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A few words from Pook La Roux:

What this site is about:

My spouse asked me why I was putting so much energy into this site. After all, there are hundreds of Wicca/Witchcraft/Pagan sites on the Web at this point. There are hundreds of FAQs about Magick and Witchcraft. There are even a good number of sites about Shamanism. What's so special about The Faerie Shaman?

It's that word "Faerie".

There are people who think "Faerie" means "make believe cartoon creatures like Tinkerbelle from Peter Pan." There are other people who simply use the word as a synonym for "homosexual". What if the real world of Faerie is beyond these things?

My first inkling that Faerie might not be so shallow came when I was reading a book about the Findhorn Garden. At this point, I still wasn't convinced, but something in that book struck a chord with me. I carried around this secret thought for quite a few years, as I began to study Modern Magick and the religion of Witchcraft.

I found books like Kisma Stepanich's "Faery Wicca" and I pulled them off shelves with hot little hands and bought them with grocery money. This was kind of, but not quite what I was looking for. I wasn't sure what it was I was after, until I read the Francesca Dubie (De Grandis) and Victor Anderson interviews in "People of the Earth". The secret seed began to sprout.

Victor seemed to be saying "The Faery people are a real race of people who share the planet with us. They have always been here -- and will always be here."And Francesca seemed to be saying "And I am one. Are you one, too?" How could this be? But fragmentary clues welled up around me, once I knew what I was looking for. (Never forget that the people who are in power have controlled the flow of information for so long we don't always have the reflex to use the resources that are out there that will help us to find the truth.)

It wasn't until a couple of years ago that after much growth in the dark quiet of the earth womb this secret seedling poked up from beneath the soil. I found the book "The Elves of Lily Hill Garden" and began to take Shamanic training at the same time. I was charmed by the book:" Gee, a place kind-of like Findhorn right here in the US! In Michigan, why we're almost NEIGHBORS!" And then I had the Imram where I MET THEM.

It's much too intimate a thing for me to be able to lay out on this page for you like a dissection subject -- but I assure you, I was convinced. Whatever I ran into out there in the Second Air -- it was real, -- and it sure resembled something drawn by Disney. But what then did this mean in terms of Faery being in this life, in this air? Are these the People who live Between? And just between and never in? Not to be touched or seen with a mortal eye? Or is it me who doesn't know how to slip between -- me who is trapped in this one space?

It meant that they are everywhere. It means, yes -- Brownies do sometimes put your clothes from the washer to the dryer if they've taken a liking to your family, just like deer will walk right into the barn to eat corn with the horses, and the raccoons will get into your garbage cans. They aren't held back by the same notions of property and territory we are. Yes -- little green men may hang around your houseplants and you don't know how to look to see them. It doesn't mean they aren't there -- you can't always pick out a chameleon on a green leaf, and you may not ever catch them because they might be faster than the fastest flying insect. But just because you can't catch a fly doesn't mean it's not there. It means, we have found tiny shoes, pipes and tiny mummies. It means reputable sources have seen them dancing in rings on roads and in fields -- up to the present day. Are they Aliens? Are they some kind of ghosts? Are they a secret race of human cousins? Are they something else entirely? We don't know, but it's going too far to say they aren't real simply because we're uncomfortable answering these questions.

The experience with them in the Imram convinced me of one definite thing: we have to respect them. If they are real, they have cultures and concerns as real as our own. They don't want us peeping and spying on them --they never have liked it -- and they have as much right to privacy in their lives as we do in our own. They don't like to be treated as stereotypes, any more than people like to be boxed and labeled. And yet, still we can only come to some acceptance of each other beyond the walls of ignorance. We have to be open to accepting the truth in whatever form it may come. It's not likely to come from the lips of man.

The last but most urgent reason I'm putting so much into this quest, what about those old tales of Fairy brides, and Fairy Lovers, and Changeling children and blonde haired babes stolen from their cradles? What if there are Fey genes mixed among the blood of mankind? What does that mean? What if whole tribes of small folk mixed into whole tribes of tall folk, and the result is that so many of us have this added awareness or potentiality? I'm not talking about a superiority, because if it is true, then surely I've seen more people who couldn't accept, couldn't handle this dimension in their lives than people who appreciated it and valued it. And this isn't a sad ploy to hoist one ethnic group over another. If the Little People were in one place in the world, we know they spanned the globe. You don't have to be Irish or Polynesian, white or black. It's the bald fact that the whole human race is a species of mutts that puts us in this position to begin with. How do we know we're all not the bastard children of the People of the Stars?

At this point maybe I'm losing some of you, you're saying "This Pook is off the beamÉ" You came here looking for flower fairy gifs, or you were hoping for something Pagan and Rainbow-colored. All I'm saying is that you could be searching the web for pictures of dainty winged things while hundreds of them would be floating about in your own yard right at this minute if you didn't spray it down with weed poison all the time. You could be trying to find your Gay identity when it really is in your Fey genes just like your green eyes and your blond hair. And there could be a part of you that is so afraid to deal with these things that you surf on out of here, never to visit the Faerie Shaman ever again -- but at least, I've said my peace. I don't have answers, but at least we can share the questions.

Since this is my site -- my Magickal site, in addition to truthful information about Faerie, I'll post information about other Magickal subjects and disciplines. I'll offer original and meaningful Pagan art and showcase talented Pagan artists and writers. I've been studying Divinatory methods for over 20 years -- surely I've got to have something I can share. I have been sincerely and deeply devoted to the cause of Anti-Defamation for Magickal Religions for over 5 years. I'm going to use this as a vehicle for that cause if I can. And my pledge to you, is to bring you things that are unique and useful -- for you to come to depend on my site to bring you something different and good. So much so that you'll want to return over and over. And as you come back, you get a little more exposure to the Real world of Faerie, little by little until you can see with your third eye into the second air, and not think anything of it.

"Gin ye call me seelie wight---I'll be your friend both day and night.

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