Curious Cat
After my father's death, I had some strange stuff happen that nudged me to learn about the supernatural. What I've been finding out is life is way more complicated, strange, and wonderful than I'd ever dreamed. The best part? Science is starting to catch up. I focus on the place where science and supernatural collide. What does it mean to be a soul in a meat suit? All episodes are made and offered in love. *All Curious Cat content is owned and operated by Storm Mystery Press LLC
Curious Cat
The Magic of Trees
Transfigurers, wordless communicators, timekeepers. I’m not talking about Dumbledore from Harry Potter fame, no. Trees.
Trees. They are time-keepers, displaying the changing of the seasons, even in the time of high strangeness we just woke from, lockdowns, when being frozen in place was dissociative.
There are trees massive enough to drive a car through, whose rings count back to a time when the land they inhabited wasn’t the United States, not yet and bore witness to the deaths and births of millions. Their complex root systems extend as wide and deep below the surface as their canopies stretch across the sky. Their roots intermingle with neighboring plant life, conveying complex information beneath the Earth’s surface like an Old School world wide web.
Trees. They transfigure carbon dioxide into oxygen. Their branches, leaves, trunks, and roots harbor entire ecosystems. Their timbers have been used to build cities. Their leaves are energy factories. Their chemistry have brought us medicines. They provide us with food, shelter, warmth; and if you’ve ever stood in a forest or grove and just listened, you’ve heard them rustle, flutter, groan, creak and sigh. Some cultures believe them to be elder spirits. There are stories about many that stretch the bounds of our imaginations.
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Art Director: @NorasUnnamedPhotos (on Instagram)
Sources and Materials:
The Ancient Magick of Trees by Gregory Michael Brewer on IndieBound
https://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/medicinal-trees
https://thesunlightexperiment.com/blog/2018/6/7/9-famous-examples-of-drugs-that-came-from-plants
PBS documentary, Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
https://mrtreeservices.com/blog/what-is-the-science-of-trees/
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/26/the-hi
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