09/03/2025
Just for a moment, let's expand our minds, I know it's a tall ask for many, but let's get away from the paradrama that is encompassing our feeds and hear me out a second...
At times when things feel heavy, aside from a silent prayer in solitude, I like to visit a local and ground away the woes.
I know this seems a bit , but if ever I felt most connected with the divine, it's always been amongst nature, and recognizing trees more as sentient sentinels. Treating them as the greatest observers of all our achievements, failures, struggles, and celebrations.
cultures and mystics have whispered for centuries that trees are far more alive, aware, and connected than we once believed. Now modern is delving into this very subject.
Through underground networks of roots, aided by (yeah, you try saying that x5 and fast) , trees communicate and share resources with one another. Sometimes called the " " these networks allow older “mother trees” to nurture younger saplings, send warnings about pests or disease, and even redistribute nutrients to where they are needed most. This quiet exchange suggests that forests behave less like a collection of individual organisms and more like a community, bound by an intelligence of cooperation.
(See the award winning works of Forest ecologist, Suzanne Simard)
Yet beyond the scientific, trees have always been seen as sacred and sentient in the mystical sense. In , certain trees like the oak, yew, and ash were believed to hold and serve as between worlds. mythology tells us of , the great World Tree that connects all realms of existence. In many practices, trees act as intermediaries between heaven and earth, grounding energy while offering a channel to the divine.
lore often portrays trees as keepers of memory & energy, silent witnesses that absorb the vibrations of the land they inhabit. Some traditions suggest that or sacred groves can hold imprints of ritual, tragedy, or presence, making them places of immense power.
, too, place trees at the heart of humanity’s spiritual journey: the in the , the under which the attained enlightenment, and the sacred groves of countless indigenous cultures. Trees stand as symbols of wisdom, endurance, rebirth, and eternal connection between the physical and the spiritual.
I've previously posted on the possibility of whether sites that inhabit paranormal energies affect the growth of plant/ tree life and if electrical signals can audibly be heard through some sort of plant synthesizer (look up PlantWave for an example) whether paranormal manifestations would change the signals being generated by such devices.
Revisiting this idea I now wonder as to whether some of these sites that exhibit "residual" hauntings are demonstrating more than just the . What if the trees themselves are projecting psychic impressions that they or their environment recorded? Just consider that. Could there be a way we could tap into the frequency of the trees? Have they been tapping into us?
Whether through science or story, trees remind us that life is not lived in isolation, but in connection. Each leaf, branch, and root is part of a vast network—one that links us not only to nature but also to the mysteries that lie beyond.
Perhaps when we walk among the trees, it is not only us observing them, but them quietly observing us in return.
~Mario
*Pictured is my offering of thanks to the elemental energies placed in front of the tree' portal*
