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Title: The Real World of Fairies: A First-Person Account by Dora Van Gelder Kunz, Dora Van Gelder, Caitlin Matthews ISBN: 0-8356-0779-8 Publisher: Quest Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful book
Comment: Dora Von Gelder Kunz here presents her experience of the world of fairy. In almost anthropological detail she describes different kinds of fairies and the angels that guide them. All the descriptions contain personal anecdotes of the author's own contact with the realm that lies just in the corner of our eyes. Now, of course Von Gelder could be making all this up. If she is, then this work is a startling work of detailed imagination. If she's not, then we would do well to heed her words. Either way, this book is a delightful way to awaken one's wonder of the natural world. Forget "science" for a moment, and open your heart.

Rating: 5
Summary: Believing is Seeing....
Comment: For a long time, I've recommended this book, especially for those who believe fairies can be seen. The forward of my 1977 edition begins by saying "...the borderline between the 'transcendental world' and the concrete world is less definite and stable than you think. The term real world has no validity." It's an opener that gets your attention, and the rest of this excellent book does the same.

In her book, Van Gelder discusses the importance and fallibility of senses writing "...the desire to know sooner or later creates the necessary organs and instruments of knowledge." Through her animistic view, she sees fairies and writes of the clairvoyance that is needed to view them and the world in which they live. She acknowledges that part of the reason fairies are rarely seen is that few people try once they are grown up.

Van Gelder describes devas, elementals and angels, writing that while we live in a world of form, "...they live in a world of life." Her descriptions are clear and vivid as she describes a world in which everything is alive and expressed in rhythm.

She also gives insight into the world of plants and trees, water spirits, and the inter-relatedness of earth, sea and sky, which she maintains is watched over by a higher form, angels. As a person with clairvoyance, her descriptions of communication with angels are fascinating, saying that they give her "...a great number of mental pictures combined with feeling. There is only one difficulty in communicating with an angel. What he considers to be one idea to us is about twenty, and thus it takes a long time to digest what he expresses."

The most fascinating part of her book is her description of storm devas and the energetic work that takes place in an area as a storm grows. She describes a feeling that many of us perceive as the weather changes and clouds begin to build.

While at first glance, her ideas may seem strange and fantastical, it is easy to intuit the truth within her words.

I don't profess to see fairies, but I learned a lot from Van Gelder's brilliant depictions and much of it mirrors my intuitive beliefs. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in clairvoyance, communication with nature spirits, or angelic/devic hierarchies. Seeing is believing, but to paraphrase the author, believing is can be seeing as well.

Rating: 5
Summary: Enchanting and joyous encounters with the fairy realm
Comment: The Real World Of Fairies relates Dora van Gelder's enchanting and joyous encounters with the fairy realm. Her gentle stories will delight, inform and entertain the reader interested in the magical, mysterious, and quite genuine world of fairies. This new and very highly recommended edition of a metaphysical classic is enhanced with a foreword by Celtic folk expert Caitlin Matthews whose own personal experiences and insightful knowledge of the fairy world contribute a fresh perspective to Dora van Gelder's intimate and personal account.