This picture was taken on the Mad River where we were vacationing in Vermont. We had a very interesting experience here and when we returned to the bed and breakfast where we were staying, and told our hosts where we had hiked, the innkeepers, two transplanted business owners from Boston, asked “Oh, did you see the fairies there?” I guess we probably did!
When we began our plant nursery a woman who claimed to talk with these other dimensional creatures people call elementals, fairies, gnomes, nature spirits,etc. would visit regularly, play her recorder in one of the greenhouses and appear to have animated conversations with these beings. In writing Sacred Gardens we encountered many, very respectable members of their communities, who fully accept this realm of consciousness. And to be perfectly honest, and ready to accept the derision other “serious” gardeners might heap upon us, we do too. We’ve had too many unmistakable experiences, dating from childhood, really, to deny the possibility, no, the probability, of existence beyond the three dimensional world of the five senses.
People generally line up on classifying elementals, gnomes, fairies, elves,nature spirits, etc., as either existing as folklore and fairy tales, being real in some other dimension or consciousness, or they are simply unsure of whether they’re real or not. Different cultures have different names for these beings, which have included gnomes, elves, fairies, nature spirits, elementals, angels and on and on. Countries all over the globe have a place ( and names) for this in their folklore – Shedim (Jewish), afries (Egyptian), devs (Persian) to name a few.
In William Bloom’s little book Devas, Fairies and Angels. A Modern Approach he asks,
“Well, what are we to make of all this? There seem to be three possibilities: The first is that for thousands of years storytellers, in folklore and religious text, have enjoyed simply inventing these things. The second possibility is that the human brain and human psyche are structured in such a way that regardless of time, culture or geography, people always imagine and hallucinate in the same form. The third possibility is that devas are indeed a reality, but that they exist in a dimension normally not perceivable by the usual five human senses, therefore, incapable of being proven by contemporary science.” (Bloom, 1986)
Over the years we’ve met hundreds of people, well respected symphony musicians, folks ensconsed in corporate America jobs, social workers, and gardeners like ourselves who have shared lovely stories about encounters with this type of other dimensional level of consciousness they clearly saw as real experiences. I recently spoke with a lovely woman who spent years in the investment banking industry. Our conversation made its way around to elementals and her very interesting experiences in that area. She said she spent many years keeping her experiences under wraps, although they probably dated from childhood. I asked her how she perceived this world. She said, “Sometimes simply as sparkles, sometimes as mists and occasionally as full bodied beings.”
I realize that some people become frightened or threatened by others who talk openly about their perceptions of reality especially when these perceptions differ dramatically from accepted or popular belief systems. Or they judge the beliefs of others as nonsensical, crazier,or something less than their own. There are probably as many belief systems as there are believers! Some people may come together in groups of more or less commonality of belief and others of us go on our merry way, trying to listen to our inner beings, staying connected to pure, positive energy, feelings of joy and living life for the fun of it. Lucky us, we get to choose!
Good books, if you can find them: The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken (the Smith and Hawken one)
Behaving as if the God in all Life Mattered by Machelle Small Wright
October 17th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
"Go out and have more fun!" The Providence Wholebellies
