Saturday, April 3, 2010

'Going off your tree' - could that be soul-speak for 'normal'?

Not that I've seriously considered living in a treehouse but I do find the idea rather enchanting.

As I was searching for treehouses on the web, I did wonder how living in one might be different to living in a house on an elevated block of land or living in an elevated house on a block of land with lots of trees around it.  Would the views be all that different?

But even if the views were similar, I imagine the actual living would be different. Or would it? As I found more examples of treehouses, I couldn't help feeling that you could pretty much replicate on-the-ground-living up the top of a tree (as you'll see in the last few images).

Still, there's the 'enchantment' factor that you might not find on the ground which to me is the 'soul-factor'. I can't help feeling that the soul is essentially nomadic. It's as if 'going off your tree' is normal in soul-dom.

The soul will not be limited to any one dwelling or lifestyle and yet, it sometimes appears to yield to the egoic mind and its demands for constancy and stability and predictability. Then again, does it yield or is it forced into submission? I don't know. It just seems to have its own je ne sais quoi.

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness"  Aristotle

Do you ever detect a part of you that sometimes wants to break out and just do its own thing? Do you ever get the feeling that there's so much of life you want to explore and experience but you eventually settle for something a bit, if not a lot, less adventurous? 

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 New Treehouses of the World  Build Your Own Treehouse: A Practical Guide  Treehouses and other Cool Stuff: 50 Projects You Can Build 

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6 comments:

  1. Wow, that last one is pretty amazing! What a place to live...would you ever want to leave?

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  2. The thought of living up there is captivating. It would provide a different perspective and a different feel to living on the ground for sure. I might spend all my time watching the birds and squirrels...

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  3. Thats a beautiful Tree House!... Sure would love to own one... Love the nature and to feel like to be part of it :)

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  4. If you did own one, where would it be?

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  5. Living in the second tree house would be much less of a soulful experience as it doesn't strike me as being too stable. It would be hard to tranquil or spiritual with the thought that that house might topple to shift you prematurely onto the next life.

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  6. LOL Jason, I'm not interested in premature transition into the afterlife either. For that matter, I'm not into premature anything ;)

    But yeah, give me the comfort and stability any day!

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