Saturday 7th January 2023 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) and Saturday 14th January 2023 09:00 – 10:30 (GMT) Tickets £25.00 Book your space on Eventbrite
☕️Tea meditation or Cha-dao is a ancient form of Shamanic meditation practice from south China which uses the plant medicine, Camellia Sinensis or tea!
🧚♂️It has been used by shamans, healers and Taoist for around 20,000 years as a tool to communicate with gods, Fae, elementals, guides, Star people and power animals.
🌱Tea is a plant teacher and medicine which helps open you to receive messages and even communicate with different Fae and light beings.
Todd Grube – Tea Ritual Teacher and Mystic Mover
🌟In this workshop Todd will talk about: the history of tea : how to do a tea meditation : which teas to use for tea meditations : philosophy of tea meditation : how to use tea as a medicine and to connect with the Fae and light beings.
✨We will run a ritual ceremony during the workshop followed by an opportunity to share our experiences and ask questions. The whole workshop will be 1.5 hours
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Todd has previously discussed his extraordinary experiences with Fae and other non-human beings on The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast.
My guest’s numerous encounters include a multiple witness sighting in some British woods, the story of a haunted fairy painting that you will never forget and a Samhain-timed brush with the Fae on Glastonbury Tor.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, our guest reveals that these experiences run in the family. Sit back, relax and listen to this fascinating collection of stories from a long-time experiencer of the Otherworld.
On the Patreon bonus episode, our guest describes a perilous visit to West Kennet Longbarrow...the scene of many strange encounters.
Main Image: ‘Glastonbury Tor by Moonlight 2’ by Peter Spencer49 on Flickr
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In this special episode I return to the location of my fairy sighting, on the island of Jersey, to meet with a woman who had a very similar experience to me, at the very same place. We exchange notes during a picnic and I am blown away by what she has to say.
Did she meet the same fairy being? And if so, what does this suggest about the nature of these experiences?
Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. Some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Show Notes
In the episode I mention Martin Brofman, creator of The Body Mirror System of Healing. I trained with Martin from 2005 until 2014 when he passed over. He was a very dear friend and the healing he gave me in 2005 completely changed my life. I saw and experienced the world in a very different way after that healing (literally – I had been short sighted and when I opened my eyes I could see all the leaves on the trees outside the class and details of people’s facial features across the street).
The first thing I said when I opened my eyes was “the fear has gone”. I hadn’t even realised I’d been so afraid of well…everything. And had been walking around like that for years. My life was very different from that time on. I feel the transformation as a result of the healing – coming back to my true self, with clarity and without fear – was a factor in seeing the fairy in 2007.
I am a fully qualified Body Mirror System Healer and I do take appointments when I have time.
You can attend classes in the system all around the world. Highly recommended!
Bonus Episode
Over on Patreon the bonus records us leaving an offering at a nearby tree and our discussion of anomalous lights seen over this location and another site in Jersey.
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I talked with Todd about the apparent upsurge in encounters and people’s personal awakenings. He describes his observation of an orb-like ship that shot into the sky from a lake, near his previous home. He and his wife later experienced entering the ship. After that time he began communicating with what he describes as, ‘Star Beings’.
Todd shares some more recent experiences he’s had with what appear to be yoga deities. He also suggests some meditations and exercises for letting go of old thinking patterns.
On the bonus episode on Patreon, he reveals another experience with what sounds like a being from another Star System, who had a message for him
Todd teaches yoga, Tai Chi and Qi Gung in Sweden where he lives with his family. He provided our Patreon group with a ‘tea ceremony’ workshop last year which introduced us to a whole new way of connecting with Otherworldly beings.
Main image: https://www.reunitingall.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Starseed.jpg
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Show notes
☕️ Tea Ceremony Workshop Introduction to Tea Meditation and Ceremony (Cha-Dao):
Tea meditation or Cha-dao is a ancient form of Shamanic meditation practice coming from south China using the plant medicine Camellia Sinensis or tea!
🧚♂️It was used by shamans, healers and Taoist for about 20 thousand years and was used as a tool to communicate with the gods, Fae, elementals, guides, Star people and power animals.
🌱Tea is a plant teacher and medicine which helps open you to receive messages and even communicate with different Fae and light beings!
🌟In this workshop I will talk about : history of tea : how to do a tea meditation : what teas are good for tea meditations : philosophy of tea meditation : how to use tea as a medicine, and a connection with the Fae and light beings : and any questions you may have to get started!
✨We’ll run a ritual ceremony during the workshop followed by an opportunity to share our experiences and ask questions etc. The whole workshop should take around 1 to 1.5 hours depending on numbers of participants. Todd will advise various teas that you can use for the ceremony, ahead of the workshop.
Register your interest for the tea ceremony workshop at scarlettofthefae@gmail.com
Here’s what the Patreon group said about the workshop:
🌟“That was brilliant! Thank you soo much for setting up the tea ceremony workshop!”
🌟“Todd was just lovely and an informative teacher too. I had no idea that tea had this spiritual history to it. I’m looking forward to experimenting with it too”
🌟“The tea ceremony yesterday was amazing!! Thank you again for hosting. I’m looking forward to another possible future exchange.”
🌟“it was inspiring… I look forward to experimenting with it!”
QiGong Workshop
🧘🏼♂️ Shamanic Qigong 6 week course
Suitable for all levels, this 6 week course is a introduction to Shamanic Qigong. Legend says it was created by the Feitan (Chinese nature spirits). It’s an easy to learn, yet very powerful practice that:
-consists of both standing and sitting movements. -opens the energy body -heals the Yin and Yang aspects of the body -heals DNA -connects you to the Angelic heavens.
In this course you will learn: -water breathing qigong, as warm ups -shamanic qigong standing postures -sitting postures -qigong self massage
The course is six weeks, each session is 1 hr. The cost is £50 and deposit is £20.
This course is only open to Curious Crew Patron members at Patreon. The course will start in January 2023.
Star Beings and Star Seeds
Todd has provided the following links that may be helpful for listeners interested in learning more about Star Seeds:
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My guest describes how he supported and encouraged his son’s explorations and experiences with beings from the Otherworld.
I previously spoke to his son, Tristan (now aged 27), in Ep 15 but here we hear about how, as a father, he became a scribe for Tristan’s mystical encounters. Their moonlit forest walks, packed with extraordinary visions and interactions, were documented between the ages of 11 to 19 and form a collection called, The Books of Dreams and Visions (B.O.D.A.V.s).
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Show notes
I mention using Insight Timer App. It’s free and has a wide variety of meditations and visualisations to listen to. Meditating every day, even for five minutes really aids wellbeing.
Our guest mentioned, Phantases: A Faery Romance by George McDonald and Moon Magic by Dion Fortune.
You can find The Books of Dreams and Visions Facebook group here.
Examples of some illustrations drawn by Tristan at the time of his experiences:
Bonus Episode
The bonus episode on Patreon continues the conversation and we hear what it was like to revisit all the ‘baby books’ and journals during the Covid lockdown of 2020.
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Originally from New Zealand but living in Vancouver, our guest tells us of her Otherworldly experiences whilst on a vision quest in the Rocky Mountains. She also describes a number of UFO sightings and offers some insight into her husband’s upbringing in a First Nations community.
We end with a good ol’ chat about energies of place and reflect on the journey of transition that the world is currently going through.
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Our guest described her experience of “the little people” as clearly heard children’s laughter, though at the top of a mountain in potentially dangerous conditions, there were no children in the vicinity. Sounds of unusual strange laughter are sometimes reported in conjunction with Otherworldly experiences. People do occasionally describe hearing children giggling with no apparent source.
Simon Young’s Fairy Investigation Society Fairy Census (2014 – 2017) is a collection of reported encounters. The census is ongoing and you can report your own experiences at The Fairy Investigation Society. The following entry, no. 306 was reported by a male from Michigan, took place in the 1990’s when the witness was in their 20’s. They were by themselves in woodland between the hours of 6pm to 9pm. They report feeling a ‘profound silence’ before the experience:
‘While out walking after having eaten dinner, on a moonless night, taking a ‘short-cut’ through the woods behind the library in *** (a small stretch of land that runs east-west between ***and ***) I heard the sound of small indistinct voices talking, whispering and laughing from trees around me. I could see nothing, but caught glimpses of small black shadows moving in the branches. The night was pitch black and impossible to see, and though I had walked the path through the woods many times and houses with lights could not have been more than a hundred yards away, I felt quite lost and confused of my way. On a whim, I reached into a pocket of the backpack I was carrying with and found a small metal bell that I had found someplace and had kept as an oddment. I tinkled it for a few minutes and said aloud, ‘Here, you can have this,’ and hooked in on the nearest branch I could reach in the darkness. The woods seemed a little less dark and the path, though not visible, was suddenly discernible underfoot, as a flat clear space to walk. I quickly found myself out of the woods and on the sidewalk and made my way straight home without looking back. I went back to look for the bell the next day. But it was nowhere in sight.’
Simon Young’s Fairy Census (2014 – 2017) The Fairy Investigation Society
During the episode I read from Ron Quinn’s book, The Little People (2010). The book contains reported encounters from New York State, in particular the Catskill Mountains region.
This week’s bonus ‘Lost Time’
Our guest describes a playful prank between First Nation shamens which resulted in an extraordinary ‘lost time’ event. Released 11pm, 26th September.
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A gentle story in this episode. A man from Maryland describes meeting an Otherworldly being, backstage at a music festival and tells of his son’s childhood fairy friend. We look at stories of encounters with tall other-than-human folk, who appear and disappear and we explore memories of childhood experiences.
Main image: Holly Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker
NB: This episode has a trigger warning for themes of death and dying.
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Show notes
The episode features excerpts from Seeing Fairiesby Marjorie T. Johnson (2014) (ed. Simon Young) and the Fairy Investigation Society’s Fairy Census which you can still take part in here.
“Naked Fiddler with an old fool from Basel” (Nackte Fiedlerin mit einem alten Basler Narren). Urs Graf, 1523.
Bonus Episode
This week’s bonus on Patreon is a recording of Evensong at Canterbury Cathedral. We arrived there just in time to be admitted to this choral service after walking the ley line from Chartham.
The book I was inspired by, The Ley Hunter’s Companion by Paul Devereux and Ian Thomson, suggests that the alignment of the cathedral possibly stands on a previous ancient megalith site.
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Paul Sinclair is a highly acclaimed researcher of unexplained phenomena from North Yorkshire in England.
In this episode Paul talks about his personal supernatural experiences over the years, and we discuss some of the mind-blowing encounters featured in his excellent Truth Proof books available on his website (paperbacks) and Kindle on Amazon.
From werewolves to UFO’s, at ancient mounds and coastal sites…Paul’s no-nonsense approach and dedication to this research is both refreshing and impressive!
Find the Truth Proof group on Facebook where Paul hosts weekly live stream interviews via YouTube with an impressive array of well-known guests.
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Dr Simon Young, an academic on the supernatural, fairy sightings and related folklore meets with me to discuss: Marjorie T. Johnson, ‘The Fairy Investigation Society’, fairy sightings research, experiences running through family generations, The Fairy Census and the academic study of fairies.
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Dr Simon Young
Simon is a British folklore historian based in Italy. He has written extensively on the nineteenth-century supernatural. His book The Boggart (from Exeter University Press) and The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends (from Mississippi University Press) are both due out in 2022. A companion volume to accompany The Boggart is available freely here.
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My guest, Paolo Sammut is a paranormalist and a magician based in the south west of England. Paolo has had many supernatural experiences over the years, some of which we would recognise as fairy encounters. He chats to me about the time he was awoken by a very angry fairy, possibly a hobgoblin. On other occasions, he and other family members saw beings in the house that looked like other members of the family who were not present at the time. These sound like doppelgangers but in folklore, particularly Irish folklore they are known as fetches.
Paolo will be providing the Patreon group with an exclusive talk about ghost hunting in the coming weeks.
The image above is of Paolo and I at Goblin Coombe, Bristol at the beginning of May 2022. We had a delightful picnic and did not spot any fairies. 😊
Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers andlisteners 16 years and older.This episode is particularly unsettling and is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.
Shownotes
Here’s a great account of an angry fairy shared in Marjorie T. Johnson’s, Seeing Fairies:
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Oliver went to live in a very beautiful house in Cornwall, which was not expensive because it was reputed to be haunted. She was alone, with no electricity in the house, and one night when she needed another log for her fire, she went from the library without a lamp and passed through the kitchen to the washhouse where the logs were kept. “I got down on my knees on the tiled floor,” she said, “and reached under the wash-tub to dislodge a log, when I heard a noise like a scolding squirrel—‘Chit-chat, chit-chat’—and there, on top of the logs and surrounded by a green light, stood a furious little man who looked like an artichoke but was only as big as my thumb. His face was ugly and frog-like, and he was shaking his fists at me, ordering me off his property. I grabbed a log and tore back to my fire, which I banked with coal. I was terrified.” After this incident, Mrs. Oliver met the owner of the property and a previous tenant, both of whom told her that there were “pixies” in the house, and they laughed when she told them about the little man who had been so angry and rude to her. A few weeks later, when the weather turned very cold, Mrs. Oliver left that house and went to France, never to return to Cornwall.
Johnson M.T. (2014) ‘Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times‘, Anomalist Books: San Antonio. pp. 35
Paolo also mentioned some sort of Otherworldly being who appeared to have taken the form of a member of his family. A similar story was told by our guest from Episode 36: Rescued by an Orb and Other Strange Stories in the Patron-only bonus episode on Patreon. In that case, she saw a malevolent being stood at the end of her bed that looked like her husband but in a trance. However, at the time her husband was asleep in bed beside her.
BEASTIARIUM #4 Doppelganger Dark by Ars Corvinus
These beings are more commonly known as doppelgangers but particularly in Irish folklore they are known as fetches and could be some kind of fairy or spirit that manifests in the form of a person who is familiar and often emotionally close to the seer.
The appearance of a fetch is said to indicate the forthcoming death of the person who’s likeness appears but that was not the case in either of these experiences.
Briggs, K. (1976) An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies and Other Supernatural Creatures. New York: Pantheon Books.
Johnson M.T. (2014) ‘Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times‘. San Antonio: Anomalist Books.
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