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OWNER RON CORDES relaxes inside A FaeryTale, a new store on Benicia's First Street.Photo: David Pacheco/Times-Herald
Through the door at the top of the back staircase, past the vine-woven wooden banister railings, sits A FaeryTale, Ron Cordes' new store overlooking Benicia's First Street.
Cordes describes his shop, which recently opened, as a New Age or metaphysical store, depending on your point of reference.But however one labels it, A FaeryTale is a local emporium for nearly anything connected with the mythical enchanted beings.And Cordes doesn't just sell the stuff.He lives it.
"I'm not a prophet and I don't want to imply that I am," said Cordes, 55."I'm a man given a job to do to the best of my ability - to make people aware of their spirituality, and if they ask me, I can tell them how to seek it.I'm just a man who's here to open a door.I guess you could call me a doorman."
Not religious growing up, Cordes said his own spiritual journey began about a decade ago with a conversation with a co-worker.
"He was explaining out-of-body experiences and the astral world and alternate planes of existence, and soon after, I started meditating," Cordes said.
"You use different kinds of energy for this, and I use faery energy.I didn't seek them out, they sought me.If you had told me when I was younger that in 30 years I'd be sitting here with a faery on my head, I'd have died laughing."
Cordes wrote a book detailing his faery encounters, which began as a journal in which he documented them."A FaeryTale" is being published by American Books and is expected to be on store shelves by December, he said.
"Initially, I thought I was just experiencing lucid dreams, seeing old TV shows on my walls, and so on, and then one morning I encountered an energy orb about six inches across, spinning, transparent," Cordes said.This, he said, was his first faery encounter.He has such encounters more frequently now, and in fact is in fairly constant contact with his faery guide, Cassandra, whose likeness hangs framed behind the store's cash register, inside one of several murals gracing the shop's walls.
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There are animal totems, as well, which Cordes said most people who delve into the metaphysical deeply enough, find they need.
"The door to the metaphysical is usually open through meditation.Most people sooner or later learn they have an animal guide," he said.
The store carries faery-related greeting cards, tote bags, mouse pads and key chains.There are dolls, fine Franz porcelain china pieces, gem stones and energy crystals of various shapes and sizes.There also are Tarot cards and books and games, Buddha's, crystal balls, Egyptian items and representations of Asian and Indian deities.There are Chinese health balls, self-help books and information on Wiccans, children's books, jewelry, and music and meditation CDs.Prices range from $2 for certain keepsake boxes and crystals to $2,100 for some original artwork, Cordes said.
Cordes and his wife of 37 years, Karen, also 55, moved from Concord to Benicia more than two years ago.
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"There are more and more faery encounters happening every day," Cordes said.
This is fine, he added, since it will facilitate the creatures' mission.
"Faeries' mission is to assist humanity to raise our level of spirituality.Angels are messengers of God, and, like faeries, were created before man and given the job of caring for God's creation.Man was created as muscle for this job, but he's become a cancer on the planet," Cordes said.
Cordes said he knows he may be perceived as loony by some, but has passed the point of caring.
"It was a tough thing to suspend my own disbelief and admit there are faeries.I grew up an atheist, and gave no credence to a higher power," Cordes said.
He said the faeries led him to believe in God.
While she hasn't had the kind of paranormal encounters her husband has enjoyed, many of which, he said, are hilarious, Karen Cordes said she never doubted his experiences for a moment.
"After all these years of marriage, if he says he sees faeries, he sees faeries," she said, adding that she has had some degree of experience with the enchanted world and has both a faery guide named Isabella and an guardian angel.
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And Ron Cordes said he's content.
"It was scary leaving a well-paying job you know for something uncertain.You have to have a certain amount of faith.I put all my trust in God, the faeries, the metaphysical, and I have no doubt it's going to work," Cordes said.
"I was put here for a reason, and I couldn't be happier.I'm standing every day in the middle of my element, and everything in this store is something that could start a person on their journey," he said.
OWNER RON CORDES relaxes inside A FaeryTale, a new store on Benicia's First Street.Photo: David Pacheco/Times-Herald
Through the door at the top of the back staircase, past the vine-woven wooden banister railings, sits A FaeryTale, Ron Cordes' new store overlooking Benicia's First Street.
Cordes describes his shop, which recently opened, as a New Age or metaphysical store, depending on your point of reference.But however one labels it, A FaeryTale is a local emporium for nearly anything connected with the mythical enchanted beings.And Cordes doesn't just sell the stuff.He lives it.
"I'm not a prophet and I don't want to imply that I am," said Cordes, 55."I'm a man given a job to do to the best of my ability - to make people aware of their spirituality, and if they ask me, I can tell them how to seek it.I'm just a man who's here to open a door.I guess you could call me a doorman."
Not religious growing up, Cordes said his own spiritual journey began about a decade ago with a conversation with a co-worker.
"He was explaining out-of-body experiences and the astral world and alternate planes of existence, and soon after, I started meditating," Cordes said.
"You use different kinds of energy for this, and I use faery energy.I didn't seek them out, they sought me.If you had told me when I was younger that in 30 years I'd be sitting here with a faery on my head, I'd have died laughing."
Cordes wrote a book detailing his faery encounters, which began as a journal in which he documented them."A FaeryTale" is being published by American Books and is expected to be on store shelves by December, he said.
"Initially, I thought I was just experiencing lucid dreams, seeing old TV shows on my walls, and so on, and then one morning I encountered an energy orb about six inches across, spinning, transparent," Cordes said.This, he said, was his first faery encounter.He has such encounters more frequently now, and in fact is in fairly constant contact with his faery guide, Cassandra, whose likeness hangs framed behind the store's cash register, inside one of several murals gracing the shop's walls.
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There are animal totems, as well, which Cordes said most people who delve into the metaphysical deeply enough, find they need.
"The door to the metaphysical is usually open through meditation.Most people sooner or later learn they have an animal guide," he said.
The store carries faery-related greeting cards, tote bags, mouse pads and key chains.There are dolls, fine Franz porcelain china pieces, gem stones and energy crystals of various shapes and sizes.There also are Tarot cards and books and games, Buddha's, crystal balls, Egyptian items and representations of Asian and Indian deities.There are Chinese health balls, self-help books and information on Wiccans, children's books, jewelry, and music and meditation CDs.Prices range from $2 for certain keepsake boxes and crystals to $2,100 for some original artwork, Cordes said.
Cordes and his wife of 37 years, Karen, also 55, moved from Concord to Benicia more than two years ago.
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"There are more and more faery encounters happening every day," Cordes said.
This is fine, he added, since it will facilitate the creatures' mission.
"Faeries' mission is to assist humanity to raise our level of spirituality.Angels are messengers of God, and, like faeries, were created before man and given the job of caring for God's creation.Man was created as muscle for this job, but he's become a cancer on the planet," Cordes said.
Cordes said he knows he may be perceived as loony by some, but has passed the point of caring.
"It was a tough thing to suspend my own disbelief and admit there are faeries.I grew up an atheist, and gave no credence to a higher power," Cordes said.
He said the faeries led him to believe in God.
While she hasn't had the kind of paranormal encounters her husband has enjoyed, many of which, he said, are hilarious, Karen Cordes said she never doubted his experiences for a moment.
"After all these years of marriage, if he says he sees faeries, he sees faeries," she said, adding that she has had some degree of experience with the enchanted world and has both a faery guide named Isabella and an guardian angel.
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And Ron Cordes said he's content.
"It was scary leaving a well-paying job you know for something uncertain.You have to have a certain amount of faith.I put all my trust in God, the faeries, the metaphysical, and I have no doubt it's going to work," Cordes said.
"I was put here for a reason, and I couldn't be happier.I'm standing every day in the middle of my element, and everything in this store is something that could start a person on their journey," he said.
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Re: In the Beginning
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 12:17 PMHi Ron & Karen.. and Isabella and Cassandra and all !
If I lived in that area near your store, I would be spending most of my paycheck there!!
I used to be an athiest also.... up until the age of 16 where I really was miserable because I didnt think God could possibly exist, yet I still asked HIm to just get me out of my mess anyway. He really came through.. .to my surprise, and all my doubt was wiped away.. and He even gave me this mural vision of the entire chain of Creation starting from the microscopic life up to the Angels.
Then in 2008, I met two different Native American women.... two very spiritual women who also believed in God and had interactions with Fairies. One woman saw them dance in a circle outside from her window. The other friend has had interaction with them all her life starting as a toddler when her spiritual Elder grandmother called out some Fae's from some tall grasses near a pond near their reservation. She said her grandmother used whisteling tones. The faes all walked out from hiding and she and they met for the first time. Through the years they have introduced themselves to her son and they help her in energy healing.
Well, I was kind of jealous that my friends had seen fae's and I was brought up to believe they were just Disney fantasy. I asked God in prayer if He would show me faes.. if He would confirm to me that this was true .. I left it up to Him for His timing on when,where, how, etc. and I forgot my prayer, but God didnt forget!
In May 31st, after a huge family blow-out, I was sitting in the bathroom all depressed that there was so much negativity in the home from the argument and here it was ... my day off from work, and my job is where all the negativity usually is.. It bummed me out that I had to be surrounded by the same atmosphere at my home.
While sitting in the bathroom near the window, blindly staring through sections of my messed up hair, I saw a small light brown face peering up at me with compassion ! She was beautiful.. she had totally brown eyes with no irises , but yet her eyes were sweet! Love shone through them too. I think she was picking up on my depression and felt what I was feeling. Faunaserene told me that her fairy told her that this faery I saw was "mirroring" my emotions.
She has high cheekbones and delicate mouth and nose and a high forehead with her hair pulled up and off .. She has light brown soft skin.. she looked very shy, yet royal as well.. I never saw pictures of anyone like her before, I thought fairies all looked like little humans. I later read that there are many many kinds of Faes. There are brownies, pixies, elves, gnomes, leprechauns, sprites,.... and the tall faes known as the Sidhe. Theres' even more than that that I have no clue of.... tree spirits, sylphs, etc..
After scouring the internet and Barnes & Noble from that point onwards to this day... I saw paintings from Brian Froud of Pixies... and she really did look like the female version of the male pixies he painted. Only.. her eyes werent as squinty.. but more softer and long and oval. She wasn't as wiry either.. She was stunning.
I am not psychic at all... God opened my third eye for just a minute or two to reveal to me on of His Nature Guardians. God does things like that .. He is awesome. To think I was an athiest at one time!
I was given the name of the Fairy I saw.. .. two names. Nashisia and Chantrese. I love both so now I call her both ! I feel her presence with me, though since May I havnt seen her physically again. I look forward to seeing her after I die and helping her and the other faes.
I even bought her a miniature couch and chair... setee set from the Victoria Trading Co. for Christmas and I mysteriously found a little velvet pillow for the couch!
When I put my CD player on, I play my music for them all.. for the gnomes, elves, pixies, faes. all of them.
This Summer, I saw a sparkling pink light flying over the apple tree near the fairy garden, after i left some quartz crystal there for them.
And then I saw the same sparkling pink light flying near the ceiling while I was playing some Fae's music.
My life has changed for the better and has become extreemly enriched knowing that these Beings are on the Earth with us and in my own neighborhood! I've been led to value and treasure every single thing in the Environment.. even the tineist insect now as well.
A week after my sighting, right before I woke up, I heard a woman's voice singing the words, "You are helping the flower to seed; all things are precious" Then I woke up and quickly wrote this song in my journal.
The fairies are helping me to see that all things great and tiny are precious.. Thank you, God, for answering my prayer!
