Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Costa Rica Provings
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
2
3-652.15.01 Bryophyllum pinnatum
Culture: Goethe plant; Rudolf Steiner introduced it to Anthroposophy.
Introduction
Someone in IT-business, successful who gives up his job, writing a book about higher consciousness. He cannot publish it although he sees the bigger picture. They are like pioneers, far from normal borders, a white shaman. Others say they are crazy, out of normality.
Mind
Forbidden.
Abundant.
Translucent.
Gentleness, clarity.
Horrified; form the killing of a fly.
Doing nothing, no questions, no stories, full at ease.
Male fused with the female.
Representing spirit, highly spiritual.
Full of love; angels.
Peace, gentleness and overlooked.
Not imposing.
Slightly apart, waiting.
Highly refined.
Body
Female: labour problems.
3-652.15.01 Bryophyllum pinnatum.
Proving: trituration proving; Dos Brazos, Costa Rica; 10-3-2016.
Provers: Prover 1 female, 20’s; Prover 2 male, 50’s; Prover 3 female, 60’s.
Report: Mairin Begley.
Start
The plant has been on the table for four days, since the start of the week and is still green, fresh, with a soft leaf, a succulent, storing water, having reserves.
When choosing plants, groups this morning, the first group is too big and has to split up into 3 and 2.
Prover 3 and Prover 1 are asked to go into separate groups: Prover 1 knew she wanted to be with Prover 3 from the beginning so they insist on being together. Normally they would both be flexible but today they are insistent, it is a very clear boundary for them to day and they stay together.
We go to collect fresh samples of the plant to prepare for proving. When collecting the plant we observe the rear and a lot of ants on it. On our way back from collecting the fresh plant sample we meet a woman with two little dogs, Prover 3 and Prover 1 have met her before a few times while walking but she had not responded to a greeting previously. Today she responded to Prover 2’ greeting and talked as she walked with us. She tells us her vision is impaired, she is almost blind. She is living in Costa Rica for five years. When asked what she is doing here she replies ‘nothing’.
We arrive back and choose our space for working. We sit quietly while waiting for the plant to be prepared by Wanda.
C1
Sitting together.
Prover 3: We are perfect.
Prover 2: everything is clear on this plant. A: such clearness, clarity.
Prover 3: straightforward.
Prover 2: a totally blue sky.
Prover 3: no confusion.
Prover 2: the edges of the leaves look like the teeth of a saw but not sharp, it is cutting with love, no sharp edges. The flowers look like lanterns.
Prover 1: bringing the light.
Prover 2: a soft light.
Prover 3: it has huge reserves.
Prover 1: needs nothing from the outside.
Prover 2: like a never ending source but it is very quiet.
Prover 3: right, it is so content.
Prover 1; there is no need to talk, everything is clear.
Prover 2: you need nothing and nobody.
Prover 3: independent and it is pure already.
Prover 2: it is strong and soft at the same time. I feel so much respect for the material and the energy, feels like it is giving us a great gift. THE MIND IS BLANK.
Prover 3: it is really easy.
Prover 1: if you are so independent, you do not need anyone or anything.
Prover 3: It is enough, self-content.
Prover 1: but I do not have the feeling it is alone, there are so many ants on it and all the flowers.
Prover 3: it is luminescent; the flowers have a greenish luminous light to them.
Prover 2: the flower is the egg and the seed in itself.
Prover 3: it is self-sufficient, in it self it is complete, does not need a partner, does not need an other half.
Prover 2: it is over, we do not need to work. Just enjoy life. We do not need to do anything except scratching, watch the time and writing, being in the moment.
Prover 2 goes off with the plant into the sunlight to photograph her colors.
Soft green with radiating lines of purple in the shape of a crown, purple crown, a deeply spiritual color and the last layer of the seven layers of the flame, seven chakras, seven days. Green is the color of the heart, luminescent green.
Prover 2: Ireland is a very green place?
Prover 4: yes, they say it has forty shades of green.
We talk about various greens and the fact that only two places on earth look green from outer space, Ireland and New Zealand, one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
H: the poles of the heart, maybe?
This feels like a satellite in the cosmos, it is whole, self-contained, self-nourishing, self-caring, autonomous and still giving, not holding its primordial way of giving with no direction. Time is too short, flying by.
‘Time flies when you are having fun’.
The plant is giving out energy, nothing material; it gives you an eternal feeling.
It didn’t need us; it doesn’t care if we choose it (it has been there since the beginning of the week).
I tis not looking for anything to be complete, like a Buddha.
We sit in silence, comfortable.
Prover 2: looks at Prover 3 and says ‘you have the eyes of the Buddha’ when I looked at you just now I felt very seen and I can also see your greatness on a different level, the spirit.
C2
But is there a problem then?
Prover 2: The unbearable lightness of being: I don’t need to think any thing, I can feel it n ow and I wanted to make an effort today to lose my left brain side.
Prover 3: I was dancing, flying through the air, (leaf of air!) like a fairy, fairy playing.
That’s the other world, the world of the sidhefolk, (pronounced ‘she’), the little people, the original souls, the elementals.
Prover 2: They are affiliated with the Cherubim and Seraphim, the messengers of very pure love.
Just below God him, her self.
Very ethereal, a very narrow band of the highest frequencies.
The problem is that too many people are not aware or open for this pure energy; they think you are crazy when you hug a tree.
It is also about respecting ALL boundaries of nature, plants, trees, streams, animals, to ask a plant where it wants to grow before planting it, working with it in harmony.
Prover 1: This morning when Prover 4 killed the fly, it made me so sad, it is so unnecessary, I hated her and was so angry at her, even now I could cry.
Prover 3; When I heard the clap, I opened my eyes and you were sitting opposite me and saw the pain on your face, you looked devastated so upset.
Prover 2: but a mosquito can kill you.
Prover 1 then speaks about feeling that she can trust the bigger scheme of things; Prover 2 describes this as the ‘blueprint’.
This energy is so pure and strong that it is understandable for the world. Energy almost not of this world.
Prover 3: live and let live: this plant doesn’t need anything from us; but we need to open our hearts twice, first to give and to receive.
Prover 2: then brings us juice, he is caring for us. He talks about photography and taking photos.
Prover 3: says she has no camera with her but likes to experience the moment fully in real time, in the moment. Photographs don’t capture the full picture for her. It just puts a barrier between her and the full experience.
Prover 2: I feel a form of guilt, like I am intruding. I feel it brings greed when I encapsulate a photo, ‘ taking’, this brings guilty feelings.
I would have considered this attitude of Prover 1 and the bee as soft, but it is to do with a harsh upbringing and others expectations.
Prover 1: talks about ‘Avatar’ the movie, the blue people who live in a huge tree, in harmony with nature communicating with all living things. This plant brings up this memory.
Prover 2: tells of a book titled ‘Omnem Onem’ with a very similar theme as Avatar. It is about a woman who goes to Venus, but the author waited 20 years to publish it as she knew it would not be accepted. It was too ‘green’, seen as unsophisticated and childlike.
The world upside down: the poles opposite. The poles are reversing at the moment and things are in chaos.
The joyful is now turning to seriousness. A grief that it is so hard for us to recognise. Finding my own ‘zero point’, I have been caught up in work for a long time now I have the feeling I have to let all material things go. Stepping into the trust, just doing it. I hope that it will happen to many more people, getting the awareness, waking up.
Martin then walks into the group: he asks if he can sit, we invite him to stay and have a drink. He sat for a short time with us and said he was a refugee and it is nice to be welcomed.
Prover 2 goes and gets the ‘welcome’ mat for him but Martin has to return to his group and leaves us. Prover 2: now I see us as three people, before we were one, but that is good also, I am comfortable with it.
C3
There are no words; it is a subtle, gentle energy. Not a big powerful energy, not fighting energy.
In normal life we think of stuff and matter but we are thinking of spirit over mind. Experiencing the collective consciousness of opening up to the spirit level, where the energetic matter has a positive weight, antimatter has a negative weight.
It is so hard to explain in language, the physical body gets in the way.
This energy is overlooked, ignored, not respected, many people once knew it but they forgot it, suppressed it.
People who cannot find their way into the world.
Greatness in the tiny things, not seen.
You cannot understand it, you have to experience it.
Prover 2: I need to come over the threshold to admitting Iama white shaman.
Prover 1: being a Doctor can be ad is advantage as people have different expectations.
I don’t want to do it any longer. I can choose the soft subtle light which is indestructible.
Prover 2: Dr’s don’t understand what I do and want me to give up my ‘homoeopathic’ title; I refuse as this is most important to me. I will be an outcast, I am a pioneer. Not normal in Society, don’t fit.
He jokes: how do you recognise a pioneer? He has many arrows in his back!!
The possibilities are unlimited, it is eternal once you’ve felt it, experienced it you’ll never lose it, it is a huge treasure.
Creation, very near to life and life giving.
Prover 3: observes there are actually four of us in the proving.
Prover 1 is pregnant and has the bowl on her stomach as she stirs it.
Prover 2: talks of the role of cyanide in the creation of life and its destruction in the holocaust; stage 1 and 18. Connected to water and air; opposite to fire and earth.
The energy is very clear, life giving, creating, nourishing, full of life and indestructible. The numbers are difficult as it does not correspond to the APG classification Jan says. Maybe this has been overlooked too!
Discussion
Prover 2: leaf been on the table for days; very small leaves, abundantly blooming; almost translucent in the sun; gentleness, clarity; they were very clear; were five provers in the beginning, then reduced to three.
during the meditation, Prover 4 saw Prover 5, who looked horrified; walking for the plant, they met the old woman, German, doing nothing, as she said. Plant: no questions, no stories, full at ease; male part is fused with the female part. Representing spirit, highly spiritual. Just below God. Full of love; angels. Peace, gentleness; and overlooked, because it is not imposing. Slightly apart, waiting. Highly refined. You look through someone when you are in that state.
Who to give it to? Prover 4 has a story; someone in IT-business, successful; gave up his job, wrote a book, could not publish it; saw the bigger picture. Hans thought it was a remedy for himself: Pioneering, far from normal borders, he says of himself, a white shaman. Forbidden. Others say he is crazy, out of normality.
Midwives like this plant. It is the Goethe plant. Rudolf Steiner introduced it to Anthroposophy.