VERENA STAE L VON HOLSTEIN was born in Rendsburg in 1959. She studied surveying and hydrography and worked as a computer programmer and in the hydrographic surveying department. She is a homemaker with two children, and lives at a watermill in Lu neburger Heide, a heathland region in Northern Germany. A student of the work of Rudolf Steiner, from childhood onwards she has been able to perceive the etheric and astral realms in human beings and the natural world. She has learnt over many years to train her metaphysical perceptions so that communication with nature spirits takes place almost as a matter of course. She receives answers spiritually in the form of patterns, ideas and sometimes also images, and translates them into human concepts. She is the author of several books, including Nature Spirits of the Trees and What They Want to Tell Us.

• Foreword by Wolfgang Weirauch - Preliminary remarks by Verena Stae l von Holstein - Living with spirit beings by Verena Stae l von Holstein interviewed by Wolfgang Weirauch - Nature Spirits interviewed by Wolfgang Weirauch through the mediation of Verena Stae l von Holstein - 1. Miller, the House Spirit - 2. Echevit, the Watery One - 3. Kapuvu, the Stone One - 4. Valliniyu, the Airy One - 5. Eknaton, the Fiery One - 6. The Four Groups of Elemental Beings Through the Year - 7. The High One - 8. The Paper Being - 9. Evil - 10. The Four Groups of Elemental Beings Through the Year - 10. The Cycle of the Year and the Christian Festivals - 11. Kollii, the One From the Marsh - 12. Moonlight, the Silver One - 13. Little Glass Man - 14. Kahine, the Salt Child - 15. Harmonious Elemental Beings - 16. The Relationship Between Humans and Nature Spirits - 17. Madeleine, Lady of the Pines - 18. Oakbeena - 19. Quadrom - 20. Knut, the Sandy One - 21. Moonlight, the Silver One - 22. The Paper Being - 23. Kahine, the Salt Child - 24. The Brown One - 25. Gnunno, the Green One - 26. Kapuvu, the Stone One - 27. Eknaton, the Fiery One - 28. Valliniyu, the Airy One - 29. Echevit, the Watery One - 30. The Catastrophic Flooding - 31. The High One - 32. Miscellaneous - 33. The Brown One - 34. Gnunno, the Green One - 35. Echevit, the Watery One - 36. The High One - 37. Kapuvu, the Stone One - My Abilities in Spiritual Perception Verena Stae l Von Holstein - Learning to Open Yourself to Nature - Friedrich Pfannenschmidt interviewed by Wolfgang Weirauch - Thematic Index

VERENA STAE L VON HOLSTEIN was born in Rendsburg in 1959. She studied surveying and hydrography and worked as a computer programmer and in the hydrographic surveying department. She is a homemaker with two children, and lives at a watermill in Lu neburger Heide, a heathland region in Northern Germany. A student of the work of Rudolf Steiner, from childhood onwards she has been able to perceive the etheric and astral realms in human beings and the natural world. She has learnt over many years to train her metaphysical perceptions so that communication with nature spirits takes place almost as a matter of course. She receives answers spiritually in the form of patterns, ideas and sometimes also images, and translates them into human concepts. She is the author of several books, including Nature Spirits of the Trees and What They Want to Tell Us.

• Foreword by Wolfgang Weirauch - Preliminary remarks by Verena Stae l von Holstein - Living with spirit beings by Verena Stae l von Holstein interviewed by Wolfgang Weirauch - Nature Spirits interviewed by Wolfgang Weirauch through the mediation of Verena Stae l von Holstein - 1. Miller, the House Spirit - 2. Echevit, the Watery One - 3. Kapuvu, the Stone One - 4. Valliniyu, the Airy One - 5. Eknaton, the Fiery One - 6. The Four Groups of Elemental Beings Through the Year - 7. The High One - 8. The Paper Being - 9. Evil - 10. The Four Groups of Elemental Beings Through the Year - 10. The Cycle of the Year and the Christian Festivals - 11. Kollii, the One From the Marsh - 12. Moonlight, the Silver One - 13. Little Glass Man - 14. Kahine, the Salt Child - 15. Harmonious Elemental Beings - 16. The Relationship Between Humans and Nature Spirits - 17. Madeleine, Lady of the Pines - 18. Oakbeena - 19. Quadrom - 20. Knut, the Sandy One - 21. Moonlight, the Silver One - 22. The Paper Being - 23. Kahine, the Salt Child - 24. The Brown One - 25. Gnunno, the Green One - 26. Kapuvu, the Stone One - 27. Eknaton, the Fiery One - 28. Valliniyu, the Airy One - 29. Echevit, the Watery One - 30. The Catastrophic Flooding - 31. The High One - 32. Miscellaneous - 33. The Brown One - 34. Gnunno, the Green One - 35. Echevit, the Watery One - 36. The High One - 37. Kapuvu, the Stone One - My Abilities in Spiritual Perception Verena Stae l Von Holstein - Learning to Open Yourself to Nature - Friedrich Pfannenschmidt interviewed by Wolfgang Weirauch - Thematic Index