Deva: Our Relationship with the Subtle World

An in-depth introduction to the Deva Kingdom and our relationship with Deva • Explores how we partner with Deva in our everyday lives to evolve both our kingdom and theirs • Explains the hierarchy of the Deva kingdom, from elementals and nature spirits to higher angelic Deva and every level in between • Offers suggestions on how to communicate with the Deva of trees and plants as well as the angelic kingdom • Shares the author’s personal experiences with Deva around the world Nature spirits, faeries, gnomes, and their higher angelic counterparts who overlight landscapes, mountains, rivers, and plants have held a fascination for people worldwide for countless generations. The Deva kingdom is essentially the world’s form builders, the symphony at the heart of Creation, yet Deva is so much more than the joyful beings that animate what we call Nature. We each have a very personal and direct relationship with Deva via our physical, astral, emotional, and mental elementals, but this connection has been forgotten or, at the very least, overlooked. When we partner with Deva in our everyday lives, we can help evolve both our kingdom and aspects of theirs. Exploring the realm of Deva and our relationship with them, Jacquelyn E. Lane introduces us to the hierarchy of the Deva kingdom, from elementals and nature spirits to higher Deva and the levels in between. She examines the metaphysics that underlie their existence and how the energy of Deva is intrinsic to all that we experience. Deva is a Sanskrit word meaning “Being of Light,” an appropriate name as Deva sing light out of the primordial darkness to create forms for Being. Sharing her personal experiences with Deva in many lands over four decades, the author investigates our relationship with Deva, in particular via the elementals of our human constitution, and how we can communicate with the Deva of trees and plants as well as the angelic kingdom. Through scientific discoveries and cultural traditions, we discover the impact we have on Deva and how we use and even “create” new forms of Deva via our inventions and collective activity. Jacquelyn also looks at the orchestrating function of higher Deva and the wider implications of our understanding of Deva, including the role of Deva in Pan consciousness--our increasing realization of the intricate matrix of life within and between all the kingdoms on Earth. Offering not only an in-depth introduction to the world of Deva but also a glimpse of their wisdom, humor, and joy, this book reveals how we can begin to hear their complex song, find our own song, and work with the appropriate subtle layers of the Deva kingdom to grow and evolve.

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Song | Are There Fairies at the Bottom of Your Garden? | What Are Deva? | What Do Deva Do? | The Sea of Deva | The Nature of Reality | On Landing | Learning to Drive Our Vehicle | Growing Up with the Inner Eye Open | The Scope of This Book Part One Elemental Tunes One Density Sensing Faerie | What Does “Level of Density” Mean? | From Simplicity to Complexity | Why a Kingdom? | The Elementals | What Do Nature Spirits Do? | Deva Hierarchy from the Bottom-Up | Deva Hierarchy from the Top-Down | Your House As a Song | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Simultaneously | Naming Two The Earth Element The Lemurian | Australian Encounters | Under Hill and Over Mountain | Ancient Lands | The Old Ones | Our Subtle Connectors | Talking Rocks | A Shared History | The Quarry Creature | Walking the Lines | Light Grids | A Soil Gnome | Deserts | As Above, So Below | Alone with a Red Desert | The Need for a Framework Three Sound The Elephant Story | In the Beginning | The Creative Source | What’s Happening in the Void? | Human Sound and Deva Response | Words, Words, Words | Sound as Healing | Earth Sound | Where the Sound Originates | Simultaneous Creation | Life in the Spaces | Letting Ideas Float Four Air Stillness and Breath | A Wilful Storm Deva | The Power of Stillness | Airplanes | Time Stealers Five Fire Powering the Universe | Grades of Fire | Earth Fire | Worlds within Worlds | Dragon Fire | Our Human Fire | The Fiery Nature of Will | An Ancient Fire of the Land | The Urge to Purge | Spirit and Fire | Hidden Dangers Six The Multi-level Singing Universe The Outside-Inside Worlds | The Veil | Building Subtle Structures of Reception | Take Your Time--It’s a Long Journey | Substance | Moving from the Outside In | Patterns and Planes | Life at the Bottom Seven Water The Nature of Water | Wetlands | Hidden Waterways | A Wandering God | Reconstruction | Watery “Mechanics” | The Rock Water Serpent | An Impressive Water Deva | Rain | Sea | Sea Deva Encounter | Macro and Micro | Large Sea Deva | The Joy of Deva | Layers of Consciousness and Perception | Clouds | Airy Shepherds | Ancient Water Elementals | Attraction and Repulsion | Fluidity Part Two Who’s Singing Your Song? Eight Emotion Human vs Deva Evolution | Our Own Cosmos | The Sea of Deva | Our Own Subtle “Water” | Astral Body Dangers | A Warning Tale | Where Does Healing Happen? | The Plane of Desire | The Quality of Desire | Desire and Distortion | A Ladder for the Astral Elementals | The Astral Sea | Astral Fog | Battle Grounds | Desire and Aspiration | Evolving Our Elementals | The Astral Illusion | The Truth about the Astral Plane Nine Thought From Feeling to Mind | The Fire of Mind | The Quality of Thought | Early Programming | The Ordering Brain | The Subconscious Advantage | Where Are Our Thoughts? | Helpful Imagination | The Distortion Challenge | Lessons from the Parking “Angels” | The Power of Focus | Distaste for Hierarchies | Ancient Fires | Mental Plane Illusion and Pitfalls | Personal Songs of the Mental Plane | Into the Abstract Ten Deva We Create Organizations | Airport Deva | Electronic Mischief | Intentional Design | The Internet | Deva of Commerce | Creative Interaction | Zones--Interactive Edges | Managing Our Elemental Zones | From Void to Form | Our Mediating Zones | Conscious Creation | How We and Deva Create a Building | According to Laws | What’s Our Job? | Not Ours to Control Part Three Symphonies Eleven For the Love of Trees Besotted | Archetypal Architects | What Is Death? | The Death of Trees | Another Rescue | A Kinder Way | The Importance of Roots | Preparing Trees for Death | Screams | Singing Them Home | Time Tricks and Language | Elastic Form | Sound, Time, and Light Twelve Tree Harmonies and Jarring Notes Pine, Oak, and Beech | Notes and Tunes | Defying Gravity | Tree Life on the Inside | Internal Realities for Suburban Trees | Size and Awareness | Trees as Meridians | Trees in the Landscape | A Matter of Value | Botanical Breathing Spaces | Out of Kilter | Geo Stress | Can We Help? | Monocultures | Cottonwoods | Old Twisted Yews | Myths, Symbols, and Trees | Different Cultures--Similar Stories Thirteen Working with Nature How Trees Adapt to Us | Animals | The Fungi Deva | Crop Field Deva | The Barley Deva | The Rape Seed Deva | A Bad Paint Job | Verification | Applying the Learning Fourteen Touching the Angelic Kingdom Expanding the Picture | Let Them Seek You Out | The Emerald Forests | An Airy Water Master | The Coral Deva | Overlighting Green Deva | At What Level Do We Communicate with Deva? | A Matter of Light Fifteen Experiencing Symphony Loving the Forests | Ancient Forest Immersion | Enduring the Storms | A Wall of Intelligence | The Myth of Empty Space | Weaving the Songs | Are We Learning Yet? | Climate Change | Planetary Deva Sixteen Meeting the Singers The Gateway to Deva | What Will They Look Like? | Where Do We See Them? | Seeing Nature Spirits | Engaging Our Upper Centres | Gentle Persistence | What Can You Expect? | City Bound? | Listening to the Whispers | Fair Warning | Is It All Sweetness and Light? |The Sad Reality Seventeen Deva, Religion, and Pan Culture Clashes | Out of the Closet | Deva and Religion | Echoes of the Past | A Banished Deva “God” | A Sense of Light | When the Whispers Become a Song | Healthy Nature | Subtle Signals Eighteen Consciousness Why Is Consciousness So Important | Our Bungee Jumping Journey Our Ladder of Consciousness | The Brain--Bringing Past and Future Together | Where We Focus, We Become | The “Where?” Trap | Towards Synthesis | Deva Know We’re Here | The Circulating Song | Dangerous Attitudes | Becoming Aware | The Other Half of Us | Who Are the Singers? | In Closing Appendix Illustrations Bibliography Books Articles and Papers Viewing and Listening Acknowledgements About the Author

About the Author :
A widely traveled New Zealander, Jacquelyn E. Lane is an artist and educator who has been involved in a broad range of metaphysical studies for nearly 50 years. She is the author and illustrator of The Children of Gaia and scribe of This World of Echoes.

Review :
“In Deva, Jacquelyn E. Lane presents us with a compelling exposition of the indwelling light of all forms of earthly life--an indwelling hierarchy with eternal descent from highest planes of light to the mundane density of our plane of existence, which still contains the ultimate creative energy to rise again. She poetically brings us into the heart of creative expression itself: joy in the experience of wonder in all things.” “This book should come with a health warning--May cause uplifting joy in the normally serious reader.” “Deva is mind-blowingly wonderful and well written. It has been uplifting for me to read on so many levels. I was blown away not only by the incredible experiences that Lane has had and shared in this book but also by the strong and solid arguments it makes and the importance of the subject matter in relation to the many issues we are facing today--personal, political, and environmental. It also gave me a deep sense of feeling reconnected.” “I am in awe of Jacquelyn E. Lane’s ability to write and describe the intangible. I am left with a presence not easily described--more like a folding in of energy holding the physical body in grace. Colors abound! And joy is felt! I applaud Jacquelyn’s bravery and courage to reveal her inner vision and share with readers such a personal gift. Her discussion of esoteric principles of philosophy is quite an achievement--cosmic Fire in those few pages! Well done!” “I have thoroughly enjoyed Deva and learned so much from it. Right from the introduction and first chapter, it grabbed my attention with the clear explanations. I felt it was in everyday language and all the author’s examples and tales of her experiences made it easy to relate to. I love the touches of humor too--very refreshing. I certainly have a new understanding of nature and life and look at things differently as I’m driving or walking along and out and about in the world. Understanding this makes a lot of things fall into place. The writing is beautiful, and I can’t wait to read it again and again!” “This book explains the things in life I was sensing as a young child but unable to express at the time. I was searching for the magic and mystery of life, and your book corroborates my first impressions of it! I really had no idea deva was such a vast subject matter. I think that if people grasped that deva is not just about the fairies in the flowers but a lens with which to understand the nature of reality then they would have a much broader appeal. I enjoyed the way Jacquelyn E. Lane beautifully married science and metaphysics and included her fascinating personal experience with the deva kingdom. I’ve been waiting for a book that covers the history--the how and the why of deva--and you have nailed it.” “This book gives us an excitement of learning about something we don’t normally see. It opens up a whole world of understanding what is out there and brings an awareness that there is so much more to the concepts of sound, energy, and vibration.” "In the book Deva, the author explains that deva is the kingdom of substance and form and that they infuse all things with intelligence. The Deva activate nature. The Deva kingdom includes faeries, nature spirits, elves and all matter surrounding our planet. This book provides a better understanding to of creation and our part in the world. This book is not a light read, but for those who wish to go deeper down the rabbit hole, the information is plentiful and provides opportunity for deeper thinking about humanity and all aspects of creation itself." "Deva: Our Relationship with the Subtle World by Jacquelyn E. Lane is a title that anyone who is serious about the undertaking of engaging and communicating with the natural world should read. Lane is an educator by profession and this is quite apparent in the organization of the book. She has also been involved in the study of metaphysics for 50+ years, and this experience is the underpinning of this particular title and its teachings regarding the work of collaboration with the laws and spirits of nature through the development of a relationship of mutual respect, stewardship, and care. Deva has been an immensely satisfying book to read and I am looking forward to the many re-reads I will give as my own journey in connecting more deeply to the Deva continues. Open your eyes with new wonder and call out from your highest intention and you may just be surprised at who/what calls back in reply."