Story Time

REMINDER from Mano:

I have asked Barbara to share some of the experience we arranged for her to give to you, our readers, things to notice in your life. We are using Barbara to write her experience to stimulate your awareness to the presence of elementals in your life.

REMARKS from Barbara:

I love reading my spiritual memoir and remembering those exciting beginning days.

REMEMBERING Mary Jane:

I am so grateful to dear Mary Jane for the beautiful way she edited the many stories and experiences in my Spiritual Memoir, Living With The Spirits Of The Land.

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Story Time

Blog #146

In two years I will be 100 years old. I am fascinated, charmed, and in awe to have been on the planet so long. Last week I started re-reading my Spiritual Memoir, Living With The Spirits Of The Land. It is Mother Earth that called me to work with her children.

Once while attending a spiritual retreat at a YMCA camp in the coastal redwoods of California, I was sitting on the ground in a grove of redwood trees, chatting with a friend. A very sweet feeling flowed through my heart. My friend said, “Barbara, I just saw the most amazing thing. That redwood tree leaned over and gave you a blessing.” I began to recognize it as one of the many ways Mother Nature acknowledges and blesses me.

Another validation of connection came one night during my meditation group, when a friend with spiritual sight saw a large gnome carry two small limp, colorless, lifeless gnomes into the room and place them on the floor beside me. After a while, the little ones began to gain color, to stir and wake up. The larger, caretaker gnome later returned and took away the little ones, now bright, shiny, and lively.

A similar confirmation occurred while attending a retreat at Asilomar Conference Center on the wild and wonderful Big Sur coast near Monterey, California. Our prayer group had been sitting outside in a circle of eight or nine people, and my friend Patricia later told me that she had seen local gnomes drag seaweed from the ocean to place around me. Then they brought water elementals to sit in my aura and feel the energy of a “safe human being.”

Sometimes, even early on, before I had developed my inner sight, I could sense when nature spirits were present. One Halloween, for example, I had the house decorated with corn stalks and pumpkins. I got up early to do my meditation, and as I entered the living room I became aware that the house was full of nature spirits. They were having a party. I had an unspoken knowledge that they were traveling from one location to another, stopping to rest and celebrate in inviting places where the season was being honored. They were gone by sunrise, but they filled the house with their joyous vibrant energy of fun and play.

A fun experience happened in a prayer group in a redwood forest. In our prayers for nature the question of the reality and size of faeries and gnomes came up. One woman spoke like an authority and held her arm out waist high saying, this is the size of a gnome. My friend Patricia was in the group; she didn’t say anything at the time but later told me there was a little gnome attending our prayer group who was about two and half feet tall. He stood in front of the lady with her hand out and kept jumping trying to get his head to the height she claimed for a gnome.

Today my relationship with the gnomes is primarily with seven assigned to work with me in my home. They have asked me to call them ‘The Workers.’ When I ask for help they move into ‘work mode’. Our connection on my part is a ‘see/feel’ experience. It is almost like I make it up but then I experience or see something that lets me know it is real.

Earlier as I have been collecting thoughts for this blog I hesitated using the word “fairy tale” to describe my experience and stories. I felt an energy at the foot of my bed and was aware of five gnomes who are part of my Council. They suggested I use the word ‘Nature Story,’ which would be more inclusive than the familiar title, ‘Fairy Tale.’  It is 11:33 and time to go to bed. I will be back next month with more ‘Nature Stories.’