MASTER TREE DIET

The purpose of a master tree diet is to allow a living intelligence, far older and larger than the human species, to help reorganize the human system towards coherence. The ancient tradition is to isolate one's self from stimulation and turn the attention inwards, to establish a direct, experiential relationship with a specific tree as a teacher and commune with the living spirit of its intelligence.

Sometimes described as a vipassana with trees, the concept of "dieting" refers to a traditional and timeless method of lowering the noise floor through foregoing strong foods, erotic engagement, social communication and technology, and placing all focus in personal prayer, receptivity to the tree's transmission and the primordial wisdom flowing through the connection.

A bark tea is consumed throughout the MTD and the signal of a tree is continuously "boosted" through ceremony. Within a week, the tree's medicine will begin to land in the system, as the energy of transmission heightens during in the prolonged practice of deep listening. The process is held and supported by beautiful, highly charged wilderness locations around the world, a team of devoted guardians, gentle breath work sessions and a communal reverence for universal, timeless wisdom beyond any creed or ideology.

MTDs are life-changing medicine and can take time to integrate. We hold a support container for 6 weeks post-diet and have a community membership for those who desire to keep in contact with a beautiful web of souls healing, learning and evolving with the teacher trees. A successfully integrated MTD supports a person to become more regulated, coherent in thought, feeling, speech and action and with more capacity to live life integrity.

“Deep down, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”— Carl Sagan

Teacher Trees are Earth's ecological leaders and have supported the evolution of human beings since the beginning of our kind. They're trees with deep ancestral lines of connection and exchange with human beings, stretching back into the pre-history of our species. In a very real way, returning to study with Teacher Trees is like returning back to the old altars of connection kept by our ancestors.

Some say Teacher Trees are akin to angels, or highly evolved spiritual beings. Grounding down from mysticism, what we do know is that what we call Teacher Trees are of deep importance to the interspecies webs that have evolved over many millions of years around the consistency or centrality of these particular trees. That is to say, Teacher Trees "hold" profound knowledge about the inner workings of nature and embody or live that knowledge out in their existence.

For this diet, our Teacher Tree is English Oak.

To receive the medicine in a good way and do our part in holding integrity in the community, we practice adherence to the traditional Lifestyle Boundaries that make a Master Tree Diet safe and effective. During our MTD, the following Boundaries will be held with strict discipline:

Integrating a Master Tree Diet is 90% of the work.

It is powerful and beautiful thing to undergo the ceremonial experiences of root practice. But if we come back to our lives with new insights, understanding and feelings, and opt out of doing the work to make changes in our behavior, attitude and and environment, then we have done nothing except had an exotic vacation from reality. When engaging in the powerful practice of Master Tree Dieting, the choice to resist change can be costly.

To keep a grounded field post-diet, we hold a 6-week integration container as a community that includes access to our private members portal where you can login in, post, chat and share with other members of the Sacred Tree Keepers web. During the 6-week integration cycle we holding calls every two weeks with the cohort from our MTD.

Guardians in the community are available for one-on-one integration calls at an affordable and honest rate.