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Spirits of the Taiga
The Birch tree plays a central role in the mythology, initiations and rituals of Siberian and Mongolian shamanism.
Fred Hageneder
17 January 2020
FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
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Living with the spirit of trees
Trees are guardians protecting all life on Earth, just as a single tree gives refreshing shadow under the summer sun. That’s why everywhere in the world humans have respected, loved and revered trees. Evidence for this goes way back into the Stone Age. The wisdom of trees is as old as the dawn of human consciousness.
Fred Hageneder
16 January 2020
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The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life aka the World Tree is an ancient and global symbol of the totality of a universe in which everything is imbued with spirit.
Fred Hageneder
16 January 2020
conservation
The Great Bear Rainforest is safe
The Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world’s largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest, has finally found legal protection and park status.
Fred Hageneder
28 March 2016
climate care
Pope calls for caring for the Earth
Pope Francis is calling for radical transformation of politics, economics, and individual mindsets and lifestyles to truly begin caring for the Earth.
Fred Hageneder
22 June 2015
botany
The natural history of yew in Europe
A major study of the genetic evolution of European yew reveals the origins and migration pattern of this unique tree, and its response to regional climate.
Fred Hageneder
22 May 2015
conservation
Protecting Virunga’s mountain gorillas
The uniquely beautiful Virunga National Park famous for it mountain gorillas and its continuing struggle with poaching, civil war, and multinational Big Oil.
Fred Hageneder
16 June 2014
conservation
Protection for the ancient yews of Wales
There is no legal protection for the ancient yew trees of Britain. With the help of the AYG, the Church in Wales is pioneering a change for the better.
Fred Hageneder
06 June 2014
conservation
Romania’s old-growth forests for furniture
Europe’s last extensive old-growth forests are vanishing fast, due to ‘semi-legal’ logging. For cheap wooden products in shops all over Europe (and the UK).
Fred Hageneder
28 April 2014
conservation
Flooded by ignorance
Subsidized mass clearance of trees and shrubs plus the spreading of maize monocultures, the worst crop for soil erosion, guarantee severe floods downstream.
Fred Hageneder
28 February 2014
articles
Spirits of the Taiga
The Birch tree plays a central role in the mythology, initiations and rituals of Siberian and Mongolian shamanism.
Fred Hageneder
17 January 2020
articles
Living with the spirit of trees
Trees are guardians protecting all life on Earth, just as a single tree gives refreshing shadow under the summer sun. That’s why everywhere in the world humans have respected, loved and revered trees. Evidence for this goes way back into the Stone Age. The wisdom of trees is as old as the dawn of human consciousness.
Fred Hageneder
16 January 2020
articles
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life aka the World Tree is an ancient and global symbol of the totality of a universe in which everything is imbued with spirit.
Fred Hageneder
16 January 2020
conservation
The Great Bear Rainforest is safe
The Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world’s largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest, has finally found legal protection and park status.
Fred Hageneder
28 March 2016
climate care
Pope calls for caring for the Earth
Pope Francis is calling for radical transformation of politics, economics, and individual mindsets and lifestyles to truly begin caring for the Earth.
Fred Hageneder
22 June 2015
botany
The natural history of yew in Europe
A major study of the genetic evolution of European yew reveals the origins and migration pattern of this unique tree, and its response to regional climate.
Fred Hageneder
22 May 2015
conservation
Protecting Virunga’s mountain gorillas
The uniquely beautiful Virunga National Park famous for it mountain gorillas and its continuing struggle with poaching, civil war, and multinational Big Oil.
Fred Hageneder
16 June 2014
conservation
Protection for the ancient yews of Wales
There is no legal protection for the ancient yew trees of Britain. With the help of the AYG, the Church in Wales is pioneering a change for the better.
Fred Hageneder
06 June 2014
conservation
Romania’s old-growth forests for furniture
Europe’s last extensive old-growth forests are vanishing fast, due to ‘semi-legal’ logging. For cheap wooden products in shops all over Europe (and the UK).
Fred Hageneder
28 April 2014
conservation
Flooded by ignorance
Subsidized mass clearance of trees and shrubs plus the spreading of maize monocultures, the worst crop for soil erosion, guarantee severe floods downstream.
Fred Hageneder
28 February 2014