Sadly I don't have a faerie story, but I have an intuition (now a few years on and going strong) that there is something important about the topic. I'm as much of a believer as I can be, recognizing that I am still praying for the modernist scales to be removed from my eyes. I feel like the blind man from Mark 8, only I've only got the first round of spit in my eye. (Ironically that guy saw men like trees walking around...) I love the description of the internet as an Ahrimanic faerie land. So good. We prefer it because we think it gives us repeatable, predictable results. That seems preferable to waiting God knows how long for signs and wonders.
I had an experience, I have a pond off my back patio it’s a natural pond this whole area used to be wet lands, I was out there talking on the phone with a friend and I could see a gentle warm light probably the size of a soft ball moving very slowly through the reeds on the opposite side of the pond, I at first thought that it might be a cell phone someone was carrying or a flash light I didn’t know , it was dusk time so it was still a little light out but getting dark soon ( or… a tween time if you will) I didn’t know what I was looking at , but I stood watching it move slowly along the reeds of the pond then it slowly moved up the knoll , that’s when I kinda freaked out a little bit because it was not obscured by the reeds anymore and I could see that there was no human involved at all , it almost looked like a light orb only it did not fly in the air it was moving deliberately very slowly on the ground, it was a pale yellow with the center sort of brighter and whiter , it moved very slowly up the knoll to a basketball court fence and moved slowly along the fence line on the outside of the court very slowly, again I was kinda freaked out because I had no clue what I was looking at but… I couldn’t take my eyes off of it Then it went to the middle shrub in the landscaping surrounding the perimeter of the basketball court entered that shrub , the whole shrub lit up with bright light and just like that it was gone……. My intuition first said water sprite which is sort of a faerie 🧚🏽 or a type of one I think …. I honestly never expected to believe …. Until I had that experience ❤
When my older sister was a kid, and would go to bed, she’d see little people on her ceiling moving around. She’s a very Christian person who to this day doesn’t deny that; though she is shy of talking about it. ……Christian apologist GK Chesterton believed in faeries too , as do I but I only have ghost stories lol.
There is definately an invisible presence in the woods around here and it intensifies at night. It's just an ambient feeling of being watched and whatever it is, the Osage Indians in my area used to interact with it/them
I grew up in the thumb area of Michigan. We had a 50 acre farm with a forest at the back of our property. I seen fairies when I was only about 3 or 4 while my family and I were taking a nature walk. I remember what my young mind made of it. I intuitively understood that I could only see them because I was young and had not lost my understandings the way that most adults do. I have had a handful of experiences that my siblings and I had kept hidden from our parents. It wouldn’t be possible for me to not believe.
I do believe in faeries! Although I myself have never seen them (not while I was awake, anyways) my mom saw something many years ago when she was climbing Mt. Shasta. Her and a friend saw an apparition, something with human form but made of mist, on a higher peak above them. They attempted to climb towards it and it vanished. Of course, knowing a little about Mt. Shasta it could have been all kinds of things... but that's the best I've got it :)
But Michael, within this Autostereogram of ‘our’ perception, it just depends on how you ‘see’. As per Jungs’ response when questioned about his ‘belief’ in ‘God’, my response is the same - “I don't need to believe, I know.” Faeries are ‘real’.
When i was about 3 years old i used to see what looked like the hat of a queens guard bobbing up and down outside my window, i knew there was some intelligence behind it and something was out there trying to get my attention due to the way it was bobbing around as if to say look at me, it happened multiple times, always when i was on my own and it always made me start crying. I never could explain it and put it to the back of my mind but came to the conclusion recently that it sounds like a fairy encounter. I recently saw a picture of a bronze age piled hat from Denmark and it looks a lot like the big "queens guard hat" i saw outside the window. The piled hats signified nobility and there are some pretty large and exuberant ones. I am half Danish so wondered if this was some kind of ancestral spirit paying me a visit or something, just a thought. A part from that i live in the Scottish Borders and there are signs of bigfoot in many of the woodlands i walk in such as structures and footprints. I heard a tree being broken and splintered while camping near one of their spots. It was nice summer evening no wind or lightning could've done it, i'm pretty sure it was them. I used to walk past all of their structures for years until i realised it was bigfoot, the structures are pretty common actually, but a sighting of a bigfoot is extremely rare. I suggest if anyone wants a glimpse of the supernatural to keep an eye out for bigfoot structures, look for bent and broken trees, purposefully tangled branches, evidence of purposely placed branches, branches being jammed into the ground. Like i said i walked straight past them for years. It wasn't till i stopped and tried to explain this stuff that i realised there was high strangeness going on.
Thanks for this Michael. Although I don't recall seeing anything, I too have had a growing feeling as I spend time in the forests here that I'm not alone. If the idea of world soul permeating nature (and of it even being populated by nature spirits) hadn't been so anathema to my parents, I have no doubts I'd have picked up on it sooner. I am trying to get a grasp of what these faerie beings could be, seeing as they're not human, animal or angel (I think). In the meantime though, I just know that they are. Your comments on technology made me think of Schindler who writes "our culture suffers today in a special way from a loss of a sense of what we might call the reality of reality . . . we do not feel the weight of the givenness of the nature of things. We live in a world increasingly mediated by technology, by the contrivances of human artifice, which tends to set the terms for what things mean to us and how we experience and interpret them even when we are not directly occupied with a particular device. (We talk about “going off the grid” or living “unplugged”: These privative expressions imply that the default position is “on”-i.e., that in taking the plug out we are departing from the norm or detaching ourselves from what has effectively become the “real world.” We think of putting away cell phones or turning off the computer, as “escaping,” and so forth.) The terms of technology and social media have come to prevail to such an extent that we, as a culture, are always just a hair’s breadth away from despair regarding the intrinsic reality of the world “out there” beyond the steady flow of appearances delivered directly to our consciousness . . . Reality is in this case something related to us, and not something to which we ourselves are in turn related, something to which we need to conform, *and for which we are accountable.* Though this is not something we tend to think explicitly about, it remains a kind of unconscious assumption that gives our culture a general ethos of frivolity, just under the surface of which lies a quiet anxiety and perhaps even the first tremors of panic. (Love and the Postmodern Predicament, p. 40-41)
It's an interesting subject, and I believe people when they describe their experiences. I've just watched your video on propoganda, and controlling the masses (in essence) to gain power and control. My view of many a paranormal encounter is that it's 'smoke and mirrors ' trickery, perpetrated by the invisible government, and it's been so since the dawn of societies. If you see an 'otherwordly' figure, it's either their mistake, or their choice. If it's their choice, then ask yourself why you have been chosen. Modern technology makes seeing faeries relatively easy, hearing voices, seeing the dead, witnessing cryptids etc...all potential trickery. I can't say that the supernatural doesn't exist, but imho, much of the time, it's a clever ruse.
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Sadly I don't have a faerie story, but I have an intuition (now a few years on and going strong) that there is something important about the topic. I'm as much of a believer as I can be, recognizing that I am still praying for the modernist scales to be removed from my eyes. I feel like the blind man from Mark 8, only I've only got the first round of spit in my eye. (Ironically that guy saw men like trees walking around...)
I love the description of the internet as an Ahrimanic faerie land. So good. We prefer it because we think it gives us repeatable, predictable results. That seems preferable to waiting God knows how long for signs and wonders.
I had an experience, I have a pond off my back patio it’s a natural pond this whole area used to be wet lands, I was out there talking on the phone with a friend and I could see a gentle warm light probably the size of a soft ball moving very slowly through the reeds on the opposite side of the pond, I at first thought that it might be a cell phone someone was carrying or a flash light I didn’t know , it was dusk time so it was still a little light out but getting dark soon ( or… a tween time if you will) I didn’t know what I was looking at , but I stood watching it move slowly along the reeds of the pond then it slowly moved up the knoll , that’s when I kinda freaked out a little bit because it was not obscured by the reeds anymore and I could see that there was no human involved at all , it almost looked like a light orb only it did not fly in the air it was moving deliberately very slowly on the ground, it was a pale yellow with the center sort of brighter and whiter , it moved very slowly up the knoll to a basketball court fence and moved slowly along the fence line on the outside of the court very slowly, again I was kinda freaked out because I had no clue what I was looking at but… I couldn’t take my eyes off of it Then it went to the middle shrub in the landscaping surrounding the perimeter of the basketball court entered that shrub , the whole shrub lit up with bright light and just like that it was gone…….
My intuition first said water sprite which is sort of a faerie 🧚🏽 or a type of one I think …. I honestly never expected to believe …. Until I had that experience ❤
When my older sister was a kid, and would go to bed, she’d see little people on her ceiling moving around. She’s a very Christian person who to this day doesn’t deny that; though she is shy of talking about it. ……Christian apologist GK Chesterton believed in faeries too , as do I but I only have ghost stories lol.
There is definately an invisible presence in the woods around here and it intensifies at night. It's just an ambient feeling of being watched and whatever it is, the Osage Indians in my area used to interact with it/them
I grew up in the thumb area of Michigan. We had a 50 acre farm with a forest at the back of our property. I seen fairies when I was only about 3 or 4 while my family and I were taking a nature walk. I remember what my young mind made of it. I intuitively understood that I could only see them because I was young and had not lost my understandings the way that most adults do. I have had a handful of experiences that my siblings and I had kept hidden from our parents. It wouldn’t be possible for me to not believe.
It's more common than people think!
I do believe in faeries! Although I myself have never seen them (not while I was awake, anyways) my mom saw something many years ago when she was climbing Mt. Shasta. Her and a friend saw an apparition, something with human form but made of mist, on a higher peak above them. They attempted to climb towards it and it vanished. Of course, knowing a little about Mt. Shasta it could have been all kinds of things... but that's the best I've got it :)
But Michael, within this Autostereogram of ‘our’ perception, it just depends on how you ‘see’. As per Jungs’ response when questioned about his ‘belief’ in ‘God’, my response is the same - “I don't need to believe, I know.” Faeries are ‘real’.
When i was about 3 years old i used to see what looked like the hat of a queens guard bobbing up and down outside my window, i knew there was some intelligence behind it and something was out there trying to get my attention due to the way it was bobbing around as if to say look at me, it happened multiple times, always when i was on my own and it always made me start crying.
I never could explain it and put it to the back of my mind but came to the conclusion recently that it sounds like a fairy encounter. I recently saw a picture of a bronze age piled hat from Denmark and it looks a lot like the big "queens guard hat" i saw outside the window. The piled hats signified nobility and there are some pretty large and exuberant ones. I am half Danish so wondered if this was some kind of ancestral spirit paying me a visit or something, just a thought.
A part from that i live in the Scottish Borders and there are signs of bigfoot in many of the woodlands i walk in such as structures and footprints. I heard a tree being broken and splintered while camping near one of their spots. It was nice summer evening no wind or lightning could've done it, i'm pretty sure it was them.
I used to walk past all of their structures for years until i realised it was bigfoot, the structures are pretty common actually, but a sighting of a bigfoot is extremely rare. I suggest if anyone wants a glimpse of the supernatural to keep an eye out for bigfoot structures, look for bent and broken trees, purposefully tangled branches, evidence of purposely placed branches, branches being jammed into the ground. Like i said i walked straight past them for years. It wasn't till i stopped and tried to explain this stuff that i realised there was high strangeness going on.
Thanks for this Michael. Although I don't recall seeing anything, I too have had a growing feeling as I spend time in the forests here that I'm not alone. If the idea of world soul permeating nature (and of it even being populated by nature spirits) hadn't been so anathema to my parents, I have no doubts I'd have picked up on it sooner.
I am trying to get a grasp of what these faerie beings could be, seeing as they're not human, animal or angel (I think). In the meantime though, I just know that they are.
Your comments on technology made me think of Schindler who writes "our culture suffers today in a special way from a loss of a sense of what we might call the reality of reality . . . we do not feel the weight of the givenness of the nature of things. We live in a world increasingly mediated by technology, by the contrivances of human artifice, which tends to set the terms for what things mean to us and how we experience and interpret them even when we are not directly occupied with a particular device. (We talk about “going off the grid” or living “unplugged”: These privative expressions imply that the default position is “on”-i.e., that in taking the plug out we are departing from the norm or detaching ourselves from what has effectively become the “real world.” We think of putting away cell phones or turning off the computer, as “escaping,” and so forth.) The terms of technology and social media have come to prevail to such an extent that we, as a culture, are always just a hair’s breadth away from despair regarding the intrinsic reality of the world “out there” beyond the steady flow of appearances delivered directly to our consciousness . . . Reality is in this case something related to us, and not something to which we ourselves are in turn related, something to which we need to conform, *and for which we are accountable.* Though this is not something we tend to think explicitly about, it remains a kind of unconscious assumption that gives our culture a general ethos of frivolity, just under the surface of which lies a quiet anxiety and perhaps even the first tremors of panic. (Love and the Postmodern Predicament, p. 40-41)
Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Michael
It's an interesting subject, and I believe people when they describe their experiences.
I've just watched your video on propoganda, and controlling the masses (in essence) to gain power and control.
My view of many a paranormal encounter is that it's 'smoke and mirrors ' trickery, perpetrated by the invisible government, and it's been so since the dawn of societies.
If you see an 'otherwordly' figure, it's either their mistake, or their choice.
If it's their choice, then ask yourself why you have been chosen.
Modern technology makes seeing faeries relatively easy, hearing voices, seeing the dead, witnessing cryptids etc...all potential trickery.
I can't say that the supernatural doesn't exist, but imho, much of the time, it's a clever ruse.
Knew u was gonna say y u ❤ faires EIRE both sides of my grandparents had all the faires stories❤
No offence I use 2 get picked on by elder friend YOUR STILL AH CATHOLIC BOY 😂
Your still catholic boy😂
Faeries are wery known in The Balkans