Do You Believe in Faeries?

A short talk on the Secret Commonwealth--including some personal experiences.
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[@MourningTalkShow]

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.

[@kittygiza23]

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.

[@michaelmartin8681]

It's more common than people think!

[@exquofonte]

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)

[@michaelmartin8681]

Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Michael

[@michaelgrover6157]

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.

[@Terpsichore1]

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’.