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Ep 50: Healing Hums and Curious Folk

After suffering serious illness, our guest involved shamanic approaches in his quest to return to full health. During his successful process of recovery he discovered a deep resonance with chanting, which led to an extraordinary experience.

 Later, on a trip to Iceland, he encountered a couple who showed up out of the blue and disappeared just as curiously. He has always felt, that they were not of this world.

In the Bonus Episode on Patreon, our guest describes a mysterious face which appeared in a fire.

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Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older.This episode is particularly unsettling and is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Show notes

A similar experience of ‘knowing’ to that which our guest describes. This submission was made to The Fairy Society’s Fairy Census 2014 – 2017 collected by Dr Simon Young.

§426) France (Ardèche). Male; 2010s; 61-70 ‘The beings that I saw appeared to be fell walkers. They wore walking gear. They had knapsacks. But their knapsacks seemed to be empty. They carried no bottles of water. There were about fifteen to twenty of them. I had just pushed my bike up a mountain and I was sitting on the grass at the top of it. They appeared, walking down from a path above me, and stood around me in a circle, chattering and laughing, ignoring me, as I sat in the centre of them. Behaving in a way, as a friend who lives in France commented, that no French person would. ‘The French would never do that.’ I chatted to three of the group, in broken French. First, a man who seemed to be their leader, the dominant male. Then a taciturn and sad looking man, and finally a woman. At that time I was on a spiritual quest that has been on-going for about twenty years. I felt that they were there to support me and to prove to me that my quest was not a fatuous one. One of them, the woman, came over to me and took from me a possession I carry that has tremendous spiritual significance for me. I was still sitting down. She stood over me. She had the strongest, most muscular legs I have ever seen – but in proportion. They were not grossly muscular. They looked like ordinary legs but I doubt that they were. They were the legs of someone who has walked everywhere, on every day of her life. This may seem preposterous, but I cannot stress enough the significance of her clearly not human legs. It was one of the things that truly made me realise I was with people who were not people. She took the possession I carry that has ‘tremendous spiritual significance’, said its name and then kissed it. At which point, as if their mission was over, the group turned and walked away. After they had gone I came back to ‘this reality’, realising that I had been Outside of Time, a state that I have experienced before, always while undergoing unusual and significant events of a spiritual nature. When the group left me they were chattering and laughing. I heard them doing so as they turned a corner and left my sight. Scarcely less than ten seconds after they had gone, and realising that something truly strange had occurred, I got up and followed them. I turned the same corner. There was no sight of them. They had vanished.,

The Fairy Census 2014 – 2017
http://www.fairyist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/The-Fairy-Census-2014-2017-1.pdf

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Ep 49: Artist, Brett Manning discusses dreams, inspirations and magic rabbits

Brett’s book is available on Etsy

A beautiful in-depth chat with Brett Manning – a well known and much admired artist of the strange. Her new book, One Foot in the Green presents insightful and characterful interpretations of the Fae and cryptid beings. 

Brett’s sense of the Otherworld is inspired by her own dreams and personal experiences.  This chat is a really generous and open hearted discussion about her relationship with these beings and their realms. 

Connect with Brett’s work on Instagram at BrettManningArt and BrettisaGirl on Etsy. 

Hop over to the Patreon BONUS EPISODE to hear excerpts from Brett’s book, One Foot in the Green.

Brett Manning’s Art

Content 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.

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Modern Fairy Sightings Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios

Ep 48: Santa is Real and he landed in Washington State!

A man from Washington State describes hearing Santa’s Sleigh land on his roof complete with the sounds of sleigh bells, hooves, a heavy sack and footsteps!

 At the time he was a 20 year old college student. He had never held any strong belief in Santa and his family generally took a skeptical view on strange phenomena. To this day, he hasn’t told his family but like many others, he is sure of what he heard.

 We all have a ‘boggle threshold’ –  where the idea of extraordinary phenomena is repelled by our brain’s filter of improbability, based on our beliefs, experiences and willingness to consider what has previously remained outside our knowledge and level of understanding. 

I had heard stories of people seeing and hearing Santa before but this is the first time I’ve spoken to someone about their experience.  It turns out that many people have had similar experiences, either in childhood or as adults.

 This was an enlightening chat for me and it has brought a sense of unexpected magic to this holiday. For that I am very grateful. I hope you enjoy it too.

 Merry Yuletide One and All  ✨🎅🎄❤️

Content 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.

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Looking for more Father Christmas / Santa Claus experiences? You will love this article

The two links that our guest shared are here:

https://610kona.com/this-area-has-the-most-ufo-sightings-in-washington-why/

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2022/07/28/washington-state-ufo-sightings

Some further shared encounters:

I didn’t hear the sledge hitting the roof but I definitely heard the sleigh bells and so did my two children. It was Xmas eve and I was putting them to bed, it was just after I said you better get to sleep quickly as Santa will be here soon, at that exact moment we distinctly heard sleigh bells on the roof. My two children who were around 3 and 6 years old at the time went wide eyed and said ‘he’s here!’ and closed their eyes tight to go to sleep. It was very magical for us and only happened the once.

Anonymous member of The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast Facebook Group (Nov, 2022)

I did see him once. My mother had mentioned him coming to visit us that night and I looked out of my bedroom window. The moon was high in the sky and I saw what looked to me like a sleigh and reindeer fly beneath the moon at a very fast speed.

I told everyone about it, but they never believed me. I learned quickly to keep my experiences to myself.

Anonymous member of The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast Facebook Group (Nov, 2022)

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Upcoming Events for Patrons and Listeners of the show:

Join us for a Fairy Tea Ritual Workshop with Todd Grube, experiencer and ‘mystic mover’ on January 7th or January 14th



Todd is also offering a six-week Shamanic Qigong workshop to aid connection with nature spirits, starting at the end of January.

This event is exclusive to members of the Patreon group. Join the community for just £3 a month to support the show, get bonus episodes every fortnight and take part in events.

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Modern Fairy Sightings Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios

Main image featured: Vintage illustration of Santa Claus and his sleigh landing on a roof, 1940s-1950s.

Ep 47: Paul and Charla Devereux’s Green Man Sighting

Paul Devereux and his wife Charla shared an unexpected and startling fairy encounter in 2003, during a research trip in Ireland. This event transformed Paul’s outlook on the reality of fairy sightings.

Content 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.

Paul and Charla Devereux

Paul is a well-known author and long-time researcher into the study of sound at ancient places, ancient and traditional life-ways, the anthropology and archaeology of consciousness, sacred sites and landscapes, general consciousness studies including psi phenomena, and unusual geophysical events.

Paul co-founded and is a previous editor of ‘Time & Mind – The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture.

Charla has been researching alongside Paul since the mid-1980s and is an author on wellbeing subjects such as meditation, aromatherapy and lucid dreaming.

Paul and Charla’s books are available at: https://pauldevereux.co.uk/shop.html

Paul’s Amazon page: www.amazon.com/Paul-Devereux/e/B001HD1M42

The Dragon Project Trust: https://pauldevereux.co.uk/the-dragon-project.html

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Upcoming Events for Patrons and Listeners of the show:

Join us for a Fairy Tea Ritual Workshop with Todd Grube, experiencer and ‘mystic mover’ on January 7th or January 14th



Todd is also offering a six-week Shamanic Qigong workshop to aid connection with nature spirits, starting at the end of January.

This event is exclusive to members of the Patreon group. Join the community for just £3 a month to support the show, get bonus episodes every fortnight and take part in events.

Modern Fairy Sightings Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios

Fae Connection Tea Ceremony Online Workshop with Todd Grube

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

☕️ 🧚🏻‍♂️✨🧚🏻‍♂️✨🧚🏻‍♂️☕️

Todd has previously discussed his extraordinary experiences with Fae and other non-human beings on The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast.

You can hear Todd talk about tea in this episode:

Book your space on Eventbrite

For more information contact scarlettofthefae@gmail.com or
https://www.facebook.com/todd.grube.3

Ep 46: A Series of English Encounters

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

Content 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.

Please do subscribe, rate and share this episode and support the podcast by joining Patreon if you can. Thank you ❤️

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Modern Fairy Sightings Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios





Episode 45: The Genius Loci

It’s the 2nd birthday of the Podcast! 🎂  🎉 

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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Modern Fairy Sightings Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios


	

Ep 44: Contact with Star Beings and Coping with Personal Awakenings

Todd Grube is a long-time experiencer and a previous guest from Episode 21, Awakening to Them

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

The Qi Gong is an exclusive workshop for patrons. You can join and support the show here: 
https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast

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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Ep 43: “Listen to your kids…they are closer to the soul world”

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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Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older and may contain creepy or frightening content.

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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Episode 42: Into the Wilderness

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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Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older.This episode is particularly unsettling and is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Show notes

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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