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comes a major new writer. . .
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'-RICHARD BACH
TALKING
WITH
NATUR~
Tallcing .
with
Nature
Sharing the Energies and Spint of
7tees, Plants, Birds, and Earth
J.
BY MICHAEL ROADS
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H Kramer Inc
1iburon, California
© 1985, 1987 BY MICHAEL J. ROADS
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, including photo
copying, recording, or by any information storage
and retrieval system, without permission in writ~
ing from the publisher.
Published by H J Kramer Inc
P.O. Box 1082, Tiburon, CA94920
ISBN 0-915811-06-5
Cover art: Genevieve Wilson
Cover design: Abigail Johnston
Production: Kimberly Freeman
Interior illustration: Genevieve Wilson
Originally published in Australia as
Communicating With Nature
jISBN 0-9590152-4-8)
by Night Owl Publishers Pty Ltd
Revised United States edition, 1987
Manufactured in the United States of America
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7b my darling 'Iteenie, with love.
The Fairy Ring is growing!
Contents
Foreword
by Sir George 'nevelyan 11
Publisher's Preface 13
Acknowledgments 15
1 September 21
2 October 51
3 November 67
4 December 89
5 February 111
6 March 125
7 April 145
Foreword
T HIS IS A LOVELY, extraordinary book. For many, it will
open the way to a new connection with Nature.
Nature is a great work of art arid design, a fantastic,
intricate, ever-flowing Oneness, of which we are an integral part.
We of the civilized world now feel separate from Nature because
in the last centuries we have become onlookers and seek only to
control Nature for power and profit. We, the rightful stewards of
the planet, have failed lamentably and culpably in our steward
ship and are rapidly turning this beautiful world into a desert.
In the past centuries, the sensitive feminine faculties of the
right hemisphere of the brain have largely' gone dormant and
become atrophied. These poetical and imaginative powers can
apprehend the Living Whole. We must now renew our awareness
that visible Nature is the form; the heart is the living Idea. The
human being, that crown of evolution, has been so designed that
he or she can blend in thought with these Ideas.
Realize the great truth that each of us is a droplet of divinity, a
spiritual being housed in a temple, the body, which enables us
to operate in the heavy density of the material world. We have
become so imbued with the "onlooker consciousness" that we
too easily assume that God or our guides will speak to us from
outside. But the great truth is that the beings of the higher
12 TALKING WITH NATURE
worlds speak to US within OUI own thinking. All is Thought; in
thinking we blend with higher beings.
God speaks to us within our thinking. God is within every
flower and tree, animal and bird, crystal and cloud and ocean
wave. Therefore, it follows that humanity, once over the barrier
of conceptual separation, can blend and unite in thinking with
the higher worlds.
Now we are offered this remarkable book describing one
man's experience. H the author can achieve this "talking with
nature" then all of us can potentially do the same. The manner
of approach and attitude of mind are what matter. Approach the
natural form. - tree or hill, river or blossom -and speak inwardly
with the elemental being within it. Then watch the response in
your mind and heart and give back love. Let the flow begin. This
form. of meditation is awakening the "eye of the mind"
This book is a beautiful statement of this experience; which
is open to us all. Those who achieve it are part of the awakening
of Planet Earth, for hwDanity now stands at the threshold of a
birth into wider consciousness of the great Oneness of all life.
Of course, this is the knowledge of the mystics and initiates
of all ages. It has in our time been well demonstrated in such
centers as Findhom in Scotland, where Peter Caddy, through his
sensitive friend Dorothy Maclean, established direct telepathic
contact with elemental beings. The result was a fabulous garden
of vegetables, fruits, and flowers grown in arid sand dunes. The
desert can indeed blossom like the rose when man contacts and
works with the.n ature spirits and devas.
I .
This, Michael Roads's experience and achievement, is a won
derful step and an inspiring example. Read this book and learn
how each of us can make this approach. It is an aspect of the
great awakening of humanity now taking place on the threshold
of the Aquarian Age.
Sir George lIevelyan
Badminton, Avon
May15,1987
Publisher's Preface
T alking with Nature is a book that cries out for special
attention. It is the story of a man who discovered he pos
sessed the ability to commune intelligently and articu
lately with the souls of plants, animals, and even rocks and riv
ers. It evokes the same sense of contact with the miraculous that
distinguished Carlos Castaneda's early work.
At first, Michael Roads found himself disturbed by his strange
new power. He questioned it relentlessly. Finally, when he could
no longer deny his experience, he allowed Nature to nourish and
heal him. Nature spoke to him of her deep concern with the role
of man in detennining the fate of the Earth. With patience, com
passion, and even humor, she taught him how to become one
with the whole of creation.
7lz1king with Nature is an important book because it offers a
new way for those who want to heal the wounds of alienation
and become reunited in loving awareness with the natural
world
The message of the book is one of hope for us all. A solution is
in sight. Like Michael Roads, all mankind can learn to accept
and listen to the voices of Nature. We can learn to reconnect our
selves with the spiritual essence of the universe.
Michael Roads has taken a giant step. The nourishment of the
