By Elisa Novick
I often receive letters from people excited that I am bringing so much focus to the love and energy and intelligence of trees. They often begin: “I’ve never told anyone this, but…”
So while India has now declared dolphins as sentient beings worth having rights, and many people already recognize the sentience of whales, elephants, and some primates and work to save them, when it comes to a plant, which doesn’t have a centralized brain, the sentience of trees is still not widely known, no less defended. But that is slowly changing. The word is getting out.
If you haven’t already read the excerpts on my website, from my book about the trees, you can here. I think their words will astound you.
In last week’s article, I gave you a brief outline of the main trees I work with in my forest. This week I’d like to tell you a bit more about the energies there and what the trees have been up to.
When I first arrived in the forest 11 years ago, I walked down to where the path ended in an opening containing an old fire pit. I came to call it, somewhat unimaginatively, The Sacred Grove. But before I reached the opening, I saw something remarkable that I’ve never seen before or since.
There were two large trees on either side of the entrance to the opening. One was almost dead, the other beginning to die. Yet they were, and still are, majestic. They had both been part of the group of trees I was working with spiritually.