Miracles & Angels II: The Fairy World
(This is an expert from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
One of the advantages enjoyed by the empirical science of phenomenology over the various materialist scientific schools is that we, as phenomenologists, need not limit ourselves to the study of scientifically “proven” phenomena. On the contrary, we may freely concern ourselves with any and all experiential data that we may happen upon in the course of our investigations. Since we are not hidebound by materialism’s foregone conclusions, we can admit the possibility that mind exists independently of matter. Therefore, purely mental experiences, that is, experiences with no physical component, can be used as empirical data, just as physical phenomena can. Such ephemeral experiences, in order to differentiate them from data derived from the senses, can be termed “noumena.” Dora van Gelder, an early 20th century clairvoyant, has some brilliant insights on this point in her book The Real World Of Fairies (1984): “The psychophysical threshold which divides the noumenal world from the phenomenal owes its very existence to the fact that only certain octaves of vibration react upon our sensory mechanism in such a way as to produce the impressions of touch, sight, hearing, and the rest.” In other words, our sense organs define the limits of what we call reality, just as quantum theory suggests. Dora goes on to explain that “the tangible, the visible, the audible constitute what we call the ‘real’ world, but even the materialistic scientist knows better than than that- knows that this word thus applied has no validity, since it would be absurd to deny an equal reality to those other octaves of vibration with which the sense mechanism fails to establish relations.” The discovery of invisible “vibrations,” such as radio waves, shows that such “higher octaves” of reality can indeed be brought into relation with our senses through the use of the proper medium: in this case, a radio receiver. Dora concludes that “however unreal to us, the so-called transcendental world is as real as the physical world.” In that case, you might ask, how can we make contact with this transcendental world? The answer lies within.
Dora van Gelder claimed to possess the ability to see and speak with both angels and fairies through the use of clairvoyance, just as simply as you might decide to listen to music by turning on your radio. According to van Gelder, the power of clairvoyance has a physical basis in the pituitary gland, also known as the “third eye” located in the center of the forehead. Though this “eye” does not possess a fleshy opening, it can “open” in a more subtle sense and offer us a view of the transcendental world that clairvoyants see. The Real World Of Fairies (1984) informs us that “When it is necessary to look into that finer world in which the fairies and other kinds of living beings exist, it is only necessary to concentrate for a moment along that line of sight, and the sense responds much as if the eyes (but in this case a single eye) has opened.” The phrase “line of sight” above refers to one in line with the center of the forehead, proceeding from the location of the “third eye.” Those familiar with visualization techniques will probably find this opening of the third eye easy to accomplish.
A proximity to nature helps immensely in establishing contact with the fairy world, since, as it says in The Real World of Fairies (1984), “It is the love of nature which is the great bridge between the two kingdoms” of human and fairy. The garden, the forest, and the seashore are all excellent places to begin to practice seeing with the third eye and to get in touch with fairies. These ephemeral creatures are very closely tied to the elements of the natural world, and can be divided roughly into four groups along traditional elemental lines. Thus there are fire, air, water, and earth fairies. The earth fairies, also called gnomes, might well be the easiest ones to contact, since they remain stationary for a long time the way stones do. In The Real World Of Fairies (1984) we read, “All of these gnome-like fairies, having to do with rocks and earth depths, convey this feeling of being part of a most ancient order of things.” It follows that gnomes would likely be found in the proximity of large stones or monoliths. In relation to this, Dora van Gelder mentions that stones sometimes display a “strange rudimentary mineral intelligence” that extends into both the “etheric” and “astral” realms. To clarify these terms, The Real World Of Fairies (1984) informs us that “The writer uses the term ‘etheric’ for the kind of matter of which fairy bodies are made, and ‘astral’ in reference to still subtler matter.” Angels, being subtler than fairies, would seem to be made of astral material, and The Real World Of Fairies (1984) makes it clear that “Angels require a pure form of clairvoyance for observation, so fine is the material of which their bodies are made. Thus, while angels are almost never seen with the physical eyes, fairies can be seen in that way, especially out of the corner of the eye.” This would explain why only the little girls at Fatima could see and speak to the “Angel of Mary,” while others saw only the etheric phenomena associated with the Angel’s presence. Children, being more “pure” than their elders, can naturally see deeper into the subtle realms than those corrupted by long contact with the world of sense.
The etheric realm seems to be the essentially same subtle vibrational or “magnetic” field contacted by means of psychometry and retrocognition. On this point, Dora goes on to explain in The Real World Of Fairies (1984), “The rock possesses its physical crystalline body, it etheric double and the beginning of emotion... The etheric double constitutes a counterpart in ‘ether’ which normally occupies the same position in space as the rock, but is slightly extensible beyond this area; the astral body is slightly more extended in space.” It is the etheric double, van Gelder asserts, which serves as the “register of experiences” that can be read by clairvoyants. Out-of-body experiences might then be explained as the separation of a human’s etheric double from the physical body. Since the etheric realm corresponds closely with the physical, the ability to travel about in the ether might give psychics the ability to perform all of the clairvoyant feats known to parapsychology.
The ability of etheric doubles to record experiences also helps explain the phenomenon of retrocognition and hauntings. One such recorded experience, a dramatic escape that took place in the proximity of a large stone, is recounted in The Real World Of Fairies (1984): “This dramatic escape was evidently the one great fact in the rock’s otherwise monotonous history, and it had impressed itself upon him with such force and clearness that when an attempt was made to penetrate his consciousness he at once reproduced the scene, just as a man who has passed through some tremendous experience cannot refrain from telling it, in season and out of season.” Correlating the etheric nature of the fairy world with what we already have learned about apparitions, we can now classify hauntings as an intense type of etheric manifestation, while the relative rarity of spirit and angel contacts would suggest that they ought to be classed together as astral phenomena. Retrocognitive phenomena make considerably more sense in light of this analysis, as do the events at Fatima. Some of the strange events associated with the monoliths at Stonehenge, though much more dramatic than the story of the stone recounted above, will also be seen to fit into a slowly emerging pattern. Let us turn our attention now to the subject of the monoliths, and the eldritch energies associated with them.
Many scientists consider new age parapsychology to be on the far edges of science because parapsychology supports the idea that our perceptions are limiting and that there is much more to life than our current projection of reality. In this same skeptical vein a fairy tale usually isn’t a tale about a fairy, or even a fantasy gnome tale, it is another term for a fantasy story. Although a fairy picture can evoke study of natural phenomenon. Phenomenology also includes the conscious exploration of paranormal phenomenon. A picture of a gnome, fairy, or evidence of astral projection and other natural mysteries, new age or ancient, leads many people to search for proof.