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FOREWORD

Father Dennis O’Neil

In the fall of 1997, I was privileged to witness what happens when the

veil separating this world from the Otherworld is lifted and living humans

have a Glimpse of Paradise. Amazingly, this happened in my own dining.

room! Courtney Davis was visiting the United States for a fortnight and

spent a week-end in my rectory. I am aware that, in Celtic understanding
of reality, the body is in the soul of the person. Without even intending

to do so, before a gathering of about thirty people, Courtney actually

managed to help those present to "see" this. With the use of dowsing

rods, he measured the precise parameters of the energy fields around

different individuals. He showed us how our energy fields contract as we

either close in on ourselves or shut down altogether and expand propor-

tionately as we feel joyous and expansive. He gave any potential sceptics
an opportunity to test this out for themselves, if they liked. He then took

one of his own pictures and invited individuals to concentrate on it,

allowing themselves to be drawn into its world. In each case, their energy

fields expanded dramatically.

Witnessing this heightened my appreciation of the way many branches

of Eastern Christianity use the veneration of icons as a means of drawing

the believer into closer communion either with Christ or whichever angel

or saint is depicted. A similar principle is operating in both cases: Celtic

images, designs, and mandalas and Eastern Christian icons are all gateways

through which a believer can enter the Otherworld and deeper

communion with its inhabitants. .

Before the evening ended, Courtney also measured the energy field

around the picture itself and then, speaking the entire time, slowly ap-

proached the picture to show what happens when he crosses over the
boundary of a picture's energy field and enters its world. As he crossed

over, his voice began to change distorting into a deeper sound and slower

motion, muffling more and more as he approached the picture.

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