The Faeries and Consciousness

Here's another new post on Neil's blog, entitled "A Faerie Taxonomy":
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...-taxonomy/

Here's another post on Neil's blog, entitled "Visioning the Faeries: Magical Ointments and Seeing the Unseen." It discusses a well established motif of mortals acquiring the power to see faeries by applying a magic ointment to their eyes, often being blinded by the faeries as a result. The article discusses the possibility that this refers to visions induced by psychoactive drugs. In particular, as the protagonist is often a midwife, the "ointment" may have been the hallucinogen ergot, which was used medicinally in childbirth:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...he-unseen/

Here's another post on Neil's blog, entitled "Visioning the Faeries: Magical Ointments and Seeing the Unseen." It discusses a well established motif of mortals acquiring the power to see faeries by applying a magic ointment to their eyes, often being blinded by the faeries as a result. The article discusses the possibility that this refers to visions induced by psychoactive drugs. In particular, as the protagonist is often a midwife, the "ointment" may have been the hallucinogen ergot, which was used medicinally in childbirth:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...he-unseen/

Thanks for the referral Chris - much appreciated.

Mysterious Universe has an article on what seem like the wilder fringes of the "faerological" community - the Fairy Whisperers, Fae Magazine and the Fairy and Human Relations Congress. Then again, the first of these were publicising the second, so there may be an element of marketing in it:
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/06/t...-are-they/

Here's another post on Neil's blog, this time about a recent encounter by a correspondent with faeries or perhaps nature spirits in Somerset:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...t-century/

Here's another post on Neil's blog, this time about a recent encounter by a correspondent with faeries or perhaps nature spirits in Somerset:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...t-century/

Thanks Chris - much appreciated...

Here's another post on Neil's blog, entitled "Electronic Faeries", listing online resources that he's found useful in his research:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...c-faeries/

Curious tale. It’s interesting to me that it happened in a relaxed state, my own very few experiences have happened in similar circumstances. I don’t think it’s necessary to suggest she made it up, it doesn’t have that kind of feel to it to me. Could she have been mistaken? Of course, but then the experience was repeated so I think although it’s possible, it’s probably less likely. 

Very interesting.

There is a snippet relating to "air-spirits" in a review of a new biography of John A. Keel by Håkan Blomqvist:

As there are very few ufologists and cryptozoologists who are connoisseurs of the Esoteric Tradition they have probably missed a very fascinating account by the clairvoyant theosophist Geoffrey Hodson. In April 1922 he observed several sylphs or air-spirits: ”Watching the approach across the valley of some dense storm-clouds, the presence was observed of a number of bird-like air-spirits travelling swiftly in front of the approaching clouds. Many of them are dark and unpleasant to look upon – slightly reminiscent of bats… Their faces are human and well formed, their expression is unpleasant; the rest of the body is not fully formed, and they rather resemble birds with human faces… They utter a weird shrieking noise, and occasionally shoot almost vertically upwards into and beyond the clouds… It is evident that there are many different species of storm-sylphs, varying in size, power, and evolutionary position.” (Geoffrey Hodson, Fairies at Work and at Play, pp. 84-85).

The Esoterx blog recounts an interesting faerie story from 17th-century Ireland, from a contemporary pamphlet:
https://esoterx.com/2019/08/18/faerie-pa...ie-soiree/