Insights for your personal evolution

Double tree face image

While hiking recently in a park area outside of Philadelphia, my friends and I came across this interesting image in a tree. The bark peels back naturally to reveal a crease and a knot that is duplicated by a junior-size image upwards and to the left. The images recall two faces (without eyes) and I thought of the apple trees that come to life when Dorothy and Scarecrow pick its apples in Wizard of Oz. These were clearly natural images, not carved by man. I was reminded of the concept that each tree has a nature spirit called a faun as related in Marko Pogacnik’s book, Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings. While fauns are not typically visible to humans, I wondered if these images were representative of the tree’s spirit nature. If so, it seems that perhaps there is a senior faun teaching the ropes to a younger faun. In any case, we were amused and amazed by the repeating pattern which itself is phenomenal, spirit or not.

November 27, 2008