Traveling with a Troop of Gnomes

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REMINDER from Mano:

Everyone has been given Guardian Angels and Elemental companions to guide, guard, and support your living a magnificent daily life. Please notice their presence and give heartful thanks to bless them.

REMARKS from Barbara:

When I was first learning to relate with the elementals, I paid close attention to ways I could send love and give thanks.

REMEMBERING Mary Jane:

Mary Jane sincerely wanted to relate with the elementals. Toward the end of her life, a healer came to her home and confirmed that the house was full of elementals.  

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Traveling with a Troop of Gnomes

Blog #90

Mano has been away. He returned this week after my 93rd birthday. He reminded me of the very first time he connected directly with me in 2003 by dictating a message as I wrote it in the computer:

Put us first, Put us first. 
We have come back to relate again. 
We need the magnetic pull of human consciousness
talking to us and with us to stay close to the surface of the earth.
Otherwise we fade away into our inner realms
and lose contact and connection with human needs.
We must stay aware of your needs
or humanity will slip even further into the plastic, non-human,
scientific, created world that has no life, no life force within it……
….no elemental energy, no us.

I feel to focus on my connection with the gnomes that live with me. I will tell you their stories from the time when Mano was activating my experiences so I would truly be aware and believe their reality.

Mano once told me, “They are not immature little beings. They are majestic beings of high consciousness within the elemental kingdom, trained to interact with the human world.”

Apparently my soul volunteered for this service because it has unfolded seamlessly over the past 40 years. I am so grateful for all of the support Mano has given for this to be true.

Everything moved fast forward early in 2004 after my dear husband, Jim, died. The family was all here singing to him as he made his transition into the heavenly realm. I stayed with him for a while before returning to my bed on the couch. As I climbed in bed, I heard an inner yet audible voice say, “Will the Real Barbara Thomas please step forward?” I was shocked, I had never heard such a clear spirit voice. I wondered just who is this Real Barbara Thomas? I realized I had never lived alone. I moved from my parents’ home to college roommates then marriage to Jim.  I was intrigued and decided with clarity to find out just who this Real Barbara Thomas was.

Before his death, Jim and I had a lot of fun making plans to live in Europe for that summer of 2004. Starting in June with a tour of the Sacred Sites in Ireland, renting a cottage in a small Irish fishing village in July, then finishing our vacation in August with a workshop and tour of Sacred Sites in Wales. I knew I didn’t want to live in Europe alone, but I did want to attend both tours that had already been paid for. I decided to take a friend to Ireland in June, then return with another friend in August for the Wales tour.

Even though Jim and I had previously visited many Sacred Sites and Neolithic stone circles and monuments, this tour was different. I didn’t realize it at the time but I was being guided on a quest to discover The Real Barbara Thomas. Entering a cairn on the top of a hill in Ireland when I put my hand on the entrance carved stone, I recognized the carvings, I knew I had been there many times in ceremony and worship. I went inside, sat on the ground and cried. It felt like I had come home to a dear friend. My thoughts spoke to the spirits of the cairn, ‘I have come back. I told you I would return. I have come back.’ When I left the cairn, I lay on the ground still crying. A mist, almost a rain started falling, and when I sat up there was a double rainbow over the whole of Ireland. I felt it was a confirmation of my experience, I felt doubly blessed.

I had an equally stunning experience in Wales, and felt the call to return to continue visiting the Neolithic Sacred Sites in Scotland, Cornwall, and England in the next three years. My inner knowing is that I was gathering ‘parts of self’ left in those ancient places of worship and celebration.  I was gathering parts of soul that were being gathered to support the emergence of The Real Barbara Thomas. I was being guided to recognize and remember my soul commitment to be of service to Mother Earth, her elemental and angelic world of nature.

As I was packing to leave for Ireland Mano casually mentioned that he was sending some of the elementals who live in my house and on my land with me to visit “their homeland” in Ireland.

Hours later as I was pulling my suitcase through the airport, I became aware of five little gnomes walking behind me, each pulling a little suitcase behind them.

I thought, gosh, it looks like this is really happening. I continued to be conscious of their activities as I got settled in my seat. I could feel them excitedly helping each other buckle seat belts and getting settled. The motor started, the propellers whirled and all hell broke loose. Five terrified little gnomes were sitting on my lap shivering and clinging to me for comfort and safety. 

My next interaction came one morning during a day off when I stayed in our B&B, an old manner house. They came to my room and asked me to go outside with them. They had been telling (bragging to?) the local gnomes that they were traveling with ‘their person’. The locals didn’t believe them so I went downstairs with ‘my’ gnomes to meet the locals. I was not aware of anything but felt I had done my part by showing up.

My last conscious awareness of them was when I was lying on the wet earth after coming out of the cairn. I felt their little hands patting and comforting me as I cried. I don’t know if it is possible, but today I wonder if they were able to arrange for the double rainbow over the whole of Ireland as a promise that all is well.