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The Hidden World of Faerie

February 15, 2014

Elva Thompson, Guest Waking Times “Come fairies! Take me out of this dull world,? For I would ride with you? Upon the wind and dance ? Upon the mountains like a flame.” – W.B. Yeats Time is speeding up, the sand in the hourglass of our lives is flowing, and our everyday existence is a challenge, …

Nature Spirits

May 2, 2013

Stuart Wilde, Guest Waking Times Most people don’t believe in nature spirits and to talk about them often invites ridicule. What image we have of them has usually been corrupted by misinformation. For example, we often think of fairies as small, diaphanous, human-like beings, that flit from flower-to-flower on gossamer wings. That came to us …

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