ABOUT TREE SPIRIT HEALING
Over last twenty years or more, I have been working with and exploring the healing and spiritual potential of trees. Ideas, inspirations, projects, writings have piled up, become amalgamated, developed, mislaid, forgotten. Talks, lectures, courses have been offered, books and articles written, music and meditations composed and recorded.
It has been a slow, cumulative process, and somewhat frustrating. In the early nineties, when I started my researches, there was a flurry of media interest in trees. Books on extraordinary trees, on magical trees, on medicinal trees, on ancient trees. Television specials, often running alongside the publications, could be expected every few months. The “aren’t trees wonderful, and useful too!” brigade attempted to rouse the public, who dutifully bought a few coffee table books at Christmas time. Similarly, on the philosophical fringes, there were studies of the image of the Green Man and pagan interest in tree esoterica. Even books purporting or suggesting they were going to be looking at tree spirits were a regular feature in book wholesaler’s lists. And, of course, plenty of Celtic Tree Calendars…. Despite all this constructive effort, the end results were, to my mind, anyway, largely disappointing. An awful lot of repetition, a lot of paraphrasing from existent texts, a lot of generalisations, a lot of beating around the bush.
This site I intend to be a platform to introduce to a fresh audience the smattering of bits and bobs that I call Tree Spirit Healing. I persevere, despite the prevailing lack of interest or know-it-all nouveau spiritual malaise, because I have seen in many course participants over the years the deep spiritual homecoming that arises in them once they get to the place where personal contact is made and understanding is wordlessly reached.
Right from the beginning, Tree Spirit Healing was presented as a series of methodologies and approaches, a set of keys, by which anyone could open their own door to the Tree Kingdoms. This is the first necessary step. Once an effective, convincing personal link has been established, the trees themselves offer insights and teachings. These teachings, like all profound spiritual events, are pretty much impossible to express in the words of everyday language, without sounding self-evident or gauche. It is their impact on the unique experience of reality of the recipient that makes them life-changing.
So I would like here to list all the resources that are available to those interested in exploring this subject of Tree Spirit Healing a little further.
Three books published by Capall Bann cover much of the initial ten year’s research:
“Tree: Essence, Spirit and Teacher” (1999, ISBN 186163084-0)
” Tree: Essence of Healing” (1999, ISBN 186163081-6)
” Tree Seer” (2004, ISBN 186163082-4)
We publish our own works under ‘ Tree Seer Publications’, and here you can find:
“The Tree Spirit Oracle” (2004, ISBN 0-9547983-5-X)
“Sequences for Healing 1: Balancing Fire” (2004, ISBN 0-905454-00-7)
“The Tree Sutras” (2004, ISBN 0-9547983-0-9)
“Patterns of Profound Healing” (2004, ISBN 0-905454-01-5)
these are available either as spiral bound books, pdfs, or both.
We have hand-produced several sets of cards for assessment, healing or divination purposes. Because of the vagaries of small-scale production, some of these are not always available.
” The Tree Spirit Oracle Cards” (75 colour cards) (to accompany or augment “The Tree Spirit Oracle”)
” The Tree Sutra Cards”(101 grey and white cards with image and text)
” Tree Spirit Energy Cards”(101 laminated cards, available individually)
You can find out more about these at http://www.greenmanshop.co.uk
Since 1997 I have been working with music to produce tree spirit based compositions that can be used for meditational, healing and trance work. If I ever get round to working out how to embed them into this blog, I will put some up here. But please do not hold your breath!
Instead go to: Http://treeseer.com ( where you can listen to samples of many of the tracks as well as consult the ‘Tree Spirit Oracle’ for free)
And also: http://wodewose.bandcamp.com where you can also listen to all tracks free of charge.
Green Man Tree Essences have been one of our main teaching and healing tools from the very beginning. There are now many different ranges of Green Man Essences, but the core of them are the Tree Essences, of which we have well over one hundred.
You can find them listed at: http://www.greenmanessences.com.
As well as at http://www.greenmanshop.co.uk
Finally, the use of symbols and colour is central to the way we link to tree spirit energies. Art works directly and indirectly related to Tree Spirit Healing can be found at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TreeSeer
If you take a look at these sites you will see that there is quite an accumulation of information and inspiration relating to Tree Spirit Healing, and I hope this site, too, will present the wealth of hidden treasures that can be unearthed by working with the sentient awareness that we call ‘tree’.
Thank you. I forgot to mention one more synchronistic event related to my horse chestnut tree experience. I am normally only drawn to nature photography but there was this lovely humble painting in an inexpensive restaurant in ahtopol that caught my eye. It made me feel joyful and it was of a tree very much like the horse chestnut, with a welcoming broad canopy painted one side in yelliw and the other a vibrant orange. I was meditating on it. I felt so joyful. I was out of cash but i intend to make an offer to the owner. I really love it.
Hooray for finding what is needed at just the right time.
You understand, I’m sure.
Many, many thanks. ❤
This is an amazing and beautiful blog. Thank you so much for creating it. I look forward to exploring it further.