across 45 acres. He has turned marginal, erosion-prone mountain lands with poor, acidic soils into a stable Eden on Earth with rich soils, high biodiversity, and high productivity. This is done without irrigation, without expensive pesticides and herbicides, and without any imported fish, cattle, or pig feed. Instead it utilizes well chosen ecological cycles to expand production naturally. Sustainability and high productivity are elegantly conjoined.
permaculture,
synergy,
land,
water,
fruit,
vegetables,
plants,
botany,
gardening,
aquaponis,
hydroponics,
agroforestry
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