A message from White Oak
Jul. 16th, 2014 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeeth_kyrahI was called, and with help from my greater Self I managed to answer. I entered a place where a great White Oak tree stood, the space beneath its branches clear of overgrowth and debris, its branches festooned with ribbons (some with prayers on them, usually attached to the end of a ribbon). There the tree said this:
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I have a message for those who would use the forest as their celebration ground. It is this: DO NOT litter my home! The forest is not the place for cigarette butts or garbage! What you unthinkingly flick out of your hand ends up killing plants, animals, and Spirit.
When the grounds have no place for garbage, provide your own. Humans have bags to put these things in! USE THEM. If you do not have your own, be resourceful. Make friends and use theirs, use the containers you keep your food in if you must. Do what you must to keep the space clean for Spirit and celebrants alike.
Fill my land with trash and there will be no place to celebrate. Keep it clean and then you can keep meeting there for a very long time. Give thought and presence to the acts of addiction you commit; by doing so you will attune to your own body and spirit better, causing improvement in each aspect of self and land-keeping. Do this and I am at peace with you; ignore it and pay the price.
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After this White Oak showed me something else, a carousel. "This is the way you may think of my home." Then I saw a massive, stately, beautiful temple. "This is how I think of it. Remember this well."
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I have a message for those who would use the forest as their celebration ground. It is this: DO NOT litter my home! The forest is not the place for cigarette butts or garbage! What you unthinkingly flick out of your hand ends up killing plants, animals, and Spirit.
When the grounds have no place for garbage, provide your own. Humans have bags to put these things in! USE THEM. If you do not have your own, be resourceful. Make friends and use theirs, use the containers you keep your food in if you must. Do what you must to keep the space clean for Spirit and celebrants alike.
Fill my land with trash and there will be no place to celebrate. Keep it clean and then you can keep meeting there for a very long time. Give thought and presence to the acts of addiction you commit; by doing so you will attune to your own body and spirit better, causing improvement in each aspect of self and land-keeping. Do this and I am at peace with you; ignore it and pay the price.
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After this White Oak showed me something else, a carousel. "This is the way you may think of my home." Then I saw a massive, stately, beautiful temple. "This is how I think of it. Remember this well."
