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Tree Spirits
By Bob Makransky
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People are using tree spirits all the time. Any time you have
sat under a tree to read, or write, or relax, you have followed
your true feelings to find a proper tree spirit, and then you’ve
plugged your feelings into it. Your mind, your concepts, may be
saying, “Oh, how lovely! Pretty day, blue sky – let’s
go sit under a tree.” And you just sit there and don’t
know what is happening; but your body knows it. Your body goes there
because it needs it; and it knows exactly where to go, what to do
there, and when to leave.
Tree spirits are noble and generous beings, with a particular
affinity for humans which is all the more remarkable considering
the wholesale genocide we have practiced on them. It’s not
that trees mind being taken for wood; they understand the necessities
of humans. But logging could be done with a trifle more respect
for the lives being taken than is now being done. We should be respectful
to our trees; and if we have to cut one down, we should tell it
we’re sorry and explain why we have to do it.
Society has trained us to feel that we must make other people accept
our feelings and point of view in order for them to be valid. And
this leads to difficulties, since we can’t get validation
from another person until we feel valid within ourselves; and we
can’t do that until we feel worthy of love; and we can’t
do that until we can validate and love others.
This is why trees are so important in the practice. The light
fibers of trees spread out and envelope us without any thought form
rationality of “I’m valid”, “You’re
valid”, etc. The tree just embraces us lovingly, with no judgments,
and that makes our own fibers shine. It makes us know and believe
in our true feelings from a light fiber (rather than a mind) point
of view; little-by-little it puts us in a proper mood – makes
us feel light and strong. Trees strengthen our essential being so
we know what our desires are; not the desires of our parents, teachers,
or society, but our own true desires, our intent, the reason we
were born. Only trees can truly validate us because they don’t
deal on a mental level. Trees help to anchor us in our own true
feelings – they give us steadiness and sobriety, so we are
not so easily swayed by banished thought forms trying to reassert
themselves.
In actual practice, it is most effective to resort to the same
tree spirit or spirits every day – or better yet, every night,
after you’ve already had a few hours sleep – for weeks
or months at a time, rather than to go to different trees all the
time (unless you have some specific need, such as a healing). This
is because the effect of a tree spirit is incremental, and almost
imperceptible at first. Only after you’ve resorted to the
same tree daily for a long time will you begin to consciously feel
what that tree is doing to you; although here and there you run
into a tree who really socks it to you.
However, you can talk to a tree at any time, from your first visit,
if you like; though there are trees that don’t have much to
say, and which frankly eschew small talk. However, no tree prefers
this form of communication, and no tree will talk to you if you’re
acting stupidly. You “talk” with trees in your mind,
like a two-way conversation going on in your thoughts. Perhaps the
easiest way to begin a dialogue with a tree spirit is via automatic
writing, the same way you communicate with your thought forms. But
after a little practice it’s easy enough to dispense with
the necessity of writing.
When you first go to a tree that you’ve never met before,
touch it very lightly. Say hello, introduce yourself, stroke the
tree, and show it respect and affection. Ask what it can teach you
or do for you, because every tree has its own special knowledge
to share. Then thank the tree, kiss it goodbye, and leave. Stay
at a tree until you feel it’s time to go. Your first visits
to a tree will probably be longer than subsequent visits, since
once the tree knows you it doesn’t take it long to tune your
fibers.
It’s best to sleep at a tree; next best is to doze, or just
turn off your mind and listen to sounds, or meditate. But even sitting
there thinking or reading has its beneficial effect; it’s
just that the tree can perform its work more easily if you have
your mind turned off. You can bring a groundcloth, pillow, mosquito
net, or whatever else you may need to make yourself comfortable.
The tree is not going to be impressed that you are sitting in e.g.
a lotus position, if that is not truly a comfortable position for
you. The important thing is to just relax.
Observe that you must not kill bugs, because trees regard that
as a violation of their hospitality – one of their guests
killing another – so if bugs bother you, shoo them away gently,
or use insect repellant or netting.
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(excerpted from Bob Makransky’s
book Thought Forms)
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