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Title: Faerie has it's own agenda.
Review: The author of this book seems to have had no real experience with the subject he is writing about and has not only approached the faerie realm and faeries from a scientific and scholarly point of view, but he hasn't done his research well enough to succeed from that angle. He seems to have taken his viewpoint from theosophical works rather than from actual experience. The New Age philosophy which reduces faeries to elementals or diminished nature spirits is disrespectful. The suggestion that faeries are lesser inhabitants of an Angelic Kingdom who can be called upon or commanded by human ritual as helper spirits or gaurdian angels is dangerous and distracts from recognition of a genuine experience with Faerie. If you are looking for a guide to the otherworld realm or non-fiction material that is evocative of Faerie, I would suggest reading the works of R.J. Stewart as an antidote to this.
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