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I recently came across a woman named Monica Gagliano, who is a scientist, ecologist and author.  Her way of looking at the world has shattered my own, in a good way. 

She tells the story of having started her career focused on animals, with an early assignment studying fish in the coral reefs.  In her studies, she would observe the fish, who would come out to greet her.  She established a relationship with them such that they would recognize her over time and she would often be met by various favourites.
 
But then it came time to end the science experiment with its common conclusion: it was time to kill them to study them as specimens.  What surprised her is when the day came, none of the fish came out to greet her.  She couldn’t find any of them.  She wondered if they could perhaps sense what she was there to do, but that was not how she was trained.  She was trained that these were unsensing beings and that her job was to continue with the experiment. 

Continue she did, although she said it was very difficult and horrifying for her, as they wouldn’t come out and then she had to chase them down and they put up intense fights.  It was not pleasant.
 
She left that experience shaken and determined that she would not participate in that kind of science anymore. As fate would have it, she got the opportunity to study plants.
 
Yet, new insights awaited her there too.  She came to realize that all of life has a sentient nature to it.  We are all electrical beings and so why would we not relate electrically? 
 
The shattering for me is when she made the point that our physical brains as humans is what enables us to be sentient and conscious and present, to relate to the outer world.  But just because that is the physical apparatus we possess, that does not mean all beings need possess the same physical apparatus to be able to think and feel.
 
Think about that statement.
 
It has profound implications.  And it explains every possible connection people have to plants and other beings. 

Why can’t we connect on a level that is beyond what we humans have come to understand as the language of relating?

Doesn’t this open up a whole new world? 

If you are intrigued, check out Monica’s new book entitled:  Thus Spoke the Plants.
 
“We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.” … David Abram