Tree Mysticism Part 2: Trees as Keepers of Wisdom and Healing.

Yesterday during meditation, Karen Hefner of Igniting Spirit lead us to a magical place, a dome shaped library, in the lower world of non-ordinary reality. I entered this place by crossing a threshold at the Heron Lake Sanctuary Sound Studio’s door, and descending down stairs between the studio and my mama cedar at the top of the drive.

While Karen described the library as full of books, my library instead had a complex braiding network of tree roots and branches. The “shelves” were the in-between spaces between tree structural threads woven on the walls. No books, but foci of knowledge stored and then transmittable to us about anything occurring, or having occurred, on Earth. As my colleagues Susan Simard and Dave Perry have aptly researched and written about, trees communicate to each other via below-ground and aboveground networks of structure and dialogues of chemistry. Physical and metaphysical dimensions of the whole of Earth are linked and woven together through this spectacular network of trees.

I recently met a human-formed spirit who “decodes the star signals of the sun, as captured by trees” as he describes. This spirit arrives during this meditation, as a docent of this magical library. I can access information and healing stories, energies, sounds here in Sacred Cedar Storage. Singing, merging, shamanic ally communing. On behalf of Earth, community, others, soul.

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—-By Lauri J Shainsky, Ph.D.

Shamanic Sound Healer / Soul Ecologist

Tree Mysticism Part 1: Trees As Catchers of Star Codes

Departing from my history of academic forest ecology (Ph.D. from Oregon State University 1988), I find myself wandering deep into tree mysticism. Through my shamanic sound training, wisdom is flowing in from the standing ones. This knowledge far exceeds information gained from data gathering using leaf area meters, pressure bombs, calipers, and increment borers (eg., Shainsky and Radosevich 1992 in the journal Ecology).

During LightSong School of Shamanic Studies’ final Regalia course led by Karen Hefner of Igniting Spirit, a human-formed spirit came in to work with me. He decodes star signals that come from our closest star, the sun, and get absorbed by trees as quanta of energy and cosmic information. These quanta gathered up by these great beings get translated into physical and metaphysical form, the magnificent architecture of branches, roots, trunks, leaves, ring by ring, limb by limb.

This special spirit calls me to merge into the center of the vast trunk of my sentry century cedar at the top of the drive at Heron Lake Sanctuary. There, together we tap into the stored knowledge recorded in the rings and other structures of the tree. Trees, he showed me, gather and accumulate information not only on climate conditions and the elementals, but all matters and phenomena occurring in the world of humans, animals, faeries and nature spirits. That there is more stored in those rings than classic science demonstrates has blown my mind, especially as I have published a scientific journal article on correlating tree rings and climate data.

This decoding spirit and the spirit of the tree take me on Singing Shamanic Soul Healing journeys to bring healing to clients. We travel through the rings and find the year of human injury, gather information on the ecology of the soul at that time, and bring back wisdom and soul essence to remedy and mend the soul.

Wow.

All I can then do is bow to these magnificent ones. They are all around me, my friends at Heron Lake Sanctuary. Blessings be upon you. Thank you.

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Stay tuned to my next writing, which describes a library of tree branches and roots that holds all of mankind’s history. Thank you Karen Hefner of Igniting Spirit, for leading us there.