Voice of a Sentient Highland
by Godwin Vasanth Bosco
Voice of a Sentient Highland is a new book by Indian author Godwin Vasanth Bosco, which reveals deep secrets about nature so far new to science.
Indigenous people all over the world have said that mountains are alive, lands are sentient, and rivers are intelligent, but this has never been accepted in science. In his book, Godwin Vasanth Bosco provides simple, yet fascinating evidence of a group of highlands in South India being alive and sentient.
Saving Nature recently asked the author to discuss the project and share insights into his motivation for writing the book.
Vasanth explains the significance of the story of the Nilgiri Highlands
Landscapes all over the planet are different from each other in terms of aspects such as topography and ecology, and in that same way, they all have different special capacities. For instance, the Amazon forests in Brazil support nearly 16,000 species of trees and similar amounts of spectacular diversity across the animal and plant kingdom. The Sahara Desert in Africa might be home to only about 2800 species of plants, but provide important nutrients to the Amazon forests, through wind currents. The flora and fauna of the Australian continent are significantly different from many of those in the rest of the planet and add to the unique diversity to the planet. In this way, one of the special characteristics of the highlands of the southern Indian subcontinent is an extraordinary connection with human communities.
The Nilgiri Highland region is a microcosm of earth. With an area of only about 5000 square kilometers, it supports incredible amounts of topographical variations and forests-vegetation types; a total of 7 different types, ranging from rainforests to scrub-and savannah land. This region is also home to 30 different indigenous peoples groups – all with their own languages and ways of relating to nature. In other words, this landscape has had a rich history of engaging with different human communities. Now, when life on the entire planet is being threatened by human societies, this landscape holds key answers that can help change the way humans relate to nature.
Vasanth explains how the story of the landscape ties to the key evidence of sentience in mountains being presented.
Based on nine years of in-depth research, Voice of a Sentient Highland captures the colossal story of the Nilgiris. The origin and journeys of all the natural aspects are woven together with images and illustrations into a rich visual narrative. At the heart of the story is evidence of the underlying geological process working in volition, along with a myriad of plant ecological dynamics. Clear evidence is presented in the formation of the mountains by sensing the development of monsoonal rainfall patterns. These mountains (at the geology-lithology level) are shown to hold a high level of intelligence that has been aware of the ecology and life they support. Further, crucial messages are captured being shown through the ecology for us to follow, in these times when life on the whole planet is gravely endangered.
Some of the implications of these findings.
The evidence presented is scientific, yet simple, and thus widely comprehensible. So far science has described life to be restricted to beings such as bacteria, plants, fungi, and animals, but this is the first time there is clear evidence scientific of this to extend into the realm of lands, mountains, and watercourses. Much of human civilization now, is based on the destructive utilization of natural land bases. By proving that this realm is also alive, and reinstating what the indigenous people have always said, these findings and this story of the landscape could play a key part in positively transforming human society.