Etheric Sanctuaries: Crafting Realms of Healing and Magic in the Ether

I have come to learn that in my group facilitation work with healing, entertaining, and mystical spaces like Seven Moon Cove and Dead of Winter, I create landscapes and structures from between thoughts, holy imaginative vision, weaving the unseen into places you can feel but never touch. The concept becomes the form. (“How exciting!” I think.) The idea becomes the meeting place. I am so entertained by this right now and want to share this discovery in some way.

Seven Moon Cove first appeared in my mind’s eye after I heard the title Seven Moon Cove lifted out of a memory of an actual cove I visited in Maine in 2017, where I saw the sun reflecting as two suns off the water while being visited by a seal. The memory was a spark of guidance for me. That title and image in my mind guided me to create and lead a group of 10 people inside a mystical play space called Seven Moon Cove. For seven months, this group met once a month to visit the Cove together in shared meditative time. I tended to the Cove outside of our group time together, breathing life into its sands, lighting fires at the water’s edge, until it became real—not in bricks or stone but in the etheric realm. The Cove became a sanctuary, a place between worlds, a ready-made daydream where whimsy, The Great Mother, and healing flowed beyond the boundaries of the tangible.

Oftentimes, my Seven Moon Cove guests would find treasures, personalized tokens, and rest at the Cove. Even when our seven months together ended, they were still welcome to visit the Cove through their holy imagination whenever needed.

The Cottage grew within Dead of Winter, nestled in the heart of imaginative spaces where artists gathered once a month for four months during the winter of 2024/25 to explore themes of death in art history, contemporary art, and their own art practice. The Cottage, like the Cove, was more than an idea; it began to be shaped by the group’s collective imagination—a place to find respite, camaraderie, magic, and inspiration. The Cottage is real because we met there, not in body but in spirit, building the structure, the gardens, the atmosphere with our collective focus.

Though I can barely grasp quantum physics, I am inspired by and understand the observer effect theory—where the observation of a thing changes the thing, where directed consciousness shapes reality. I believe that I, with the shared focus with my guests, have created etheric sanctuaries. While I am not able to prove that the Cove and The Cottage exist in a tangible way, I can prove that they exist in thought form.

I have, through repetitive focus on these spaces with others, experienced the vividness of these places. This particularly applies to the Cove, where I have now taken over twenty guests repeatedly over the course of fourteen months, and where even when I’m not there in my imagination, I can still feel its existence just beyond the material plane I am in.

When I imagine spaces like the Cove and The Cottage, I am not merely daydreaming; I am directing thought energy into the quantum field. In this realm, thought is a force that influences how energy organizes itself. By vividly envisioning these places, feeling their textures, hearing their sounds, and guiding others to do the same, we are creating potential realities in the etheric plane.

Every child is born with a wide ability to imagine. I worked closely with toddlers for nineteen years, and much of our time together was spent in imaginative play. I had the hunch, through working with children and my own art and meditation practices, that imagination is a powerful tool for creations that can exist beyond the mundane. Now, after completing the second round of Seven Moon Cove and the first Dead of Winter, I am convinced that imagination is holy and wildly more powerful than I understand currently. But I’m onto something here.

It is possible to create meeting spaces with our kin and community beyond tangible realms. I look forward to visiting these two etheric sanctuaries again soon with more guests!