By Elisa Novick
Last week I shared my first conversation with the Triple-Trunk Tree that took place in 2011. In this next visit, we took a journey through the universe, and though I don’t have words for the actual experience of the trip, which was a collage of sensations I’d never experienced previously, here are the words we spoke. In sharing this with you, I am there in the forest, even as I sit here in my joglo in Bali, and I receive of the gift of this wondrous relationship yet again. I hope you too can feel the joy and wonder of our meeting.
Beloved tree, I have felt you since I entered the forest today and then more and more strongly as I came up this hill; such great joy.
I am happy you are here, sweet one. You have come just in time.
In time for what?
You are right in this time “zone.” You see? You are here! That is enough in itself.
You are so beautiful to look at with your deeply bas-relief bark. So bold and clearly defined.
You have no idea of how wonderful it is to be here with you. I am in this body yet many places in existence also. So calling it forth makes it so real and appreciated.
You haven’t brought your reasons here today with you. Why do you come here?
Hmm? Now you are asking me questions! I come to be here. This is my happiest place. It brings me present. It smells so good. I am in your noble and uplifting presence, your essence. It is just a joyful place for me. And now I am writing down these conversations to publish and want to be accurate and real and you are helping me understand the universe. You are explaining to me things that great sages have talked about, but to me, in person, in a personal manner that I can understand. You help me to experience the reality of which you speak. It ‘furthers me,’ as the I Ching says.