'The guardian’s overall message, says Laura, is for humankind to send Light to our planet.' Photo: Book cover of Earth’s Voices: Messages for our times from nature’s guardians, by Laura Newbury
Earth’s Voices: Messages for our times from nature’s guardians, by Laura Newbury
Author: Laura Newbury. Review by Sue Glover Frykman
As an art student, Laura Newbury tried to capture the beauty of nature around the River Nairn, in northern Scotland. Thirty years or so later she returned to the moors and began to converse with the ‘nature guardian’ of the area. She calls this guardian a deva: Immortelle, an angel of the Earth, a shape-shifting Light body. The book records their conversation.
The guardian’s overall message, says Laura, is for humankind to send Light to our planet. For the devas to cooperate, survive and evolve, and for humans to exist on Earth, humans need to show respect. If the Earth dies, the entire universe will be thrown out of balance.
Laura describes the colours, sounds and sights she witnesses on her visits to the moor, and to Immortelle’s pools in particular. The rich and vivid descriptions help readers to imagine being there in the different seasons. These depictions bring the vibrations of the moor to the page.
Laura also covers some of the history of this part of Scotland, which adds further colour and interest to the book. She even reveals secrets about the Clava Cairns.
Laura began communicating messages from the angels in her first book, An Angels’ Guide to Working with the Power of Light. This time she conveys the deva’s messages in full, as they are translated to her by, she says, the angel Ariel. She also includes her own observations and fears of how the industrialised wilderness that many parts of Scotland – and the Scottish Highlands in particular – have become. Electricity pylons, wind farms and turbines, forestry operations, road infrastructure and housing developments have all ravaged the landscape in the name of energy and profit.
Immortelle tells Laura that the wind farms and today’s technology are already outmoded, and that we humans have the means to create the technology we need to provide light, heat and electricity without disrupting the environment. Natural kinetic energy does not destroy life forms. Rather, the Earth needs caretakers and custodians (not necessarily environmentalists) who do not see nature as something to battle with, tame, and develop in concrete and metal.
Immortelle’s words speak to us in our times. We are charged to hold the Light and send it out to friends, to those with whom we have no connection, to the places we love and the places we don’t like, to animals and nature. Change comes from within, from the heart, with love. According to Immortelle, turning our thoughts from fear to love would lead to world peace.
The book is thought-provoking and offers a clear message to us in our troubled contemporary world. It shows that our ancestors listened to the teachings from the more-than-human world, and respected the universe around them. The question for us is: when will we do the same?
