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& REVIEWS MEETING FAIRIES experiences with this extraordinary by R. Ogilvie Crombie person, Roc. This is a book with Inspired Living/Allen & Unwin, Aust, wisdom to be treasured and acted 2009, © Findhorn Fn et al., 2009 upon, especially in the face of ISBN 978-1-74175-990-7 (205pp hc) uncertainties with GE agriculture and Available: www.allenandunwin.com environmental change. ROCKS & ROWS by Jay Stuart Wakefield and Reinoud M. De Jonge MCS Inc., Kirkland, WA, USA, 2010 ISBN 978-0-917054-20-4 (416pp tpb) Available: jayswakefield4@yahoo.com; www.howthesungod.com ot only did Bronze Age seafarers make trans-oceanic voyages, they left maps of how to find far-distant islands and lands as well as inland river systems such as in North America. These symbolic maps are man of the arts and sciences, R. carved in stone and can be found in Ogilvie Crombie (1899-1975), or key megalithic sites of the Old and "Roc" as he was known, was always New worlds, confirming that these interested in esoteric and occult seafarers and settlers were trading matters but it was not until 1966 that goods like copper...and their he made contact with the inner genes...across seas and oceans. spirits of nature. While visiting the Since the 2002 publication of How Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, the Sungod Reached America (9/04), he encountered a faun, or nature collaborators Jay Wakefield and spirit, and soon after he had many Reinoud De Jonge have come across ife-changing encounters with the more evidence to support their giant faun Pan, the god of the whole proposition. In the introduction to elemental kingdom as well as of the Rocks & Rows, they discuss stones animal, vegetable and mineral bearing Phoenician script discovered ingdoms. Pan instilled in Roc the in New York, plants from the importance of humanity's working Americas found across the Western with, not against, nature. hemisphere, Iberian genes identified Soon, Roc was a regular visitor at in the Amerindians, and Egyptian he Findhorn community in finds in Brittany, England and North northeastern Scotland, set up by America. They also suggest that Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy we've gone through eight abrupt Maclean, who communicated with climate changes during the last he angelic spirit devas channelling 10,000 years, which have coincided cosmic energy to nature. Roc played with the fall of civilisations. his part by relaying the importance of This compelling book transports us working in harmony with the from the Cairn of Barnénez in elementals who help organise plant _ Brittany, c. 4800 BC, where stone growth—for which Findhorn became —_ngcriptions show explorations of the renowned—and by being an overseer. British Isles according to latitudes, to This beautifully produced book has — the monument of Ales Stenar in extracts from many of Roc's lectures sweden, ¢. 500 BC, a "Sunship to the and contributions from Findhorn Realm of the Dead". The book is rich Foundation members including Mike, , colour photos, illustrations and Scott, David Spangler, Brian Nobbs maps and gives valuable leads into and Dorothy Maclean on their ancient advanced knowledge. MEETING FAIRIES by R. Ogilvie Crombie Inspired Living/Allen & Unwin, Aust, 2009, © Findhorn Fn et al., 2009 ISBN 978-I-74175-990-7 (205pp hc) Available: www.allenandunwin.com man of the arts and sciences, R. Ogilvie Crombie (1899-1975), or "Roc" as he was known, was always interested in esoteric and occult matters but it was not until 1966 that he made contact with the inner spirits of nature. While visiting the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, he encountered a faun, or nature spirit, and soon after he had many ife-changing encounters with the giant faun Pan, the god of the whole elemental kingdom as well as of the animal, vegetable and mineral ingdoms. Pan instilled in Roc the importance of humanity's working with, not against, nature. Soon, Roc was a regular visitor at he Findhorn community in northeastern Scotland, set up by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, who communicated with he angelic spirit devas channelling cosmic energy to nature. Roc played his part by relaying the importance of working in harmony with the elementals who help organise plant growth—for which Findhorn became renowned—and by being an overseer. This beautifully produced book has extracts from many of Roc's lectures and contributions from Findhorn Foundation members including Mike Scott, David Spangler, Brian Nobbs and Dorothy Maclean on their NEXUS ¢ 73 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com