Here is a large gnome face from the smaller circle on the tree photo I just uploaded (if you look closer you will also see more gnome figures within and around it). I also included an artist's conception of a typical tree gnome. Gnomes are friendly caretakers of forests, usually manifesting as bearded old men (trees can be quite old):
Here's a famous image from Wil Huygen's popular study about gnomes from a 1970's
book:
Gnomes are used very charmingly in Waldorf kindergartens as part of a larger curriculum to help children hold on to their natural abilities to see spirit manifesting in the astral realms. (Children are new arrivals from the astral realm so they haven't forgotten where they came from yet - until adults teach them it's just their "imagination".) Here (
link) is a criticism of that - not sure I agree although I see her point not to romanticize childhood too much and that teachers don't always practice what they preach. Her viewpoint is atypical of the psychotherapist who lives in the textbook box of "empirical evidence" (ie., if I can't reproduce this experience in a laboratory therefore it doesn't exist). Despite many kinks in the system, I love the Waldorf approach, although not everything about the way it's practiced. Anything that promotes awareness of the Divine and divine behaviour, gets my approval. And I believe in a psychotherapeutic approach that can embrace these values too - because spirit/divinity is who we are - which is why I'm hoping to get into a graduate program that will allow me to practice as a licensed psychotherapist. Time will tell what I'm meant to do in this life...
And speaking of time........
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Originally Posted by Serquetasa
I suppose with all the beauty and change that is taking place at any given time on our earth, they were bound to show up at some point!
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Hi Serquetasa, yes the timing means something doesn't it? We're living in a time of global environmental crisis, and social justice crisis. The timing of the mass arrival of spiritual messengers tends to coincide with dark periods in human history. So it's important to not only try to see these little guys but try to figure out what they're trying to tell us too, don't you think? They are God's divine messengers of peace, love, happiness and harmonious co-existence in all the beauty life's diversity reveals. I created a tarot card system inspired by Nature as a mirror to model divine ways in which humans can interact. One day I'll be writing books about all this stuff. We need to wake up to who we really are!
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