The Wilde Weekly ~ Nature Spirits
Zen-Haven April 26 2013
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 from Victorian artists, and others, while their paintings are very sweet and delicate but they are just a depiction not the real thing. The infamous Cottingley fairy photos were at the center of the Victorian myth. They proved to be fake.
The Native Americans have a more realistic view in that they believe that animals have a spirit and that each offers us a wisdom.
They also credit the land and the water with the same spirituality. Native people see the power of nature, like thunder say, as an outcropping of the Great Spirit––the father-mother principal in all things.
The Celtic folklore and their magic mushroom ceremonies also show a deep respect for nature and the beings that evolve there.
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