Biologist Arjen Mulder discovers he can communicate with trees – Early Birds

“It’s not like you hear a tree talking,” says Arjen Mulder. He graduated as a biologist and later discovered he could communicate with trees: “Most of the time it’s in your head, but then something comes up that you never thought of.” In his book “Friendship of Trees,” he describes his expedition. Reporting on Wodanseiken centuries ago.

Mulder doesn’t offer any explanations in his book, but he describes in a personal way how he learned to communicate with trees. “As a biologist, you have a biological way of thinking. You encounter something and you try to find an explanation for it. At first I decided not to look for explanations, but just to try them. He trained with Maja Kooistra and discovered that there were more people who claimed to communicate with trees: “I noticed that I wasn’t the only one. Then I knew for sure that I wasn’t going crazy.

Maja Kooistra is a physical geographer and oracle, and author of Living with Trees. “Trees don’t have legs, but instead they have developed amazing forms of communication. There are at least 10 to 15 ways they can communicate with us or other living beings. Trees communicate with people by emitting a bundle of signals that we can receive with our senses, for example in images or words.

Forest ecologist Jan den Ouden from Wageningen University and Research believes that certain components of this idea can be obtained from science: “We know that plants communicate with their environment. For example, when aphids eat them, they can secrete certain substances that are then attracted to the predators of those aphids. The idea that trees can also communicate with people is a step too far for him. “I don’t see any scientific evidence for that.”

For Mulder and Questra, whether this can be scientifically proven is less important: “We could probably register more with our bodies, but we teach ourselves not to and only pay attention to the small bandwidth that can be described as science,” Mulder says. Is Questra 100 percent sure of her condition? “I don’t know. But I do know that when I communicate with trees, I get closer to the essence of life and I become more alive. I think that’s an argument to say that I’m on the right track.”