Thomas Mayer - Answering the Call of the Elementals: Practices for Connecting with Nature Spirits

Answering the Call of the Elementals

Elemental beings did not exist for me prior to reading this book. I could conceive of the possibility of their existence and that clairvoyant people could perceive them. (How else did they get into all those fairy tales?) I could imagine that a person with supersensitive abilities might meet gnomes and elves in the forest but that such an unbelievable wealth and diversity of ensouled beings exist inside and around us, this is truly overwhelming.

Christiane Flocken, M.D. (alternative medicine) and psychotherapist

Answering the Call of the Elementals touched me deeply. Besides its message, I greatly appreciate the openness and precision with which the author describes his spiritual experiences.

Helmut Thomas, Waldorf teacher

It is a little miracle how Thomas Mayer manages to assuage my critical mind right from the beginning of the book. I was drawn into a story that is entertaining and gives incredible joy. This little miracle is possible because Thomas Mayer presents himself purely as himself. His sentences are not overly complex, they are precise, without pretense, and full of flashes of humor not explicitly intended.

Enno Schmidt, artist, writer, and civil rights activist engaged in the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)

I devoured Answering the Call of the Elementals. I was deeply moved by Mayers work, his authenticity, and the matter-of-fact way with which he gives us so much important information in the finest and clearest way. This book contains so many treasures to take away.

Seraina Seyffer, therapist

This book is fantastic! I just finished reading it and have already gifted it to three people. It is wonderfully written with descriptions of how to come into contact with and perceive the elementals. Again and again I noticed while reading how I was totally filled with warmth, light, and strength. Moreover, I have for the first time understood the necessity of caring for the elementals, because in the end it is synonymous with caring for the earth and its beings.

Claudine Nierth, spokesperson for the board for More Democracy

Introduction

E ven if we are not consciously aware of it, we live in the realm of elemental beings. Everywhere, and all the time, they penetrate our souls and slip into our hearts. The whole world around us is ensouled with elemental beings. Elemental beings participate in everything that is happening in nature around us.

Our inner world, the world of our thoughts and feelings, is made of elementals. And we constantly produce new ones. In almost all walks of life we are dealing with elemental beings. The elemental beings are nearer to us than we think!

This book is concerned with all the realms of elemental beings I know about. I have tried to be as comprehensible and authentic as possible. A personal rendering seemed most appropriate for this. I did not want to write an abstract book but, rather, to invite you to participate in my experience.

There is no abstract or general experience of elemental beings; there are only ever specific human beings who connect to specific elemental beings. They carry these elemental beings around with them as part of their constitution. This is why I always describe the specific circumstances, and as precisely as possible, my ways and methods of experiencing our elemental friends.

My descriptions are of course very limited. I only know a few elementals in a deeper way. That is why, in one of the chapters, I discuss books about elemental beings by people who have written out of direct experience. I owe a lot to these authors, who have enhanced my own experience in numerous ways.

I have been interested in gaining a direct experience of the spiritual world since I was a young man. I studied a great deal of spiritual literature and took up the anthroposophical meditative path of schooling formulated by Rudolf Steiner, but made no progress in my ability to perceive elemental beings.

I received practical help in developing my faculties in 2003, through a series of workshops on geomancy, a study of the super-sensible level of landscapes, gardens, and habitats. Since then, I have been able to regularly connect consciously with elemental beings. Based on my own experiences, I believe that a great unearthed treasure of possibilities of perceiving elemental beings is hidden in human beings. This was not the case 20 years ago, but our possibilities for conscious perception have advanced since then.

Every year, I lead approximately 30 meditation courses, which all include a short introduction to perceiving elemental beings. Every time, I am surprised by how well this works after an appropriate meditative preparation. The participants have pretty evident experiences that mutually reinforce each other; therefore, I know not just that the elemental beings are much closer to us than we believe but we also have many more possibilities of perceiving them than we think. However, these possibilities can only unfold if developed, and if clear and practical concepts of elemental beings and clear methods for perception are presented.

This is why I began writing. Answering the Call of the Elementals is the first book in a series. It is a personal introduction to the world of elemental beings, with the theme: This is how I do it.

In the second and third books, Collaboration with Elemental Beings, I interviewed more than 30 people who perceive elementals. I spoke with them about how they experience them, what they pay particular attention to, how they prepare for this interaction, how this ability developed in them, and what special encounters they have had. Each and every one has an individual approach. We can learn a lot from them. With these two books, I want to make this wealth of experience visible and accessible to all, with the theme: This is how others do it.

In the summer of 2007, we drove to a little fishing village called Valun, on the island of Cres, Croatia, for a vacation. I wanted to start writing about elemental beings, but I had hardly got down to what I had planned to write before the elemental beings of Cres got involved and a momentum of its own developed.

The Plea

I t is an unforgettable morning in the fall of 2004. I am in Hamburg with Agnes, my beloved partner, in her penthouse apartment doing our morning meditation.

I need to mention two prior events to make the following comprehensible. First, Agnes and I have just given our first course in anthroposophic meditation at a summer conference in Hibernia (a Waldorf school in the west of Germany) a few months earlier. There was a great deal of interest, it was very uplifting, and we are now considering offering more courses in the future.

Second, I met geomancers Wolfgang Schneider and Fritz Bachmann a year ago, in 2003, and these encounters have had many consequences. After learning how geomancers do it, I have finally found a soul path to experience elemental beings that I can walk on my own. I have received several important keys I had been missing, and now I can sometimes open the door a little and slip into the elemental world with my own consciousness.