The Shelter of Trees

(from The Flower Child’s Garden Planet:)

In one day last July, the people of one country, Ethiopia, planted three hundred and fifty million trees. 

That’s a good start. We need a lot more. The great forests of long ago were decimated by humans in their development of farming and agrarian civilizations.

Now we need them to come back. This time it will be part of our new age of the garden planet. This time when the great forests return, we will bring them back consciously, deliberately, and lovingly. All those trees are needed to protect our planet from overheating, to purify the air from our pollution as we learn to survive without leaving toxic waste in our wake, and to fill our garden planet with beauty and fruit. 

Lately, I am particularly concerned about the electronic pollution our devices and transmission towers are emitting. These unstudied emissions may be confusing bugs, the bottom of the food chain for our beloved bird friends, and causing a crash in populations of all kinds of insects, butterflies, and bees. 

This pollution may have unstudied bad effects on our bodies, cells, and brains. We are now subject to these vibrations which we have not evolved with as a species, from which we have little protection and no cultural knowledge or experience.

Personally, we can get grounded electrically using the grounding systems in our modern houses, and by going barefoot. And yes, by hugging a tree! 

As I sit here writing, I am resonating with, and connecting with the electrical field of my planet (instead of the fields around my device, local radio and cell towers) by leaning on a pillow I made from conductive cloth,  alligator clipped to a plug, connected to the grounding wire in the house by means of an ordinary wire plugged in to the wall outlet. 

Grounding is one strategy, shielding is another, but I’m skeptical of that one because it seems impossible to fully shield anything with so many sources of so many kinds of radiation all around us now. As a civilization we should stop transmitting through the air and use fiber optic instead. 

But one thing I recently became aware of is the electromagnetic protective power of trees. The forest in which I live actually softens and partially ameliorates these jangly aberrant frequencies as well. There are many reasons why it feels good to walk in the forest. This is one more.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

- John Muir