Probably a little hard to relate to unless your old man was a fairy.
In fact it's complete and utter nonsense and just another symptom of a retreat from the modern world back into the world of superstition.
I notice my critic Oliveoyl is getting all excited about spirituality. It also is another word, the Left has discovered, that is used to hide the most mindless sort of superstitions.
When I read this stuff it makes Ridge's atheists appear almost Christian. ie. as in atheism - the non thinking man's religion.