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Wyrd Smythe's avatar

Speaking of Larry Niven, his novel "The Integral Trees" (and sequel "The Smoke Ring") put giant orbital trees center stage. Stephen R. Donaldson's "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" features both a deadly ancient forest of sentient trees and a tree-dwelling people (and one of the novels is called "The One Tree").

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Birrell Walsh's avatar

Yaknow, every time one of your articles come, I just have to read it through...

I particularly like the image of the tree as connecting the underworld, our world, and the heavens. Jack and the beanstalk is a cousin, of course. But shamanic practice seems to me to emphasize this role, with roots reflecting branches. A vertical bridge.

Can It Be

November 3, 2016

Can it be

you have chosen to be a tree,

a pathway to the sky for mineral and water

a pathway to the land for nutrient and light

a path for flows both ways, O Diotima’s daughter?

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