Many of the stories of encounters with the Faery realm mention time distortion. We read of people wandering into Faery and staying a short time, but returning to their normal world, days, weeks, months or even years later. They return with no awareness of having lost time.
Time as we know it is really only a kind of self-imposed prison, which we ourselves have created. To see that reality and time are very different, we need only involve ourselves in something wonderful and amazing to us and watch the time fly by.
Or find ourselves bored, depressed or unhappy, in order to watch the fingers of a clock crawl by.
Anyone who has ever felt the first magical pangs of love knows how those two extremes can become one, as time appears to stop and start in rhythm with the moments that are spent with and apart from that loved one.
Being in-love
When we find ourselves standing in the aisle of the supermarket undecided on which brand of food to buy and find ourselves begin to drift, we are both between time and moving closer to Fey.
It is only when we allow ourselves to step outside of time that we truly begin to move in step with the universe. This is why those who state that they will only believe in a thing if it can be seen with the eye and touched with the hand will never see or touch the unseen.
I’ll believe when I see it!
They become their own self-fulfilling prophecy. It is the classic sceptic’s mantra ‘I will only believe it, when I can see it.’
All religions and belief systems teach one thing more important than anything else, Faith.
Without faith we encounter nothing, but the echoes of our own conscious thoughts, worries and delusions.
With faith we enter in to a pact of openness and anticipation. An expectancy, like that of a child on the eve of their birthday.
And with this in-place, we can bridge the gaps between worlds, the ‘betwixt places’.
The great Holy leaders down the ages have all told us that we should be as children.
Be as a child
That is not saying childish, but rather child like. To be as open as children. To be ready to learn, as children and to be non-judgemental as children are naturally, unless interfered with by the prejudices of their elders.
This then is the way of the Fey, the Faery way.
