A widely traveled New Zealander, Jacquelyn E. Lane is an artist and educator who has been involved in a broad range of metaphysical studies for nearly 50 years. She is the author and illustrator of The Children of Gaia and scribe of This World of Echoes.

Introduction

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 One
Elemental Tunes

One Density

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

Two The Earth Element

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

Three Sound

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

Four Air

Stillness and Breath | A Wilful Storm Deva | The Power of Stillness | Airplanes | Time Stealers

Five Fire

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

Six The Multi-level Singing Universe

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

Seven Water

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 Two
Who’s Singing Your Song?

Eight Emotion

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

Nine Thought

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

Ten Deva We Create

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 Three
Symphonies

Eleven For the Love of Trees

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

Twelve

Tree Harmonies and Jarring Notes 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

Thirteen

Working with Nature 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

Fourteen

Touching the Angelic Kingdom 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

Fifteen
Experiencing Symphony Loving the Forests | Ancient Forest Immersion | Enduring the Storms | A Wall of Intelligence | The Myth of Empty Space | Weaving the Songs | Are We Learning Yet? | Climate Change | Planetary Deva

Sixteen

Meeting the Singers 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

Seventeen Deva, Religion, and Pan

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

Eighteen

Consciousness 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

Illustrations

Bibliography
Books
Articles and Papers
Viewing and Listening

Acknowledgements

About the Author