Fairytales - Esoteric Lessons for the Inner Child

Fairytales - Esoteric Lessons for the Inner Child

Sleeping Beauty refers to the state of presence not aware of itself. – The Teacher

Fairytales, a genre intended for children, are also intended for the child within. It is much more than children’s literature, according to the teachings in my school. Certain fictional tales, including many fables, myths, fantasies, or fairytales appeal to my essence and contain powerful esoteric messages if I am open to it.

Why is this possible? A fairytale is capable of penetrating through my thick false personality skin and reaching into a simpler more childlike part of me, my essence. When I read a fairytale, I suspend my expectations and sense that I am reading a factual story. That suspension, if I am receptive to the reading, allows the whimsical part of me to see and feel the ideas, contradictions, paradoxes, and metaphors that go beyond my daily, normal experience.

I am the Sleeping Beauty, the ugly duckling, and the shrinking Alice. My life is a fairytale if I am aware of myself.

Even the serious British philosopher, G.K. Chesterton, wrote, “I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.” Use the art of the fairytale to learn about yourself and to explore the unknown recesses of your higher faculties. Put away the mass media and social media for a day and read the literature that resonates with your inner child. C. S Lewis quipped, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” That day could be today.

So I invite you to revisit your favorite childhood fairytales and ponder their deeper esoteric or mystical meanings. What do you find? What questions or mysteries are answered?

Age does not make us childish; it finds us true children still. − Johann von Goethe

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Sleeping Beauty, Konrad Dielitz