Once, When I Was Tree
A Memoir of Interspecies Communication, Nomadic Living, and Mystical Journeys
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Once, When I Was Tree
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Narrated by:
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Maya Wyld
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Maya Wyld
Summary
Have you ever leaned in close to a plant, an insect, a tree, and felt it respond? Once, When I Was Tree is a collection of true short stories weaving interspecies communication, nomadic living, and threshold experiences. From a barefoot childhood in the red earth of New Caledonia to the wisdom of the grandmother vine Ayahuasca, each story is a thread, drawn from different times and places in my life.
What do trees remember?
Why do bees dance?
Whom does Coyote mourn when he sings to the moon?
Where do we, humans, belong in the weaving of the natural world?
This is not a book about nature as a backdrop, but about what happens when the living world is approached as a sovereign intelligence, and what is revealed when we learn to listen.
For readers/listeners of Braiding Sweetgrass, Desert Solitaire, How to Change Your Mind, The Hidden Life of Trees, and The Spell of the Sensuous—those drawn to spiritual memoir, plant medicine, nature mysticism, animism, and eco-spirituality.
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