Way into Faerie E-Book

Rae Beth

• Herausgeber: Robert Hale
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The spirituality of a fey person may be quite anarchic and entirely private, having no basis in any organised religion. So it can be a secret spirituality that informs the fey type and this may be largely experiential. It has often been perceived as a threat by people who like ideas to be tied down and under control, and by the organisations that such people have created. Meanwhile, in much of today's world, fey people have been throughly marginalized. In this book, Rae Beth suggests ways in which we might understand Otherworldly realities without abandoning commonsense. Drawing upon her knowledge of traditional faerie lore, she shows how fey perceptions and psychic skills can serve and enhance life.Rae Beth draws on her knowledge of traditional faerie lore and shows how fey perceptions and psychic skills can serve and enhance life.She suggests ways in which we might understand Otherworldly realities without abandoning commonsense. Will be of interest to witches and those interested in the Other world.

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First published in 2017 by Robert Hale, an imprint of The Crowood

Press Ltd, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 2HR

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This e-book first published in 2017

© Rae Beth 2017

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 0 71982 215 5

The right of Rae Beth to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Disclaimer

This book contains some references to herbs that may be used to increase psychic awareness. I cannot recommend that these should be taken if you are also taking prescribed medicines (or even some over-the-counter ones). In fact, it is now against the law for anyone except a doctor to advise that you should. Please ask your doctor for advice if you are confused about this. Meanwhile, don’t let it put you off pursuing a fey path. The ingesting of herbs is not an essential part of it, anyway.

CONTENTS

Author’s Note

1 On Being Fey

2 Various Portals

3 Mapping the Otherworld

4 Faerie Types and Purposes

5 Mrs Eldridge Goes to Work

6 Excerpts from a Fey Life

7 The Ancestors

8 The Faerie Funeral

9 Back and Forth between the Worlds

10 Mrs Eldridge Reflects

Bibliography

Suggested Reading

This book is dedicated to

my beloved, inspiringly fey,

generous-spirited mother

ELIZABETH ELLEN

(known sometimes as ‘Betty’)

1929–2016

AUTHOR’S NOTE

This book is not scholarly but experiential, as it is my belief that that which relates to what we call the Otherworld can touch our hearts, and this is its true value. However, I must explain my usage of some of the words that will appear in this book as today, there is no real consensus about them.

I have regularly used the words ‘fey’, ‘fae’ and ‘fay’ with these meanings.

fey

A person with psychic and mystical sensitivity or abilities.

fae

One of the faerie kind. Note that I have also used the word elf to mean this, because the Anglo-Saxons used the term elf generically – much as we now use the later, Latin-derived term ‘faerie’ to mean ‘a spirit perceived in Nature’.

Fay

An enchantress or enchanter.

Sometimes, I have used what may be confusing punctuation. For example, the word ‘faerie’ spelt with a small ‘f’ refers to one of the Fae. With a capital ‘F’, it means a place – the Otherworld.

‘Nature’ is spelt with a capital ‘N’ even when in midsentence because I am using it to denote ‘all-there-is’ in both this and the Otherworld, including spirits of the dead and faeries. As will become clear, I do not believe anything is outside or beyond some aspect or another of natural processes. However, there is nothing reductionist in what follows as I am very sure that there is another order of reality as valid as this in which we live, peopled by ‘otherkind’ as well as by the dead. In which belief, I join with those following indigenous traditions throughout the Ages and throughout the World as well as with those of any religion at all (or none) who sense this other order of being within rather than outside natural existence, wild places, Nature.

Rae Beth

West of England, 2016

CHAPTER ONE

ON BEING FEY

I am a fey type, myself. I know that I am supposed to apologize for that – as though such unworldliness were forever and always a very bad thing, and bound to lead to terrible slipshod thinking or some kind of weirdness. I have to tell you that I feel passionate about correcting this impression. True, some of us can fall into a state of whimsicality, but there are a great many more of us who are both fey and unsentimental. Here is just one example of what it can be like.

Mrs Eldridge, a fey woman, leans out from her bedroom window one evening and looks at the moonlit garden, which is graced by an apple tree, not now in leaf. She hears an owl cry and she watches a star. She senses that her Otherworldly kin are very near and yet much too far away, and that the everyday World that we live in can be all too alienating. (Well, think of all those news broadcasts that are inaccurate, to say the least; and how there is too much brutality in the World; and how so much is done in a bureaucratic way that is inefficient and inhuman.)