{"id":43658,"date":"2011-06-13T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/43658\/religion-trees\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:39:53","slug":"religion-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/43658\/religion-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religion of the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><b><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"purple\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KIpt_BIrIzM&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Enya : The Memory of Trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/nature\/sm5.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Santa Monica Mountains 5<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/nature\/santamonica\/sm5j1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Religion of the Trees<\/p>\n<p>There is an Apple Tree in Amesbury behind the house in which I used to live. I tended this tree, and spent many hours reading books beneath it, and meditating. One day while leaning up against its trunk I asked the Apple Tree in the wordless speech, *Please, tell me about your religion*<\/p>\n<p>The Apple Tree pondered this for awhile, in the way that Trees do, and then replied to me in the wordless speech, *Before I can tell you about my religion, I must first explain to you about the nature of my Life*<\/p>\n<p>*In the beginning there was a Blossom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/metaphysics\/religionoftrees.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/animation\/singles\/cloudsinspace.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clouds in Space<\/p>\n<p>16, 663K<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/animation\/thumbs\/cloudsinspace.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/43656\/hollywood-musicals-deanna-durbin-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Blog<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/animation\/thumbs\/spiral.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enya : The Memory of Trees The Santa Monica Mountains 5 The Religion of the Trees There is an Apple Tree in Amesbury behind the house in which I used to live. I tended this tree, and spent many hours reading books beneath it, and meditating. One day while leaning up against its trunk I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,837,840],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-life","category-nature-2","category-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}