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Fairies and Mental Health
Schizophrenics hallucinate alternate realities. People who claim to have been abducted by aliens are accused of having Fantasy Prone Personalities. So what about those of us who claim to be conversing with angels, fairies, and spirit guides? Are we nuts? Absolutely yes! If we weren’t crazy before we started chatting with the divine, we soon will be. Just the constant questioning of one’s sanity can drive a person insane. How do you know if you are really talking to spirits or if you are losing your mind?
Let me start by saying that until the little creatures begin showing themselves as real and 3D touchable as any other critter on earth and do it on a massive worldwide scale so that they are able to be counted and kept track of like anyone else on the endangered species list, then we won’t ever really know for sure will we? So why don’t they? Well that is one of those million dollar questions. As far as I can tell it’s a combination of them not actually existing in a physical sense beyond the spiritual realm and that they get a certain amount of pleasure in teasing and playfully messing with our minds.
I do not know what the official stance is according to the Grand PooBah of Psychiatry, but I know that most people who are certifiably insane do not know that they are. The saying goes that if you are capable of questioning your own sanity, then you must not be too far gone yet. Not very reassuring, I know. Are they real or not? That is the question you are asking. I could give you one of those psychobabble answers like, “They are as real as you believe them to be.” Again, that does not really help much.
Here is the first question to ask yourself. Do they control you? The reason I ask is because throughout history there have been stories in all religions and cultures of some type of spirits that come to lovingly guide us along our way. Are the spirits controlling you and your life or are they guiding and nudging you? If they are pushy and controlling you then there’s a higher probability that it is a psychological game you are playing with yourself. “The devil made me do it.” That usually means that you do not want to face your secret motivations and so you have created an entity to force you to do things.
If they do not control you and are simply loving guides trying to help out, then do you control them? If you are able to tell them what to do and they are working around the clock at your beck and call, then chances are you are making them up. Free will is at the core of love. Nobody is forced to do anything. If you are able to control when they come and go and what they do or do not do to help you, then you are not working with separate entities. Angels, fairies, and spirit guides are not our cosmic slaves to be controlled and dictated to. If you can do that, then they are not real.
Are you dependant on them? What I mean by this is that if they are an emotional
security blanket then you have probably made them up in your mind. Real guardian
angels and such are here to help you to believe in yourself, not to make you completely
dependant on them for your every thing. If you cannot make a personal decision without
your guides and they allow that kind of neediness, then they are not real. If you
require their presence in order to create your art, play your music, or to write
your great masterpiece, then chances are you do not have enough self-
Finally, upon meeting with the spirits and building a strong mentally healthy relationship
with them where neither is a control freak bossing the other around and both are
free to come and go as they please. Then the last thing to consider is the impact
that the relationship has on you. Are you called to do some sort of spiritual work?
Are you shown how to give some kind of a gift of love to the world whether it is
music, writing, speaking, art, cleaning up the planet or whatever else? Most people
who come into contact with the divine find themselves with some sort of an undying
need to spread love and joy around the planet. Real angels, fairies, and spirit
guides teach us how to give our greatest gifts to the world. They empower us with
the self-
It is universally understood that the angels, fairies, spirit guides, or whatever
other name your culture gives to those messengers of love and light, it is understood
that they come from God. Again, it does not matter if you call it God, Mother Nature,
the Light, the Force or whatever name you like. These little spirits are divine
helpers from the heavens come to cheer you on and to help you find a spiritually
divine path. They are not owned by us and cannot be bossed around. They have no
control over us and cannot boss us around without our consent. They can work amazing
magic when co-
Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow’s Edge