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‘During a ritual I was conducting to honor the earth and nature spirits, a tall dark-haired man wearing green and black with silver and gold trim and decorations appeared and said we knew each other. I was very confused. He said he would see me again soon. Both my wife and I heard his voice and/or saw him and his people in our dreams or on the edge of consciousness for several days. He and his people came to live in our garden and we speak to them regularly.’ ‘Tall and strong. Much like a human, but cleaner and more focused. The leader I first spoke with is about the same height as I am (six foot five inches) though I get the impression he is actually capable of being much larger should he need to. Others were much smaller and less definite in their shape.’ ‘I did not hear their music the first time, but the one I spoke with asked me to sing his songs. I asked how I would know which ones were his. He said ‘you’ll know.’ So far, that has been the case.’ ‘The Individual I spoke to first used a language that I now believe was Old Irish or Gaedelic based on my subsequent research. When I did not understand it, he identified himself as a member of the Sidhe. My intuition confirmed this very strongly.’ ‘Beings who share the land we live on, but exist primarily in another level of existence than we do.’ ‘After speaking with the Sidhe chieftain I met in the experience I described at intervals for some time, I have learned a great deal. The garden around my house has also done uncommonly well, even though neither my wife nor I are expert gardeners. Living with the knowledge that he and his people share the same land is also a responsibility, just as it would be to share space in a communal way with a fairly large group of human friends. We have a reciprocal relationship that so far has been mutually beneficial to both my family and his. One factor in his choice to contact me is that I and a Neo-Pagan Druid and had already undergone extensive training and study into Celtic mythology and history before he chose to visit. I also had a fairly long-standing Shamanic practice. He told me that my training made me someone he could and would contact and that not all humans are in that category for reasons that I chose not to delve into because it seemed rude to do so. I am very interested in this survey and would be willing to discuss this further as long as whoever contacts me is very respectful of my privacy and realizes that there is much I am not at liberty to discuss because it must remain between me and the Green Ones I share the land with just as there are many things groups of human friends share that are not to be brought out into a public sphere.’