What is The Singing Tree?
When I was a kid I used to lie in bed before I went to sleep thinking about the stars and planets. I would just close my eyes and take off into an inner landscape of black void and stars. The Milky Way would come into my view, a vast endless expanse, as if fairy dust had been blown across a deep dark silence. Then I would take off in my little one-person spaceship to see the burning red lava of Mars or fly so close to Saturn that I could slide my fingers across its 10 crazy rings. As I was told that the universe was infinite, I would go from one imagined solar system to the next until my mind would soon tire out trying to reach the borders of infinity.
I wanted to know what was beyond “infinity” and thought if I "imagined enough" I could get there. I may have not been completely conscious of or fully able to articulate at that young age why, at that time, the world of space so poignantly occupied my mind. However, now I realize as a kid, my search for the ends of infinity, my curiosity of the vast depth and mystery of the never-ending universe was my search for an understanding of our human existence. When I knew what was beyond infinity, then I would some
how know or understand the significance of who I am and why I am in this world.
The whole process of seeing how far I could get was so curious and intriguing to me that I spent many nights before falling asleep pondering this phenomenon. How far would I get to the ends of infinity tonight? Will I ever know what’s beyond that? Unfortunately the tools I was given so far in my young life of pragmatic and scientific linear thinking left me mystified. I never found a satisfactory answer.
It wasn’t until I became the Singing Tree that I realized why I couldn’t come to a conclusion. I had been asking the wrong question all along.
I was trying to know my purpose by qualifying the world around me in concrete linear terms. My methods seemed practical and applicable as that was how I had been taught to think in school. It was the western way of thinking, the intelligent way to approach things in our modern life; to fathom infinity, the vastness and mystery of life on earth and the universe beyond by being able to quantify it. I believed that if I could some how draw boundaries around it, categorize it or label it as such and such and so and so, then I would figure out the mystery.
And then …Ahh... finally the light bulb would go on and the universe would reveal itself to me in this mesmerizing, mind blowing “aha” moment.
That moment didn’t happen in my childhood but it did happen in my adulthood.
But the question that I should have been asking I realize now is not how can I fathom the infinity of the universe but how can I actually EXPERIENCE it.
The universe is vast and endless, full of mystery and the unknown. And from what I experienced now, holds all the love, power and beauty of this world and beyond. I was able to experience of all that love, power and beauty when it came through me like a crazy floodgate. When I chose deep connection to self, I learned and experienced that it is the gateway to all the love in the universe. When I tapped into myself, ground into the deepest sense of who I was, I suddenly had all this endless love coming through me... so powerful and beautiful that I almost didn’t know what to do with it all. It was so complete and full, I no longer needed to look for love on the outside. I had so much love channeling through me, I didn’t need anything else. I could let go of all my attachments and stories and truly be me. I had nothing to lose and in that moment gained everything I would ever need. I felt completely empowered and deeply in love with myself and the whole world around me.
After this mesmerizing mind blowing experience, I could finally answer who I am and why I am in this world.
I am the Singing Tree.
My roots are deep and steadfast, connected to the Mother Earth and all the knowledge of the Underworld within.
My leaves reach the ends of the Universe, inspired by the Spirit of the Sun, Moon and Stars of the endless sky.
My trunk keeps center as the deep dark black tar, the essence of life, churns and spins in the underworld into a golden glistening sap rising up through my body, a liquid fire bringing life and vitality to every branch, twig and vein. My leaves sway to the music of the Universe.
Heaven and Earth come together,
Fire and Water ignite
Spirit and Body merge to create life.
I know who I am.
I am a divine light of being.
I am a divine light of love.
I express that love and light through this human form; a miraculous creation of mind, body and soul.
I know who I am and I sing the songs of love and compassion because it is why I am here.
I now know that nothing in life is personal except to manifest my life because nobody can but me.
To me, we are all magnificent beautiful singing trees.
Though Mother Earth we are all deeply rooted through an interconnected web that makes us and all living things, One. Through this web she nourishes our souls and feeds us her sacred wisdom. Though the Heavens we are continuously inspired by its mandate, each of our spirits, magical stars from the sky held together by the powerful dark matrix of endless space and sky.
We are all divine lights of being.
We are all divine lights of love.
We are all here to manifest our lives;
to be everything we truly are and nothing else.
That is our only responsibility.