“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” – Hermann Hesse

“The tree is a profound sign in nature for us – an archetype – a life sign and reminder. Trees contain evolutionary information. Through trees, we can sympathize with our own central nervous system, our central life structure, and can key into a higher evolutionary dimension of ourselves….

“Trees are true contemplatives. Their contemplation is constant – especially the great trees. There is this intense force, spinal force, central force. It is the same force as felt in the human being – when it is allowed, and unlocked from the knots… So, the trees perhaps, are part of all the influences that are helping humans evolve… You can observe the tree in the midst of the human body… The ‘trees’ became humankind and every other kind of being… The plant [structure] is the fundamental human structure.” – Adi Da

There are good trees, and there are great trees. Tremendous natural and etheric forces arise in all trees, especially the great ones. We feel this when we are around them. It is partly why we are drawn to them, and why we enjoy being in their presence.

If, through thorough investigation, we might come to allow that trees, or basic plant forms, are the structural origin from which all moving animal life comes from, exactly what would this reveal about us?

And if, among the world’s living trees, there might be fully awakened ones, what would this say about the efficacy of our familial religions, old and new, and all the persistent fears we live by?

Without the use of books, religions, and temples, and absent human-made gods to call upon, can trees – and even most other non-humans – really participate in a natural awareness of living Mystery?

Our continued evolution involves, or could involve, the further development of the truly human organism, including the mind, along with our most profound contemplative qualities that come from the structures and processes of the great trees…

All trees stand present in degrees of profound sublimity, free of mechanical mind, vivaciously conscious, grounded, aloft in canopy and flowers, breathing deep space, transpiring, aware, and conducting great force, contemplating a great depth of being…

“The world of non-human beings (of which the great trees are the epitome and the senior of all) is a great process, from which, and relative to which, and in which, human beings are developed and developing (by virtue of a complex and ever-continuing event that functions at all levels, and not merely at the gross material level of the psycho-physical cosmos).”
– Adi Da (the silence between all “things”)

The above paragraphs are excerpted from the recently published book:

Lightning Thunder Cows 

…containing more about trees that is rarely, or never,

discussed and considered.