Courting the Unseen

Summer Newlings © Alexander Jansson

Summer Newlings © Alexander Jansson

“As humans we inhabit a very narrow range of reality. It is as though we walk this Earth with blinders on, never seeing the incredible depth and beauty of all the levels of reality that surround us.”Naisha Ahsian

Ever since a troop of fairies flew into my novel, I’ve been determined to see one. They’ve appeared in my dreams and I’ve experienced almost-sightings in my garden, but my quest has gone largely unfulfilled.

In his book, Power Animals, Dr. Stephen Farmer suggests that dragonflies are messengers from the elemental world. In a dream, a single dragonfly morphed into an entire flight of winged creatures and arranged themselves in a circle. As I watched this transformation, I sensed their energy and felt their longing to be recognized.

© 2011 Kunthera Hing

© 2011 Kunthera Hing

My dream led to a another encounter with a dragonfly, this time in my garden. As I was contemplating a new location for a lavender plant that had been languishing in the shade, a red dragonfly landed on a poppy seed head right in front of me. She sat motionless as I admired her four stubby wings, her bright red body and her big compound eyes. She darted to another seed head and back a few times before twirling up and away. I’d never seen a red dragonfly in my garden before, and while other species flitted through, I’d never seen one sit for more than a second. I took this as a sign that my longing to see fairies was being acknowledged.

Another day in the garden, I was puttering about when I noticed a fluttering of leaves in my butterfly bush. This would hardly seem worthy of attention, but there was no wind, not even the slightest breeze. As I walked over to investigate, something else caught my eye in the banana tree. Whatever is was, it moved. And I felt it watching me, peeking up over a banana leaf. Something, something was in that tree. But before I could move in to get a closer look, it withdrew and faded out of sight.

As I waited impatiently for a real sighting, I queried my friends and learned that several had actually seen these magical beings. Tom (not his real name) who lives in rural Nova Scotia sees 4- to 6-inch tall fire fairies cavorting at the edge of the flames when he burns brush in the fall. Fran (not her real name either) saw what she assumed was a fairy sitting on a stump at the edge of a hiking trail in New Hampshire. This entity was a foot high and all black: black wings, long black hair and black fur covering its little body. And my friend, Steve, saw two tiny beings floating above him as he reached for his bedside lamp one night. Holding hands, wings outstretched, they had munchkin faces lit with big smiles. They watched him intently for a moment or two and then vanished.

These accounts made me more determined than ever to see a fairy. When I read Meeting Fairies by Robert Ogilvie Crombie (ROC), I was encouraged. A scientist, writer, musician, mythologist, psychologist, historian, esotericist, and mentor to the Findhorn community in Scotland, ROC not only saw supernatural beings, but communicated with them.

One day as he sat resting on a bench in the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, he saw a three foot tall figure with pointed chin and ears and little horns on his forehead, shaggy legs and cloven hooves dancing around a tree about twenty yards away. Realizing the creature was a faun, ROC tried talking himself out of this sighting, but it was no use. The creature danced over, sat down, said, “Hallo”, and then asked ROC if he could see him. After ROC assured him that he could, the faun introduced himself as Kurmos and the two had an enlightening conversation. Kurmos explained that his job was to help the growth of the trees in the garden and told ROC that many nature spirits have all but given up on humans because they don’t believe they’re wanted.

A little over a month later while walking home at night, ROC encountered another faun, the great god Pan. He was only a little taller than ROC, but the next time he saw him, he appeared as a twenty-five foot tall figure with great horns on his forehead, cloven hooves and fine silky hair on his human legs. Through Pan, ROC was introduced to a myriad of nature spirits: elementals, nymphs, dryads, other fauns, eleves, gnomes and fairies. Some were but a fraction of an inch in height, others three or four feet tall.

fairyAccording to ROC, what we see when we encounter these supernatural beings is determined by our expectations that have been created by myths and legends. Although they have the ability to assume any form they choose, these entities are essentially light bodies or vortexes of energy. But to carry out their work with the plant world, they need etheric bodies and they adopt specific forms and characteristic behaviors to best accomplish their agendas.

After his conversations with Pan, ROC understood that Kurmos had appeared to prepare him for his meetings with him. And after determining that ROC believed in him and wasn’t afraid of him, Pan chose to impress ROC with his extraordinary size and power because he wanted to enlist him to foster a reconciliation between humans and nature.

So why haven’t I been able to see these beings? ROC understood that he wasn’t seeing Kurmos and Pan with his physical sight. And his communication with them occurred telepathically by means of thought transference. Maybe if I release my expectations and keep my heart, mind, eyes and ears open, just maybe I’ll see a fairy or something very much like it.

P.S. I don’t know if this counts, but a very large, not particularly attractive fairy has been sitting in a giant oak tree waiting patiently for me to start my next book.

4 thoughts on “Courting the Unseen

  1. Charlene Nevill Post author

    Thank you, Petra. This is very illuminating. I haven’t been seeking contact with the elementals for some time, but I’m still intrigued by the possibility. Instead I’ve been gardening and studying interspecies communication. My only experience so far has been with plants, and all the communications have been spontaneous; they speak only when they decide to share their wisdom and only when I approach them with love and an open heart. Perhaps as I’m able to let go more and use my imagination, I’ll be able to see the winged creatures in my garden morphing into elementals.

  2. Petra Bucenieks

    This thing with seeing the Elementals — they say that only if an Elemental wants to be seen by you, will you be allowed to see them — i don’t believe is entirely true, although in principle it may be. There is an excellent example of a faery captured in a video at a known vortex of energy. The video is part of the documentary, Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed, which is available from Amazon or also on some popular streaming sites. The faery enters the video frame suddenly and flies quickly around to the other side of the fame, and the people in the video don’t notice her; she is only seen later on playback. If you are able to watch individual frames of the video, you can see that the faery first appears in more of human form, and then sequentially takes on a moth-like form. The vortex enables the merging of the dimension that the faery is in, with our dimension.
    But to see the Elementals directly it’s best to see them ‘in’ your imagination. Your imagination has to be free of your own conscious and unconscious input, to let the Elementals appear, as they would like to, in it. Some people can superimpose their imagination on their outer perception of physical reality, but how all that comes across is probably quite individualistic.
    i believe that in past centuries, people were able to do this quite spontaneously and consistently — let the Elementals appear in their imagination — which then gave them life energy and supported them in their evolutionary stream. After humans lost this ability, the Elementals stopped evolving a lot, and that is why people today who can see Leprechauns, for example, see them wearing a parody of what people wore about 300 y a. Leprechauns probably always pariodied people anyway, since in the Elemental realm having a mephistophelian character is common, but after people stopped imagining them as they were — as real, living beings encountered in the moment (only somewhere magical), which is what and where they actually were (in another dimension), they lost our vitality support and couldn’t update their form of expression.
    There are 2 levels of existence that Elementals have, ones that shamans know all about, and can actually perceive. At their base level of existence they appear as geometric forms, i.e. cones, rectangles etc. and simple combinations of these. i believe this is a light body that is specific to each of their specie, like a star tetrahedron is what humans are at that level. But each specie of Elemental, also takes on a form akin to a human, i.e. pixie, ogre, troll, or it can also be more akin to the animal kingdom, i.e. dragon, selkie, or even the Loch Ness Monster. They need life energy to assume this 2nd level of form, and having humans imagine them as what they are at the 2nd level, gives them the energy they need to assume that form on their own (w/o a human imagining them that way).
    Personally, i don’t see Elementals in a consistent way, although i have glimpsed them at times. The above comes from my research as well as an intuitive type of channeling. Some of these insights have been confirmed by people like Tanis Helliwell who can perceive and converse with Elementals consistently. i hope it is of some value to you.

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