Cher Gilmore, for Share International
September – October 2026 • Vol 4, No 24
Some would scoff at the very concept of “nature spirits” and “devas,” because in our materialistic culture, we’re trained to believe the only reality is what we can see and measure. The ancients knew intuitively the importance of the natural world, recognizing the interconnectedness of all things. However, with the invention of tools that allowed us to exploit and control nature’s resources, we lost that direct, cooperative relationship with the forces we depend upon for our survival. Now, as we experience the many crises created by that separative approach, we’re beginning to reassess our relationship with the Earth.
In multiple locations around the world, groups and individuals have re-learned experientially how beneficial it is to cooperate with rather than overpower natural processes. Some are finding they can access their etheric vision and see nature spirits and devas—or even merge their consciousness energetically with them. Esotericists provide a parallel spiritual perspective, and even modern science has confirmed that we live in a universe much more expansive than we thought. Science and spirituality are converging.
Our Vibrational Universe
Scientifically, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics have proven that our universe is made up only of vibrations, absolutely interconnected, with no separation. Objects that we see as the only reality are, in fact, simply vibrations of a denser frequency. According to experiences recorded in The Findhorn Garden and The Kingdom of the Gods, described in following sections, devas, in this more accurate cosmology, exist at a high vibration, invisible to most, and function to hold the archetypal pattern for each plant species. They direct energy toward bringing individual plants into dense form on the physical plane, whether a giant tree or a blade of grass.
Nature spirits or elementals, from this broader perspective, channel the energies from the devas to create an “etheric body” for each plant or manifestation, according to its archetypal pattern. These etheric bodies are akin to ours, which can be seen in Kirlian photographs as auras. Although we’re largely unaware of them, nature devas are fundamental to the inner structure of our planet and play a large role in how our environment acts and reacts.
The Findhorn Garden
Modern experiential evidence of nature spirits and devas was provided by Peter and Eileen Caddy’s work in Findhorn, Scotland, as described in the book, The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation. In 1962, Peter, Eileen, their three sons, and their colleague Dorothy Maclean moved their thirty-foot caravan trailer into a park on a narrow, sandy peninsula jutting into the North Sea. Peter was unemployed, and the six of them were living on eight pounds (about $20 USD) a week in unemployment benefits. They had moved to that spot based on guidance Eileen received in meditation.
Peter, Eileen, and Dorothy had each engaged in arduous spiritual training throughout their lives. Says Peter, “We had learned to surrender everything, including our wills, to God. Thus, when we were told that what we were doing at Findhorn would be of importance to the world, that there was a pattern and plan behind it, impossible as this seemed considering our circumstances, we accepted it.”
At Findhorn, they were exposed to nearly constant winds from all sides, and the soil was just sand and gravel held together by couch grass. Peter, still without a job in the spring of 1963, decided to start a small garden and began collecting materials for compost to add to the sandy soil. Soon after the first seeds were sown, Dorothy, who had always had the closest link with nature, made a direct contact with the deva of the garden pea.
From that initial contact followed a long process of communicating with more devas about the development of what became an ever-growing garden, overflowing with life. The devas told Dorothy they liked variety in the garden, because each plant offers its unique radiation—and many devas wanted to participate in the experiment! In 1964, the Findhorn crew grew 65 different vegetables, 21 fruits, and 42 different herbs.
The produce not only had outstanding vitality and flavor, but was also remarkable in quantity and size. In the second growing season, for example, while red cabbages normally weigh about four pounds at maturity, two at Findhorn weighed in at 38 and 42 pounds!
The devas explained that much of the imbalance in nature has been caused by man, “killing off the birds who fed on insects, for example, by using poisonous insecticides or by filling the atmosphere with chaotic thoughts and unnatural atomic radiations [e.g., from nuclear weapons testing]. As we put life into the soil, they told us, and refrained from using those materials which destroy life, we were working to right the balance.”
The Findhorn garden confounded the County Horticultural Adviser. He had come to take a soil sample, explaining he was familiar with the soil in that area and “knew” that there would be deficiencies. However, the nature spirits had assured Peter that if the soil was deficient, they would produce the elements needed for perfect growth. And so, they did. The horticultural expert’s soil analysis found no deficiencies whatsoever, which both baffled and impressed him.
“The garden,” Peter concluded, “clearly had become the focal point for an experiment in the cooperation of three kingdoms: the devic, the elemental, and the human. Each of us at Findhorn was playing a distinct and necessary role. Eileen received direct guidance from the voice of God within. Dorothy was in communication with the devas. Roc [a close off-site friend and participant] had the ability to see and speak with nature spirits. I was the representative of man, the active practical creator of the garden… We were learning how these three kingdoms could work together to create a new world in accord with the divine plan.”
Perelandra & Other Experiences with Nature
Another center dedicated to cooperation with nature sprung up a decade later, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, in the United States. Machaelle Wright founded the Perelandra Center for Nature Research to study and provide tools for cooperating with nature’s intelligence. She believes our current global crises show
that we don’t know how to live in balance with the intelligence inherent in nature. We created chaos together by “each of us acting independently and establishing a personal and professional lifestyle that was environmentally deaf, dumb, and blind.” By working in partnership with nature, however, we can learn to make the best decisions for ourselves and for the planet.
Machaelle’s Perelandra research work shows how this can be done in practice. Among the ten books she’s written are two Garden Workbooks, and she also offers Perelandra flower essences and soil balancing kits, as well as other resources for working intelligently with nature.
On another continent, Australian Michael Roads found in the 1980s that he could merge his consciousness with various aspects of nature: rivers, trees, plants, and the animal kingdom. One could say he learned to experience nature directly, and he recorded his experiences in a number of books in the 1980s and 1990s. His revelation, too, was the interconnectedness of everything, as described in his book, Journey into Oneness.
Still earlier, Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson, in The Kingdom of the Gods, provides an in-depth explanation of all of the kingdoms of nature—all emanating from the “Absolute, Unknowable, Infinite and Unchanging Source and Foundation” of everything. He describes in detail his personal observations between 1921 and 1929 of what he calls “the lesser Gods,” comprised of many different types of nature spirits existing at varying levels of evolution—all with differing characteristics and functions. Illustrations based on his descriptions, such as the one below of a tree nature spirit, were drawn by Ethelwynne Quail for his book.
Weather and Devas
Modern science tells us that weather patterns such as global warming is largely a question of physics. However, as we’ve seen, there’s another dimension to weather that we ignore at our peril. And that is the reality of devas and nature spirits who control the elements of nature.
Esoterically, the late Benjamin Creme was rooted in the Ageless Wisdom tradition. For forty years, until 2016, he was the primary spokesperson for the emerging World Teacher for this age, Maitreya. Maitreya is the head of his group, the Masters of Wisdom, who hold the divine Plan for the evolution of this planet.
Creme explains that devas are a separate but parallel evolution to human—devas from a “feeling” line, and humans from a “thinking” line. He says there are many different kinds and categories (including elves, fairies, sprites), and that crucially, they respond to human thought.
“Destructive thoughtforms of humanity create the conditions of imbalance and tension in the world,” he says. “The imbalance between the developed world and the Third World—the poverty and suffering that ensues from that imbalance and therefore the thoughtforms of pain, agony and of destruction—pour into the mind-belt of the world. They affect what are called the devic elementals whose work it is to control the weather patterns of the world.” Their disequilibrium creates weather disequilibrium.
To end climate chaos, we must see ourselves as One, understand that everything is interconnected, and connect with nature as the ancients did. We must banish war forever. We must share the resources of this planet which belong to all. And we must learn to live in harmony with the planet itself to create a future of harmony with each other.
We can grow miraculous gardens and tame our chaotic weather patterns by working in cooperation with nature for the benefit of all. But will we? The more people who understand that we humans impact literally everything by what we think and do, the more likely we are to solve our current crises. If you agree, share this information so we can transform the world!
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