A viewer asks: “I was just looking at some photos and videos I took on our trip to the B&B in the redwoods this weekend, and there’s a video of my wife swinging on a swing where she bumps into a redwood tree, and “all sorts of little bugs” come into the frame, as you can hear me say at the end of the video, showing up in the camera light. I couldn’t see them with the naked eye; I turned on the flashlight app on my phone to look, but couldn’t see anything. What were these “orbs?” Were they tiny insects, or dust particles she was kicking out of the tree, or something else? If the latter, what was their purpose?”

This was part of the energy of the tree manifesting as consciousness, but in tune with its physical matter. This is no different than the human being whose consciousness is aware of and in tune with all of the physical body and its tissues. You are only familiar with what you perceive through the ordinary senses, in terms of feeling pressure or the touch when in contact with physical material beyond your own field of consciousness in its ordinary mode of operation, or a pain arising if subjected to extremes of cold or heat, or a physical wound injuring the surface of the body, for example. This will be readily detected by the consciousness and there will be a kind of outpouring, a kind of conscious desire to visit the scene to understand what is happening, take stock, and perhaps take action of some kind in response. What you were seeing was this kind of reaction by the tree itself having been injured and wanting to go and take a look. That energy became visible for a short time, and that is what was detected, it was a kind of shock to the system and created this sort of higher-level emergency response that is not part of ordinary functioning and energetic displays by the trees themselves.