01-29-2017, 06:57 AM
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Originally posted by ohiagrrl
Slow Walker, It sounds like JBF gets overwhelmed by the forest. That's too bad. Re: Making my mind up. My perceptions are based on collected wisdom from a lifetime of listening. My ideas must shift with more stream lined info. Every bit helps and I welcome it. I used to feel overwhelmed by the Ohia forest blight as well. Having a useful path to follow helps with that. I am posting all field notes in the hopes that someone else will notice some nuance of this project that I missed or bring expertise on board. Re: the devil in the details: tried sifting charcoals out of powdery white ash and just treating a patch of forest with the fine substance. The previous trees that got treated with the charcoal bits mixed in with powder are looking healthier, going back to using ash, as ash is.
Hey Gypsy & Tom!
So ON topic. Like the King James Bible, that beautiful Hawaiian legend was probably reiterated to satisfy the needs of the last practitioners of that oral tradition (who clearly developed a taste for the hooch.) Jon Cruz sings a song about how his Tutu liked her Poi real sour....Hawaiians were no strangers to fermented beverages but who wouldn't prefer Gin? Just a guess but isn't that how all knowledge is handled? Through extrapolation with varying degrees of success and failure? Lore and Science aren't so different in that regard. Maybe we should take this experiment to the folklore department and see if they can sneak us some ROD test kits out the back door.
Re: talking to the forest spirits, I love the trees like I love family and my family is on board. My lovely father who has been immersed in the sciences most of my life, told me yesterday to go out into the forest and play some music for the trees! Maybe I'll go out and strum some "Island Style" on the guitar:
We go grandma's house on the weekend clean yard
If we no go, grandma gotta work hard
You know my grandma, she like the poi real sour
I love my grandma every minute, every hour
"Protoplasm, the translucent living matter of which all animals and plant cells are composed, is in a state of perpetual movement. The vibrations (from music) picked up by the plant will speed up the protoplasmic movement in the cells. This stimulation then effects the system and may improve performance, such as (but maybe not limited to) the manufacture of nutrients that develop a stronger and better plant."
https://dengarden.com/gardening/the-effe...ant-growth
Apparently the plants in these studies liked the violin and Indian Devotional music the best. I have a great double record by Yehudi Menunin (violin) and Ravi Shankar (sitar) that might heal the forest! We need to have a Raga Rave in the forest. Using that same logic, my violin playing is so bad, I might be able to kill all the Ambrosia beetles within earshot
Problem solved!
There are many who also feel that singing/chanting to the volcano is a vibrational exchange. Even mysticism can be broken down into wave form sound theory. There are connections wherever we look.
Thanks you guys for checking in.
Ohia Girl,
The statement I put down.....
It is also best not to make up your mind... but to be able change your course of thoughts.... Had to do with JB Forest and University of Hawaii lack of trying different things that are not so to speak Kosher.
Slow Walker