"The vitality of the plant begins to dissipate moments after it is picked," says Green Light at the Wyoming Rainbow Nationals, 2008. "So I eat plants the way animals do, with my teeth."
He gives us a five senses experience of a dandelion so that we can learn without microscopes. "When you approach a plant, what do you feel in your third eye? Do you feel a tightening in the diaphragm, a tickle in the back of your throat, or an organ starting to twitch. For example the liver or kidney. But go slowly and give yourself time. Touch the plant with your left hand", he explains, "because the left hand is receptive".
"Your tongue is an entire laboratory. " Frank Cook of Plants and Healers adds, "Wine connoisseurs can tell you the vintage and location of a wine just from the tongue. Add that sensitivity when you are out in the wild with plants."
Green Light picks up an elk thistle and drinks the purified water from its hollow stem before hugging his girlfriend Rose. "Pick twenty dandelion heads, put them in a jar. Fill the jar with water, seal, and place in the sun. The pressure of the hot sun pushes the waters deep into the flower head. Then, during the cool night, the moon pulls the juices back out of the flower. By morning, you will have the most vital dandelion elixir."
To me, if felt like poetry, a flower elixir passing through a sun and moon cycle. And I look forward to meeting Green Light at next year's rainbow gathering.
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