Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.
Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.
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Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.
Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.
http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org
https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod
https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/
Presented by Creative Visions and Striking Wonder Productions™
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Plants are our ancient teachers, whispering and nudging… if only we’d listen. Dr. Monica Gagliano is an evolutionary ecologist who has turned the green world into something wonderfully surprising. Her research reveals plants that listen, remember, make choices and even teach one another. Some can sense eclipses before they happen. Others communicate in ways we’re only just beginning to catch up with.
In 2008, Monica did something bold: she stepped out of academia and followed her curiosity into the forest, literally. Blending scientific experimentation with Amazonian plant ceremonies and the guidance of shamans, she helped spark the field now known as plant intelligence. Since then, her work has captured imaginations around the world, appearing in The New York Times and the National Geographic.
In this episode, we explore:
✦ Pushing back against the scientific status quo
✦ Letting nature show you what it knows
✦ Welcoming indigenous plant teachings into scientific practice
✦ Paying attention as a joyful act of devotion
Monica invites us into a playful and daring question: what do plants actually know… and what might they be trying to tell us?
Chapters
0:00 Intro: Science, wonder, and pushing boundaries
03:03 Initiation on the Great Barrier Reef
12:53 “Plants rescued the scientist in me”
20:57 Monica’s first experiments with plants
27:10 Bringing empathy into science
32:37 "More-than-human" is a place
37:33 It's the human that needs saving
42:44 Indigenous science and plant communication
50:54 The ancient tree that spoke to her
56:14 Trees synchronize during solar eclipse
01:03:51 Attention is the beginning of devotion
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Website: https://www.monicagagliano.com/
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