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A Friend of the Trees

A Friend of the Trees

It is my great honor to be a friend of the tree spirits. They are our colleagues here on earth, and we are meant to work together in a conscious manner, for the betterment of all. I have been working with the tree spirits for a number of years now and go out regularly...
A Video Visit with Bear Spirit

A Video Visit with Bear Spirit

Enjoy this winter video visit with Bear Spirit. He guards a woodland river valley in Illinois. The video starts with one of Atala Toy’s Nature Spirit Photographs of Bear Spirit and then takes you for a winter walk to visit his home.  You can see this and other...
Contemplating Our Own Mortality

Contemplating Our Own Mortality

Contemplating our own mortality has been much on many peoples’ minds in recent weeks. The topic brings up so many issues, cultural and personal. We are fortunate to be given the free time to consider the matter…a side product of our stay-at-home mandates...
Council Tree in Mann’s Choice, PA

Council Tree in Mann’s Choice, PA

Here’s a wonderful Council Tree I discovered, in a private residential enclave in Mann’s Choice, Pennsylvania. Thought you would enjoy seeing some images of it.  A Council Tree is a “courthouse” tree where nature spirits bring issues to be...
Different Views of the Same Lifeform

Different Views of the Same Lifeform

Here are three different views of the same Greenman. This is a fun project to undertake for yourself, and it is also an exercise in developing your capacity for nature spirit portraiture. Usually, when a tree develops the capacity to manifest a recognizable,...
Energy of Place: Fabyan Preserve Trees

Energy of Place: Fabyan Preserve Trees

A piece of land interacts with the energies that occur on it. These energies shape it. The energies can come from the local deva, from the humans living on it in recent times, from ancient occurrences lost to human memory, from its position on the earth grid. The land...
Energy of Place: Swarthmore College Trees

Energy of Place: Swarthmore College Trees

The interaction between humans and nature is profound, and each affects the other. Here are a large number of third eye and portal trees located on the campus of Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, PA – my alma mater. The renown Scott Arboretum is housed...
Happiness is a Choice | Nature Spirits

Happiness is a Choice | Nature Spirits

At a time like this…here are some happy nature spirits. The portrait studies I’ve done of nature spirits over the years have led me to connect with those who are happy just – being. These are usually not the leaders of the nature world, who like our...
Healing Trees

Healing Trees

KC wrote: I found out yesterday that there are some “healing trees” here at Pottawatomie Park and that you would be able to tell me where they are. I live close to the park. Response from Atala: All trees are healing, it depends upon the person and which...
How Does a Change in Energy Affect the Whole?

How Does a Change in Energy Affect the Whole?

Laura asked me “From your perspective, what is the impact of the loss of these trees” – referring to these Cottonwood trees with the images of a nature spirit and a pioneer, which I wrote about a few days ago. The answer is – it depends. It would take a book to...
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