Dr Demeter: Listening to the land beyond sides, beyond slogans, toward wholeness.
In January year, as part of a land healing workshop, I found myself sitting beside a pomegranate tree. I hadn’t gone seeking visions or answers. I was simply sitting. Breathing. Letting the earth speak in her own time.
Then, without warning, something stirred. A soft, clear message emerged, not in sound, but in knowing:
“I am in misery,” the tree said.
This was not a metaphor, the tree was literally looking unwell. At its base, a fungal infection had taken hold. The trunk was split. And on one side, growing into the tree’s very body, was a piece of plastic, long embedded. A human intervention, likely intended to help, had become part of the wound.
As I sat with the tree, listening with more than ears, an image arose:
The left side of the tree was one people. The right side was another.
Two limbs of the same being. Split, but not separate.
The left was discoloured, twisted, compromised by synthetic interference. It held movement, emotion, and the ache of dispossession. The right stood straighter, more rigid, offering structure and strength, but needing the left to breathe, to flow. Neither side could live without the other.
I asked the tree: Do you want to be pruned?
A firm no.
What was needed wasn’t division. It was healing. Not isolation, but restoration.
The tree gave me five messages from the left: change, loss, resistance, grief, yearning.
And eight from the right: resilience, stability, defence, safety, endurance, tradition, fear, and loss.
Then came the number six for both. A balance. And one word that pulsed through the roots:
Love.
Not sentimental love. Not conditional love. But the kind that lives in root systems. That remembers we belong to each other, even in pain.
As a regenerative farmer and practitioner of biodynamics, I knew what to do. I prescribed a tree paste, a gentle, living salve made with yarrow, the warrior-healer plant. Not to remove the wound, but to protect it. To allow the tree’s own healing wisdom to rise again.
Because that’s the thing about trees: They don’t divide, they integrate. They don’t perform politics, but they live season by season.
We live in a time where people are expected to choose sides. To perform outrage or prove virtue. But the tree offered another story.
It said:
“The foundations of life are in the seed” (this was literally the message I channelled).
I have reflected on my channelled message… “The foundations of life are in the seed” is not just a truth of nature, it is a radical invitation to reimagine how we live. From the outside, the seed may seem small, humble, even invisible, but within it lies a profoundly different resonance, one that carries the sacred codes of renewal, interconnection, and life beyond domination. This message is a call to shift our power source, from control and reaction, to reverence and regeneration, planting new ways of being that grow slowly, but transform everything.
What if we remembered that?
What if activism became a balm, not a blade?
What if we built peace the way we heal trees,
By tending the roots,
Not severing the limbs?
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by Dr. Demeter
Eco-philosopher and regenerative farmer
Founder of Magical Farm Tasmania
A tree channeling by Dr Demeter…a message from the unseen