Amazon.com: Spiritual Gardening At It's Best: A Quest for the Navoti Spirit (9780963841018): Don Elwood, Jane Webster: Books

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Publication Date: August 1993

The Hopi Indians grow corn in the middle of the desert that produces up to 12 cobs per plant without irrigation, commercial fertilizers or pestisides. They do so by praying for the plant spirits and singing to their plants during the heat of midday to give them courage. The say their corn does so well because of a Navoti Sprit that was instilled in the corn by an ancient Medicine man. The book traces the authors efforts to rediscover how the the Medicine men were able to instill such a zest for life into their plants

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } The Hopi Indians grow corn in the middle of the desert that produces up to 12 cobs per plant without irrigation, commercial fertilizers or pestisides. They do so by praying for the plant spirits and singing to their plants during the heat of midday to give them courage. The say their corn does so well because of a Navoti Sprit that was instilled in the corn by an ancient Medicine man. The book traces the authors efforts to rediscover how the the Medicine men were able to instill such a zest for life into their plants

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SPIRITUAL GARDENING AT ITS BEST, TELLS HOW PRAYERS FOR PLANTS CAN INCREASE PLANT GERMINATION, GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY DRAMATICALLY.

Prayers for seeds can increase sprout growth 5.75 times in 6 days
Watering with holy water can increase sprout growth 4 times in 6 days
Crystals programmed through prayer can increase sprout growth 170 times in 6 days
Prayers for corn can produce 4 cob bearing stalks per plant
Descendants of beans prayed for in one season can yield 10 times more beans in following seasons.

With prayers, what you ask for is what you 'gets'! One won't necessarily benefit from fast growing carrots which are too fuzzy with roots to eat! So improved prayers coupled with trial and error of how to get in synch with God and nature is the best approach. We should be striving to be stewards for God, not replace Him. We have been testing corn sprouts to see how growth rates can be maximized. What we are really interested in, is improving our abilities to garden synergistically with nature to achieve more economical, delicious, nutritious and appealing crops faster with the least sweat possible. We should not attempt to replace God, but strive to become His companion. With that distinction in mind, let's review some of the possibilities of spiritual gardening.

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Next I measured the seeds at the point of the smaller programmed crystals in the pan on the other side of the room. I had prepared two very special prayers for these crystals to see which would have the best effect. One was a routine Reiki prayer and the other was a super-duper Reiki 3 prayer, which I nicknamed the Great Omniscient Deity prayer, or the 'GOD's' prayer for short.

The routine Reiki prayer set had grown an average length of 1.28 inches, and each had only a single root. I thought this pretty good for such a small crystal, when compared with the sprouts in plain water. In fact I thought a factor of 11.08 times the growth rate of plain seeds to be excellent. I realized, however, that such fantastic differences were mainly due to the lack of good germination of the sprouts in plain water during this moon phase. If the experiment were conducted at the full of the moon, the sprouts in plain water might be an inch or more long and the percentage differences would be far less than these indicate. Nevertheless, I was indeed pleased. All sorts of things went through my mind as I prepared to measure the last batch. I couldn't help thinking how these findings could improve the food supply for starving people in places like Somalia.

The last batch, the sprouts grown at the point of the GOD crystal was by far the most astonishing. I couldn't believe it. The average sprout was 6.6 inches long! This was 61 times the average growth of sprouts in plain water! The root structures were fantastic! One sprout had three roots, two had two, and one had 13! One hundred percent of the sprouts had more than two roots!

The longest sprout measured 18.5 inches and had 13 roots on it! It had grown 170 times as long as the average sprout in plain water! This was indeed phenomenal! I again realized that such a huge increase was to some degree a result of the poor performance of the plain seeds grown during the dark phase of the moon; but for a sprout to grow 18.5 inches in six days and have 13 roots is one outstanding achievement! I couldn't help thinking how well God does when one finally figures out how to get in step with Him. I transplanted that sprout to live out its natural life. Shame it wasn't an open pollinated seed; it would have produced a great line of descendants.