Shamans are domain experts. Across thousands of years, in dozens of independent cultural traditions across every inhabited continent, shamanic practitioners have developed sophisticated, detailed, internally consistent knowledge of the consciousness of plants and fungi — knowledge that has proven practically reliable in identifying medicinal properties, understanding ecological relationships, and facilitating healing outcomes that Western medicine has only recently begun to verify. The universal cross-cultural testimony of shamanic traditions: plants and fungi have their own consciousness, their own intentions, and the capacity for a genuine psychic (i-channel) relationship with human beings. TI Sigma applies the Prima Facie Principle — that expert testimony should be accepted in the absence of strong counter-evidence — to this body of knowledge. The result: we have overwhelming prima facie grounds to accept that plants and fungi possess non-trivial LCC and are capable of PSI-based relationship with sufficiently coherent human consciousness. This is not mysticism — it is the consistent application of epistemic standards that would be applied to any other domain of expert knowledge. This paper formalizes TI Sigma's LCC estimates for plants (0.05–0.20), fungi (0.05–0.25, potentially higher via mycelial network integration), and bacteria (0.001–0.01), analyzes what the psychedelic experience reveals about plant and fungal consciousness when understood as i-channel opening, and proposes what a genuine psychic relationship with a plant teacher would look like within the TI Sigma framework.
Brandon Charles Emerick (Tue,) studied this question.