In my life, there are always a lot of "coincidences" that I do not consider as such. For me, they are a kind of road signs on my road of Life that help me navigate through it. Last weekone more of such ‘coincidence’ gave me one of the new directions to follow.
I was thinking of going to Damanhur - an amazing art and spiritual community of people in Italy that I visited several times and even wrote two articles about: Damanhur - con te * The 8 Miracle of the World or the amazing art and eco-community in Piedmont, Italy [Part 1]and Damanhur - 8th Wonder of the World or an amazing art and eco-community in Italy [Part 2]. I had this though going back over and over again and since we are in Europe now it would not be that hard to organise. So it was pretty much just athoughth until one day I suddenly read a message from @yvesoler or Tigrilla Gardenia - a resident of Damanhur, who left a comment under one of my articles about Damanhur. What a nice coincidence, right? Bear with me and you will see the full picture.
The most interesting was not a message itself, but WHO wrote it.The fact is that when I initially planned articles about Damanhur I had an idea of the trilogy in my head. But I wrote only 2 articles and life moved on. I jumped to something else, and them again something else…I went to different countries and the third article somehow was not ever written. And I believe that the meeting with @yvesoler was my sign to finally do it. Lets me explain why.
Initially, my idea for the third part of a trilogy was to be about one of the most amazing experiences I have ever got in my life in connection to Trees and Plants world.
This special experience is my visit to The Sacred Wood Temple in Damanhur and LISTENING to A TREE PLAYING MUSIC as part of a program called Music of the Plants.
Yes, yes, TREES and PLANTS not only can PLAY MUSIC but can communicate with us through it - scroll down to videos above if you can’t really believe it.
And you know what?? @yvesoler is ONE of the activists who is the part of the research team in Damanhur for Music of Plants. Can you believe it? What are the odds of such a thing that you will be contacted by a person, while you are thinking of going to the place and moreover this person would represent the field you had a plan to write about??
Let’s face it - sometimes you just can’t ignore such “coincidences”. So I thought that my time has come - the time to finally write the third part of a trilogy, to finish the cycle I started long ago and uncover one more amazing part of this multidimensional world called Damanhur - the world of The Sacred Woods Temple, Music of the Plants and the amazing harmony of Humans and the Nature that can be achieved.
And it seems the Universe again was smarter than I. It always is.
The time is so perfect as @yvesoler put her own calling for helping her team to go further in their research that I think now is just the right time for me to support her call with this article. Such an interesting "coincidence", don’t you think?
So please welcome @yvesoler and bare with me to have a look into the fantastic world she and her team live.
Tree is your friend, you can always ask it to support you
My grandmother
I remember when being a child my grandmother taught me how to "interact" with trees.
”Go to the tree, put one of your palms on its trunk and ask permission whether you can contact it. Trees are alive - they have a soul "
she would say and continue:
"And if you feel that there is a response, the feeling of warmth of almost unnoticeable etching in your palm, then the permission is given and you can lean your back and stand so for a few minutes.”
I still feel that magical moments I had and there is voice of my wise granny still echoes in my head:
Say “thank you” to a tree for letting you connect with it. Gratitude is a form of expressing LOVE.
I miss my grandmother sometimes but I know that she lives in me with all this knowledge she shared and sense of awareness she grew in me. She helped me to learn a world of the Nature, she was my guide with my first steps on this path and the rest the World of Plants would teach me itself.
So I learned to “feel” the trees. Each of them had its own characteristic impulse, which I felt - some had it stronger, someone had it less strong but important that I learned to “feel” it. And it was the trees that taught me to “feel” the plants.
I have many of my rules on which I communicate with the living world, which I may someday write another article, but here, I will share only a few things that are important to me.
I always talk to them, I tell them what happens, that I love them and I would like them to be healthy and strong. When I have to cut branches or transplant them into a new pot, I always talk to them, I let them know that it's for their own good, and that I'm really their friend.
And yet it was with me for a long time, there were times I would doubt it, I would ask myself if I am not crazy to “feel” the world the way I felt it? I read about various studies on this topic, such as book “The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries From a Secret World.” by Peter Wohlleben, a German Forest Ranger, but when I visited Damanhur last year my doubts has vanished forever.
First, I was not the only one who “feels” the plants. Second I was showed a way how people and plants co-existed in the manner I have never seen before!
It's really difficult for me to describe the versatility of The Sacred Woods Temple. As @yvesoler and other Damanhurians say, and Damnhur at large and The Sacred Woods Temple in particular has multiple levels and each of us would be able to see different dimensions.
If we talk about the space itself - this is the territory that is located directly above the underground Temples of Humankind which many people consider one of the most spiritual places and the Eighth Wonder of the World. (You can read more here).
The trees of the woods are considered to be the "hair" of the Temples—if only as a poetic metaphor, and because of the energetic connection that unites these two sacred sites.
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The territory of The Sacred Woods Temple is huge and includes a lot of zones, although as not a member of a community you can visit only some of them.
At the entrance to The Sacred Woods Temple you are met by labyrinths of multi-colored stones and 3 colored pyramids, which according to the Damanhurians they use for information translation and multiple experiments. If you want, you can ask for the opportunity to meditate in one of them and if at that time it will be free, then you will be allowed to this experience.
The The Sacred Woods Temple has its own Welcome Tree, witch you would be asked to great in any appropriate form to you and put your hand on his trunk allowing you to connect to the energy of the place.
This amazing place is full of labyrinths and spirals, and each of them has its own purpose. You can walk some of them and would be guided for the best way to do it. In some of them you can go only spirally, without crossing the border, then in others - you are allowed to do what you want.
The inhabitants of Damanhur use The Sacred Woods Temple for various purposes. First, almost every resident of the community has his own tree-friend. He/she can come there anytime and has a special connection to it. It is believed that this creates an amazing relationship between a tree and a human.
The Sacred Woods Temple is an important part of connecting with yourself and is used in various ceremonies and rituals, especially ritual dances and meditations.
But perhaps one of the most incredible experiences that you can experience here - is to hear The Music of Plants or simply say to listen to a plant or a tree making music with the use of a special device.
There is a short interview published by Crystal Castle Byron Bay where @yvesoler herself explains what The Music of Plants is.
Tears come to my eyes when I recall that wonderful moment when I first came into contact with this unusual phenomenon. Passing through a vast territory, we approached one of the trees and quietly settled around on the grass, while our guide took out the device - the development of the inhabitants of Damanhur and "connected" it to the trunk of a huge strong tree.
At that moment everyone went quiet and even a small child who was carried by his my and being noisy before quoted intuitively catching that something magical was about happening. At first, strange rattles and sounds were heard from the speaker, which was nothing similar to music, but the next second we heard further is simply impossible to describe ...
Our entire group of about 10 people was sitting quietly as possible, seeming to be afraid even to breath not to disturb the magic of this moment. But that was not the end. Our guide asked each of us to take turns to approach the tree, putting our palms to its trunk - and then the real magic began. The tree responded to each person in different ways - the range of notes that it used was completely different for EACH of us! As if it was able to understand our soul, our deep feelings and express it with the help of musical sounds! Some people even cried, some smiled quietly but we all have emerged into something absolutely magical worlds can’t really describe!
I remember how I approached this majestic giant, as I asked his permission to interact with it and how I first heard the sounds of his response. I remember standing there, I felt such harmony and unity with this fantastic creature, which I believe I can hardly ever translate into words. My spine was resonating with it, I felt the tips of my fingers vibrating as if I tough something which has electric power in it. I was not insane after all, the world of Trees was alive and now I just found a way to interact with it in a new astonishing way - I could feel through music now.
I remember how quietly I returned to my place, as I sat down on the grass, I buried my face to my knees and quietly sipped - the beauty of the moment and the strength of this forest just overwhelmed me.
I felt a huge vibration in my body, which seemed to come from the Earth on which I sat and passed through me to the sky. I felt the pulsing of Life around me. I was connected with it and that was this amazing Tree that made it happened.
It was the gift of this tree to me and I would like to give it the gift in return by finally writing about this experience in my life. My hope is that it will affect the hearts of others and change their outlook on these wonderful creatures that surround us.
You can listen to 1300-year-old tree from the garden of the famous prophet and healer Prepodobna Stoyna near the town of Melnik in Bulgaria PLAYING MUSIC on this video:
You can also head to The Music of Plants Soundcloud to listen to some of the fantastic soundtracks.
Just stop for a while and just emerge yourself with this world of beautiful sounds!
I found a Youtube video by Bruce Starr who shared the experience he had in The Sacred Woods Temple so you can get the better understanding of what I get through and see how it works into more details.
People around the world experiment with Music of the Plant devise as they try to go deeper n our understanding of the Plant world.
You can check the effect of a human arm touching the Plant:
They try to see what is going to happen if you give a Plant a hug:
But one of my favorite part of this experiments is the way how they try to create a beautiful collaboration between and the world of plants and humans and perform music TOGETHER.
I hope one day we will see all people collaborate with nature the way Raeul Pierard does!
There are more fantastic videos - just go to Music of Plants Youtube Channel.
If you want to experience this fantastic experience there is no need to go to Italy - check out the list of partners Music of the Plants has around the world and see if there is one close to you.
Apart from my personal experience with Music of Plants which I described above, I heard a lot of fantastic stories and read articles how it helped people to realize the fantastic unity humans have the Plant word.
This project started as an experiment almost 40 years ago. Damanhurians were able to put all of their findings in their fantastic device - the Music of the Plants U1- that made it possible for us to really able to connect with Nature. It made it possible to show to many people the new reality that can exist then people and Nature are in harmony.
Music of the Plant team and community members still continue to make new experiments and run research in different areas.
Some of the people like Edoardo Taori and Federica Zizzari found their path traveling around the world, sharing the plant intelligence in hope to create awareness amongst human beings about plant consciousness and respect for every form of life. At the same time this journey had been a source of new knowledge and beautiful compositions of music of oldest trees in the world.
Some people like Marina L. Levitina from Ireland uses the Music of the Plants to educate children about wild world. Others like Henry Mentink from The Netherlandsare educated themselves by a young child who intuitively knows that you need to hold your hands close to the plant so it can feel you and the music starts.
Some of the people like me and Jen Frey feel that they are connected to the something very magical and feel that Plant teach them different dimensions of Love and co-existence with Nature.
With the aid of the device, I am learning how to work in co-creative partnership with the Plants. The device also makes it even easier for me (and others) to connect to Plants (something that is as natural as breathing, we’ve just forgotten how to do it). Then there are those incredible magical moments, where the device, really the music from the Plants allows everything to transform and it feels like I am in a different world and am able to tap into a deeper wisdom.
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Others, like patients of Centrum Voor evolugrafie, Belgium claim to speed up the healing process.
Music of the plants brings an atmosphere of tranquility. After the second session with the music, I felt vibrations in my upper legs. In the following session, I felt the vibrations through both legs full, up in to my toes. My legs are more flexible and I can walk better. When the music is louder, I feel the vibrations more in my legs. In this way, my walking pattern improves very fast.
says CS, Belgian, 26 years old, diagnosis: diplegie (sided paralysis of the legs). Source
I believe that as all it is always in life, each of us will find something for him/herself in this world of Plants what creates this beautiful music!
I believe in the power of small steps one can make to help a world become a better place! And today my step is to write this article in hope that it will touch people hearts and they will help to spread the world about this absolutely beautiful initiative around the world.
If you like me passionate about creating a better world, where people and Nature co-exist and co-create please consider this call for helping @yvesoler and her project growth on Steemit.
This is my call to Steemians
to have a look on @yvesoler Steemit profile and consider to follow her and the latest news of Music of Plants if it is something that resonates with you.
to support the initiative she wrote about What's the Price we Pay for Windowless Offices? and consider to contribute to her calling - Support Plant Music Research
to Re-STEEM this post or/and the post by @yvesoler more people can hear about her and her wonderful project.
If you think this post deserves it, please feel free to UP-VOTE it.
All the payouts from this post I will be transferring to @yvesoler to support her project's growth on Steemit.
You can help to spread a world about this amazing project outside Steemit. You can visit The Music of the Plants web-page , Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud
For me @yvesoler is an example of a person who changes the world every day and this is my honor to contribute what I have to make her dream one small step closer!
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We continue our excursion into the wonder-world of a small settlement located in the town of Vidracco, in Piedmont, Italy. In my last post Damanhur - con te * a new world or an amazing art and eco-community in Italy Part 1 I described the story of my acquaintance with this amazing place, and today I would like to continue with the story of my visit there.This story has admiration for completely different things, which I did not expect at all, a bit also disillusioning from my blind love to it. Mostly it is a reflection of my experience of interaction with this place. Read and get yours (who knows maybe you will visit it one day).
ahaa.. how wonderful that you were brought back by synchronicity great to this work .. Ive heard a LOT about Damanhur over the years, and nearly went to visit once.. Thank you for remind me of the magic that is there, and everywhere! I will think about visiting again..i am INspired.. the plant video sounds so beautiful. aweeee
Greetings @eco-alex, whenever you want to turn that "nearly" into a visit, there are many different ways to experience Damanhur. It is definitely something to be seen in person!!
Thank you, dear @eco-alex and for Re-steem%))) I think I will re-address your own words to you-you are the best%))) Damamhur is indeed a very special place as well as many Ashrams in India or other sacred places. I believe we all come to places where we need to be in the right time so I am sure when your time is right you will discover Damanhur for yourself%))
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This is breathtaking. I am speechless...I had no idea that this was possible and now my mind is racing with curiosity. All of these videos are touching, but that video of the duet between the cellist and the tree?
I must say, I am amazed, but I am not surprised. This revelation falls in line with everything I have always felt about music and it's role as the natural language of the universe, even life. I simply must make time to visit this sanctuary in the future.
Thank you so much for such a wonderful, detailed post.
Nice meeting you, @cosmicvibration. I agree the duet is absolutely stunning but you should check their You-tube - there they have even 3 people playing with few plants. I love all of these beautiful creations between species which indeed show us that Music is the language of the Universe. Feel free to ask me or @yesoler any questions when you decide to visit this beautiful place. I am heading there in end of May and hope to get inspired to write about something else%) Much love!
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My sincerest apologies for being so slow to reply. I spend all Fridays and Saturdays in class as I complete my master in Futuro Vegetale (Vegetal Future: Plants and Social Innovation), and it is almost impossible for me to respond. This week we were at the LINV (Laboratorio internazionale della neurobiologia vegetale - International Laboratory for Plant Neurobiology), which kept me very busy until this moment.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for the welcome and for the love. Please feel free to ask me anything about Damanhur, Plants, Plant Communication, and Plant Music. I tend to comment more than I write, so if you have specific topics you would like me to discuss in depth, let me know, and I will do my best to share as much as possible!
Stay tuned for an article about the LINV in the coming days...
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And thank you for bringing such a lot of wisdom to us! Look forward to learn more from your next article! Lets us live in JOY%))
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Wow, so cool
Thank you, dear @honeysara! It is pity I can't really read your posts due to the language you write. But I thank you for stopping here and writing this comment! I believe The Music of the Plants doesn't need any special language knowledge!
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Yes, right, i love music too.
Thank you for sharing your experience and the awesome pictures. It must be absolutely amazing to see all this in person! Would really love to visit some day... I talk to my plants all the time and I think they love it! I always suspected that plants like to be touched, glad to see I was right :-) The duet by Raeul Pierard and the young Kawakawa tree is really something.
Welcome @gozarla and thank you for leaving such a meaningful comment! Yes, I think plants are beautiful and then you learn to communicate with them they can show you so much! I agree with me the duet of Raul Pierard and Kawakawa tree is absolutely gorgeous! They have more collaboration with different artists on their Youtube which are also stunning! That happens to be just my favourite!
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You are welcome to visit any time you like! There is lots of information on how to visit on our website. Hope to see you there!
ahhh thank you for sending this my way with a little extra intention!
i have heard of this and watched the videos before, but it is so good to know someone now who has experienced it!!!
and how wondrous was your experience
I felt very touched by this, as someone who has connected with some very powerful trees and felt earth energies. these are the foundations of why i am on my path, sharing eco-consciousness and helping people connect with earth. these experiences i have had have shown me what is happening here on earth is so much bigger than just us humans with the backdrop of nature!!... resteemed (and will resteem at the hearth when i get a chance) and followed her. what a lovely service they've sharing this tool with the world.
thank you THANK YOU! for sharing your experience. i'll look more into what it looks like to be a partner with the Music of the Plants. many blessings your way and thank you for speaking of & introducing this wonderful human @yvesoler & for the plants! <3 xoxo
Wow, @mountainjewel!!! You keep touching the deepest level of my heart! I am feeling so overwhelmed by your comment and thank you for answering my calling on so many levels!
I believe you can message @yvesoler if you have any further questions! She is so patient about what she does and now they are working on research of impact of the Music of the Plants for humans health!
I am forever grateful to #Ecotrain for introducing me to you and all the wonders you guys, do!! Thanks to you and your last article I found ECHO and as I wrote you it again was "a small coincidence" allowing me to help this beautiful project as well! I THANK you for all the efforts you do both in Life and Steemit to promote the eco-consciousness! You are a real JEWEL:))
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If you have any questions about the Music of the Plants, feel free to ask. I would be happy to put you in touch if you would like to be a vendor or if you would like to create interspecies art, there are a number of resources you can tap in to. Green blessings!
Thank you! I am curious about creating inter species art & are the listening devices available? Thanks. Are you on discord?
The devices are most definitely available! There is a list of vendors around the world at Music of the Plants. They can answer all your questions about the device itself.
I am on Discord, @Tigrilla#7553. I don't use it very often, as I am just learning how to move around there. Hopefully, I will learn quickly. :)
Oh my goodness! I have got to visit this place some time in my life! What a beautiful post! Thank you for introducing us to this treasure!
@stillwatersart, I am sure that as the artist yourself you would find so many interesting things there%)) For me, The Temples of Humankind is one of the most unusual ART places in the world with each inch painted by artist all other the World! If you ever will go just DM me I will introduce you to some of my friends who live close by! I assume with some of them you share so much in common! Be blessed my dear and as always a fountain of love your way!
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I hope that someday I can take you up on that offer. Yes, the Temple are fascinating!
I often say that Damanhur is like Hogwarts for adults! It is definitely a place to visit! :)
yes, I agree 100% and each time you come you discover somthing new%))
I love this! Thank you for sharing. 💚
Thank you so much for reading! I am here if you have any questions.
This is an outstanding article!!
Thank you, @massivevibration for stopping by and for Re-steem of this article! I believe your curation is the very good way to connect with fantastic people on this platform!
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Greetings: Carl Jung called those moments of divine coincidence "synchronicity". I've come to experience that when one is in the flow of Path then these moments become quite fantastic and common. Your posting this article, no doubt, will be such a moment for more people than just I. I did go visit your friend @yvesoler. What a wonderful experience you had with the trees and plants. I'll share, if I may, a time quite a few years ago when I was immersed in heart energy while walking in the Redwood forests on the Pacific coast and literally heard with my own ears a humming musical melody coming out of the forest. I was on a ridge and knew there were no other humans around. This incredible sound came from the trees. Since that time I've learned to "be" with the trees and feel them often. It's strange but one of my favorite trees was a peach tree I once had. This tree was so...peaceful and kind. I have a place down by the river where I go with the dogs quite often. There is a grove of trees there that I love. Perhaps you might enjoy a post I put up a few weeks ago regarding that place. Many blessingshttps://steemit.com/thegraycontest/@mistermercury/roots-thegraycontestweek4
oh, @mistermercury, a lovely being I have just discovered a few days ago! I enjoy each of your posts and the comments as well! And I am happy to hear that we share the passion for trees and interaction with them.
I am in love with pine trees, I just do not know they seem to be magic for me. I know that they generate a lot of fresh air and I absolutely love the smell of them! I have been actively planting them with my friends all over the world and if you agree to help me I would donate one for you beautiful place close to the river - just PM me on #ecoTrain Discord and we see how we can arrange it%)) Much love <3
Beat you to that one. I get seedlings from the Forest Service and plant in the spring time. Look forward to hearing more from you. Many blessings.
Wow!! That's so awesome!! So there is one more tree planter among us!! I am happy to hear it!! Blessings to you too!
We also call this "synchronicity", which is one of the laws of the universe according to Spiritual Physics. I am looking forward to more synchronic exchanges!
Wow, this is truly amazing! Thank you for sharing this with #tribegloballove
Thank you, my dear, for giving me the support and all the links! now I know that I can use a hashtag as well! I love learning and keep exploring a new community of fantastic people at #tribegloballove! I think I am so honored being part of #Ecotrain and joining #tibegloballove now as I am surrounded by people who act every day to change the world and it is such a gift to be part of it! Much love<3
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Thank you for the encouragement and support! Looking forward to connecting.
This is absolutely incredible! I'm totally blown away. I almost never watch videos because our internet is so slow, but I just had to see it. It's absolutely amazing! Thanks for introducing me to this and also for adding a new place to my travel list!!!
Wonderful! We hope to see you at Damanhur soon. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!!
Thank you! It's definitely been added to my list.
Oh, my dear SoulSister, it is indeed a place to add to the travelling list%) and maybe not even once%))
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I love traveling. It's really my favorite thing to do. I've been wanting to go to Italy for a while, so this will surely be a part of that trip.
Your post has been featured in this week's earth-centered curation @the-hearth.
Thanks for writing such fantastic and inspiring content!
Thank you, @the-hearth! I love not only being a part of this weekly curation but want to express my gratitude to it as I am always finding new people to connect to through it!
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Greetings, I am back! Did you see that the new Bamboo device is out? I wrote about it here. Let me know if you get one, it would be great to share experiences about what we discover listening to plant music with this new device.