Marko Pogacnik - Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature

IT WAS IN SEPTEMBER 1992 that I first came into contact with the nature intelligences which are mentioned in fairy tales and legends. At the time I was in Northern Ireland with my daughter and collaborator Ajra Miska. The previous year, the City Council of Derry (Londonderry) had commissioned me to carry out an extensive healing project for the landscape. The Derry/Donegal landscape has been painfully disrupted by the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. My aim was to re-create the original vital-energetic unity of the landscape by means of stone sculptures on both sides of the border, and I had placed lithopuncture stones one-by-one at their appropriate sites in the landscape. Now we had returned to Derry for a dedication ceremony, and also to introduce this work to the public. We were to lead experiential group tours which were planned to the ancient sacred sites, marked by the lithopuncture stones.

Early one morning we travelled to the Beaghmore Stone Circles to prepare for the tours. The stones are situated in a wild moorland landscape, not far from Cookstown. There is a unique quality about these neolithic stone circles, for many centuries ago they were covered by thick layers of peat, and they are preserved in their original perfection. It was only recently that these examples of megalithic art were discovered by archaeologists. Today we can learn an immense amount from their pure, unaltered state.

This was the first time that I tried to sense the power structures in the stone circles just with my hands. A short while before, I had decided to stop using my dowsing instruments, and now it took courage for me to rely on my hands alone to sense the vibrations that indicated different radiations. It had alwaysbeen my belief that I used the divining rod only to help make more obvious the subtle tremors experienced by a human body when it stands on a power point or moves through an energy field. It was twelve years before I was ready to release the rod as my crutch. Since then I have simply allowed my hands to move freely within the vibrations of a place.

On that first day, I discovered that my hands followed the movements of certain patterns and laws, and therefore it was possible to distinguish clearly between different energetic phenomena. For instance, when I stood inside one of the seven simple stone circles, my hand swung backwards and forwards in a long regular rhythm which I recognised as a solar rhythm. But when I climbed onto one of the round piles of stones (the so-called cairns which complement the stone circles), the rhythmic hand movements changed: the pendulum swings of my hand became short, fast circles. These were lunar rhythms which I would call female, in contrast to the male (solar) power of the stone circles. The whole composition of the stone structures at Beaghmore was created to reflect the balance between the yin and yang powers of the universe.

But there are also individual stones near the cairns and the stone circles, seemingly strewn about without any order. On an earlier occasion, when I was still investigating with my dowsing instruments, I had not been able to find any point of reference to identify these as important parts of the structure of the old stone temple. Now I was quite excited to see if I could sense something with my bare hands from these mysterious single stones.

Relaxed but with inner concentration, I carefully put my right hand on the surface of one of the stones and let my left hand dangle. To my surprise my hand began to move very, very slowly. But it was not only this very slow hand motion that took me by surpriseit felt like it needed an infinitely long time to describe a backwards-moving arcthere was also a strange, deep feeling in the palm of my hand. It felt as if I was looking directly into the underworld through a narrow gap in the earth.

I was amazed by these perceptions, which I had never experienced before, and I turned to my daughter Ajra with an urgent request that she ask her Angel Master what was going on. His answer was that I had encountered the presence of elemental beings.

This explanation would not have helped me much if my daughter had not written a book in the previous month, dictated to her on the inner levels by her Angel Master Christopher Tragius. There, among other things, the world of angels and elementals was described in detail. I had not yet had a chance to look at the book because it was still in the computer, but Ajra was able to give me two insights into this unexpected contact through her knowledge of the nature of elemental beings: