The Magic Folk are out there…truly they are all around us when we are on our nature walks. Don’t think for a moment that we are alone even if we walk solo! There are eyes everywhere and the “eyes see you!”
I often need to tune out from the dominant culture, media, tv, cars, phone and all that is of outer noise so that I can hear what is real from the inside-out ie: dreams and gentle inner visions that are both sanctuary and guide. I tune out by fleeing into nature…the seaside, forests or fields…or beautiful retreat centers that have managed to merge the sacred and the wilds as one. One such center is St. Edmunds Retreat on Enders Island in Connecticut which is, indeed, a holy place of Sanctuary on an island, surrounded 360 degrees by ocean waters.
Sitting alone in deep silence one day on a stone bench facing the sea, I happened to glance down and to the side where the rocks and boulders bordered the path, forming a boundary to the moving waters beyond. I had been feeling that there was someone else nearby, but there was no one.
But suddenly, I was startled to see these eyes looking back at me from the middle of this pile of stone between me and the sea.
Have you thought that rocks and boulders were inert and not “alive”?
Think again and know that always we are known and watched in the realm of nature, dear Human, and even the rocks can communicate “Eyes see you!”
I go there often to this specially sanctuary and sit on that stone bench facing the sea when I need refreshment or inspiration. I do this alone. But I never forget to say hello to the one I see who is seeing me.
From Christine, the Greening Spirit
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