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.

“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.”

• 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 FirePowering 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 PlaneNine 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 AbstractTen 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 ThreeSymphonies 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 LightTwelve 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 LearningFourteen 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 FifteenExperiencing 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 RealitySeventeen 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 IllustrationsBibliography Books Articles and Papers Viewing and Listening AcknowledgementsAbout 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.

“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.”

• 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 FirePowering 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 PlaneNine 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 AbstractTen 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 ThreeSymphonies 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 LightTwelve 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 LearningFourteen 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 FifteenExperiencing 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 RealitySeventeen 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 IllustrationsBibliography Books Articles and Papers Viewing and Listening AcknowledgementsAbout the Author