Wholehearted welcome, love, and blessings. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, one of the SuperPower Up hosts. And you’re listening to Wisdom of the Ages. And to learn more about my podcast, visit wisdomoftheages.superpowerexperts.com.
So today I want to invite you to open your mind and realize that the stuff of myths and fairy tales might have more truth and reality in them than we might know. They might help us. Actually, they might lead us literally into a great awakening. And so this is why I have my guest today. Her name is Penny Kelly. We’re going to be talking about multiple realities and I really like it. I listened to something she shared earlier. And I do also feel that we might, at this time, there are so many crazy things going on right now. We might in this time, really need to learn to be our own inner stewards.
In other words, we need to develop our direct knowing. And so I think one of the first steps in breaking out of the ego body-mind complex and ultimately our cultural matrix, is to begin to open up to multi-dimensional reality. And everybody does this a little differently, but I think if we share stories about it, even if they sound a little strange or out there, it helps other people who are going through the awakening.
And so years ago, when I was teaching people how to make flower essences and colored remedies, I would have my students read one of my very favorite books. And it was called the Elves of Lilly Hill Farms, by Penny Kelley. The Elves of Lilly Hill Farm and it changed many people’s lives for the better. And Penny is a scientist, but she can also work with the elemental realms. And so other people start going, “Oh, well maybe I can do this.”
And even maybe just working in their gardens, they started saying, “We thought there might be this consciousness that I can work with too.” So Penny Kelly is our guest today. I’m really excited about this and I want to begin the conversation with spiritual awakening, elves, and elementals. What that is, the role elementals play in this, how we wake up out of the dream. And at the end, I think she might share some poetry with us, which I’m really excited about because I think when we open up to multiple realities, sometimes we can’t talk about it. Our rational mind can’t deal with it, but we can work with mystical poetry to understand. So, I believe the elves are real. And I do believe that elementals have much wisdom to share with us and that they can really truly assist our spiritual awakening if we’re respectful if we’re willing to listen.
So part of our spiritual awakening involves learning to live in alignment with the elements, air, fire, water earth, and now ether. Maybe ether, more than ever now. I’m just going to tell a personal story about how this opened up for me. So a few decades ago it was about 1985. I had an encounter with an elemental and I was open to the experience, but it also was a little bit shocking. So at that point in time, I liked fairy tales, but I thought fairies were something in dreams, myths, and legends. But at the time I was in Ireland at Coole Park, which is a thousand-acre nature reserve outside the town of Galway. And it’s the home of Lady Gregory, the patron of the famous poet, W.B. Yeats. So they were two of the main players behind the Irish literary renaissance.
So his poetry, the poetry of W.B. Yeats was running through my mind as I sat by this furlough, which was a seasonal Lake. No, I was watching the swans and the trees were kind of rubbing together. They’re creating this creaking sound. And it was a very magical moment there. And I was thinking about a poem he wrote called The Song of Wandering Aengus. And in the poem he’s fishing. But when he catches the fish, it has deep magic in it. And I just want to read you a few lines from that poem. It’s a beautiful poem. So it goes like this. “I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor and someone called me by my name. It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossoms in her hair who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air.”
I just love this. The shapeshifting that somehow he’s having this encounter with the fairy folk. And so I love this idea of Aengus. And in the story of Aengus and, he spends his whole life looking for her and he does actually find her in the form of a Swan. So anyway, I was sitting there and this story, if you want to read it, it appears in my Legends of the Grail Stories of Celtic Goddesses, the story of Kare and Angus. But it’s really inspiring.
So anyway, sitting there, I must have moved into… Maybe Penny Kelly can tell us more about this, but it must’ve been a theta brainwave state because I’m sitting there thinking about poetry. I’m thinking about the ancestors that have come before me. And all of a sudden, I see this blue bubble in front of me and I’m looking at it and it’s about the size of a basketball. And as I blink, I’m looking at it again. It’s looking at me and I realize it has some consciousness and that there’s a little form inside of it. And I realized I was looking at a fairy.
And it giggled, it had this like sort of chime-like giggle. And I was moved by it, I wanted to know more about it and why it was there and why I had never encountered anything like this before. But I was so astonished. I just froze and just watched it float along the banks of the lake. When I got back to university, I told my tutor about it. And she said, do not put that in your thesis. But I never forgot about it. I never forgot about Coole Park. And also a big question came up. It was like, “Why didn’t my tutor want me to put it in my thesis?”
Why can’t we talk about these things, if they’re real and how do we move back into a state of consciousness that allows us to deal with multiple realities? So, in hindsight, I think these blue bubbles, there were a few more of them. I think they were. And I write about them in Fairy Tales. I have a new one called Undina’s Spell or Undina Spell. Yeah. It’s in the Sparkle series. And that’s the way I have of sharing the stories that they have to tell.
So anyway, I need to take a quick break. And when we come back from this break, we’re going to talk more about elves and elementals and spiritual awakening. And I think you’re really going to love this. So you can check out Penny Kelly. I think it’s PennyKelly.wordpress.com. And meanwhile, just hang on a second. We will be right back and talk about elves, elementals, and the nature of reality. Oh, and at the end of the show, we’re going to read a poem or she’s going to read a poem from her new book Child of the Brown Earth. So stay tuned. We’ll be right back.
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