Recently I received an email from someone, describing an interesting experience they had, and asking if I thought they had encountered a fey. They weren't the first person to write something like this - and if you want to write and share, I'd love it. In fact, if you don't mind, I'd even share your experience on the website here. In the course of answering their questions, I did some musing on the fey and thought I would share those thoughts here, disjointed as they may be...they are becoming the basis for a larger thing...or maybe just clarifying what I myself believe.
You've probably noticed I use the term fey. I mean this to refer to all varieties of the fey folk,
from fairies to nixies, to apsaras, to nymphs, pixies, gnomes, brownies, and all the
magical peoples who have withdrawn from our mundane world. Or been driven out.
Divisions between them are less important to them, than they are to us. True, there are
different sorts, but mixing is not unknown, and all in all, they just aren't as concerned
about being categorized, as we are about having categories for them. Most of them won't
even discuss it.
Think of when the media started making a big deal about Tiger Woods being a BLACK
golf champion – and he responded that he had never really thought of himself that way.
He is of mixed race, and never put a label of any sort on himself. (Which, I believe, is
one reason he is so successful)
Are the fey real? I believe they are – I see them, hear them, speak to them, even work
with them magically. You are not the first person to write and tell me of an encounter
with "something" they think might have been a fey.
If you think it was a fey, it probably was. And if you accept it as a positive experience,
they may (or may not) choose to allow you to see them again, or have even more contact.
Fey differ – just like human beings. Some are more friendly to us than others. You know
how some people like dogs, and some people hate them, and some are just indifferent?
Fey are like that about us. Some will say, "Oh wow, he saw me and didn't' freak out –
I'd love to have him as a friend" and contact you again. Some will say "EEK, he saw me,
I'll have to be more careful around him". Some will say, "Eh, he saw me" shrug and go
on about their business.
Are the fey real? I've always accepted them as real – I mean, I can see them, hear them,
feel them touch me. But some people would say I'm just delusional and should be on
medication of some sort.
Now, if you were a fey – and someone saw you and freaked out and went to a psychiatrist
and got on drugs to "cure" them of seeing you – would you show yourself to them again?
Hey – who stays where they know they are not welcome?
Humans are capable of a high level of denial, too. If someone refuses to believe in the
fey, the pixies could dance a jig on the foot of their bed every night and they wouldn't see
it – or wouldn't admit it if they did. Might fumigate the place for fleas or mice, but never
admit what they are seeing is "little people". Their mind would refuse to see it – so they
would see mice, or fleas instead.
If they were raised in a tradition that considers all spirit entities to be evil demons out to
corrupt you or steal your soul, they might call the exorcist, or move away, or seek
religious counsel of some sort anyway. Some fey would just leave. Some would say,
"I'll show you evil demons" and proceed to do so. Not all fey folk are all sweetness and
light just because they are fey – they are folk, too.
I believe fey are real. I believe you may have seen one. I believe that it is up to you if
you wish to seek them out, or just chalk that up as a wonderful, magical experience and
go on about mundane life.
I also believe that human kind and fey can produce children of mixed blood, and have. I
think that many of us who see fey, or feel we are fey (all or part) may very well be so –
and may be aware of the fey around us, because we are "one of them" more or less.
But I don't think the fact that someone sees the fey is definite proof they are some part
fey folk. After all, if some humans had not been able to perceive the fey and been willing
to "mix" there wouldn't be any part blood descendants, now would there? Probably any
human who is open to seeing the fey, and is in a place where there are fey, can perceive
them.
I switched to perceive there because I don't think you necessarily always "see" them with
your eyes. I sometimes see fey, sometimes only hear them, sometimes only feel their
touch or see the motion when they've moved something, or just sense they are near
without any of the normal five senses.
Humans are visual creatures, so normally people will speak of "seeing" the fey. Quite
often it is a fleeting glimpse, or "out of the corner of my eye" – which seems to me to be
related to the way many people see "auras" around humans, and for good reason. Fey are
spirit and material – some more spirit, some more material and some can vary at will.
Where it is a big revelation to humans that our focused will, our own mind, can affect
reality (such as with a spell, prayers, meditations, affirmations and so on)** to the fey it
is a perfectly natural thing to do. They move easily between the spirit and mundane
worlds. Some humans can do that, too. But in humans, it is a minority and often they've
studied for years to learn how – with fey it is just their nature.
I'm not entirely sure that means they are "ascended spirits" who are moving up from material to the spiritual world. Maybe they are young spirits practicing to move from the spiritual world to the mundane! Maybe they are just a different species from humans with not a bit to do with all that transmogrification of souls bit. Again, not a subject they seem to care to discuss - just because they don't seem to find it as interesting as we do. Well, enough of my meandering for now...
**For example, Edgar Cayce often said "Mind is the Maker, the Physical is the result".