“… I suspect the common modern person would balk at the idea that trees represent something analogous to »vehicles; that under some circumstances a human being can relate with them in such a way that »a form of travel results… which may »appear to be ‘to another place’ from one perspective… but more closely resembles acquiring a unique relationship with all places and moments… which is experienced as ‘being in another place, with its own unique features and characteristics…

( of course, we used trees to carve vehicles from… and houses, and books… and… our languages and categories have their origins in tree-like formations, as well as our filing systems… )

…but their ‘advanced’ societies actually »used the trunks of trees, physically, to »string wires with which they achieved both the widespread distribution of electrical… force… energy… »and telepresence.

So one can see the echo in the techne of the modern humans of a knowledge that was once relatively common… the trees are transits… living doorways… into other worlds and modes of attention. Long ago, our ancestors worked with this property to pursue … nonordinary relationships with nature and timespace…

They used trees to »travel… in dimensions we no longer have language for… and some of those dimensions are, in fact, transcendental. Some of these lead directly to other worlds… and others… to other minds. And just about everything on Earth knows this… except the species that counts itself formally intelligent…

Isn’t it peculiar that the moderns would never suppose that nature of actual trees surpassed the relatively mundane functions they typically used their dead trunks to accomplish… ?

Before they had technology… there was something better. Trees. The door is still open… and it’s… alive.”

— infraheard