Finding Lost Items

[ElfSeeker]

I'm currently reading and using "The Practice of Celtic Wisdom: Druid Magic" by Maya Magee Sutton, Ph.D. and Nicholas R. Mann as my introductory guidebook to Druidry. One of the abilities listed as being possible by Druids is locating missing items without searching for them. Has anyone else come across this? I'm really quite bad at it, probably because my mind is so untrained. If anyone is good at this, maybe they can impart some advice. I have a box of books that have been missing for three years now. I know they're in the garage, but I'm having trouble finding where specifically as the garage is full of boxes and junk. I think - I hope - that some of my missing spiritual books are in that box.

I'm sorry if this seems like a lame topic, but as with any guide book I want to see how accurately it fits with what other Druids know. I know this isn't limited to just Druidry, finding lost items is also a psychic ability, one I learned about in a psychic class years ago.

~ ElfSeeker

[DJ Droood]

I just spent a good part of the morning looking for my sunglasses, which I had placed behind the toaster for some reason..I am obviously no Maya Magee Sutton, Ph.D

[Lily]

I'd say part of my flavor of druid magic would be to inventorize that garage.

Never heard of it and it eludes me why this would be a particularly "druidic" skill....

[Heddwen]

I've read the book but don't recall the bit about relocating lost objects. Is this something like cosmic ordering?

[andromeda]

I just spent a good part of the morning looking for my sunglasses, which I had placed behind the toaster for some reason..I am obviously no Maya Magee Sutton, Ph.D

I normaly ask the house spirit but, one has to develop a relationship with she/he otherwise it is not guaranteed

Fairies are quite good too if you like working with them. They like that one shares sweets with them though

[Oakapple]

Sorry couldnt resist a google search for the goddess of lost things, there seem to be quite a few real ones, but I like the sound of Anoia (Terry Pratchett) http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Anoia

[Lily]

for catholics, St. Anthony is the man of the hour

http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst ... nthony.htm

[ElfSeeker]

Haha! Good. I'm not the only one who isn't Maya. Maybe its an ability unique to her and perhaps she assumed it being an ability all Druids have.

The garage is an enormous mountain of things. I climbed over a vintage sofa on top of a pile of junk trying to find that damn box of books. We do need to re-organize. I think what happened is that I put the box at the front of the garage, but it was probably moved elsewhere by my mother or father. It should be with my college items but it's not. Most of the stuff out there belongs to my parents or sister. Ironically I found a pair of cowgirl boots that I had forgotten about.

And thanks to those who gave me links! I didn't think of praying to or approaching a God/Goddess, Saint or Faeries who helps one find lost things. I'll experiment with these options and will see what happens. Thanks everyone for the responses.

~ ElfSeeker

[Bart]

for catholics, St. Anthony is the man of the hour

http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst ... nthony.htm

This one was taught to me when I was Young. My mother had a special relationship with him. Occassionally still ask him, since my keys seem to wander on their own.

[katie bridgewater]

Finding lost things is a special skill which can be developed through practice and patience. I'm naturally a good 'finder of lost things' and I work hard to keep this skill in use by helping find stuff for people whenever I can (yesterday I was able to locate my dad's brass microscope eyepiece which had flown across the room and landed in a most unfindable place, especially since my dad is partially sighted.) The way to find lost things is, for me, to stand very still and close my eyes and think very calmly about how things move and where they go, what they will look like against other objects and why they haven't been found by the person who was there when they lost the item. It requires a sensitivity to materials and 3 dimensional space, and an understanding of basic physics and forces. Then begins the utterly methodical task of scanning of the place it seems they will be. It's usually apparent quite soon if you are looking in the wrong place. Instinct kicks in and if you keep yourself sensitive and open, then quite often it's possible to find missing object easily, given a little time. I believe we know and see far more than we think, and if we can use the skill of the hunter who is finely attuned to his surroundings, then we can improve our ability to spot things we are looking for. Lifesaving if you live as a hunter-gatherer, which underneath our pampered exteriors, is what we are fundamentally evolved to be.

However, I can safely say that this ability is not psychic, it's entirely physical and requires no supernatural explanation. And it has nothing to do with druidry per se, whatever your book claims. I could do it long before I even met a druid. And I have never found praying to any particular saint or deity has improved my performance either!

I have however, in my lifetime failed to find at least 3 important things: the pixie from the top of my first money box, my ruby ring which I think my partner at the time actually stole (bastard) and the set list Corwen, Damh and I made at a rehearsal in February this year that they insist I had, but I myself have no recollection of this...