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Dorothy
Maclean
& David Spangler
will be attending
Fairy Congress III !!
We are honored and delighted to announce that Dorothy Maclean and David Spangler will both be attending and presenting at the Fairy & Human Relations Congress III which will be held June 27-29, 2003. Dorothy and David are two of the key people who carried the Findhorn Community's message of deva communication around the world.
Dorothy Maclean
Dorothy Maclean is one of the original founders of the Findhorn Community and known worldwide for her pioneering contact with the inner voice of the sacred and for her work with the Angels of nature and nations. Dorothy has probably done more than any other single person in the 20th century to popularize the idea that humans can communicate with devas. She is truly one of our honored elders (in all the best meanings of the term).
Dorothy Maclean was one of the three founders of the Findhorn community in Scotland. Following her inner contact with the divine she also came to communicate with the devic or angelic realms that over-light all aspects of existence. This helped Findhorn’s legendary gardens bloom on most unpromising soil. Dorothy's earlier work, To Hear the Angels Sing, often republished, contains many of her communications with not only the essences of plants, but with minerals, animals and groups of humans too. In her book, Choices of Love, Dorothy talks in a detailed way about her own inner practices and attunement to the Beloved. She gives suggestions for the reader's own practice, and information she has received from the over-lighting presences of cities and countries. To Honor the Earth, a beautiful book with photographs by Kathleen Thormod Carr, details communications with devic realms. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Dorothy now lives in the Pacific Northwest. Website: www.lorian.org
Dorothy Mclean's workshop is "God, Humanity and Nature. This workshop will explore our capacity to tune into inner divinity as a source of wisdom, love and power for contacting the essence of all life and the intelligences of nature.
David Spangler
David Spangler is a philosopher, writer and educator in incarnational spirituality; the integration of spiritual values, energy and presence into everyday life. He is executive director of the Lorian Association and past co-director of the Findhorn Community. His books include: Everyday Miracles, A Pilgrim in Aquarius, The Call, Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent, Blessing: the Art and Practice and others. David Spangler has been active in the spiritual field since the middle sixties. Since a child, he has had conscious awareness of and communication with supersensory worlds of spirit. It is out of that contact that his work has evolved. Website: www.lorian.org
David Spangler's workshop will be on "Kinship With All Fairies". Human beings, fairies, devas and angels are all cousins. This workshop will explore the kinship between ourselves and the Fairy Kingdom, the links between the fairy world within us and the fairy realm of the world.
Findhorn Community
The Findhorn Foundation is the educational and organizational cornerstone of the Findhorn Community, founded in Scotland by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy MacLean in 1962. It is a major international centre of spiritual education and personal transformation, offering many ways for people to visit, or to live and work in community. The Findhorn Foundation is located in northeast Scotland, east of Inverness. Visit www.Findhorn.org
RJ Stewart
RJ Stewart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and comes from a Gaelic and Welsh speaking family. He has worked, researched and written extensively on the Western Tradition concerning the Underworld and Faery realms. He is a renowned author with 37 books in publication including: The Living World of Faery, The Power Within the Land and Living Magical Arts. RJ is a Scottish author and composer of international acclaim. RJ will perform in the Concert: Magical and faery ballads, original songs and music, with guitar, and voice. He is also experienced in theater, film, and television, and is a skilled performer and presenter. RJ teaches workshops and classes in the UK and USA including ones on the Faery and Underworld traditions. RJs workshop sessions into the faery realms have been highlights at both Fairy Congresses I and II. For information on his programs and workshops visit: www.Dreampower.com
Feather Jones is the Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies and leads land journeys throughout the Rocky Mountains and the southwestern deserts. Her love for the plants is reflected in her teaching style. She has been practicing as a clinical herbalist and making herbal medicines for over 20 years. Her herb school in Boulder enjoys a ten year successful career as a certified herbal institute, based on traditional and earth centered values, and offers one of the most extensive curriculums in herbal medicine in the USA. Workshop: "The language of old growth". Feather will share stories on the aliveness of Nature & the plant devas, offer exercises to reawaken ancestral knowledge and deepen our innate connection to the earth including an opportunity to journey with the tree people. Visit the school at www.herbschool.com
Shemmaho J. Sioux has been living in the forest for the last 36 years, practicing the gentle art of Paying Attention. A certified leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, she has been leading Circle Dances throughout the region for 20 years. As a sacred singer, her function is to awaken spirit. Her large repertoire of traditional and original chants is predominantly songs of healing. Workshop: Sacred Songs in Sacred Time: Chants to awaken the spirits of the land, chants to help heal broken hearts, and to comfort and sooth the spirits, in all dimensions.
Louisa Loonah McCuskey,of Inner Lotus Healing Technologies will be bringing her recent invention,
Anahata Pomeroy returns to the Fairy Congress and will be offering SOUNDS throughout the weekend. She's known for her magical toning with a tar drum. Her prayers and calls use words from many sacred traditions. Her workshop will be: Sound Offerings -- ways of contacting, gifting and calling Spirits near. Includes stories from Daphne Charters, demonstrations, and a chance to experiment in the Skalitude Meadow.
Mary J Getten is a telepathic animal communicator, naturalist and flower essence practitioner, including flower essences for animals. Her workshop is: Communicating with Wild Animals. We will explore communicating with wild animals on both the personality level with a specific individual and with devas. Visit her website: www.MaryGetten.com
Paul Beyerl has over 25 years experience as an herbal healer, folklorist and professional astrologer. His books include: The Master Book of Herbalism, and A Compendium of Herbal Magick. This year Beyerl will read more stories from The Holy Books of the Devas, explaining how the fairies and herbs believe the Mother of Creation brought the planets and constellations into being. Also a workshop: Healing the Soul: Devas at Work and Play. Beyerl's workshop will talk about the individual stories we may learn from the fairies of different plants. Website: www.thehermitsgrove.org
Chuck Pettis -- visionary, designer, author, and monument-builder -- is the founder and owner of Earth Sanctuary, a 72-acre nature reserve and meditation parkland on Whidbey Island, Washington. Over the past 25 years he has built numerous environmental artworks, among them labyrinths and stone circles. His most recent book is Secrets of Sacred Space: Discover and Create Places of Power. Pettis' workshop is on: Creating Sacred Spaces of Power: Introduction to the secrets of sacred space and how to create places of power. Visit his website: www.geo.org
Eileen Kilgren Bergman. A Seattle native, Eileen Kilgren Bergman has been interacting with Nature Spirits and other unseen beings for the past 10 years. Her workshop is titled: Who Are the Fairies? Adventures with nature Spirits and with the Fair Folk.
Diana Gay Pepper has been communicating with plants, devas and fairies for years and produces flower essences from plants on her land, Tree Frog Farm. Her Workshop is: Flower Essences: Commune with Plant Spirits. Join us for a chat with pine tree, snowberry bush, rose or one of the many other plants at Skalitude Retreat Center. Then learn how they give us the gift of their spirit in flower essences and how to use essences to vitalize your life. Website: www.treefrogfarm.com
Lady Cyn Defay, D.D. teaches fairy wicca, an Irish-based, celtic wiccan/druidry. Cynthia works with the devic and fairy realms, essential oils, magical oil blends, alchemical processes and energy healing. Workshop title: The faery faith & the faery magickal arts, gifts from Nature. Lady Cyn's workshop will be a brief overview of Irish based faery faith as practiced in her Sacred Grove in SW Washington as well as a brief overview of the faery magickal arts, the gifts from nature. You will learn of magikal brews, incense & oils. There will be a hands on making of a magickal brew that will assist you in connecting with your Faery companion.
Linda Quintana is the proprietor of Wonderland Tea store in Bellingham, Washington and Alpine Herb Farm. Workshops: Welcoming fairies to your yard: building homes for them; and, Plants to attract Fairies into your garden. Linda's 2001 workshop on this topic was warmly received by all ages.
Mark S. McNutt & Mary Gold-McNutt run the Yewwood Retreat Center in Deadwood, Oregon. Workshop: Devic communion and flower essences. MaryGold will be sharing Very Silly Fairy Yoga. Visit their website: www.aerious.org
Neil Leonard does shamanic journeywork to find guidance in land healing and landscape design as well as receiving direct information from trees and elementals. His 2003 workshops will be focused on music. Jamming together and preparation to provide the music for Erin's fairy dancing workshop. Participants should bring musical instruments and drums.
Erin M. Raney has been dancing with fairies since she was a wee one. Erin currently teaches and performs around the Pacific Northwest. Workshop: Fairy Dances of Ireland/Creative, Expressive Celtic Movement. Come learn the dances, rhythms, and delights that the people of Ireland experienced from ancient times at fairy rings, mystical circles and sacred forests.
Julie Charette Nunn, shamanic herbalist, green witch and spiritual teacher offers wise woman apprenticeships, classes and consultations on South Whidbey Island. She is proprietress of Crow's Daughter's Earthly Goods where she crafts herbal creations in the Wise Woman Tradition. Her workshop is: The Mythos of Dragons. We will explore the unseen world of dragons with storytelling, dream work and divination. Come connect with the green, fiery red, blue-green, and crystal dragons that find sanctuary at Skalitude Retreat Center. Website: www.crowsdaughter.com
Don Ollsin has an established herbal
school, Herbal Healing Journey, which is based in Victoria,
B.C. Don is the author of the recent book Pathways to Healing:
A Guide to Herbs, Ayurveda, Dreambody and Shamanism. His workshops
are on: The Elements as Living Beings. and Sasquatches, Serpents
and Eagle Feathers. Don will share some of the teachings that
he has learned from his 20-year apprenticeship with Native
elder, Ellen White. Website: www.herbalhealingpathway.com
Brita Adkinson grew up in Sweden. She lived for seven years at the Findhorn Community in Scotland where she ran training courses for workshop leaders. In 1999, two months after her husband Charles had died, Brita discovered that she could communicate with him. Thus began a relationship in which Charles encouraged her to also communicate with other beings on inner levels. Brita's workshop is on: Spiritual Techniques for Busy People: How to tune in to inner levels of reality; How to communicate with the spirits inherent in nature and also in groups and organizations; Reading the book of life - picking up the guidance in events around us. Website: www.wambeliska.org
Peter Berry. Specializing in traditional slow airs of Ireland, Peter combines harp music with storytelling and poetry in the ancient Bardic tradition of the Celtic countries. Workshop: The Silver Branch - Celtic Harp Music and Ancient Irish Faerie Stories.
Morgan Brent is a tai chi teacher, professor of sacred ecology and specialist in vision plants. Workshops: Fairy energetix - nature spirit vitalizing principles and exercizes; and The role of vision plants in bridging the fairy and human worlds. Website: www.tribesofcreation.com
Circle of Peace Flags
Anyone who attended the 2002 Okanogan Family Fall Barter Faire will remember the tall circle of 40 white peace flags. This circle of 40 white peace flags will be set up at Fairy Congress III. Their message will continue to be peace on Earth betweeen humans; but with the added intentions of peace between the human and fairy realms, as well as, peace between humans and Mother Earth.
Spiritual Growth
The Fairy Congress is about spiritual growth. Spiritual growth for ourselves as individuals and to nurture relationships with - and service to -the beautiful world we live on. The Fairy Congress is not about dangerous goblins or boogiemen under the bed, or the types of gruesome creatures that Hollywood sensationalizes in its fantasies. It is not the quaint little dwarves in Disneyland's Snow White. The Fairy Congress is not a gathering of gay men (although some may attend). The Fairy Congress is about communication. It is about healing the communication lines between humans and the Earth and between humans and the fairy/deva realm. It is about communication between humans who believe in fairies.
All Ages Welcome!
All ages welcome. The Fairy Congress is a family event. Children and teens are welcome. If elders or anyone else has difficulty moving around our outdoor site, we will make every effort to assist them in getting around. Please inquire if you have any concerns about mobility.
An invitation to the 3rd Annual
Fairy & Human Relations Congress
June 27-29, 2003
~ Skalitude Retreat Center, North Cascades, Methow Valley, Washington ~
A gathering of humans and fairies to improve relations & assist each other in planetary healing.
Workshops Circles & Rituals
A Fairy Parade
Singing & Dancing
Fairy Art Gallery
Joint Human & Fairy Meditations Camping in a beautiful mountain forest
You are invited to attend this year's Fairy & Human Relations Congress in the North Cascades of Washington State. The 2001 and 2002 Congresses were very successful and filled with wonderful experiences.
This Congress is for anyone who sincerely believes in fairies. Those who see fairies and angels or who communicate or work with them are invited to share their experiences and insights.
The Skalitude Retreat Center is a beautiful site for the Congress. It is nestled at the end of a remote mountain valley in the North Cascades in the Methow Valley watershed. The main inhabitants are ponderosa pines, douglas firs, aspens, bunchgrasses, countless wildflowers, deer, coyotes, and bear; and many fairies.
The Retreat Center is a 160-acre site surrounded by National Forest. Facilities include a large, log-cabin lodge which is the fairy art gallery and a workshop area. The Sky Lodge is a beautiful, winged structure, somewhat akin to a flattened out tipi. It is 54 feet across, 2200 square feet and can hold hundreds of people. We have a large, roofed, outdoor kitchen where we prepare our common meals. There will also be a tea kitchen. Many of the Congress activities take place outdoors. Children and teens are welcome. This is a kid-friendly event.
2003 Congress Themes
Music
Rainbow Colors
Fairy/Deva Communication
Fairy and Deva communication continues to be the main theme of the Congress.
Music is a special theme for 2003. RJ Stewart is asking us to bring pennywhistles in the key of D. His presentations this year will focus on using music to work with the faeries. Neil Leonard's workshops will be musical events. Anahata is coming with her tar drum and toning and is putting out the general call for participants to bring their musical instruments. As part of this year's Saturday evening concert let's do a couple of jams with everyone on an instrument! There has been great music at both previous Congresses, but this year let us create even more beautiful music!
So yes, you might want to bring your earplugs if you are a light sleeper who likes to go to bed early. This year we are asking for a noise curfew in the camping areas from midnight till 7:00 am. There will be places for all those people who like to drum, music, sing, chant and dance wildly late into the night - but please, not in the residential camping areas.
Rainbow colors theme. There has always been lots of color at the fairy congress, and every year we aim to make it a more colorful scene. Color is an important component of fairy and deva existence. Most humans could use more color in their lives. So please bring colorful flags, banners, tapestries, clothing and costumes, artwork for the art gallery, etc.
Registration Fees
Please see schedule of fees here.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops will focus on fairies, nature spirits, devas, angels, herbal healing, flower essences, aromatherapy, earth restoration, co-creation gardening, animal communication, geomancy, and related topics.
We honor everyone's contribution. Each human and fairy who attends brings their own special magic and knowledge to share. We are all students and we are all teachers and co-creators. Each participant is an important delegate to this convocation of many beings.
How many fairies and devas attend? We are assured it is in the thousands. Fairies and devas of many ranks and sizes attend. Some are similar in size to the small 'hand-size' fairies we see represented in the common press. Others are immense beings of great power. Remember though, that size is not necessarily an indicator of knowledge, wisdom or power. The fairy beings who attend the Fairy Congress are fully as intelligent (and often much more so) than the human participants. We approach the fairies and devas with respect and love as co-creators of this event. The fairies and devas have a concurrent Congress as well as interacting with the human participants during circles and joint meditations.
Please check your inner guidance to see if it may be appropriate for you to attend.
For further information contact:
Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society
PO Box 4469, Bellingham, WA 98227
(360) 676-7704. friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com
website: www.fairycongress.com
A note on accomodations:
The gathering is mainly a campout event located on the grounds
of the Skalitude Retreat Center.
The grounds are really great for camping. The few rooms in our lodge
are reserved for some of the presenters. Most people bring tents,
vans, RV's or live-in rigs. Some locals commute. Some people stay
in local motels.
The closest motel is the Country Town Motel in Carlton (about 8
miles from the Congress site). Their phone number is 509-997-3432.
They are usually booked up in advance, so register early.
The next closest motel is the Idle-A-While Motel in Twisp (17 miles
away) their phone # is 997-3222.
Call if you have further questions. Let us know if you wish us to
mail you brochures with registration forms, or posters. Hope to
see you there, Michael Pilarski