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Nature Spirits – The Balsam and the Birch: What Happened Next

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balsam and birch

A Nature Deva in New Hampshire decided that, in her domain, she would match the rather stern, silent but hardy balsams with the softer, gentler white paper birches. The balsams could help support the birches in the winter, and the birches could help soften the balsams’ stern tendencies.

I came upon this story, and a loving balsam-birch couple, one warm sunny summer day. I was walking through the woods when I heard them whispering to each other “I love you” – a deeper male voice and a softer female voice. I stopped to watch and listen, and took some photographs. It was clear the birch was soon to die, the balsam was heart-broken at the prospect, and they were professing their enduring love for each other.

I have a lovely photograph of them kissing – see to the left and immediately below. And I wrote about the story in my book Nature Spirits, Spirit Guides and Ghosts. But…what happened next?

balsmbrch close up. Andy.1

 

 

 

 

Over the next few years, on my summer trips to New Hampshire, I would walk the woodland path and check in with my balsam and birch colleagues. The photos I took over the years are heart-breaking in the degree of love and loss the balsam still felt for the birch, and how hard he worked to just keep her physical presence with him. It was also touching because it showed the profoundly deep and enduring feelings a tree had for another tree. Love is, indeed, universal.

Balsam reaching for the birch

 

 

 

 

Here is a photograph several years after the first. You can see the distinct face of the balsam, staring lovingly at the face of the birch. You can also see the longing of the balsam, still reaching out to the birch, who is now dead and beginning to pull away as she starts to slide down the hill on which the two stand.

balsam holding on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here, another few years later, the balsam is still attempting to hold his beloved birch close to him, the effort now straining his branches to the point of breaking.

(You can also see how my photographic skills have improved over the years!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature Spirits

 

You can read about the Balsam and the Birch, and other nature spirit stories, in my book Nature Spirits, Spirit Guides and Ghosts.

You can see more images of tree spirits in the art area of the Crystal Life website.

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmic Portal – Nature Spirits Book Now Available!

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Nature Spirits, Spirit Guides and Ghosts: How to Talk with and Photograph Beings of other Realms – my third book on consciousness topics – just arrived at our store and a signed copy can be purchased via our Crystal Life website!

It’s a beauty! Quest Books did an amazing job on reproducing my photographs – there are fifty in the work – and the book is chock full of intriguing stories of interdimensional contact. Drawn from my personal experiences, and those of clients, you get the opportunity to learn while being entertained! There are an abundant number of exercises to teach you how to communicate with life forms of other realms, and many tips for photographing spirits yourself.

You can connect with us via our Facebook page for the book…and order it in our website Book Room

 

Cosmic Portal – Friendships across Dimensions

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My work with other worlds is undertaken in the energy of friendship. I work with other life forms as a colleague.

Just as at one time Americans found people from India, Japan, Russia, Morocco to be exotic, and their culture strange and non-understandable, so, too, today we consider the denizens of other worlds to be strange and difficult to comprehend. Just as we had to extend our awareness – our consciousness – to understand other human cultures, so, too, today we need to extend our awareness to include other fully conscious, intelligent, evolved life forms who simply live in other dimensions than we do ourselves.

 When we get ideas or inspirations, we are tapping into other worlds of reality. These worlds are very real and aware of us.

My work as a Nature Spirit Photographer began as a way my colleagues and I could prove their existence to other humans. It began slowly – a strong energy image here and there – and has now progressed to the point at which I can define different types of interdimensional life forms from the images that rocks and trees have grown into themselves. Rocks and trees physically stay in one place and evolve by identifying with the life forms whose energies they enjoy, replicating them in their own physical existence – their bodies.

These colleagues and I have begun sharing knowledge of these worlds via the photographic portrait studies they often call me over to make, when I am on one of my exploration outings. These images helped me understand some of the forms life in other realms can take. These are some of the life forms with whom we earth people will be inter-relating as our whole world starts going interdimensional – e.g. expanding in consciousness.

 This is a very, very big universe, with many dimensions, worlds and life forms. Depending upon your own lineage and inclinations, the worlds you will first interface with may be much different from the ones I began photographing. My primary animal totem is the bear, and so when I first began interacting with tree and rock energy, images of bears were the easiest for me to see.

Life forms in other worlds are like us. There are good and bad, evolved and new, positive or negative agendas. Some worlds protect us and others seek to hold us back.

Depending upon which world you first encounter, your viewpoint of their dimension may be skewed. Therefore, it is important to look at this topic with detachment, as a scientific study, instead of emotionally.  In my column, The Cosmic Portal, I will be showing you images from these worlds, from time to time.

 

Cosmic Portal – Battle of the Wood Elves

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It is my great honor to be a friend of the tree spirits. I have been working with them consciously for a number of years now. I go out regularly to fulfill their request that I photograph them and show to other humans their very real existence. They are our colleagues here on earth, and we are meant to work together in a conscious manner, for the betterment of all.

As trust has grown between us, and I have become an accepted visitor in their world, I have grown in understanding about the complexity of their tree world. There is much to learn. Trees, like rocks, are a very ancient, deep, noble life form who do much to hold the energy of our world for all others to use.

Here are a few insights about some aspects of their presence on earth:

Many trees are nodes on the earth energy grid. That is, they connect to other points with similar resonance in many far distant points. It looks like those tv graphics that show various lines of communication connecting around the globe. Here, the situation could be to connect to lion energy – or ape – snake – or life forms of other dimensions. That is, the image may be a lion, signifying the embodiment of a specific type of energy that earth holds for all to use. There are many different frequencies co-existing on earth, and different trees – species and individuals – are interactive with different energies. Just like people.

A mature tree will embody many different types of energy and may choose to manifest these energies by growing the image into their trunk or branches. Or they may not, choosing to internalize the energy – just like outgoing v introverted people, or people with a message to share v those who are more private.

Once a tree starts to share its energy via images in its trunk, it very seldom stops with just one image. So a closer study of the tree, walking around it, looking up and down, will often reveal other images.

Humans are actually a collective life form, made of the merging of other distinctive parts like the liver, heart, eyes, brain. Energy workers know each of these parts has their own distinct consciousness and each is perfectly capable of communicating their needs and contributions to the collective, and to the human host, if the human will just listen. Presently, very few humans avail themselves of this ability inherent to their own existence.

Trees also often show this collective concept. Your quiet study of a tree where one image has attracted your attention will very often reveal other energies also present – images inside of images, images making up other images – each with their own distinct energy that may combine to form something quite complex.

These complex layered stories are often hard to capture visually. It requires the proper combination of factors, including the lighting at the outdoor location, identification of the photographer with the tree energy, the consciousness of the tree at that point in time (grumpy, happy, etc.), the trust of the tree and its resident nature spirits to reveal themselves to the photographer, the identification of the photographer with his/her camera which actually affects what the camera “picks up” visually, the quality of the camera, and then the processing of the image via production: the visual programs used, the ability of the photographer to work with that program, the image production process itself.

Here is where modern technology has been so valuable, for our cameras and production ability (especially Adobe Photoshop) are becoming subtle enough to capture these frequencies of other worlds. It is difficult to capture in one photograph all the nuances of a multi-life form in a tree, but with Photoshop assistance, one can lighten or darken or deepen the contrast so that the other life forms are revealed and become clear. Much of my work now is learning to master this technology so that my abilities are worthy of matching the gift of sharing with the world the tree, rock and nature world existences whose stories are being shared with me.

I encourage others to start experimenting themselves. Just start – when nature sees your interest, it will reciprocate, if it finds your intent worthy and non-harmful. For example: I myself started by discovering bear images everywhere (bear being my totem animal). Then suddenly green orbs would appear when I was really “in the zone” – the energy identifying itself as the “Green Faery.” Now I can see this energy more clearly, with physical Greenmen and Greenwomen revealed in trees. I have progressed from witnessing simple images to chronicling more complex stories.

Here is an image I am working on now – it reveals a Battle of the Wood Elves. The situation resides within an ancient Virginia Live Oak I photographed at an old estate in Florida and one could parallel what was happening on the estate, over time, with the images in this tree. Notice on the right what looks like a Batman figure in middle age – he is distinctly jowly and quite beaten up, with a battered and “bloody” right eye and dried tree blood around his mouth. His right cheek is not quite right – and that is the clue to the story. Look carefully and you see two wood elves clearly of a different -and higher – energy who have declared war. Batman and one elf are looking at each other eye to eye, as each has dug in for a long battle. Look even closer and you can find many smaller and larger images inside each of these two major combatant energies.