Life
The Tree of
Young Robin Clark
by Robin Clark and Karen Elkins
Seeding Awareness Make the connection
My work is about exploring life itself. And I’ve come to see that ALL life is the same as me.
Robin Clark
Inspired and most photography by Robin Clark, Written and Designed by Karen Elkins
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I am a star
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and as I grow, my branches reach to the light.
...and like the stars its essence is light.
Our truth is radiant like the stars.
Pine & light essence courtesy of Krishna
Seeded ...
We All Start Connected Seed yourself, to see yourself, in all things. Know we are seeded by the father, and it’s mother’s womb and ground that sustains us. Our birth can feel like such separation and abandonment, but the force of creation is seeded in all of us. So go forth and be the master of light and creation you were meant to be. No other seed can do this for YOU.
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The Heart is at the Core... and at the intersection of the designs.
Groovy Brains Too often we get in a groove and things get ingrained.
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Your Antenna Notice the tree of knowledge is wired in, so reach higher and aspire to connect with your star nature, to the ALL of your nature again. Your are connected 24/7.
Branches of Light ...are your world-wide network to your atom-sphere, the nodal point to connect and conduct to other self similar systems. this internet is a standard transmission system. It’s full of routers and switches. We mimic nature’s intelligent design all the time. That is why it is said look within–nothing is outside of you.
The Opte Project/CC 2.5
Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator; C. Carl Jaffe, MD, cardiologist. http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
pathways for life We are intimately connected to the tree of life. We breath in its essence as it gives us life. For without the tree there would be no oxygen and nothing to expand our life. She also looks after us by cleaning and filtering the air we breath, reduces the heat and gives us a shady, quite place to read.
branches of life
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Teslaton/CC 3.0
by Tom Sullivan in Public Domain
Veins... the channel of life force energy that flows through bodies. It’s the current of our inner river, where we register life's pulse.
Skin displays our scares and repels and expels unwanted toxins and parasites. Š
Skin... ...is our sensor and our biggest organ. It has the most receptors in which to sense our environment. Skin is what you touch to enliven and awaken every sensation, be it love or pain. It’s the layer that defines you from me. Skin is the first defense against the elements– air, water, earth, fire and the space that surrounds.
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Aaron Escobar at http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronescobar/2569091622/in/set-72157602046046491/.
Rooted... and Grounded, our unfoldment on display.
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Path of Life... symbolizes r e b i r t h , growth and development.
Cycles & Seasons
We are like the within a cycle seasons in which branch out and reason.
trees living and many to bud, and ponder its
Generation to generation we come and go, we leave our leaves for others to grow. And From our dead and broken branches we create the crust for everlasting life.
Tom O Fitz/CC.2.0/Flickr
No life is Wasted Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust...
Spores blow about like weeds, rooting, rotting and decaying the logs which once were seeds. This process is all part of a circular curriculum. We are made and grown by earths wisdom. We are the alpha and the omega and this is how life goes on and on.
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Elements the tree is made of the same stuff as me. this concept is elemental. we are a fusion of earth air fire water When we forget to respect our nature, All nature, we have forsaken the whole of creation.
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http://flickr.com/photos/crimfants/327861820
The Tree ... creates the air we breath, the oxygen we need. ....creates the ground and the soil we toil in. ...creates the fire that warms and lights our way. ... is a container of water storing our stories and memories. ...is a gift that sustains us. We are connected and family.
public domain by its author, HolgerK at the wikipedia project.
Young Robin Clark & family
nurse log
We Grow In Family Systems ...where we join and cling to our vine. It’s all about relationships–family, it’s familiar. Our eco and ego systems classify us. They show our roots and what we identify with.
Reach out and touch someone.
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Whaldener Endo//CC 3.0
Conditions...
the pine and pineapple are just different Living organisms having an experience of its self within a heated, mild or cold condition!
Great Basin Bristlecone Pine by Mark A. Wilson
Types of Species ...evolve by a different harmonic “code” we all have a resonance. So, how can one say that one is better than the other? Each is a representation of a different eco & ego systems. Of course we’re bias. So do not judge another until you’ve walked a mile with them in their roots. Note the wonder of creation–there is no one of a kind, or one way to be. Creation thrives on variety.
JJ Harrison (http://www.noodlesnacks.com/
en:Image:Pine cones, mature female.jpg by Menchi
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Etan J. Tal (family album)/Public Domain
from the One
...seed, life is planted. And, just one inch away, with another seed, a totally different outcome will arise.
...many expressions unfold.
Unfolding
we are
Two.
divided by nature in...
Nature gives spin to life through its dual nature. Spin is activated by opposing forces, as this is what generates and unfolds life. Hot and cold, in and out, man and woman.
Adam and Eve (c. 1485), by Hans Memling
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Twins ...Identical twins are a mirror to clearly see the reflection, the ripple of in the seed. Self observing self. Two seeds in the same womb can also be polar opposites–yin & yang. one can be very creative and the other very heady.
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whorls
whorls
Every Year ...I am measured and squared off to see how tall I’ve grown. These “whorls” show each year of me. I grow more in the summer when there is light, I slow down or go doormat in winter just like nature when there is less light. Your light will make me taller, your shadow will make me smaller.
Young Robin Clark
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The Pyramid Scheme ...is the building block for life. Three, the triad, is the form-u-la for life. We can see this in your hue–red, yellow and blue as from these 3 colors the full spectrum is created and viewed. Liquids, solids and gases is how we chart and label the elements, the chemistry of you. The geometry of creation is the vesica Piscis and is considered the portal for life too. It’s known to the mystics and has religious significance. It when two circle's unite or two pyramids come together as one.
Achim Raschka, CC 3.0
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How We Touch Each Other...
...makes a difference in how we grow and how we are shaped. Make sure you do it with as much love as you can muster up!
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Rotted Core The beginning stage of a living system can thrive or bitterly be eaten away by parasites. This plight diminishes life-force as it literarily steals its “resource�, its energy. Our physical self (cell) like all of nature will experience a natural birth and death, yet this dying or deterioration of self (cell) and can happen prematurely. Consider that when we are not allowed to be, to seed, to flower, or to stand our ground then our death can happen at any stage, as our purpose, our core, our heart has been compromised.
Nerve Branches What gets on our nerves, when our purpose is cut off and we can not evolve. life allows for individual expression, yet given the wisdom to understand we are all rooted to the same system– so do no harm. When we strangle the reason to be, our life force is restricted, choked and compromised.
One can see by its spin how ones life has been shaped Some of us grow straight and tall. some of us are shaped, bent, and knotted by it all.
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Sometimes we get twisted & all knotted up!
Survival of the Fittest
In all of nature life competes for resources...why? Within an acre 10,000 seeds can germinate. At this number they will begin to compete for resources–water, light and nutrients. Over 100 years only 300 trees will be left standing. Understanding natures limits and design would be wise. Appreciating its smart design, its seasons and cycles and how there is not “real� time.
Out of the Fire of Life... new seeds fall and from the ashes a new seed germinates.
Winds of Change ...are part of cycles for all life. Catastrophic events cause, or sometimes forces us to start all over again. This is our regrowth and rebirth from which we begin anew.
habitat for wildlife.
The biggest and best survive
Rosser1954/CC 3.0
Wishing Tree We often give homage to something outside of ourself. It can invite you, call to you, or have properties that can remind you, but it’s YOU at the end that has to take it in. Natures spirit is holographic, so it is not out there...the answer lie’s within. The tree may have a gift of its essence to heal you...but remember you requested it. Tie your wish to a limb so it reminds you as if it was your own skin. Believe it to be, and then “sow” it is.
R.Blackham/CC 3.0
Bird in Nest by MeegsC/CC 3.0/Wikipedia
Home in the Wild
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Our Habitat
We build our lives dependent on trees. We are so interconnected ... Trees shelter us, houses us, warms us, and protects us.
he monk of the TrueSchool/Tree House in Public Domain
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Energy Exchange We metaphorically relate to tree’s as a source of exchange...it’s as though we think money grows on trees! But unlike the “other” system that so many are in debt to, with trees we are indebted as it truly sustains life–without interest. Even our shopping bags, are made of trees...what “wood” we do without trees. I chuckle at a pillow in my mom’s room...”money is the root of all evil, and women need roots”. She does like to shop!
We should clearly understand the EXCHANGE between us and the tree, For without this brother we “wood” not be. We are all part of the “tree of life”. We all have branchings and roots. So with due respect, if we honor nature as the ancients did, we just might get grounded to its wisdom and it’s grand design.
Wisdom
Play mates for future generations.... Remember the tree is created just as a human, so know we came from the same creative seed–honor it. Tree’s can “feel” as mother earth can feel you. Yet understand it is also venerable
to you.
You are its
keeper, and remember you can not live without it and that makes you venerable too.
Young Robin Clark brothers Gary and Herb, and sister Carol.
Trees add beauty and grace to any community setting. They make life more enjoyable, peaceful, relaxing, and offer a rich inheritance for future generations.
Senior Robin Clark
Be Stewards to ALL of Creation.... ...because in this cosmic design we are all intwined. Know the forces and cycles of nature are creation, maintenance and destruction. In this dimension we live in cycles of “time� and yet we are eternal, so keep that in mind.
Young Robin Clark with dad and brother.
sacred roots “the Tree of Life� e-book is about the wisdom of creation that is seeded in all life. So ponder the sameness and sacredness of life.
Inspired and most photography by Robin Clark, Written and Designed by Karen Elkins For
Speaking Engagement
Contact Robin robin@rbc.bc.ca
Design Work Contact Karen sciencetosage@gmail.com