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Overview
• Explores how we partner with Deva in our everyday lives to evolve both our kingdom and theirs
• Explains the hierarchy of the Deva kingdom, from elementals and nature spirits to higher angelic Deva and every level in between
• Offers suggestions on how to communicate with the Deva of trees and plants as well as the angelic kingdom
• Shares the author’s personal experiences with Deva around the world
Nature spirits, faeries, gnomes, and their higher angelic counterparts who overlight landscapes, mountains, rivers, and plants have held a fascination for people worldwide for countless generations. The Deva kingdom is essentially the world’s form builders, the symphony at the heart of Creation, yet Deva is so much more than the joyful beings that animate what we call Nature. We each have a very personal and direct relationship with Deva via our physical, astral, emotional, and mental elementals, but this connection has been forgotten or, at the very least, overlooked. When we partner with Deva in our everyday lives, we can help evolve both our kingdom and aspects of theirs.
Exploring the realm of Deva and our relationship with them, Jacquelyn E. Lane introduces us to the hierarchy of the Deva kingdom, from elementals and nature spirits to higher Deva and the levels in between. She examines the metaphysics that underlie their existence and how the energy of Deva is intrinsic to all that we experience. Deva is a Sanskrit word meaning “Being of Light,” an appropriate name as Deva sing light out of the primordial darkness to create forms for Being. Sharing her personal experiences with Deva in many lands over four decades, the author investigates our relationship with Deva, in particular via the elementals of our human constitution, and how we can communicate with the Deva of trees and plants as well as the angelic kingdom. Through scientific discoveries and cultural traditions, we discover the impact we have on Deva and how we use and even “create” new forms of Deva via our inventions and collective activity. Jacquelyn also looks at the orchestrating function of higher Deva and the wider implications of our understanding of Deva, including the role of Deva in Pan consciousness—our increasing realization of the intricate matrix of life within and between all the kingdoms on Earth.
Offering not only an in-depth introduction to the world of Deva but also a glimpse of their wisdom, humor, and joy, this book reveals how we can begin to hear their complex song, find our own song, and work with the appropriate subtle layers of the Deva kingdom to grow and evolve.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644110744 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Inner Traditions/Bear & Company |
| Publication date: | 06/16/2020 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Sales rank: | 1,132,916 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Read an Excerpt
From Chapter Ten. Deva We Create.
Managing Our Elemental Zones
The zone where your astral/emotional field meets your mental field is where sparks can fly, where an idea triggers excitement or thought stimulates an emotional response. Higher still is the zone where concrete reason is met by abstract mind. Here intuition from the realm of soul or higher self plants inspiration and is received as a subtle realisation or a blinding “Ah hah!”
At each such zone different kinds of deva meet, the higher either stimulating or meeting resistance from the lower but always prompting or seeking a response. The zone is not a quiet place for a complacent elemental. The force of emotions triggers responses in the physical body. The force of mental stimulation evokes responses in the emotional body and the force of the higher mind subtly moulds and changes the rational or lower concrete mind.
So, it goes on, up and up, for our existence does not end at the abstract mind and at each level, deva are involved. At each level of activity, be it as simple as wanting to move a hand, as complicated as baking a cake or as complex as finding the answer to a quantum physics puzzle, our will elicits a response from the deva of each appropriate level.
The zone can also be called the “danger zone.” Humans are creatures of habit. It’s easier to live with habit than reinvent our lives every day. Habits make for comfortable elementals. They can respond the same way each time. That guy Jack, he always riles us, so if our astral (emotional) elementals receive a new command, “We will no longer lose our cool when Jack’s around,” what are they going to do? You know that struggle? Those astral elementals are about to bust out and react to Jack but we have a new ruling from a (slightly) higher Will. The zone becomes a war zone with our thought elementals insisting we keep calm and our astral elementals trying to do what they’ve always done when Jack’s around.
We live in a symphony of energies and forces. The edge zones are where the power of a theme multiplies—like when three straight lines form a triangle or people group together to achieve a goal. The power of edge zones connecting is what evokes the effectiveness of group effort and unity. So, here’s the crunch: the process of unifying in an effort to evolve, calls in a higher order of deva that can coordinate the lower elementals.
When we are able to override those lower astral elementals that want to get even at the sight of Jack, we have achieved a step towards self-mastery. Self-mastery is actually mastery of those elementals. Our Self is not our emotions, that is, it is not our emotional/astral elementals. Our Self is not our physical body or its elementals. Our Self is in part our will but it is more than just our will. It is what occurs when our will and those elementals dance together to produce that magical marriage we call “consciousness.”
So, every “body” or “system” be it the organs of your physical body, or the feelings of your astral body, has an edge zone. The “defining edge” of your thoughts is a zone, so is the edge of your personality, which we define here as the sum total of your physical, emotional and mental bodies.
Every organisation—from the bond between couples to the group that studies together, to a business, a bureaucracy or a nation—each has an edge; a zone that interacts with everything around it that it defines as not it. The devic life, the intelligence that inhabits each of these seemingly separate “things” are coming up against the deva life in the other “thing” and behind them all is a will of one sort or another at one level or another. Everything we do is a song and dance of will and intelligence that creates some kind of consciousness.
The Song Weavers
Deva fill the so-called spaces of the world. When humans understand this, they will realise that even across the apparent vastness of space all things touch each other and all things complete each other. Yet it seems that everything eventually dies—plants sprout from seeds, grow, mature, fruit, and die and all life repeats this cycle of becoming and dying. This perception arises because we cannot see that the creation and cycling of forms is an expression of something that does not come into being and go out of being because it is Being Itself.
What is expressed as Life, is a glorious dance wherein all the ranks of deva respond to some level or other of Will. Deva manipulate matter in response to the force of Will. Like Captain Picard on the Starship Enterprise, Will says “Make it so!” and deva make it so.
When we experience deva as the weavers of Life’s songs, we find ourselves in a sea of colour and light that is constantly moving, creating, building, flowering, changing, breaking down, building up. Movement and deva go together like water and wetness. A healthy land is one where deva radiate, spiral, circle and dance their songs, keeping the currents of life flowing, just as blood flows through the circuitry of our veins.
Deva sparkle the air with prana, spiralling this life energy of light from air into sea, from sky into mountains, across the surface of streams and through the breeze of deserts. Without the movement of deva, the Earth becomes as stagnant as a human body without exercise, prone to obesity and disease. In a healthy Earth, the movement of deva is critical. Nothing is wasted; everything is re-used again and again in different ways, producing different forms in the great experiment of Creation.
Table of Contents
Introduction 11
The Song
Are There Fairies at the Bottom of Your Garden?
What Are Deva?
What Do Deva Do?
The Sea of Deva
The Nature of Reality
On Landing
Learning to Drive Our Vehicle
Growing Up with the Inner Eye Open
The Scope of This Book
Part 1 Elemental Tunes
1 Density 25
Sensing Faerie
What Does "Level of Density" Mean?
From Simplicity to Complexity
Why a Kingdom?
The Elementals
What Do Nature Spirits Do?
Deva Hierarchy from the Bottom-Up
Deva Hierarchy from the Top-Down
Your House As a Song
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Simultaneously
Naming
2 The Earth Element 37
The Lemurian
Australian Encounters
Under Hill and Over Mountain
Ancient Lands
The Old Ones
Our Subtle Connectors
Talking Rocks
A Shared History
The Quarry Creature
Walking the Lines
Light Grids
A Soil Gnome
Deserts
As Above, So Below
Alone with a Red Desert
The Need for a Framework
3 Sound 56
The Elephant Story
In the Beginning
The Creative Source
What's Happening in the Void?
Human Sound and Deva Response
Words, Words, Words
Sound as Healing
Earth Sound
Where the Sound Originates
Simultaneous Creation
Life in the Spaces
Letting Ideas Float
4 Air 71
Stillness and Breath
A Wilful Storm Deva
The Power of Stillness
Airplanes
Time Stealers
5 Fire 80
Powering the Universe
Grades of Fire
Earth Fire
Worlds within Worlds
Dragon Fire
Our Human Fire
The Fiery Nature of Will
An Ancient Fire of the Land
The Urge to Purge
Spirit and Fire
Hidden Dangers
6 The Multi-level Singing Universe 94
The Outside-Inside Worlds
The Veil
Building Subtle Structures of Reception
Take Your Time-It's a Long Journey
Substance
Moving from the Outside In
Patterns and Planes
Life at the Bottom
7 Water 102
The Nature of Water
Wetlands
Hidden Waterways
A Wandering God
Reconstruction
Watery "Mechanics"
The Rock Water Serpent
An Impressive Water Deva
Rain
Sea
Sea Deva Encounter
Macro and Micro
Large Sea Deva
The Joy of Deva
Layers of Consciousness and Perception
Clouds
Airy Shepherds
Ancient Water Elementals
Attraction and Repulsion
Fluidity
Part 2 Who's Singing Your Song?
8 Emotion 127
Human vs Deva Evolution
Our Own Cosmos
The Sea of Deva
Our Own Subtle "Water"
Astral Body Dangers
A Warning Tale
Where Does Healing Happen?
The Plane of Desire
The Quality of Desire
Desire and Distortion
A Ladder for the Astral Elementals
The Astral Sea
Astral Fog
Battle Grounds
Desire and Aspiration
Evolving Our Elementals
The Astral Illusion
The Truth about the Astral Plane
9 Thought 146
From Feeling to Mind
The Fire of Mind
The Quality of Thought
Early Programming
The Ordering Brain
The Subconscious Advantage
Where Are Our Thoughts?
Helpful Imagination
The Distortion Challenge
Lessons from the Parking "Angels"
The Power of Focus
Distaste for Hierarchies
Ancient Fires
Mental Plane Illusion and Pitfalls
Personal Songs of the Mental Plane
Into the Abstract
10 Deva We Create 166
Organizations
Airport Deva
Electronic Mischief
Intentional Design
The Internet
Deva of Commerce
Creative Interaction
Zones-Interactive Edges
Managing Our Elemental Zones
From Void to Form
Our Mediating Zones
Conscious Creation
How We and Deva Create a Building
According to Laws
What's Our Job?
Not Ours to Control
Part 3 Symphonies
11 For the Love of Trees 191
Besotted
Archetypal Architects
What Is Death?
The Death of Trees
Another Rescue
A Kinder Way
The Importance of Roots
Preparing Trees for Death
Screams
Singing Them Home
Time Tricks and Language
Elastic Form
Sound, Time, and Light
12 Tree Harmonies and Jarring Notes 207
Pine, Oak, and Beech
Notes and Tunes
Defying Gravity
Tree Life on the Inside
Internal Realities for Suburban Trees Size and Awareness
Trees as Meridians
Trees in the Landscape
A Matter of Value
Botanical Breathing Spaces
Out of Kilter
Geo Stress
Can We Help?
Monocultures
Cottonwoods
Old Twisted Yews
Myths, Symbols, and Trees
Different Cultures-Similar Stories
13 Working with Nature 228
How Trees Adapt to Us
Animals
The Fungi Deva
Crop Field Deva
The Barley Deva
The Rape Seed Deva
A Bad Paint Job
Verification
Applying the Learning
14 Touching the Angelic Kingdom 241
Expanding the Picture
Let Them Seek You Out
The Emerald Forests
An Airy Water Master
The Coral Deva
Overlighting Green Deva
At What Level Do We Communicate with Deva?
A Matter of Light
15 Experiencing Symphony 251
Loving the Forests
Ancient Forest Immersion
Enduring the Storms
A Wall of Intelligence
The My th of Empty Space
Weaving the Songs Are We Learning Yet?
Climate Change
Planetary Deva
16 Meeting the Singers 263
The Gateway to Deva
What Will They Look Like?
Where Do We See Them?
Seeing Nature Spirits
Engaging Our Upper Centres
Gentle Persistence
What Can You Expect?
City Bound?
Listening to the Whispers
Fair Warning
Is It All Sweetness and Light?
The Sad Reality
17 Deva, Religion, and Pan 277
Culture Clashes
Out of the Closet
Deva and Religion
Echoes of the Past
A Banished Deva "God"
A Sense of Light
When the Whispers Become a Song
Healthy Nature
Subtle Signals
18 Consciousness 290
Why Is Consciousness So Important
Our Bungee Jumping Journey
Our Ladder of Consciousness
The Brain-Bringing Past and Future Together
Where We Focus, We Become
The "Where?" Trap
Towards Synthesis
Deva Know We're Here
The Circulating Song
Dangerous Attitudes
Becoming Aware
The Other Half of Us
Who Are the Singers?
In Closing
Appendix 307
Illustrations 308
Bibliography
Books 309
Articles and Papers 312
Viewing and Listening 313
Acknowledgements 314
About the Author 317