Mini "Tree" poll

[Guest guest]

Dear Colette,

 

Well, as a university professor, his knowledge of literature preceded the

experience, so the myth metaphors were really *pre* integrated. It's sort of

fun that the elves were dressed in sailor suits. The experience was one of

directly experiencing the wonderful freshness and beauty of the "natural"

world underlying the "artificial" accidental world of developed civilization.

It was a direct communication with creatures of nature--and an amusement

that while this wonderful state of being exists, we are all usually immersed

in an agonizing, artificial state of being.

 

<colette@b...>

Thu Nov 2, 2000 12:09pm

[K-list] Re: Mini "Tree" Poll

 

 

Dear Hillary did your friends find some myth or folktale that helped

them to integrate experiencing themselves as tree elves?

 

I want to know of any myths re earth as Mother, birthing nature

spirits who care for nature ..

 

I feel our relationship with Nature is important.

 

luv,

 

Col

[Guest guest]

, druout@a... wrote:

> Dear Colette,

>

> Well, as a university professor, his knowledge of literature

preceded the

> experience, so the myth metaphors were really *pre* integrated.

It's sort of

> fun that the elves were dressed in sailor suits. The experience was

one of

> directly experiencing the wonderful freshness and beauty of the

"natural"

> world underlying the "artificial" accidental world of developed

civilization.

 

Hi Hillary, I can relate to communing with Nature As Nature, as more

alive than our artificial roles we play.

> It was a direct communication with creatures of nature--and an

amusement

> that while this wonderful state of being exists, we are all usually

immersed

> in an agonizing, artificial state of being.

 

Yes though I do believe that we are meant to take this journey for the

greater evolution of Nature as well. Separateness can feel so much

like abandonment .. communing can show us the joy of Being alive.

 

If your friends ever met a folktale or information, that spoke of an

underlying unity with Nature as experiential, then I would love to see

it.

 

Love,

 

Col