Last year I did a deep study with Michal Yakir into the ancient plants in homeopathy, and now I cannot go on a walk in the forest without my gaze being drawn down...to the mosses, ferns, and lichen which fill our forests. One of the things I learned was that the earth has survived 6 extinctions and with each extinction, 50-90% of all plant and animal life disappeared, leaving only the hardiest and smallest that could survive the harsh conditions.
I have a deeper appreciation of the dinosaur era, and on a recent trip to Alberta, I visited Drumheller and the Royal Tyrrell Museum. "Today, fertile plains suddenly drop away into a world of multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos. Spanning east from Drumheller to the Saskatchewan border and south to the United States, this region is known as the Canadian Badlands. It is home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world."
My previous concept of the dinosaur era, (which lasted 200 billion years, in comparison to humans having been here for 50 million years) had been limited to fantasy movie-style themes seemingly unrelated to me and my life. To imagine these huge creatures roaming the earth to me was the thing of science fiction.
Ginko biloba and the cycads were plants that evolved at the time of the dinosaur. The other exotic and strange plant that exists from this time is the African plant Welwitschia. Other ancient plants include horsetail and conifers. All of these plants have survived more than one extinction and when I look at these plants now, it makes it real for me the ability of the earth to transform herself.
In homeopathy, the evolutionary developmental stages of plants correlate with human developmental stages and address the challenges and obstacles of human consciousness developmental journey from birth to old age, from a more primary stage of union and unity to an advanced stage of individuality.
In Homeopathy, the theme of ancient plants is about survival of harsh conditions...themes of catastrophe, trauma, unbearable trauma, a family history of trauma. Accompanied with feelings of abandonment, and loneliness, ancient plants can be helpful in refugee situations or post-war experiences where the feeling is to have survived a life or death situation alongside feelings and sensations of not enough, suffocation, fogginess, cut off etc. These can be intergenerational themes.
Ginko sp
69 million years
Late Cretaceous, Horseshoe Canyon, Alberta