Søren Hauge - Finding Your ElvenHeart

Dedicated to The Sidhe

And to the Gentle Wildness in you and me

FINDING YOUR ELVENHEART

As our world struggles to recognize and respect the many cultural colors that make up the rainbow family of humanity, distant relatives living beyond the veil await our acceptance and embrace. The ethereal reality and ancient lore of the Sidhe community is magically brought alive in this compelling book by Sren Hauge. Through firsthand intimate experiences, he invites us to open our hearts and honor this hitherto hidden and subtle realm as part of the wholeness we call Gaia. Srens profoundly moving book is an interdimensional portal that cultivates a greater appreciation of the One Life, celebrates the richness of our Human-Elven heritage and shared destiny, and sounds a wild call for communion and cooperationleaving a warm glow of joyful expectancy in the readers heart.

MICHAEL LINDFIELD, president of Meditation Mount in Ojai, California, and international consultant and coach

Sren Hauge teaches us to connect to our inner and outer wild in a way that is immensely life-affirming and joyous. Finding Your ElvenHeart is a practical, deep dive into working with the Sidhe. It is also a wonderful resource for anyone who is seeking to deepen their connection to themselves, to divine flow, and to the natural world.

MARY MUELLER SHUTAN, author of The Spiritual Awakening Guide and Working with Kundalini

You can only write a book like this if you have done a lot of soulful living. That means turning over a lot of stones, having some of them fall on your heador your heartand along the way finding some that are pure gold. As an author, Sren shares all that and more on his journey deep into the mysteries of the ElvenHeart. Youll know if you are called. We are in the midst of a renaissance, a returning to an awareness of ancient earthly wisdom, and Sren is on the forefront of this urgent remembering. As a courageous guide he is making a path we all can learn from. This book is both inspiring and practicalI was deeply moved.

CARL AUSTIN HYATT, fine art photographer, shamanic workshop leader, and facilitator of corporate leadership retreats

Finding Your ElvenHeart is truly visionary. It invites readers to connect not just with the Sidhe but with a future of true wholenessboth individual and collective. In the course of the book, Sren makes clear that the separation between humans and the Sidhe reflects a deeper separation from our own capacity for joy, for aliveness, and ultimately from aspects of our true selves. But the joy and wonder of this book is that working with the Sidhe becomes a path to the greater aliveness that we forgot.

THOMAS MILLER, Co-creative Spirituality conference director, Findhorn Foundation

For we who ride the winds, run on the waves, and dance upon the mountains, are more light than dewdrops on the banners of the dawn.

William Butler yeats

The Land of Hearts Desire

And all I thought of heaven before, I find in earth below: A sunlight in the hidden core to dim the noonday glow.

George William russell (AE)

A New World

FOREWORD

By David Spangler

I have had the pleasure of knowing Sren Hauge for many years and have enjoyed the privilege of calling him my friend. I have viewed him as an outstanding and innovative spiritual teacher. Yet, in spite of our friendship, our paths rarely crossed. His work was in Europe, mine in the United States; he was busy developing SoulFlow, and I was busy helping develop Incarnational Spirituality. We each had our spheres of operation and work, united in our desire to see a more harmonious world emerge but separated by distance and different responsibilities.

This was changed by the Sidhe. Whether these spiritual cousins of humanity set out to do so, I have no idea, but in unexpected ways, the Sidhe entered both of our lives and the result has been a delightful and mutually beneficial convergence of our work and our paths.

I knew of the Sidhe both from Celtic lore and from the pioneering work of my friend, John Matthews, whose book, The Sidhe, is a classic in this area and a beginning point for many of us. But I was not seeking to contact these beings and frankly, gave them little thought until one day, out of the blue, one of them appeared to me and said we had work to do together. The result was the Card Deck of the Sidhe, co-created with my Lorian colleague, Jeremy Berg. This was a set of cards presented to us by the Sidhe as a tool people could use to contact them and form alliances of service on behalf of the earth.

At this point, the Sidhe became an important part of my life, and I was amazed and affirmed to discover that the same had been happening on the other side of the world to my friend, Sren. We were simultaneously having different yet complementary experiences with these beings. As a consequence, where our work had been different, we now found ourselves sharing a common project of helping the Sidhe make their presence known once more to modern society as they seek to help humanity at a time of planetary crisis and change.

This book arises out of this project, and I am honored to write this foreword.

ElvenHeart approaches the Sidhe from two important directions. On the one hand, it offers a deep look at the history and lore surrounding these beings. Drawing on his own rich experiences and on the insights and experiences of many others whose lives have intersected with the Sidhe, Sren helps us understand just who these beings are and why their presence is important to us and to our world.

The other gift this book offers is to encourage and guide us to finding the spirit of the Sidhe within ourselves. This is not just a mystical or metaphysical quest. The Sidhe call themselves our spiritual cousins and announce themselves as a branch of humanity that did not take the plunge into physical incarnation in the way we did. In effect, we are one species that split eons ago to occupy two different dimensions of the earth, each a complement to the other. We share a common spiritual ancestry, which means that just as the chemistry of the ancient seas out of which we physically emerged is present in our blood, so the qualities and magic of the Sidhe are present in us as well as part of our spiritual heritage. Awakening to this Sidhe-humanity within us in order to discover the joyful and richSren would say, wildwholeness of who we are is the second important theme of this book.

Sren addresses both these themesthe nature of the Sidhe and the nature of the Sidhe within uswith humor, compassion, and wisdom. He is forthright and down-to-earth, truly a practical mystic interested not in lofty spiritual ideals but in how we can help heal and bless our world through engagement with the Sidhe-half of our humanity. He is interested in actions, both inner and outer, and this book rings with the possibilities of what can be achieved as we open to our ElvenHeart.

For this is the vitally important subtext of all Sren is doing and writing as a teacher and an emissary for the Sidhe: our earth is facing a moment of destiny when we will determine if we will continue as an evolving and thriving species or if we will lose all we have gained in the throes of a world turned practically uninhabitable as a result of selfish and short-sighted actions. We are faced with the choice of learning to be whole beings participating in the wholeness of a living and interconnected world or of continuing with our fragmentation and separation and seeing all our hopes for the future dashed.