8th Annual Fairy & Human Relations Congress
June 27th - 29th, 2008
Skalitude Retreat Center ~ Twisp ~ Methow Valley ~ North Cascades ~ WA

Some Thoughts
on the Collected Manuscripts
of Daphne Charters

by Michael Pilarski

There are a number of ways to explain the origin of Daphne Charters' manuscripts (over 1,000 pages in total). The manuscripts were written down a bit at a time over four decades until Daphne's passing on in 1991.

One explanation is that she simply made up these stories from her imagination and wrote them down; and if so, they should be regarded as fiction stories such as would be found in the fantasy sections of bookstores. This would be the only acceptable explanation to people who do not believe in fairies or communication with people in the afterlife.

For those people who believe in communication with unseen realms, there are a number of other possible explanations. For instance, that Daphne channeled the material or used automatic writing. In which case, what being(s) did she channel?

The explanation that Daphne herself gave for these hundreds of stories is that Daphne could see the fairies and carry on long conversations with them. She had ongoing friendships with fairies for decades. The fairies told Daphne about their lives, their exploits, their work and their spiritual development. Daphne wrote it all down. In this explanation these manuscripts are narrations which Daphne transcribed. As such, they are stories about the lives of the fairies told in their own words. The fairies in the stories are mainly nature fairies or house fairies.

Taken as a whole, Daphne's manuscripts include hundreds of characters from many different evolutions and planes of being. Most are fairies, but there are also humans who are not alive on our physical planet at this time. Some of the humans are highly spiritually evolved, while others would seem quite normal to us.

In "Perima: The Story of a House Fairy", Perima and her companions travel into the realms of hell to do a soul retrieval. This was written long before soul retrievel became such a well known topic in today's neo-shamanistic circles.

A note about language. Please realize that Daphne grew up in England in the early 1900s and wrote down many of these stories in the 1950's; so her language is different than today in the USA. For instance, we are less likely to use the male pronouns (his, him) when referring to groups. Daphne was limited to the words in her vocabulary and in the cultural context and grammar of the time. Please don't take offense to some of her language. We have not edited any of these writings.

Whether one approaches Daphne's stories as pure fiction fairy tales, or whether one sees them as true communications from the fairy realm, they are fascinating reading and filled with spiritual insights.

Following are some of my current perspectives as of December 2002. It is my current belief that all life is eternal and that the universe has many intelligent beings living on many planes of being. This is nothing new to most religions and current new age thought. There are literally hundreds of books available on "life after death" and many thousands of people who claim to be able to communicate with fairies, angels and non-physical human beings. At this time, there are millions of people in the U.S. alone who believe in these things and probably hundreds of millions in the world as a whole.

Despite this vast amount of fairy and metaphysical writings available, there are still a number of unique things about Daphne Charters' manuscripts. One is the size of her writings and another the 40-year plus period of time when the writings were done. Over the past few decades there have been many books written about fairies. I have many of them in my library and am always on the lookout for more. Of the many I have looked at, only a few come anywhere close to the depth of relationship that Daphne had with her fairies. Daphne not only had long-term, close, personal friendships with over 30 individual fairies, she also worked with them. Furthermore, she introduced her fairy friends to the non-physical humans she was working with on the astral plane. The fairies and the astral humans formed friendships and partnerships.

Some of the most fascinating stories are about journeys that the fairies and humans take together to other planes of being, both above and below, their usual astral plane. When fairies and astral humans meditate together they can journey to higher planes of being.

Daphne's astral friends formed a group to travel to lower earth planes (which they termed "the underworld") to rescue lost human souls (the "earthbound"). After a period of time some of the fairies also joined these expeditions. In exchange, some of the humans joined fairy teams to rescue fairies who had sunk to lower planes. In my widespread reading in metaphysical literature, I have come across some references to people who did this work rescuing lost human souls in lower realms.

Due to the success of linking up humans and fairies to encourage friendships and greater understanding between the two evolutions, a Fairy & Human Relations Depot was set up on the astral plane. This became very successful with tens of thousands of fairies and humans being involved as detailed by Betty in a 1990 report. It was eventually named the Fairy & Human Relations Centre.

Another unusual aspect to some of these stories is that some of Daphne's fairy friends begin visiting the realms of other evolutions (in addition to fairy and human realms). For instance, the realms of the evolutions concerned with color, with sound, with scent, etc. There they forge friendships with individual beings from these other evolutions. Eventually the fairies, humans and other evolutions are able to merge their consciousnesses and journey together. These are new developments in inter-evolutionary communication.

Over the course of the decades that Daphne works with the fairies, additional fairies are assigned to work with her. Some of the fairies she works with early on are given promotions as they grow rapidly because of their contact with humans and other evolutions.

One of the most far-reaching outcomes of the friendship between Daphne and the fairies was the establishment of their annual Fairy & Human Relations Congress. The story of the beginnings of the Congress are found in Chapter 3 of "A True Fairy Tale" and in Daphne's preface to the 1985 Fairy Congress report. The Congress was a success from the very first one, (held sometime in the early 1950s) which 3,000 fairies from around the world attended, along with the high devas assigned to help keep it organized. The only humans present were not in their physical form with the exception of Daphne. The Congress was subsequently held annually, growing in size each year. The report on the 1985 Congress says that 200,000 fairies and numerous humans attended.

This Congress held in the fairy realm has inspired the creation of a Fairy & Human Relations Congress on the physical Earth plane. The first was held in 2001. We hope they will continue to be held annually and that it will be attended by many loving beings from the human and fairy evolutions.

Daphne Charters is no longer with us in the physical realm, but the effects of her work continue to ripple out as more people read "A True Fairy Tale" and the many other writings she left us in her Collected Manuscripts. You are invited to contact us if this sounds interesting to you and you would like to read more or help us in making Daphne's writings available to more people.

Fairy Blessings, Peace on Earth,

Michael Pilarski