I touched a tree

[Keryo Koffa]

17 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Hard wood.

Carry wood, chop water.

[UnbornTao]

2 hours ago, Keryo Koffa said:

Carry wood, chop water.

[Sugarcoat]

On 2025-06-09 at 10:20 PM, Carl-Richard said:

I touched a tree right after sprinting, and it felt like my energy got sucked in, like the tree was a black hole.

What you felt here was the blood rushing towards the periphery of your body due to the elevated heart rate from running 

 

#materialistparadigmexplanation
#partypooper

[Carl-Richard]

43 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

What you felt here was the blood rushing towards the periphery of your body due to the elevated heart rate from running 

 

#materialistparadigmexplanation
#partypooper

Next time I'll touch a metal pole and report my findings 🫡

[Sugarcoat]

3 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Next time I'll touch a metal pole and report my findings 🫡

Rigorous scientific study 

[PurpleTree]

It wasn’t PurpleTree that’s for sure.

Touch me inappropriately, get sued.

[Carl-Richard]

31 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

It wasn’t PurpleTree that’s for sure.

Touch me inappropriately, get sued.

Do you have a 30 cm diameter trunk?

[PurpleTree]

42 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Do you have a 30 cm diameter trunk?

I have i trunk that’s working, somebody told me it was big enough, it has a diameter and that’s the end of it. 

[Be-ing]

On 6/9/2025 at 2:20 PM, Carl-Richard said:

I touched a tree right after sprinting, and it felt like my energy got sucked in, like the tree was a black hole. It felt empty, still, peaceful. Quite psychedelic experience. And as I was walking back and thought about what just happened and how it was quite psychedelic, I remembered the dream I had last night where I was picking mushrooms just on the road I was walking on and which I got high from touching the mushrooms. And then I thought "ah, what a psychedelic experience indeed".

I thought about how Bernardo Kastrup thinks single-celled organisms are conscious, and then I thought then also trees must be conscious (they are also made of cells, they are organisms, they metabolize, they have a "bodily boundary"). And when in this highly energized state, it felt like the tree was conscious, touching it was like touching the arm of a person. I even felt embarassed for violating its autonomy afterwards. I then thought I understand tree huggers now, but I also thought they are like unhinged pleasure seekers violating people's autonomy for their pleasure.

I also thought I was downloading some ancestral energy from the earth.

Hello!  New here.  Was looking around for my first place to jump in the forum, and I don't think there's a better place for me.

A few years ago, I was working through a personal issue.  I'm pretty good at doing this, but was having a hard time of it with that particular issue.  I was feeling anxious due to this, and decided to take a walk.  On my walk I found myself on the edges of a park that was ringed with trees.  I decided to give one of the trees energy work.  A long time Reiki practitioner, I knew that one can give energy to anything.  It would help me move some energy and it would be beneficial to the tree as well. 

Not long after I touched the Tree's trunk, I realized that It wasn't receiving from me at all but giving me energy. I was all, "no, but really, this is for you." And still It didn't stop. So, I switched into receiving mode and had one of the most wonderful experiences of my life.  This experience included the tree talking to me and soothing me about the issue I was having.  Not a lot of words, but between feeling Its care through Its energy (empathy/being empathic is one of my more developed senses) and what words it gave me, I walked away from the session feeling very cared for. I walked away from the session feeling drained of that with I no longer needed and at the same time like my energy had evened out and was flowing well again, and grounded in a way that I'd never experienced before. I felt like I'd discovered something magical, and I still feel this way though I've come to understand it's just what can happen if one allows it. I'm also the kind of person who thinks, ".... did that... maybe that didn't.... I hope it did, but... and really!!!... and I WONDER IF I CAN DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!?!!"  I didn't discount that I'd made it all up or that I had some bias within me that would wish for and create a scenario in my mind where I was personifying care and other things that I really wanted in the interaction. I work hard to perceive as unbiased as I can and I'm not flawless at it and I know it. And as woo-woo as I am, this was not something that I had ever specifically wished for, thought that I was capable of, or really thought about, but that didn't mean that I wasn't making it be a thing in my mind somehow.

I tried it again with the same Tree.  It happened again.  And again with the same Tree.  It happened again. And again at the same Tree before I tried it with another Tree.  It worked at a different Tree and another different Tree and so many Trees now, I've lost count.  Not all give me words.  Not all agree to what I now call, "communion"/"communing."  When they don't there's usually a reason, and there's usually another tree nearby who is willing. 

Their voices and resonances are all different, in my experience.  Some have shown me some very profound things ("what does oneness feel like to you?"; I don't remember what one question was but the Tree helped me better understand energy) and some have helped me do things like consciously astral travel. When they agree to commune, they always share their energy which means that I always receive an energy healing when I do.  But this energy exchange is always true of anyone and anything and especially where we put our focus. When one being is more aligned or "powerful," then the other being receives more but there's always an exchange.

I teach others how to do this.  I've given talks about it.  It's all still only a few years old for me and it's still hit or miss on how well I can get the full understanding/teaching across because it's such an energy/experience based thing that words often fail.  Also, it gets better the more you do it.  The experiences become deeper and more expansive. You end up developing relationships with the Trees with whom you connect repeatedly. And, one needs a Tree with whom to partner, and not everyone has a backyard with a tree in it.  Since I had my first experience in a public park and I've since decided to prioritize my healing and wonder over what other's may want or think, I do it where ever and whenever. Not everyone feels so bold or due to trauma as safe doing so in public, so they need a safe feeling place to do it and access to this place to do it repeatedly to turn it into a true practice.  It's not part of my spiritual and personal growth practice as I've found it a way to more easily access gnosis/a state of gnosis than what I'd achieved on my own before.  

Too, I don't know how much me being an energy practitioner helped. I know that being a strong empath does, though that does not rule out those who aren't.  I know that being an energy practitioner helped me learn to viscerally perceive/feel energy so I could the energy flow.  I think that being an energy practitioner helped me feel the directional flow of the energy (down, as you experienced the "sucked in" and grounded feeling -that's the flow of the energy of the leaves and branches flowing the energy to the roots- or I as I've come to understand it.)  Some people feel/get what I teach within a few minutes of "connecting in." Some just don't feel it at all even though I can feel that it's working with/for them.  

I do healing sessions with people in communion with trees. Another of the wonderful things that happens when you turn this into a practice is that it helps clear your energy field so that your natural gifts and senses are revealed. Along with this tree discovery, I got into Earthing.  When I do these sessions with people, I usually wear leather soled shoes as I've found that I "hear"/perceive energetically based information better. When Trees are communicating with those who are communing with them and the person's not getting all the info they're trying to get across, I use words to the best of my ability.  Too, I can help adjust people's stance so that the energy flows through them better because I can where the flow is getting blocked in their system.

Since I've started teach and talking about this, I've had more people than I'd ever thought would come up to me to tell me about their experiences with Trees talking to them. I've come across a person who teaches Tree Reiki. I'd never even heard of anything like this before (I never watched Disney's Pocahontas and, if I did, the talking tree didn't register) and was shocked to find that this was such phenomena that happened that often, or as described by some, that easily.  The world hasn't become this cacophony of talking trees for me.  I really do have to tune into them to hear them, and usually I have to be touching one in some way. My best guess is that I have a mental block in my understanding of that which I'm able or allowed or deserve. 

I had someone ask me, "what do you give them back?" This put me in a tailspin for a while because it never occurred to me to do so. I understand your embarrassed feeling. They never ask for anything.  I've not experienced as a tit for tat sort of thing for them. In fact, when I said/emoted at One the equivalent of, "I owe you," for the very long healing session It gave me, our energy resonance has been off ever since. It feels gunked up and icky now. I do ask when I'm intending communion.  I'm still unsure if I need to ask about causal touches.  For me when thinking about this, these have been my thoughts: humans have developed the thought that there's some inherent wrongness in our existing and taking up space.  A bear or moose doesn't ask, "can I scratch this itch? Oh, no? Okay, lemme go to this other tree." They don't apologize, as far as I know, for walking by a tree and breaking one of its branches on accident. Yes, they're more intuitively aligned with the flow of All Things, but I just don't think that they're busy being super self conscious about their every move. Too, we forget that we are nature. We are the Earth (ask Her to see you and/or the world through Her eyes- it's amazing!).  It's almost like asking your arm if you can touch it. I dunno all the ethics nor how I'd feel if I was at One with all things and some part of me wanted help, or healing, or just to be near in companionship and love to another part of myself. Nor how I'd feel if some part of me hurt another part of me on purpose or by accident. One day I'll ask and delve into it deeper.  For now, I just keep breathing and letting this be part of what I "give back." That, and sometimes I give trees water when I feel so moved. Too, with joy in wonder, I let my fingers slip over the needles and leaves and trunks of the ones I pass just like I would with someone I love and am happy to see. I am not harm and I intend none in those moments.  

There are a lot of things that I want to try with this: if two people who speak two different languages can communicate via communing with the same tree at the same time. From my experience with how communing does clear energy physically/mentally/emotionally/spiritually, I wonder its applications with those not only in recovery but actively detoxing (don't try this at home, folx!).  Someone once told me of a doctor who used to hook people up to trees with metal stakes and wires and it helped people heal. They said that the doctor's tree, it died, however.  I don't know why the Tree died nor if it had anything to do with the practice the Doctor did with it. If it did, my only guesses would be if there was not actual "communion" involved- a heart to heart/spirit to spirit connection that allows for flow in both direction. When I do healing work with trees, alone or facilitating it with others, I always ask, "which tree wants to help?" Or I tell the person seeking the healing to ask the same thing.  This allows the same tree to not be overused? if that can be a thing? This, too, is "Earthing," just via Tree.  And, yes, while my experience with Trees is they are each conscious, individuated beings (thus the capitals I use with talking about unique ones- trying to find some way to honor that truth as I've experienced it), at they same time, my experience of them is that they're also portals and antennae and channels and food for the Earth.  Someone once told me that Their spirits will come in the room when I talk about the individual ones with whom I've worked and want to be there in that moment. If I asked, would they go to someone and help heal them if I was doing a long distance healing session? Probably but to prove it, I'd need to do it with someone who's very attuned with energy to get any kind of feedback. And then do it again and again to prove to myself it's a thing.  Anyway, they're beings with self aware spirits/souls.

Long story made shorter-ish, as I've left tons of my effusive joy and experiences out, it's a thing. People talk to plants and they respond.  People ask plants to put their spirit into a water/alcohol/medium for us to use towards healing and they do.  Trees don't have to use words when talking to one another nor the Earth.  With people? People need words sometimes... and balancing/healing... and to be reminded that we're just like them.  But, according to the books and documentaries that are out there now about Tree communication and relating, they do this for one another, too. Trees don't see us as wrong/bad (at least, none with whom I've communed.) One told me that they think of us as, "kin," and in my experience of getting to perceive Oneness through one Tree's eyes/knowing/energy/awareness, we are parts of the other. I've experienced them as wise (they've been here longer than people and have seen almost everything single thing that we've done and when they didn't, the Earth did and they have Her knowledge/direct access to Her knowledge) and compassionate and actively caring and self aware.

In my understanding of everything that you said in your description of your experience, they have been mine as well in my practice with them at one time or the other.  I hope that you have the awesome pleasure of a repeat experience, Carl-Richard, if you so want it. 

[UnbornTao]

@Carl-Richard There's your reading assignment.  

@Be-ing Welcome, btw! Hope you find the place helpful.

Edited 5 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Carl-Richard]

@UnbornTao

Edited 17 hours ago by Carl-Richard