The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence - Essays on plant consciousness and human relationships with botanical life

Plant consciousness and vegetal intelligence frame the collection "The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence." The book gathers short essays, narratives, and poetry on how plants interact with each other, with humans, and with the wider world. The contributors span multiple disciplines including researchers, scientists, and spiritual teachers, with examples ranging from culturally familiar plants like coffee and apples to traditionally associated psychoactive plants such as ayahuasca and peyote. The collection includes work by authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jeremy Narby, John Kinsella, and Luis Eduardo Luna. Editors Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira pair the writing with illustrations by José María Pout, and the foreword by Dennis McKenna connects the themes to recent plant cognition research, presenting plant discernment, learning, and "thinking" as a broad interpretive lens.