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‘I had been living in *** for some time when I decided to move back to Adelaide. A friend suggested we stop by the *** where a guy named M** lived who had an incredible garden in amongst the rainforest. I had been to M**’s place twice before and had been amazed at the growth of his fruit trees and flowers and vegetable garden. He too was amazed and indicated that it was inexplicable but most welcome. M** lived in a hut without walls on the side of the mountain. He ate and lived very simply and was jolly and happy but a bit intense at times. We had lunch and the people there got out the marijuana and so I said ‘I’m going for a walk’. There was a path that led from M**’s place to a main path up the mountain marked by an enormous fallen tree. As I walked up the mountain I began to muse on leaving *** and going back to Adelaide and how things would change and be different. I began to think of my friends in Adelaide one by one and each time I thought of someone I would stop and look down at my feet and there would be a quartz crystal just lying on the ground. So I figured they were gifts and I picked them up and pocketed them to take back to Adelaide. I got to the top of the mountain and looked down and around at the treetops and felt an immeasurable sense of peace and wellbeing. I sat down to rest when, all of a sudden, my body got up of its own accord and walked over to the opposite bank whereby my hand shot out and plunged into the dirt to bring out in my hand a hidden milky white quartz crystal that was not visible prior. It all felt so right and correct and meant to be and not at all unusual. I was a part of Nature and I had been awarded a special gift. After a while sitting looking at the crystals and feeling Blessed and relaxed and complete, I got up to make my way back to M**’s place because my friend was driving me to Brisbane and I walked down the mountain the same way I came (there was only one way) but I couldn’t locate the big tree that marked the path to M**’s place. I walked up and down where I thought it should be a number of times before I gave up and rationalised that it must be further down so down the path I went until I came to a flatter area with a fallen log to sit on and look out over a dense piece of forest valley. The sun was shining, the air was warm, there was sound of insects and although I knew this was not the way to M**’s place, I couldn’t resist the pull to sit on the fallen log and so I did and after about a minute of silence, I heard a low continuous note that sounded for about five seconds and it was a sound that reminded me of Pan pipes and I became expectant and excited that not very far away the God of Nature was in the forest and I might catch a glimpse of him if I was lucky. I was convinced that he knew that I was there. So I waited but after about five to ten minutes nothing else happened and the feeling had subsided so I got up to try and find the fallen log back to M**’s place. I had walked about five to ten metres when all of a sudden, the sound came again and there were some bright white moving lights in front of my eyes. I thought I may have got up too fast, but they didn’t go away and I turned a three hundred and sixty degree circle and saw that there were a multitude of these buzzing lights all around me at head height until I came back to the start whereupon they all disappeared. In an altered state similar to the one I had been in up on the mountain I thought ‘I have just seen faeries’ and again it seemed perfectly sensible and right and correct. I proceeded to walk back up the mountain to find the tree to mark M**’s path to his place and this time I found it no trouble. I came into the area where his house was and I opened my mouth to speak and blurt out what had happened to me when my friend at the time G**, caught my eye, raised his finger to his lips and indicated ‘shhhhh’. I acquiesced because G** was supposed to drive me to Brisbane and I thought I would get a chance to speak to him about it and find out what he knew but that didn’t eventuate and I have been left since with a sense of disappointment that I didn’t get to talk to him about something that he obviously knew about even though he wasn’t with me when it all happened. I stayed the night in accommodation close to the airport and my room was at the top of stairs which had a big gum tree growing right next to the stairs about halfway up. I made a few trips going up with stuff I was taking back to Adelaide and I remember putting out my hand to touch the tree and silently say ‘hello’. I’d had this habit since I’d had a tree talk to me in August 1990. I woke before dawn the next day to get ready and as I descended the stairs to the waiting taxi, as I passed the tree, I put my hand out again and at that exact moment the sun broke into the colours of the beginning of dawn and I heard the same low sound as I had heard the day before.’ ‘I think it was a combination of Earth experience and Pan and fairies because of the crystal in the side of the hill, the sound of pan pipe making the low sound and the fairies as little white buzzing balls of light and the tree the next day at dawn.’ ‘I think fairies like the ones I saw they are involved in the realisation of the Earth’s framework for Nature. I think there are levels of the Fae and the ones I saw were probably connected to the mountain and the crystals I had collected and in bringing plants to life, helping things to grow and to be abundant.’ ‘I have always had an affinity for trees, and I think that has followed me through from childhood to being an adult. As a child, one of my best friends was the Willow tree in the front yard. I would sit and play in it for hours. I felt completely at home and safe in its branches. I grieved when Mum had it cut it down. I don’t remember anything specific to being a child and being with the Willow tree in relation to fairies, but I think the Earth and trees have remembered me since then and I have a special connection to tree communications. I was very interested to learn recently that science has caught up with me and it is an accepted thing now that trees talk and are in relationship. I have heard from trees on a number of occasions. One time when I had a dog that wouldn’t stop harassing the chickens the lemon tree in my backyard at the time told me to put her on a rope and let the chickens out around her and I did that and never had a problem since. Also just the other day I went to connect with Faerie with a friend who took me to a tree cave near the river where there are vestiges of old original landscape and after making an offering at the bottom of a tree I noticed it was paperbark and I went to take some of the paperbark to write a fairy letter for next time and the tree said to me ‘gentle hands please’’.