The great and prosperous 1950’s USA cities are now, 70 years later, looking more often like this.
Decaying, falling down, not habitable. The big tree of hard working people, families and jobs that supports great and prosperous cities–cut down in its prime. Sad.
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Mountain stream above the tree line, clear and white–straight flow to the pineal.
The stream takes advantage of the eyes and ears as paths to the pineal.
Words and talking get in the way–the stream continues; but the pineal flow stops.
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In Tangier Gardens, CJ discovered this flow.
He didn’t know what to call his experiences, paranormal, gnostic portals, or the answers to existential unknowns–but he knew the inputs were from nature, its landscapes and plants.
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And what is it that is the view?
An energy source seeking the pineal.
No, not the photo! Seek that energy source yourself in real life!
Don’t turn away until you feel it.
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That is the portal CJ discovered in Tangier Gardens.
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I am on a hunt.
For genre, for references.
You all know I write about landscape. In my own words, landscape that takes you to the foggy edge where normal transforms into paranormal.
I have only one writer who inspired me–Algernon Blackwood. He showed respect for the observable landscape. He also felt another side of landscape–its power. Its indefinable power that, in a fleeting second, can overwhelm.
I don’t copy him. But my experience in the landscape is similar. Tangier Gardens is about a young man just making his first discoveries beyond the foggy edge of normal. Nature is like that–if you let it.
If we look at nature, in a traditional sense, we see it as a source of human inspiration.
What about landscape? Landscape is the canvas upon which nature sits.
What about landscape architecture? Now that is confusing. It is a modern profession, that in my opinion, mistakenly moves natural elements around, often losing the traditional inspirational quality of nature. Failure.
So, in Tangier Gardens, the young man, CJ, tries to find how he, as a student of landscape architecture, can impart the inspiration of nature into his landscape design. Difficult. Tons of adminstrative regulations that bind nature into some kind of measurable pop experience. Not fun or helpful.
So I turn to a Algernon Blackwood aficionado, Eugene Thacker, who writes about Blackwood’s approach to nature and landscape:
If we are to call Blackwood a naturalist, then we must do so with caution, for his sublime awe before the mysteries of nature is always coupled with an acute awareness of the indifference of what we dutifully tag as “nature.” His novella, “The Willows”, suggests something different. Perhaps what we call the “supernatural” is simply the nature either we don’t see or don’t comprehend. It is the site of myth, religion, metaphysics—and perhaps of science as well. The strangest or “weirdest” understanding of nature is given to us not from ancient superstitions but from modern science. Perhaps the natural is supernatural, and vice-versa.
https://lithub.com/how-algernon-blackwood-turned-nature-into-sublime-horror/
If you would like to see my take on nature via the landscape, read Tangier Gardens.
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And if you know of contemporary authors in the same vein, please include them in your comment.
And lastly genre: after you have read Tangier Gardens, tell me what genre you think it fits.
Mimosa and narcissus.
Balancing, cleansing, energising, relaxing, uplifting…we can all do with some of that.
Acacia dealbata–it grows like a native in the northern third of Morocco; and, in spring, you can always find its cut flowers, fresh from the bled (countryside), being sold by Rif ladies in Tangier.
CJ reckoned when you get this close to a flower, it is because the flower has invited you. That invitation is the key that unlocks a portal–a paranormal portal.
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Find out about the magic of plants and their flowers at the Hibiscus House.
I’m flogging my book.
The book? Tangier Gardens.
This is a typical Moroccan medina water fountain that, in Tangier Gardens, CJ was planning to study. Why?
Because these beautifully tiled fountains were local community nodes for daily gathering of water to use at home. Everyone felt and knew the importance of water supplied by these beautiful fountains.
In Tangier Gardens CJ documents his attempt to study these community landmarks–and the strange challenges he faced.
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This is a Tangier medina riad.
A small courtyard garden, as we in the USA would say. A garden surrounded by the house–your home.
In CJ’s view, it is an excellent, safe and intimate space to get close to plants.
Traditionally it is a practical place for edible plants, medicinal plants, fragrant plants, beautiful plants–and it doesn’t require much water. What’s wrong with that?
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Weaving culture with horticulture…
That is the beginning of the arcane magic that instructors introduce to students of landscape architecture.
But what happens when those students emerge into our contemporary real life dystopic world?
That is indeed what I wrote about in Tangier Gardens.
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As it has for millennia…the fragrant rose…exudes a mellow sweetness that quietly and slowly penetrates the deepest corners of the heart and surreptitiously intoxicates…soothes all emotions.
Get close to a fragrant rose today. It is a free pleasure. Let that fragrance enter your being.
When CJ was in Morocco, it was not scent so much as the sights and sounds of the plants that entered his being and took him to places never talked about at university.
Is it new or is it always there?
Don’t we all feel joy at the unfurling of the leaves and flowers with the coming of spring?
What happens on that spring path through the forest?
What is that beauty to the eyes? In the air?
Does it emanate from the plants?
How does it make us feel better?
Take the walk. Find out for yourselves.
And it happened to CJ. In Tangier Gardens.
He describes it. Read about the joy.
