Coming Home to the Trees: Travelling With the Gypsy Spirit of the Past

by Patrick Jasper Lee

Coming Home to the Trees is the long awaited follow-up to Patrick Jasper Lee's first book We Borrow the Earth (Thorsons 2000/Ravine Press 2013). This latest book provides another unique glimpse into Romani Gypsy life hidden within the woodlands of the past, uncovering an enchanting world of folklore, myth, spirits, the otherworld, and the natural landscape created by trees. In Coming Home to the Trees, Lee reveals how an earlier Gypsy relationship with trees and the otherworld encouraged social, spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing and stability. Do the trees themselves retain earlier memories of nomadic Gypsy people and their spirits? Who are the enigmatic Muchee Mulee who lived in the misty tree-tops? The reader is introduced to Mocheriben, the spirit of values and principles, Bokt, the spirit of luck and destiny, and Parava, the spirit of change and transformation, along with many others. How much do the spirits play a part in our everyday lives, especially when it comes to the spirits who inhabit our sitting rooms, our bathrooms and our kitchens? Why should luck and destiny be so important to us now? Could it be that the trees themselves are the keepers of some of the oldest secrets on Earth?

Genres: Nonfiction

218 pages, Paperback

First published June 18, 2014

About the author

Author of We Borrow the Earth & Coming Home to the Trees, its follow-up.

Fiction: Beyond a Near Water, Through Forest Mist, Around Dark Fires, from the series: The Long Reflection.

I live a quiet life and usually say the unsayable. I am an autistic synaesthete, which I also write about.

All my books are available on Amazon worldwide, in paperback and on kindle.

Reviews

[Patrik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting book.

For me it was a hard read. I chewed a long time on this book. Don't get me wrong, I love trees. In my childhood, my mom thought it was a good idea to plant an apple tree in the backyard and I had to take care of the tree. This apple tree was one way or another in my life until my late 30's. Even when I moved out in my own apartment. Every year around my birthday, my mom baked an apple pie from the apples harvested from my tree. Everytime I visited mom, I got a chance to spend time with "my tree". I love trees, no doubt, but this book is on a whole other level. This book encourages me to find a tree again which wants to be my friend. As strange as it sounds.

I give 5 stars because even it was a hard read, it was interesting and I learned a lot.