<p>In 2011, David Spangler was unexpectedly contacted by a non-physical woman who identified herself as one of the Sidhe (pronounced <em>shee</em>), a legendary race of beings known to the ancient Celts as the <em>People of Peace</em> among other names.</p><p>The woman said she was part of a project to encourage and assist more contact between her people and humanity.&nbsp; To this end, she presented David and his colleague Jeremy Berg with an outline for a set of cards that could be used to facilitate such contact. The result was <em>The Card Deck of the Sidhe</em> published by Lorian Press LLC that same year.</p><p>This Sidhe woman who headed up this project had a name which David could not pronounce or replicate in English, so she said he could call her &ldquo;Mariel.&rdquo;&nbsp; The contact with her was not a regular event, but over the next decade, they had several conversations together, most of which were collected and published in 2014 in a book titled <em>Conversations with the Sidhe</em>. This book contains much introductory material explaining who Mariel is and the nature of the Sidhe themselves, with whom we humans apparently share an ancient, distant ancestor.&nbsp;</p><p>As more people have been using the <em>Card Deck of the Sidhe</em> or have read about the Sidhe, David has gotten many enquiries about what it means to engage with these beings.&nbsp; How can they help us?&nbsp; How can we help them?&nbsp; What does it mean to work with the Sidhe in our daily lives?&nbsp; How can we contact them?&nbsp; And, of course, there is always a curiosity about who they are and how they live.&nbsp;</p><p>These are questions that David had as well.&nbsp; During the years since <em>Conversations with the Sidhe</em> was published, he continued to have contact with Mariel.&nbsp; This book is a compilation of the further conversations between Mariel and David on a variety of topics.</p>