8th Annual Fairy & Human Relations Congress
June 27th - 29th, 2008
Skalitude Retreat Center ~ Twisp ~ Methow Valley ~ North Cascades ~ WA

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Fairy Congress Speakers, Past and Present

Eileen Kilgren Bergman. A Seattle native, Eileen Kilgren Bergman has been interacting with Nature Spirits and other unseen beings for the past 10 years.

Paul Beyerl is the author of The Master Book of Herbalism, A Compendium of Herbal Magick and The Holy Books of the Devas. Beyerl teaches botanical medicine and herbal gardening at The Hermit's Grove near Seattle.
http://www.thehermitsgrove.org/

Camilla Blossom is a GeoRomancer living and loving in the Columbia River Gorge. She has created the Columbia River Gorge Flower Essences as well as many intentional potions and lotions using flower essences and essential oils.
http://www.3flowershealing.com/

Dr. Morgan Brent interest in medicinal and sacramental plants and fungi led to a doctoral program in ethnopharmacology and medical anthropology, but increasingly moved in the direction of ecological studies. His research eventually focused on the great herbalist traditions of the world, their role in spiritual revitalization movements, and their common prescriptive message to humanity. He now leads groups of prepared individuals to Peru for the Amazonian plantas maestras (teacher-plant) tradition of spiritual healing.
http://www.tribesofcreation.com/

Jim Butler, PhD. is a professor at the University of Alberta, Canada and is the founder of The ELFEN Project, a survey and field study of individuals who have personally encountered one or more entities that might be described as elementals, nature spirits, little people, gnomes, fauns, good people, wood nymphs, sprites, fairies, elves, apiscinisak, or any other related forms. This is one of the few scientific studies that is being done around the world.
http://www.elfenproject.com/

Ginger Cloud is the founder of Peace Puppets, a not for profit organization that offers community interactive Ceremonial Puppet Theater. This year Peace Puppets will be creating a Puppet Medicine Wheel at the Fairy Congress. Cloud will offer a workshop that will include Dialing the Puppet Medicine Wheel, methods of creating medicine wheels, dailing a wheel, wheel mediations and general information on medicine wheels.

Lady Cyn DeFay, D.D. High Priestess of the Faery Faith, an Irish earth-based religion practicing in SW Washington. She is a metaphysician, flower essence producer and therapist and the founder and educator of the Cluan-Feart, a Celtic women's mystery school. Lady Cyn faciltates new moon mysteries for women monthly in the Vancouver/Portland area.
For more information email her at priestess_pan@yahoo.com

Orion Foxwood is founder of the Foxwood Temple and co-director of Moonridge, a land-based sanctuary and educational center for Faery and magical studies in Maryland, U.S.A. This area is located in the fringes of Appalachia, an area rife with simple but powerful magical and spiritual approaches comprised of European, African and Native American elements. For the last 20 years, Orion has studied and practiced Faery Seership and other folk magic and healing practices. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and is the author of the book entitled "The Faery Teachings" (Muse Press).
http://www.smart.net/~ftor/

Mary J. Getten is a telepathic animal communicator and animal consultant, teaches "How to Communicate with Animals" and "Reconnecting with Nature" workshops and is a flower essence and Reiki practitioner.
http://www.marygetten.com/

Ellen Evert Hopman is a Druid, a professional herbalist of the American Herbalists Guild, and the author of Tree Medicine, Tree Magic, and A Druid Herbal for the Sacred Year.
www.geocities.com/gaias_song/willow.html

Neil Leonard does shamanic journeywork to find guidance in land healing and landscape design as well as receiving direct information from trees and elementals.

Dorothy Maclean is one of the original founders of the Findhorn Community in Scotland 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's book, To Hear the Angels Sing, contains many of her communications with not only the essences of plants, but with minerals, animals and groups of humans too. Dorothy has probably done more than any other single person in the 20th century to popularize the idea that humans can communicate with devas.
http://www.lorian.org/

Cindy McGonagle teaches co-creative gardening classes in Portland, Oregon. Cindy is also an artist with her company "Botanic Reproductions". She is working on her 3rd book about fairies. McGonagle has been working closely with Queen Dee, the Fairy Queen of the Columbia Gorge; as well as with the Landscape Angel of Mt. Hood.
http://www.cindymcgonagle.com/

Mark S. McNutt and Marygold McNutt run the Yewwood Retreat Center in Deadwood, Oregon. Mark is a national renowned astrologer, and Mary a healing practitioner.
http://www.aerious.org/

Catherine Morgan has started the Tasaris Center for Elemental Healing and Ascension in Littleton, Colorado. Her work with the Faerie Realm centers on providing healing and ascension information for elementals from many different areas: tree spirits, faerie guardians, mountain masters, the dwarven realm, water sprites, rock spirits, lost elementals, and others. At the Congress Morgan will facilitate the Link-up of Humans, Fairys, and Angels to Provide a Healing and Elevation for the area and those involved. She will also share information about what members of the Faerie Realm humans might meet on a walk through the woods and what they might do to assist in providing healing for them.

Don Ollison has an established herbal school, Herbal Healing Journey, which is based in Victoria and Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.herbalhealingpathway.com/

Diana Gay Pepper has been communicating with plants, devas and fairies for years, produces flower essences from plants on her land, and has a practice in Nature Spirit Healing.
http://www.treefrogfarm.com/

Chuck Pettis has designed and built sacred spaces for the last 30 years, including energetically and astronomically aligned stone circles. He dowsed and created the Seattle Ley-Line Map and is the author of Secrets of Sacred Space.
http://www.geo.org/

Anahata Pomeroy returns to the Fairy Congress and will be offering SOUNDS throughout the weekend. She's known for her magical toning with tar drum. Her prayers and calls use words from many sacred traditions. Her workshop will be: Stories From the Unpublished Works of Daphne Charters-- learn the fairy process of blending and thought formations. Working with sound, color and movement, we'll practice what the fairies teach us.

Linda Quintana is the proprieter of Wonderland Teas & Spice in Bellingham, Washington and Alpine Herb Farm. Workshops: Plants to attract Fairies into your garden; and Welcoming fairies to your yard: building homes for them. Linda's previous workshops on this topic were warmly received by all ages.

Raven is a channel for Spirit; including Fairies, Angels and Divine Mother. She offers monthly classes to connect with the Spirit Realm, private healings, and channeled sessions with your sprit guides. Her workshop is on Elemental Dragons - Connection to Earth's Wisdom.
http://www.ravenmedium.com/

Ouapiti Robintree of Hummingbird Remedies in Nevada City, California offers over 500 vibrational remedies (flower essences, gem elixirs, and angelic essences). At the Congress she has fasciliated workshops on: Shamanic Communication with Nature for Environmental Restoration. How to work with nature beings to come up with methods to do environmental restoration and clean up toxics in the environment.
http://www.hummingbirdremedies.com/

Shemmaho J. Sioux has been living in the forest for the last 36 years. 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.

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. Since a child, he has had conscious awareness of and communication with supersensory worlds of spirit. David Spangler's 2004 workshop was on "Kinship With All Fairies". Human beings, fairies, devas and angels are all cousins. This workshop explored the kinship between ourselves and the Fairy Kingdom. The link between the fairy world within us and the larger fairy realm of the world.
http://www.lorian.org/

Paul Stamets is the founder and owner of Fungi Perfecti. Stamets is one of the world's most knowledgeable mycologists, particularly in regard to medicinal mushrooms and using fungi in environmental restoration. His company, based near Olympia Washington, grows a wide range of medicinal and edible mushrooms. Stamets' workshop will be on "Re-connecting with nature: listening to the little people - our fungal allies".
http://www.fungiperfecti.com/

R. J. Stewart is a Scottish author and composer of international acclaim. He has worked, researched and written extensively on the Underworld and Faery realms with 37 books in publication including: The Living World of Faery, and Earth Light: Rediscovering the Wisdom of Celtic and Faery Lore. RJ's workshop is The Well of Light, a group ceremony to open the way for Earth Healing through a mutual communion between Humans, Faery Races, Spiritual Go-Betweens, and the Shining Ones in the Heart of the Earth. RJ performs in our concerts.
http://www.dreampower.com/

Adrienne Roan Bear Whitman is a native american raised in the old ways by her grandmother at Mt. Shasta. Now living in Snohomish, Washington, she teaches herbal healing and shamanic pathways. She will teach about Plant People and Connecting with Your Plant Allies.