tree talkin': a 101 experience
peace all,
I had stopped bloggin' for a while because I had gotten "flickid"...
My left arm became sorta useless - it had essentially "deflated" for a while
- exactly the sort of thing that will and did deflate this Rootworker's pretensions as well
Mama Djenra later explained to me that this condition is called "frozen shoulder" and has no medically definable onset.
Anyway...
my "flickid" arm turned out to be exactly the sort of affliction that anthropologists refer to when they talk about "cults of affliction"...
It led to me bein' able to talk to trees.
Even though I've had alot of strong spiritual experiences and feel at this point I can rightfully call myself a "Prophet" in the sense that "chuch" (that's African-American church if you didn't know) people use the word - I didn't feel I could call myself a "Rootdoctor" until I had talked to a tree, communicated with its SPIRIT.
Malidoma Some in his book "Of Water and Spirit" talks about his tree communication during his initiation process. My experience was sorta similar to his.
Me and my son were gathering power rocks (simbis)
- crystals, pyrite, iron ore, etc - from a really beautiful stream that winded down the side of a hill to become a waterfall (we gathered some crystals from the waterfall's pool) then continued.
At one of our stops down the hill my son noticed the particularly striking tree that we had happened to stop in front of.
Since he noticed it I suggested HE talk to it (yeah, he's 7 and he already has the skill) and ask the tree it's name. The tree told him. I asked him to ask the tree if there were power rocks nearly. My son was quiet for a minute, than said "the tree says they're everywhere around here, you just have to pay attention" (needless to say their were).
At that point I decided "what the heck, let ME try this"...
So I put myself in a meditative state, and when I felt the time was right I asked tree its name.
And... It told me a name! I had done it!
At that point I decide to "ground" myself in the Earth and to try to harmonize myself with the tree.
After a while the most intense feeling came over me - the only way I can describe it is to relate it to my 1st crush - that real intense sorta pre-sexual feeling of wanting to be around a girl without knowing why...
Anyway...
I decided to ask the tree what to do about my arm.
The tree said "just aim it towards me". So I stretched out my arm and opened my hand towards the tree. And soon a powerful wave of energy emerged up out of the ground (it seemed) through my body, to and through my arm , out of my hand and back to the tree. It stayed in this energy current for a few minutes, absorbing it into my arm. As I stayed in the current the emotional context of the wave started to become more overtly sexual, in a sense. More like when I noticed that girls were GIRLS, if that helps. I guess you could call it a properly Tantric experience if you wanted to use that reference point.
When I felt it was time I thanked the tree and closed the experience.
One of the blessings that came through that experience is that I now feel the ancestors allow me to call myself a RootDoctor and request that i get the training that this tilte requires.
one
Categories: rootwork, hoodoo, tantra, shamanism, culture
I had stopped bloggin' for a while because I had gotten "flickid"...
My left arm became sorta useless - it had essentially "deflated" for a while
- exactly the sort of thing that will and did deflate this Rootworker's pretensions as well
Mama Djenra later explained to me that this condition is called "frozen shoulder" and has no medically definable onset.
Anyway...
my "flickid" arm turned out to be exactly the sort of affliction that anthropologists refer to when they talk about "cults of affliction"...
It led to me bein' able to talk to trees.
Even though I've had alot of strong spiritual experiences and feel at this point I can rightfully call myself a "Prophet" in the sense that "chuch" (that's African-American church if you didn't know) people use the word - I didn't feel I could call myself a "Rootdoctor" until I had talked to a tree, communicated with its SPIRIT.
Malidoma Some in his book "Of Water and Spirit" talks about his tree communication during his initiation process. My experience was sorta similar to his.
Me and my son were gathering power rocks (simbis)
- crystals, pyrite, iron ore, etc - from a really beautiful stream that winded down the side of a hill to become a waterfall (we gathered some crystals from the waterfall's pool) then continued.
At one of our stops down the hill my son noticed the particularly striking tree that we had happened to stop in front of.
Since he noticed it I suggested HE talk to it (yeah, he's 7 and he already has the skill) and ask the tree it's name. The tree told him. I asked him to ask the tree if there were power rocks nearly. My son was quiet for a minute, than said "the tree says they're everywhere around here, you just have to pay attention" (needless to say their were).
At that point I decided "what the heck, let ME try this"...
So I put myself in a meditative state, and when I felt the time was right I asked tree its name.
And... It told me a name! I had done it!
At that point I decide to "ground" myself in the Earth and to try to harmonize myself with the tree.
After a while the most intense feeling came over me - the only way I can describe it is to relate it to my 1st crush - that real intense sorta pre-sexual feeling of wanting to be around a girl without knowing why...
Anyway...
I decided to ask the tree what to do about my arm.
The tree said "just aim it towards me". So I stretched out my arm and opened my hand towards the tree. And soon a powerful wave of energy emerged up out of the ground (it seemed) through my body, to and through my arm , out of my hand and back to the tree. It stayed in this energy current for a few minutes, absorbing it into my arm. As I stayed in the current the emotional context of the wave started to become more overtly sexual, in a sense. More like when I noticed that girls were GIRLS, if that helps. I guess you could call it a properly Tantric experience if you wanted to use that reference point.
When I felt it was time I thanked the tree and closed the experience.
One of the blessings that came through that experience is that I now feel the ancestors allow me to call myself a RootDoctor and request that i get the training that this tilte requires.
one
Categories: rootwork, hoodoo, tantra, shamanism, culture
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