Nature Spirits of the Trees and What They Want to Tell Us: Messages from the Beings of the Trees

`People often ask us about the best way to come close to nature and the beings enchanted within it. One way to do so is through wonder and astonishment, to open our senses fully to nature's beauty and wisdom. And here we can encounter entities that most closely resemble human beings - the trees.' Verena has learned to communicate with elemental and nature beings, and to translate their language into terms we can understand. In her remarkable book Nature Spirits and What They Say, she conversed with a range of beings, including spirits of fire, air, water and stone. In this new volume, we hear from trees, the nature spirits that in many ways are most similar to human beings. Through Verena's remarkable clairvoyant abilities, conversations with different tree species - such as sweet cherry, rowan, elm and common oak - are relayed. These communications reveal compelling insights into the role of trees within the natural world and their relationships with the vegetable, animal, human and spirit kingdoms. Particular emphasis is placed on the characteristics of trees that correspond with qualities of the human soul, such as the oak's connection to individualism. The tree spirits want to speak, and are responsive all kinds of questions, such as their roles in the landscape, their specific shapes, on problems that affect them in particular, and on urgent issues that are relevant to all beings on earth, such as climate change. The interviews disclose beautiful, fascinating and often challenging insights, offering inspiration to help us build more constructive relationships to these wonderful entities.

Table of Contents:
About the Authors - Foreword Participating Beings - Theabrox, the Great Timber - The tree in material terms - Human being and tree - Tree spirits, tenders and other elemental beings - Contacting tree beings - The Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) - The Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium) - The Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) - The Black Elder (Sambucus nigra) - The Rowan Tree (Sorbus aucuparia) - The Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) - The Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) - The Field Maple (Acer campestre) - The Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) - The Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa) - The Grey Alder (Alnus incana) - The Common Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastum) - The Sweet or Edible Chestnut (Castanea sativa) - The Poplar (Populus) - The Aspen (Populus tremula) - The Grey Poplar (Populus canescens) - Crown, the tree tender - The London Plane (Platanus acerifolia) - The Large-leaved Lime or Linden (Tilia platphyllos) - The Caucasian Lime (Tilla x euchlora) - The Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) - The European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) - The Pendula or Weeping Beech (Fagus sylvatica forma pendula) - The Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica forma purpurea) - The Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) - The Elm (Ulmus) - The Black Locust or False Acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) - The Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) - The Silver or Weeping Birch (Betula pendula) - The White Willow (Salix alba) - The English or Common Oak (Quercus robur) - The Red Oak (Quercus rubra) - The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) - The Soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi) - The Frankincense (Boswellia sacra) - The Palo Santo or Vera Wood (Bulnesia arborea) - The Olive (Olea europaea)

About the Author :
VERENA STAE L VON HOLSTEIN was born in Rendsburg in 1959. She studied surveying and hydrography and worked as a computer programmer and in the hydrographic surveying department. She is a homemaker with two children, and lives at a watermill in Lu neburger Heide, a heathland region in Northern Germany. A student of the work of Rudolf Steiner, from childhood onwards she has been able to perceive the etheric and astral realms in human beings and the natural world. She has learnt over many years to train her metaphysical perceptions so that communication with nature spirits takes place almost as a matter of course. She receives answers spiritually in the form of patterns, ideas and sometimes also images, and translates them into human concepts. She is the author of several books, including Nature Spirits and What They Say.