The Geecologist

A Branch From The Lightning Tree

A Branch From The Lightning Tree

Feb 22, 2025 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

The stories say that if we take only the Road of the Village—the ordained track—we risk perpetuating an infantile grandiosity, firmly anchored to the ego but lacking relationship to the soul, the very relationship the Road of the Forest offers. This is a dangerous...
We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

Jul 30, 2022 | Fiction

Ama was an oracle. The realization came to my mother late in life, when her monthly bleedings stopped and something else opened inside. Some in our village called it an affliction. They said there was a crack in her mind that left her open to spirits who would consume...
To A Mountain In Tibet

To A Mountain In Tibet

Feb 21, 2016 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

I am travelling with this mystique myself, I know. It has grown out of childhood, and adolescent reading. This looking-glass Tibet is a realm of ancient learning lost to the rest of the world, rules by a lineage of monks who are reincarnations of divinity. Recessed...
To A Mountain In Tibet

To A Mountain In Tibet

Aug 3, 2015 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

A steep road takes our Land Cruisers north. Behind us the Great Himalaya cover the skyline, while ahead opens an orange and sulphur-coloured wilderness where the Karnali withers away. The 25,000-foot massif of Gurla Mandhata, detached from the Himalaya in its own...