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A Spell in the Forest: Book 1 - Tongues in Trees (A Spell in the Forest, 1) Paperback – July 1, 2021
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'This book gently leads the reader into a new and deeper understanding of the forest and our ancient and intrinsic connection with the trees, that has been largely forgotten in this modern age. If you wish to develop and nurture a true affinity and knowledge of trees, then Tongues in Trees will most definitely help you to do that.'Luke Eastwood, author of The Druid Garden and The Druid's Primer
Trees occupy a place of enormous significance, not only in our planet's web of life but also in our psyche. A Spell in the Forest - Tongues in Trees is part love-song, part poetic guidebook, and part exploration of thirteen native sacred British tree species. Tongues in Trees is a multi-layered contribution to the current awareness of the importance and significance of trees and the resurgence of interest in their place on our planet and in our hearts.
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'Trees have always figured in human consciousness. I believe that when we walk among trees, or notice a particular tree, a kind of exchange happens. Trees love to be met.'
'Trees somehow mediate between ourselves and a different reality, a different order of consciousness – pre-verbal, post-verbal, trans-verbal, non-verbal – such a relief, sometimes.'
'Trees in a natural forest mirror and speak to something of the wild soul in a human. As we visit, we encounter and are supported by the elemental powers that reside in such places, and can more readily connect with our own instinctual natures and the wild soul.'
'Wildness is not to be confused with a state of chaos, being out of control, savage. It's a question of relinquishing the ego's grip to larger natural rhythms, cycles, surroundings: an essential aspect of thriving. When one does this, one is more receptive to one's environment, physical or more numinous.'
'Woodland, forest, strikes me as a perfect example of the individual and the community being gracefully, harmoniously and inextricably part of each other.' 'I walk the forest, listen for birds, rivers, cascades, stories of the wildwood rustling in the leaves... try and stay aware of the great mycorrhizal web beneath my feet connecting us all...'
'[T]he ancients knew that spending time among trees is one of the best approaches to health and healing. Recently, Japan has spent millions researching the health benefits of shinrin-yoku, forest-bathing.'
'In the forest I step into a different kind of time. It's not simply that it so clearly stretches back so far into the past, but also that it allows me what Thoreau described as a ‘broad margin' to my day.'
'‘Mother trees', we know from work by Suzanne Simard, will reduce their own root competition to make room for their own offspring. Trees will also help neighbours of their own species if necessary.'
'Forests are liminal places, thresholds into a meeting of the physical and metaphysical, where we're on the cusp of another reality...'
'In our past, our physical survival and some of our sense of meaning came from an awareness and direct experience of our connectedness with the more-than-human. We need that awareness more than ever now.'
'Our being here, our walking on this earth, is a co-creation, a mutual belonging. How to live, if not in reciprocal affinity?'
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMoon Books
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2021
- Dimensions5.53 x 0.63 x 8.43 inches
- ISBN-101789046300
- ISBN-13978-1789046304
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A Cornish author and poet, well-known for 30 years of holistic writing courses and an outdoor programme of myth and ecopsychology. She read Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge, which included studying The Mabinogion in its original Middle Welsh, followed by training in archetypal psychotherapy. She's a member of OBOD and a Zen Druidry practitioner. Recipient of Arts Council England awards, Roselle has tutored for many arts organizations, outdoor organizations, writing colleges and universities in the UK and abroad. Roselle divides her time between the UK's Westcountry, and Brittany's Brocéliande.
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- Publisher : Moon Books (July 1, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1789046300
- ISBN-13 : 978-1789046304
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.53 x 0.63 x 8.43 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,377,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,402 in Celtic Religions (Books)
- #3,333 in Paganism
- #6,628 in Ecology (Books)
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About the author
UK poet, author and painter Roselle Angwin leads the Fire in the Head creative and reflective writing programme, and a programme for the ecological imagination: The Wild Ways. She's passionate about the meeting points between inner and outer geographies: relationship, connection, wild places. She has been described as 'a poet of the bright moment... whose own sources of creative inspiration are her native Westcountry, the Scottish islands, and a highly individual blend of Celtic myth and metaphysics, psychology, shamanic and Buddhist thinking'. She leads workshops and retreats on Dartmoor, in Cornwall, on the Isle of Iona and sometimes in France.
Her two current projects are an online 5-day guided retreat ('Writing the Bright Moment – poetry, nature & mindfulness'), and a yearlong online course, 'Tongues in Trees', which is a comprehensive and immersive experience, available as a tutored or a self-study option, in the botanical, historical, cultural, mythological and symbolic aspects of the world of trees. Key to it is a relationship to 13 months of the Celtic Tree Calendar. (Next one begins on the winter solstice 2020.)
Based on this course is the first book of two, relating to forests in general and the great ancient mythic forest of Brocéliande in particular. 'A Spell in the Forest - tongues in trees' will appear from Moon Books in June 2021. This will be followed by its sequel: 'A Spell in the Forest - the lost feminine'.
www.roselle-angwin.co.uk
www.thewildways.co.uk
roselle-angwin.blogspot.com
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The huge rise in dissatisfaction evident in society today, manifest in the rise in anarchy, I believe is precipitated by our remoteness from nature, from walking in the forest, from listening to the birds and the wind rustling leaves; from just being still and listening and absorbing what nature, what the trees are telling us.
"A Spell in the Forest" will help us reconnect with all nature and with our essential selves.
Also Roselle's awesome book, "Riding the Dragon" will do the same. We need these books, these stories; and we are so fortunate that Roselle Angwin shares with us.
Roselle Angwin satisfies the rational, emotional and spiritual parts of our consciousness in the way she very credibly weaves together science, poetry, and experience. I came away with a new framework for seasonal living based on 13 sacred trees from our lands.
If you’re remotely interested in trees and exploring our relationship with them, you’ll want this on your bookshelf!
Roselle Angwin blends myth, historical scholarship and scientific research, together with her own personal story, to create a compelling guide for deep engagement with nature.
The writing is accessible but also feels like it is coming from a place of deep learning and wisdom.
It's also very funny, light and playful.
Reading it felt like having an insightful conversation with an old friend.
References and a comprehensive bibliography are included, which have already been very useful for me.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in finding out more about trees and Celtic traditions. It also includes practical guidance around "working" with nature which is really useful.
It doesn't disappoint!
It is readable, thought provoking and a lively marrying of ancient knowledge with evolving science, inviting us to examine gently our personal relationship with the natural world. It even has a series of exercises to help.
This timely book is one to be read again and again as each reading reveals more connections between ourselves and the ecosystems we better need to understand and value.
I bought it for myself and also as a lovely gift to add to the body of work encouraging ecological, personal and community development.
Or you can try the course too!