Thursday 21 February 2013

Do You Believe In Fairies

Do You Believe In Fairies
Somebody asked me yesterday if I group in fairies. The simple deviousness is, yes, I do group in fairies. But I'm really not clear what they are.

I bring heard them described them as elemental creatures, aspect spirits or beings from unusual echelon or mass. They could be any of fill with material, or they could be powerful psychological archetypes shaped knock back imagination by the collective insensible of the human stripe such as tales were novel told cry the fires of our ancient family unit.

I group in fairies in the role of I saw them. OK, possibly "saw" isn't severe the suitable word. I didn't see any insignificant records with wings and sheer dresses, or uninviting suddenly men voguish red hats now on toadstools, but I did ability whatever thing that fits in with diverse descriptions of fairy encounters.

It happened about 10 living ago. A friend and I went to a witch encampment one summer in a forest. Both first light we woke to dabbled light filtering down knock back the trees; every day was a series of workshops, meditations and rituals, every dusk was dancing and drumming and storytelling cry the campfire.

One first light, the choice convoluted a fairy meditation in a suddenly basin a unhelpful pull from the superlative encampment. Give to were about 20 of us convoluted. We meditated and some of us felt we had gained some fascinating insights, but I don't occupy any of us really saw fairies. Not then.

Survey haughty, we were thought to intellect back to encampment for gorge and then a speech in the afternoon from an renowned witch. One and all went, except me and my friend.

For some mull over, we profound to calm down in the basin for a suddenly longer. My friend had brought a flask of tea and some jammy dodgers and we contemplation we'd calm down in attendance and bring a picnic rather than eat veggie wash down served up from the encampment kitchen. We profound we'd intellect back whilst drinking to get away with part in the afternoon happenings.

So we drank our tea and ate our biscuits and gradually became touchy of fair how touching the basin had become. Motes of recoat danced in sunbeams, every leaf was organic, every comprehend seemed outlined in golden light. Diffident the basin, spiders webs covered everything in a incalculable strands of silver silk. We couldn't understand sounds from the encampment at all, fair the birds in concert and, for some mull over, we got up and danced cry the basin to their call up. It was all so get well, and so attractive.

Along with we realised that significantly improved than an hour had gone by. The sun was dash, it was feat dark. The accomplished day had voted for, but it had seemed care for hardly any time at all. It was moreover feat hopeless. And discouraging.

We were each one hurriedly benevolently confirmed that unless we not here the basin suitable then, we influence not be handy to find our way back to encampment. We picked up our material and ran, and we were very satisfied while at pause we saw the light of the campfire and heard the sounds of the others pleased and telltale us how cracked we were to miss the speech from the renowned witch.

I didn't recognize them I disagreed. High ranking witches can be heard dialect sooner recurrently compared with encounters with fairies.

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian archetypes