At the time of a death
Helen Cushing Helen Cushing

At the time of a death

Day 107 of my tree puja.

In which I realise that in the aftermath of Charlotte’s death, the energies of the garden take a little time to realign.

At the time of a death there is a sudden shift/change/gap in the energy around us. The energy field has to adjust…

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I am full of exclamation marks!
March_2010, Spirituality, Deep Ecology, Tree Puja Helen Cushing March_2010, Spirituality, Deep Ecology, Tree Puja Helen Cushing

I am full of exclamation marks!

Day 101 of my tree puja.

In which my reading of Bentov’s book validates and expands the experience I’m having with the tree puja.

I am reading Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, and have just started the section entitled, ‘Construction and Maintenance of a Nature Spirit’. I am full of exclamation marks! So of course, I had this in mind as I went about the puja.

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I apologised briefly and left

I apologised briefly and left

Day 89 of my tree puja.

It would help if you understood the three gunas - tamas, rajas and sattwa. In brief: inertia/darkness, activity/ego and flow/light. They are the attributes of everything, and we are subject to them.

Yesterday I went in my socks and clogs. It is growing cold, I had them on and forgot to remove them for puja…

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Dissolution

Dissolution

Day 88 of my tree puja.

In a philosophical frame of mind these days, considering my own, and the tree’s, and even the power pole’s, absence.

One day, we cannot know when, the tree will be no more, I will be no more, the house, the buzzing power pole, all the things that seem so permanent, will die and crumble, somehow…

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