Peter, Eileen and Dorothy were in dire straits in 1957 after Peter lost his job in the north of Scotland. Living on unemployment benefits made it tough to put enough food on the table, so they decided to plant vegetables alongside the trailer that was their home. But in the village of Findhorn on the Moray Firth of the North Sea, the soil is sandy and the growing season very short.
Then Dorothy had a vision. While meditating, she made contact with elemental beings she called “plant devas.” They gave her instructions on how to make the most of their tiny garden. Astonishingly, the barren soil yielded legendary results – huge plants, herbs and flowers, including cabbages as enormous as 40-pounds.
From their humble trailer park grew the Findhorn Foundation, a spiritual community that – 50 years later – has become a model for sustainable living.
But Dorothy Maclean is not the only person who learned secrets from nature spirits. About 4,500 miles west of Scotland, in the desert mesas of Arizona, the Hopi and Zuni people grow corn, beans and squash using Sinagua (without water) agriculture.
Since their creation, the Hopi have been guided by spirits they call Kachinas, without whose blessing they could not survive.
Beings from other dimensions were written about as early as 1895 by theosophists Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater, but their realities have only recently been validated by quantum physicists, according to Peter Thompkins in “The Secret Life of Nature” (Thorsons, 1997).
In addition to Devas and Kachinas, there are many other elemental spirits: fairies, gnomes, brownies, elves, trolls, nymphs, dryads, sprites, leprechauns, and even angels, cherubim and seraphim. In Celtic Scotland and Ireland, the fair folk are known as sidh (pronounced SHEE). One of the most notorious is the Irish bean sidh (banshee), the female spirit whose wail fortells death.
There are different kinds of fairies all across the Earth, according to Tanis Helliwell, who I interviewed in 1998. Tanis worked for almost 30 years as a consultant to businesses, universities, and organizations including IBM, the David Suzuki Foundation and the Alberta Medical Association. She is also the author of Summer with the Leprechauns (Blue Dolphin, 1997) a story about her encounter with a leprechaun in a rented cottage in Ireland.
Tanis told me that – along with leprechauns – she has been able to communicate with little people in the rainforest of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia and beings known as “Children of the Mist” in Abel Tasman Park in New Zealand.
Guidelines for Making Contact with Elemental Beings
If you want to communicate with nature spirits, Tanis offers these tips…
⦁ Go to healthy places in nature as often as possible
⦁ Walk in forests, along the seashore, lie in a meadow, listen to birds, sit by a brook
⦁ Enter into the right vibration of the Earth and listen to what she wants
⦁ Create a space in your house and in your head for magic to happen
⦁ Send positive energy to nature by growing and nurturing plants and feeding birds
If you purify your vibrations by doing these things, Tanis said, elemental beings will be more likely to trust you, and want to work with you for the betterment of Mother Earth.
Another women who wants to share messages from the Sidh is Hope Fitzgerald. A teacher, author, spiritual coach and intuitive dowser, Hope will be leading a small group tour of Scotland in September, and is encouraging group members to prepare themselves in order to hear the messages of the spirits that protect the islands and highlands of Scotland.
Sacred Scotland Small Group Tour September 1 – 11, 2023
Here are some of the tour highlights…
⦁ Do a ritual in Rosslyn Chapel (featured in The Da Vinci Code)
⦁ Visit Mount Schiehallion, fairy hill of the Caledonians
⦁ Take a ferry to the Isle of Iona, with its medieval abbey founded by Saint Columba, and reputed burial place of 48 kings of Scotland including Macbeth
⦁ Visit the 4,000 year old Clava Cairns burial site
⦁ In the Orkney Islands, see Maeshowe, the prehistoric village of Skara Brae, and the stunning Stones of Stennes
Get Complete “Sacred Scotland” Tour Details Here
Travel Insurance Update
We recently heard from one of our travelers that their insurance provider required that their policy had to be purchased within a 14-day window of when they bought their tour.
Obviously, different companies may have different regulations, but if you are purchasing travel insurance (which we highly recommend) please check the “fine print” to make sure you are signing up soon enough so your coverage will not be jeopardized.
The insurance company we recommend, Allianz Global Assistance, has a toll-free number you can call to speak with a representative about the details: 1-800-284-8300. If they ask for our reference code, it is F025323.
Credits:
Findhorn caravan and garden courtesy of the Findhorn Foundation
Edwin Landseer – Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom: Edwin Landseer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons