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There are. Plants will send nutrients to other plants that are under distress (via mycelium network). The book I mentioned talked about that. Also highly recommend [Stephen Buhner's Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm.] (https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Intelligence-Imaginal-Realm-Perception/dp/1591431352)

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Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth

Sounds like you are quite walking the path already. While I'm quite interested by the subject, I don't know much, but your post resonated with the book I'm currently reading : https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Intelligence-Imaginal-Realm-Perception/dp/1591431352 I think it would quite interest you. It's great read about how everything is connected, intelligence all around us, and it change the look we have at the world around us. I'm still reading it, but lot's of amazing stuff in this book.

It's funny, I logged on here to recommend this book, hot off the press, by Stephen Harrod Buhner:

http://www.amazon.com/Plant-Intelligence-Imaginal-Realm-Perception/dp/1591431352

(I'm the same John who recommended "Mediated" last year.)

I'm not sure what you mean by
> "a science/scientist that can step wholeheartedly into that in his and others' everyday life- beyond creating a "maligned" theory that would jeopardize tenure and publishing credibility?"

Buhner has a great chapter on Barbara McClintock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock

She did develop much-maligned theory (or rather, made much-ridiculed discovery) about corn transposons (which eventually won her the Nobel Prize).

Thing is, she did this precisely by stepping whole-heartedly (literally) into her everyday life among others - the others being the corn plants, whom she loved. Her discoveries, and her way of discovering them, have huge implications - I'm not sure what's 'beyond' that level of achievement.

The word 'whole-hearted' - you said it - is the key here. We're not just talking about the intellect.

That chapter by Buhner is called "The Naturalist's Approach" - and one of his major aims is to help us get back a sense of natural philosophy that's been lost since mid-20C. He shares Nassim Nicholas Taleb's disdain for the scientism that's overtaken us since then. I was surprised by how much Buhner's conclusions and Taleb's overlap, when they approach from almost opposite directions.

If you think in archetypes, and share Ran's interests in drugs/altered perception and fringe science and music, you might like Buhner's book.