You would enjoy a story by Algernon Blackwood; "The Man Whom the Trees Loved". The story discusses one man in particular who had developed a connection with trees, but references a group of individuals and scientific theories regarding the nature and interactions of trees.
It would be an excellent starting point for some hard-science to back your power-meditation, as even though the story is fictional it was inspired by scientific theories of the day. If you are interested in these talents, then I recommend that you approach their development in a planned, verifiable, experimental manner. A simple example based on what you described would be to begin recording your impressions and checking their accuracy. I would start this fall, on the equinox. Get your impressions that day of the season's outlook and write them down. I would go further, trying to get impressions from the plants about the next day's, week's, and month's weather conditions. I would write whatever impression I received; hot, cold, wet, scary...whatever. Do this on a regular basis; daily, weekly, monthly, and again on the solstice. With each survey, also write your accuracy for previous impressions...just "hit" or "miss".
The real challenge for you will be to try to avoid other sources of information about the weather forecast; no watching the news, reading the paper, or checking the weather-channel website.
After a season of this experiment, check your hit-to-miss ratio. If your more-often-than-not accurate, then it is time to try to figure out why you miss. In the second season, record also your state of being; are you sick or well, are you menstruating, are you stressed about anything or calm, did you get into a fight recently with a significant other, and so on. You're looking for a correlation between your state of being and your effectiveness receiving impressions. If you discover a definite correlation, then you can begin experimenting with reducing the factors that inhibit your ability and increasing the factors that promote it.
You could also experiment with trying to receive other impressions regarding different information; if someone is coming into your area, for example. Of course, plants may be limited in the kinds of information they can communicate; they may be less concerned with things we might consider important and overly concerned with things we would find irrelevant.
The Diabolus Order conducts these kinds of experiments often, although not in the area you are interested in. I am certain my fellow members would be intrigued by your experiment and its results. If you need any help setting up your experiments or interpreting your results, feel free to get in touch.
Casandra Thorne
Priestess of Lilith
Diabolus Order
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[url=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/url], rebecca shewchuk <dccrrs@... wrote:
ok well im glad im not crazy
well basicly what this gift does is tells me when the seasons are starting to change and what the next one will be like in general terms like for example winter in my area is going to be long cold and wet i can also sence there emotions other than that i cant tell you much more about it
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