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1. Plants and Spiritualities, introduction
There has been a link between plants and spirituality throughout history and in all civilisations. Plants act as messengers, symbols, channels for good or evil, they make manifest our relation to the spiritual and to the divine. They are at the origin of beliefs, they feature in prayers and worship and both poly - and monotheist pagan ceremonies. Their medicinal or deadly powers reinforce the symbolic beliefs which underlie our use of them. These powers and the technical and aesthetic complexity of plants, coupled with their longevity, resistance and adaptation, are often difficult to explain scientifically simply by evolution. This may be why they offer unparalleled spiritual enlightenment. Their roles in the landscape and the perfect functional beauty of wild nature have often reinforced and transcended the sense of a founding divine presence behind the creative forces of nature. We have set out to tell you about the place of plants in our world in relation to the divine, sacred and spiritual in whatever form or of whatever importance. We do this with respect even if certain beliefs and rites offend our social, scientific and ethnobotanical sensitivities. Our account is not exhaustive and undoubtedly contains assumptions and choices based on our own encounters and voyages. The line between science and parascience fluctuates through the history and geography of our civilisations and societies. This is clear with regard to the spiritual component of our lives. Fear of life, or of death, introduces distortions, obsessions and nevroses which often obscure a scientific explanation of ritual and its primarily utilitarian function.Download the exhibition panel:http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/ps/pdfps/panneaux/E_01.pdfTo go further:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTAHzO1i6Mw
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