I didn’t create this section to criticize anyone’s personal life…
But, fuck it!
Reading Doreen Virtue’s book I felt that, once again, I am the only one putting up barriers in my perception of reality.
I love the author’s writing. It’s fresh and close, it doesn’t seem like I’m reading a New Age teacher, it’s more like a friend telling me her spiritual news of the week, or her story with the fairies in this case. Healing with the faeries is the story of how Doreen Virtue connected with the faeries and healed her life, at that moment.
The fact is that Doreen Virtue has a PhD in Psychology specialized in eating disorders. One day she was mugged and somehow the angels saved her skin. From then on they broke into her life, first in her mind and then permeating her physical reality, her work and finally her romantic life.
The knowledge that can be extracted from the book is presented in first person, is not a manual of healing with the entities. The everyday tone of the author makes the concepts appear inserted in a general image of their reality, and because to connect with these entities we must be carried away by our own subjectivity, it seems to me an appropriate language to transmit the vibration that will allow you to contact the fairies.
I must admit that the tone of the book hooked me and I wanted to read to the end to know what would happen with Virtue’s personal life.
The fairies are now more approachable to me, something closer to be real. I feel that Doreen Virtue’s words have given me the courage to enter into the adventure of exploring contact with the Elementals.
Reading a vision of reality with so many magical nuances makes me feel more confident about my own magical path, that I am not the only crazy person in the world. The more I read about magic the more I become convinced that the key to experiencing any real experience of contact and perception of other dimensions and elemental beings is to allow yourself to feel without judging what your spontaneous imagination believes, and to let it flow in your mind and heart… I was inspired by the author’s experiences.
Having said that, I feel that the information has a hidden agenda, that seems to me, in a way, too simplistic and moralistic.
On the other hand, I would have appreciated a little more structure and information about the fairies, their image of society described by Virtue seems a little vague, and the last bit of the novel*, seems a sweetened romantic fiction, focusing on her personal life claiming that she had found her Twin Flame or soul mate by the work of the fairies. I don’t know how their relationship was, but I do know that they are divorced and that they didn’t last a decade. Which is rather disappointing after reading the romantic frenzy on the last few pages.
I read that the author has recently disengaged herself from New Age, putting her whole heart and vocation into Christianity, renouncing, perhaps even explicitly, all her subjective experiences as ways of reaching the divine or paranormal.
After reading the book I wrote a first version of this post in a notebook, in which I criticized a little this attitude she has taken. It has certainly delegitimized her in a serious way, at least for me. Having said that, after some empathic reflection I have come to the conclusion that maybe Doreen suffered (yes, she suffered) this transformation to help the most closed sectors of the Christian community in the world to communicate with God and feel his love (instead of shooting herself to death).
There is no doubt that the author is faithful to her inner world, and I like that. It’s a good book for understanding communication with elementals… although it’s too full of romantic straw that time has shown that perhaps there was too much of it in the book.
*(Oops I wrote it by hand unconsciously)
