I had a new micro lens for my camera; I got it to take photos of jewelry for my website. A Nikon 65 mm.One warm late summer day I decided it would be fun to experiment with what could be seen in the natural world up close. So I attached the macro lens to my Nikon D90 and headed out to my favorite location – LeRoy Oakes Nature Preserve in St. Charles, IL. I greeted the nature deva at the start of my walk, and announced my light-hearted intention.

I felt inclined to go a different direction than I usually do. I walked through the woods and prairie areas, the humid summer day ripe with the scent of green things growing, golden prairie flowers, and cicada chirring. Suddenly a little fairy child appeared in front of me. She was very excited and was twirling about. “I know where there’s a tiny spirit,” she said. “Follow me!” It sounded like a happy invitation, and on a scan there was nothing wrong in her sweet invitation, so I started down the path after her.

But it was such a pretty day, with the sun shining through the summer leaves, that I kept pausing. At which point she would dance back to me. “This way,” she would say, doing a pirouette and skipping forward.

Eventually we made our way to the stream, and the fairy invited me to sit on a log, enjoy the flowing water, and relax into meditation. I sat there for a time then remembered my mission. “Where is the little nature spirit,” I asked.

The fairy child directed my attention to a “dead” log nearby, and as happens on occasion, I saw nothing until the fairy drew my attention to a specific location, where there was a tiny 2 1/2″ very dignified wood spirit looking over his domain: the shore and the water.

It was quite an eye opener for me, to take his photograph. For I soon realized that in spite of how physically small he was in my world, in his world he was very big, and packed a lot of spirit energy, dignity and wisdom.

So if you enjoy nature spirit photography, try this exercise: put a different length lens on your camera from what you usually work with – and see what there is to be seen at that distance!

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Every field of study, every person, every life form, exists in its own merkaba, or set energy field. This is their field, frequency, or resonance.

When you go to communicate with any life form, in this dimension or in some other world, you consciously or unconsciously adapt yourself to its frequency. That’s so you can be understood. Otherwise, you would be talking to the air. Your message would not be received by the other form because you are not connecting to its communication frequency.

A blanket refusal to identify with other frequencies is the situation in parts of our world today. It is a very sad fundamentalist set of mind that says my way or the highway. It refuses to adapt at all to the other energies that are present. So it ends up talking to the air – or only to others who think like it does. It does not attempt to adapt or understand or identify with anything other than its own small world.

That myopic set of mind actually extends throughout our culture at more subtle levels as well. We identify with our crowd – be it football players or ballerinas – and we don’t tend to reach out to any other frequency. Now this may serve us well, if all we want to do is play football. But if we are suddenly thrust into another set of circumstances – if we have to move, or our football days are over, or our boss is not interested in football – then we have to adapt, even if we don’t want to, or we will fail to fully connect to the people of that “world.”

On an even grander scale, humanity is myopic in believing that we are the only “group” occupying this earth. That, too, prevents actual communication. There are many other intelligent life forms co-existing with us, but on different frequency waves or bands. What they do and need may very well affect our personal lives. Since we share this earth with them, it behooves us to learn to see these life forms, and to understand existence from their point of view as well.

As human beings, we occupy a certain frequency. That is not the only frequency that can exist in this universe, and the span of frequencies is evolving and expanding, just as we humans and the universe are evolving. But if we don’t want to identify with and understand other points of view – other frequencies – we are in the same boat as the staunchest fundamentalist who refuses to recognize other human points of view.

Now here’s the rub – to be able to see into other realms, you have to first be assured you understand your own personal world, or merkabah. You need to be facile and able to turn around inside  your own skin, to see what you look like from above, below, each side, front, behind, and at your core. You need to see where you start and where you end. Because this is your home base. It is from the security of your own existence that you can safely venture out into other worlds, other frequencies, and then return to yourself.

The other side to this ability to see and travel about through dimensions or frequencies is the necessity not to get too comfortable in the world to which you have gone. Otherwise you might not come back. You can get so comfortable in that other world – say that of the faeries or the angels or some extra-terrestrial world – that you forget what you’ve got in your own personal world on earth. It is part of the Celtic lore that some folks who have traveled to the faery world have chosen to return there because they like it so much better than our gross world – they have simply disappeared from their small community. And some people who travel to other worlds and do not understand what is occurring, because our culture has not to date recognized this phenomena, appear “daft” to others because they are still in their physical body but their focus, their attention, is elsewhere.

Here’s an exercise that is very useful for those who want to travel about through time and space – or who are traveling already but need to learn to control their abilities. Practice “Be Here Now.” Whatever you are doing, set yourself a time period to completely engross and identify yourself with that action. If your attention wanders to some other task, tell yourself you’ll think about it afterwards, and jot a note to yourself. Then go back to the task at hand, whole-heartedly.

You’ll be surprised how at peace you are, whether it is washing the dishes or plowing a field, you’ll now get the opportunity to move into the “zone” where you are in rhythm with the task. Then, at the end of the allotted time, reach a point of resolution and turn your attention to something else, experiencing an equal amount of concentration for that issue, too.

In this way, you can enjoy personal fulfillment as well as train yourself to not become too attached to any course of action.

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Acupuncture, acupressure, cranial sacral therapy, massage, chiropractor, matrix energetics, Reiki, Therapeutic touch, Intuitive medicine, Native American healing, Quantum touch, Past life regression, the list goes on and on.

So how does anyone begin to choose from the above list without going into any further exploration of other types of alternative healing work? The possibilities being endless, any one may assist in one’s journey of healing. It seems to me that many of these modalities are merging. It may be because of the ISIC group that Crystal Life Technology sponsors that this awareness is coming about especially within the group, but I think that is only the tip of the iceberg. We have seen many changes prior to and beyond the December 21, 2012 date. The energies come and go with the experience of a roller-coaster ride. Despite that, we are finding more clarity in our lives, and surprisingly more understanding of these differing healing modalities.

If one looks closely, we can see the inner connectedness of all of them. The number one clue being that each one has a single goal. That is the healing of the individual on a subtle level. We are not talking cures, but a balance and harmonization of one’s energy field, which gives the body a chance to heal. All of these modalities are about the shifting of energies.

Despite the many differing kinds of healing available, there are perhaps differing views of what is the correct one. Many will follow the orthodox view if it is not done “this way” exactly it is not right. They will present the specific procedures for the healing to be successful. One is not allowed to vary. While others will say,  ”This is the prescribed procedure for this modality, however let me try this intuitive approach and see the result.” So you will have the tried and true people and then you will have those who intuitively follow the new paradigm. This latter group observes the tried and true as well as intuition and guidance.

Healing is a personal experience that only occurs through the willing and accepted response of the one being healed. The healer is simply the facilitator of the healing modality being used and it is the receptivity of the client that promotes a healing experience. Today’s healers  are relying more and more through their guides to the reality that there is more than one way to assist the client to heal. We are becoming Integrative healers if you will. The surprising thing to see is that even as the healing experience is personal to the one receiving the healing, it is also not surprising to see that the healer is receiving on a personal level the process needed to heal the client.

Stones that assist today’s healers:

The Five Master Crystals: Amethyst, Clear Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Rose Quartz, Citrine.

Prehnite – Unconditional love, heals the healer

Apophyllite – Connects the physical and spiritual realm and allows for clear insight into the situation.

Kyanite – Clear connection to higher guidance.

Selenite – A tool of white light, higher guidance and the Akashic records.

We were walking along a small stream, running through one of the towns…. I have been searching for trees that show life form for about a year, without any luck.

This was just amazing… I could feel the energy of this tree, which was very strong.
                  …Rick Meyers

Dowsing has been used since ancient times as a divination tool, and now in modern times it is used by many to help with a variety of everyday situations. Questions such as choosing a vitamin, where to plant flowers and trees. Also, questions about relationships with a specific person or choosing a job.  Massage therapists may use it to help diagnose blockages or areas of attention in our bodies and chakras. The device used for dowsing is called a pendulum. The pendulum acts as a conduit to the divine and the Universal Mind. It accesses our intuition for answers. The answers are given by the form of a “yes,”  “no” or a “maybe.” It is how the pendulum chooses to move. Knowing how to expand on the answers by asking specific questions will bring consistent results.

As we go forward in our conscious evolution, our intuition is becoming a necessity. By tuning into the energy fields, we can clear and balance them, if needed, and enjoy a life of greater happiness and contentment.

“At the close of this millennium, science, art and mysticism are coming closer and closer together as we realize that no part of reality is disconnected from each other; that the good of each is dependent on the good of all.” ~ Denise Linn

It is worth mentioning that Crystal Life Technology is featuring five different books on dowsing in the national newsletter through May 20th at a great value of 50% off.  They range from the basic and beginner to the advanced.  Order and enjoy your copy before its gone.

Tracy’s three children have now grown up and Tracy has expressed her wish to retire from active duty! So while there is sadness at seeing our leader depart, there is also pride in what Tracy has accomplished – and an eagerness to see what comes next!

Blue Papaya is a part of ISIC, and it was created to support youth ages 8 to 23 who have expanded perception and who include the Indigos, Crystals and Rainbows. The Blue Papaya leadership, in consultation with these youth, have set a number of goals. These include providing the youth a place to socialize with other youth who have similar sensitivities/capabilities. It also includes providing them with workshops led by experts in some aspect of subtle energy. With no blueprints to pull from, much of what Blue Papaya has been doing is experimental!

So we are looking for new leaders to step forward to work with these amazing youth. The form the new leadership will take is open ended, just like our group. What will it be next? A single leader? Co-presidents or a team? A change to organizing by age groups, with a leader for each?

Blue Papaya leadership currently consists of planning and organizing the meetings and overseeing posts to our Facebook and blog pages. If you live near the Geneva, IL area, and love the idea of helping these interesting youth explore their abilities, contact either Tracy Paddy at media-crystal-life@msn.com, or Tammy Johnson, ISIC President, at ISIC_News@msn.com.

Usually, when a tree develops the capacity to manifest a recognizable, well-developed nature spirit image in his/her trunk, or a nature spirit works with the tree energy to manifest such an image, you will find other images in the tree as well.

A general rule for nature spirit photographers is the same as that for any photographic study – examine the subject from different angles and points of view.

I will often walk around the entire tree, looking up and down. I’ll try shifting consciousness due to the fact that a tree or a nature spirit will frequently manifest different types of beings whose home world exists in different frequencies from each other. Even so, very often when someone else looks at my photograph, they will see and point out another nature spirit I myself had not seen, although it manifested in the photo.

What you see depends upon the frequency into which you are looking. That’s a good lesson about life itself. Changing your perspective will often change your understanding of what is occurring in your world!

In this situation, I have been studying this tree on repeated trips to this nature preserve. I originally stopped  to look at the tree because the nature spirits asked me to do so – they often request this of me on my outings. At first I did not see anything. Then, suddenly, I saw the two dark faces. It was only when I processed the image back home that I saw the greenman, quietly facing to the right, and after that his bear familiar below him.

I went back several times after that, to photograph the tree in different lights and different camera settings. I love the exquisite detail the tree and the tree spirits developed on the greenman’s face, and on his facial armor. The greenmen and greenwomen are so precise and neat in their features!

Also, when you are out on a photographic shoot, it is beneficial to request the assistance of the resident nature beings. I always pause to respectfully acknowledge their work and their care of their area, and request their assistance, should there be anything they would like photographed. On an entire afternoon’s outing, I consider myself fortunate if I come back with even one really good photo of a mature spirit being.

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If you enjoy these types of photographs, you’ll enjoy my new book Nature Spirits in American Trees – it is a collection of 62 photo studies of trees, from Central Park to the Redwood Forests.

The world is going through such a profound paradigm shift that its energy no longer functions the way it once did. The way you used to do things, and it worked well, no longer holds true.

Yet some things remain always the same. The secret is figuring out what is remaining the same – and what is changing.

What are some of the consciousness changes that are a commonality? It has to do with your personal sources of spiritual support – support that comes from other frequencies or dimensions or worlds (different terms for the same situation). All of a sudden, for no apparent reason, your open pipeline to your inner team just disappears. It dries up, or becomes so clogged that nothing is getting through.

An experienced energy worker has gone through this sensation before, and knows it is time to work with the internal plumbing – or, as many see it, the grid fields of light that go throughout the universe, and whose individual strands do look like our physical plumbing tubes!

Spiritual leaders of different traditions know this common experience by different names. I’ve heard Christian leaders refer to it as a dry time, when they seem to have lost their connection to the Christ energy and don’t know why. Grandfather Buffalo has referred to it in his blogs as a time of chaos.

One commonality among all the spiritual savants at such a time is the awareness that we are immersed in something more general than just our own personal situation. It is something affecting a large field of spirit and this wave is descending through the different planes of consciousness. (See my blog of last week to for a definition of these planes.) The spiritual leaders – the ones with access to the higher levels of consciousness, not necessarily the outer leaders – experience these sensations first. Then, just as suddenly as the wave appeared – it disappears, clarity returns – but we discover that the next level of consciousness people experience it – we might say the staff of that leader’s energy world. Then suddenly the wave passes through them, and the general public who is not so familiar with energy work begins to experience the chaos. At this point, these general public people start reaching out for support – and the leaders and staff can now say with certainty, “Don’t worry, you’ll be ok, your inner support is still there, have faith!”

For all of us, when hitting this common experience, it marks a period when, to survive, we withdraw from the rush of our duties to re-examine and re-orient ourselves and our course of energy. This withdrawal may of necessity occur in the middle of a very active outer life on your part when you feel you have no time to focus on the issue – or during a time of relative inactivity when you have no pressing external duties and have plenty of time to wonder what is occurring. Your personal situation does not seem to have affected the appearance of this situation.

Some of the reasons for the appearance of this experience are:

You are in the chaos time, when one field of energy is dissolving and another is coming into being.

You are in a pioneering/settling time, when a new course of action is appearing but the rules have not yet been established.

Cosmic alignments are shifting so profoundly that it is gradually affecting all the grid alignments down through the fields of consciousness and into the physical and you need to hold on while these alignments settle in.

Someone on your team is working intensely on another issue. This can occur when you are working with someone specific, say a muse in the creative arts, and their attention is focused on assisting a specific issue that someone else may be facing and that is occupying their specific resources.

What do you do?

Listen to the messages that are coming through. Your team will get information to you via whatever conduits are available to them. Messages many of us have experienced are “Don’t worry, we’re here, everything will be fine,” “Stay quiet, don’t act yet, the time is not yet right,” “Just act, you inherently know what to do, and we are guiding your steps,” “You’ve been through this before, you know you’ll survive.”

Call intensely. Sometimes totally focusing your energies on re-connecting to your inner team helps, but don’t be concerned if there is no response. They are working through this situation from their side as well. But do know that their protection is surrounding you, just in a different way: they’ve been working with this recurring experience for eons of time and have set up “rescue plans” that automatically go into place.

Go back to your core positions, and realign yourself to your core values. When you get back to that internal source point, your team can more easily reach you. It may result, as many of us are experiencing now, in the need to totally, radically, and in faith accept that what you formerly believed was true – no longer is your truth. You need to start over, restructure your world, and adhere to core values.

It’s time for you to pull together all of your previous knowledge and learning with your team and use your own common sense. Don’t do anything extreme, re-examine and rectify any deviations, and – Just wait.

In good times, when this occurs, my team laughs and congratulates me: “Congratulations, you mastered that energy.” Pause. “Now you get a bigger playpen.” And I feel a sudden shift, as my energy expands to another area of focus – and I am back working to scope out the rules of this field or merkaba or “playpen,” which may be radically different from the rules of where I was before. In light field terms, it is because this new merkaba has and is generating its own fields of energy, whose rules for internal travel are different from that of any other field.

Every situation is really just an energetic merkaba of some size, and breaking that knowledge down abstractly, you can refer to it as simply a playpen – a structured enclosure housing a situation. It helps detach yourself from a situation to look at it this way. Read my book We Are Not Alone where I delve into this experience in greater depth.

And, of course, poetry can express pages of information with simple images, so I leave you with this poem:

The Footprints Prayer

One night I had a dream…

I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord, and
Across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand;
One belonged to me, and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of my life flashed before us,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that many times along the path of my life,
There was only one set of footprints.

I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest
and saddest times in my life
This really bothered me, and I questioned the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
You would walk with me all the way;
But I have noticed that during the
most troublesome times in my life,
There is only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why in times when I
needed you the most, you should leave me.

The Lord replied, “My precious, precious
child. I love you, and I would never,
never leave you during your times of
trial and suffering.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.

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Let’s talk about those guides, gods and goddesses, animal guides, terrestrial/extra-terrestrials, angels, on and on. Just what is a guide? Someone or something who will provide instructive advice for the assistance of achieving a goal. This guide may appear in any form as an energy or representational being who you would automatically recognize.

Is it at all possible really to talk, to know, to feel, to hear something that you may not actually see, feel, or talk to? There are those who do this. Borders on “Am I crazy or what?” doesn’t it? The answer: yes you can and yes you do.

When you pray in what ever modality you believe/trust in, that is what you are praying for, guidance on any level. This guidance is unseen and invisible yet you are seeking its direction. Your  Heart tells you that you are connected to that Spirit (energy) that feels right to you. That is the crux of the matter as they say. More precisely, you are connecting in with a resonate energy that has come forward to you with that extra/internal guidance and just in time for that extremely important situation that you find yourself in.

So that we do not confine ourselves to a BOX, let me bring up an interesting point for clarity. There are those who may separate guidance into “This is my modality, and that is his/her modality of connecting to guides.” While that may be true, guidance is not a this or that, it just is. Guides for one individual may come in one form, mine may come in another.

For instance: as one of Native American heritage, I would be influenced by Animal Spirit guides. That influence is minimal, I have other guidance that is not the N.A. guidance.  Most of what I do, the guides are different. So yes, there is influence but not in the Native American box only. So you see, it is never a this or that. To only make that distinction does not create a level playing field.

Within the Christian tradition there are those who will speak of Angelic guidance. Then there are those who will deny such guidance. I have seen that distinction and know it to be true. One culture will get their guidance from the Animal kingdom, from nature. Another cultural group will get their guidance from the gods and goddesses worshiped within their belief system. Yet another will rely on those who are identified as the ascended masters for their guidance. Others will say, “My Higher Self told me.”

And on and on. Is any of this wrong? No, it isn’t. As Frank Sinatra so aptly said, “I did it my way.” This is, as we have said, the crux of the matter. How you communicate for guidance is how you do it. That still small voice comes in a variety of ways, shapes and forms. I challenge you to develop your guidance system to fit your needs. Try all different ways but develop your own. Let me say that I have spent many years as a Christian minister, have embraced Native American ancestry, studied with a Blackfoot Medicine Man and been taught by various mentors in differing modalities. So my guidance comes in those various forms, shapes, and cultures.

Having said all that, let us then backtrack a little. We know, do we not, that everything is energy. Nothing is not energy. Let us look into the void, the place of Chaos. It is as we have said in previous blogs, the Prima Materia, the first outpouring of God if you will. The separation of God into the Masculine/Feminine energies. This is energy that is yet unmanifested, an energy waiting to be brought into the third dimension by your thoughts or actions. Everything, then, is simply energy:  you, your guides, everything in your cultural guidance. Same energy, different form of manifestation. We may even say the consciousness of a resonate energy is guiding you to a clear and precise conclusion to that important situation.

The energy of the Angel who comes to you can be an aspect of the same energy that appears to someone else as an Animal Guide, and likewise to yet others as a god or goddess, or an ancestor present or in the far past. It is not uncommon to have one of these show up in any cultural situation when dealing with the same core issue – say, for instance, help in deciding which direction to go forward. This is because the energy field is the same, but how it is expressing itself varies according to the circumstances presented to it.These circumstances can be cultural, the level of understanding of the person calling on the energy, the nature of the response that is needed.

The consciousness of that energy field knows how to present itself. If you are a visual person, how quickly would you accept a sphere of light versus something you could not relate to? Or you perhaps would prefer a male/female humanoid form. Do you see what I am saying? The conscious guidance of energy will appear in a way that you can relate to and understand.

Stones to help with guidance:

Celestite – Angelic communication.

Leopard Skin Jasper* – Animal totem connection.

Purple Fluorite—-Psychic communication.

Stilbite*—- wolf energy commection.

Angelite - Angelic connection.

Other stones – Amethyst, All Quartz, Kyanite, Obsidian, Flint.

*Available at our store although not shown on the website

…Terry Wells

Atala’s response: this is where I started my work photographing nature spirits – I was gifted with a photograph of spirits, which I could see because I felt and saw the energy, but which because of the quality of the photograph it was difficult for anyone else to see “for sure.”  And thus began my own personal journey to learn photography so that I could present good, solid images of what I knew and could see existed.

So while you are able to see these fairy beings, it would be difficult for anyone else to say a firm yes or no that these are, indeed, fairies and not moths or insects of some sort.

You might consider it a worthy legacy gift to your father to start mastering photography enough to take a good, solid image of the fairies he so believed in. That fairy “eye” is a gene that runs in family lineages, so it appears you also inherently have the gift, and could develop it. The new digital cameras and computer technology are a great help in this regard.

Best wishes to you!

We sent our response to Linda, and she replied, sending us a photograph of a wonderful tree guardian. It seems that the rocks and trees are serving many of us as a holding space where nature beings and humans can meet, see and communicate with each other. They serve as a gateway between worlds.

I am excited to be beginning what appears to be a new journey. Your books gave me a base for things I had always intuitively known but had no “proof.” You will be hearing from me again as I grow and have more pictures to send you. Attached is a picture of the old tree man who watches over me and my quilt shop.