redwood candles

Knowledge lights the human path

/ since time forgotten  /

redwood remembers

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Berkeley is a city dedicated to Knowledge (capital K). 

It seems fitting that its blue skies should be incandesced by the tops of redwood trees.  These are among the largest and most ancient of our oldest pre-flowering plants, and connect us to a primeval past, which can be inchoately felt in their presence.  They link us to the time when our voyage through the oceans of knowledge was just beginning.

A Russian friend of mine who studied with a russian shaman in her youth, tells me that most trees will 'commune' with you, but not redwoods.  Their special gift is longevity, and they will share this 'knowledge' or perhaps better-said, this 'skill' with you, if you know how to approach them.  This was her own discovery, I suppose, as she continues on here in north america with the work she began in Russia.  Anyway, it's an aside, but perhaps a reflection of a particular 'ocean of knowledge,' namely knowledge of the arcane / knowledge of energy, rather than literate knowledge or knowledge of technological skill. 

These beautiful redwood candles are visible all over Berkeley, sometimes on almost every block in some neighborhoods.  Here are just a few from mine.  You've seen one on the 4th of July post, and this one is a few blocks away.  The one below is behind my 96-year old friend's house.

This one is a block above our house, and has remarkable healing energy:

This two are behind the supermarket, and too tall to get their tops in the picture:

   

As you can see these behemoths do not spurn the clutter of the modern world.  And they each come from one of these little tiny ball-like cones.

By the way, I will be off the blog for a few days while I visit with my friend N, in southern california.  I met N when I was a philosophy undergraduate at UCBerkeley and she was a doctoral student in the same department.  We both went on to study theology at GTU, also in Berkeley, and she now teaches, publishes books on philosophy of knowledge, tours the world lecturing, and is a consultant to the Vatican. 

Meanwhile, I am a weblogger.  Hmmmm.....

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