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Hello there, my name is Ken A. Jackson and I am the author of the Highest Echelons series of books and The Keepers of the Rods books. I am a paranormal investigator and parapsychologist. I have worked on both TV and radio studying the subject of all things spooky! What fascinates me most about the paranormal is its origins; I have not drawn any conclusions at all about ghosts and aliens or UFO's and poltergeists. I only have observations in the form of questions: Is it in humanities nature to want the paranormal, so if it wasn't true he would invent it or is it truly real?' I offer this thought for you though; I hope that you enjoy reading it.
There is a force within nature that we cannot see, or is beyond our comprehension; a force that has lived along side us since the days of mans first steps. It has been our constant companion, yet it has been our darkness and fear, it is that of the Elementals'. It is believed that our physical world, our being in connection with the earth was the catalyst to the elementals, which were the four basic elements, earth, air, fire and water.
The elementals were supposed to be in existence in another dimension between man and his creator, god, they had no independence or free will, and they just were, and ever will be. Their purpose was speculated to be of keeping our world and realm in harmony with the winds and the tides, our seasons, and thus evolution itself. A non-sentient guardian of our world, but they soon became something more, something darker
It has also been speculated that man himself originated from elementals, and that we ourselves grew away from their form into solid flesh and blood beings, with a consciousness' and self determination, and that the ladder of evolution, in some sense, took over reality and our world.
Over time the notion of elementals expanded and took on a new and greater dimension, and today they have many names and many identities, of fairies, of pixies and leprechauns, of spirits and angels, and demons, until they became the very shadows on our walls at night that gave us fear and anxiety, and darkness itself.
From primitive times to modern day, man has validated and given credence to these mythical and mysterious creatures. We have grown in fear of their power and perceived mischief, until our own mental projections have given them cult status and notoriety. We take their names and use them in our everyday lives, aimed at mischief and evil, such as an imp and banshee.
If these beings are now, or have ever ascended into reality and dwell in our realm or universe, it is mans mental projection that has put them there, and man alone who will pay the price for this act of superstition and fear.
Lets imagine for one moment that elementals are real in the sense of energy only, if so what might they be? Is it possible that they are us, after death? Maybe, but I can easily envisage that these elementals are you and I whilst alive, we have very powerful emotional forces and exceedingly large brains, of which we do not truly understand the full potential of. If we can associate Poltergeist' activity to human emotions and behaviour, why not that of the elementals, there is no disparity to imply that their presence and activity are any different.
Every year farmers all around the country, and on occasion in other countries, report what is referred to as Crop Circles', whereby they're wheat or other crops have been damaged by shapes and designs that have broken the stems of these plants, and have formulated patterns. Many have speculated that these Crop Circles' are messages from some great intelligence or other world.
Although there is no proof of this, or any proof of what these messages could mean, many have interpreted them as warning signs of impending doom and disaster, others as messages of greetings and star charts, showing the artists or authors origination or home world, however, many have proclaimed them hoaxes perpetrated by man.
I would have thought that it would probably be more realistic to assume that they are something different. We live in a universe of random chaos, where anything, or virtually anything is possible. I can easily imagine that some type of intelligence cohabitates and operates with and along side of us, and that this is what we mean when we refer to as elementals, and possibly the true creators of these crop circles.
We have all, without exception if we are honest with ourselves, experienced strange phenomena to some degree. We have all seen shapes and movement in the darkness, and then dismissed it. We have seen orbs, little floating dots of light that have come and gone in moments, might these occurrences be the elementals of which I am referring to.
We have frightened each other with ghost stories and tales of supernatural happenings. Our world, our universe and our physics appear not to be set in stone, a rigid set of laws that are inflexible and will not bend, but a series of malleable and learning curves of which we are only just beginning to grasp.
Now that our science is opening up to possibilities of alternate dimensions and the thought of time travel, we might start gaining an insight into what these elementals and energy forces really are, and even if the are real and exist at all.
For centuries there have been tales of fairies', mythical little mischief-makers who try to abduct human beings, and take them to their realm. It was speculated that in their world was an entire infrastructure and hierarchy, of kings and queens, of workers and soldiers, of war and love, of civilisation and hope.
I cannot for one moment understand why, if the stories of attempted abduction are true, that they would even want to abduct human beings. If they have their own realm and lives, surely we are nothing to them, I can imagine humans abducting them, but I would have thought that they are older and wiser than us. I also cannot actually think of anybody who believes that they are or have ever been real', maybe that's because they have never been abducted by the elementals. Although over the years many children have perpetrated hoaxes and have claimed to have seen fairies at the bottom of their gardens, or in the woods.
The same scenarios apply to pixies, goblins and elves, they have been perceived as very real, and very structured and organised. I suppose there are only two possibilities, either they are real and exist, or they are fantasy and do not, or never have existed. However, I have already stipulated that our laws of physics are not set in stone as we once believed, and it could be that these mythical little beings did once exist because of us, as pure energy beings. Created by our thoughts, our hopes and dreams, and inner most nightmares.
In the same breath, what are the possibilities that these little people are just aliens, beings from another world, or another dimension to our own? Alien visitors that found themselves stranded on our world centuries ago, caught amongst the savagery and primitiveness of human beings, in time gone by. How would they have survived our lack of understanding towards them? There could be an argument, that human beings would have perceived them as The Devils Work', demons and succubae, or incubi and divas.
Although they might have been superior in technology or of using the power of the mind to manipulate matter, they would have been defenceless against the hoards of god-fearing people, hell-bent on their destruction.
In our modern and technological world we hardly ever think of, or refer to these little beings that once terrified us so much. Most of our attention and superstition is applied to UFO's and the grey alien, is there any stretch of the imagination that can link or connect the two, with these elementals?
It would appear that there is great similarity; most alien contact is reported to follow with an abduction scenario, as with most elemental encounters. What follows this is an experimental or medical examination or procedure; this again has been recorded with elemental abduction. Whilst all this is transpiring, the whole episode can only be what is described as in a dream state'; again both apply to each scenario.
As with encounters with incubi and succubae, the victim is nearly always awoken from their sleep, this too matches the pattern as with the alien abduction syndrome. There is most certainly a pattern or correlation at work here, to what degree, and why is unknown, although I must look at the psychological make-up of the human race in all of this.
All the patterns and experiences with any of the elemental beings, and with alien abduction syndrome really do appear to be one and the same, it appears inescapable, maybe there is something within us that forges this correlation and occurrence. As I have already stipulated the human mind is an amazing, yet hardly understood entity, it is capable of achieving massive jumps in our scientific knowledge, yet it is capable of deceiving us on a grand scale. It is prone to failure and breakdown, yet again, record the minutest detail, it truly is a living paradox of grandest proportions.
The psychology of us as individuals has no fewer complexes either; we all have wants, needs, and desires. We are all delicate and ethereal, afraid of being alone and unloved. I can think of nothing that would suit our ego and personalities better than to feel that we are being abducted by aliens or little creatures from somewhere else. It would genuinely prove that we are special, that we alone stand out in this world of faceless and number ridden ideologies. However, in the centuries gone by, there was not this fear of being faceless and lacking identity, the world had fewer people to sustain, and hardly any technology to hinder our individual dreams.
There is another possibility, one that would certainly attain to the past, especially during a time of massive religious fear and domination. That is the thought of sexual repression and inhibition; centuries ago Christian doctrine and philosophies ruled our lives in the same manner as consumerism does today.
There would have been no escaping from the church, and its overseers. Any sexual contact was for marriage alone, thoughts of sexual fantasies and sexual experimentation would have been portrayed as abhorrence against god. In fact, I can easily perceive that in the vast majority of cases or relationships, sex was not really a pleasure, but a chore to be carried out to satisfy the need for childbearing, and procreation of the species, and nothing more.
However, there is an inherent need within the human personality for sexual satisfaction, for pleasure and release. This would have been very difficult, if not impossible during such times in human history, especially for women. It strikes me, that if we are forced into these positions and scenarios without any real choice, then it is not our fault. We have not instigated the physical contact; we are not to blame as it is against our will.
I am not intimating for one moment, that all contact and abduction with elementals and aliens are the result of deep-rooted sexual oppression, however, it may just be closer to the truth for many of the encounters, a psychological urge that has been extinguished without fear of guilt and retribution.
Of course, if sleep is involved anywhere in this scenario, and it is, then anything is possible. Especially when we consider that we let our guard down when we are asleep and our inner most feelings and desires come the fore. This could be one of the defining moments in this saga; many people who have undertaken hypnotic regression have told of their encounters with alien abduction, hypnotism by its own definition encourages people to become relaxed and tranquil. Again it is the feelings of our inner most desires that will probably come to the fore and that will lead us to these scenarios, all our pent up emotions and frustrations will be released, it is the nature of humanity.
I cannot and will not however, dismiss all elemental and alien experiences and encounters out of hand. The universe we live in vast, it is extremely possible that there are many, if not an infinite amount of alternate dimensions, so all things are possible, and we should never forget that.
So, I think that we should take a serious look or exploration into how any beings from somewhere else are reaching our world. If they are not from outer space, but possibly inner space, an alternate dimension that runs parallel to our own, then there is obviously a way of coming through into our domain.
My own personal preference on this is that it is not technology that is being used to bridge the space between dimensions, but vortexes and gateways, a naturally occurring phenomenon that exists. It might be a question of finding these doorways through scientific research, or just accidentally stumbling across them. The latter may be slightly perilous as we could just stumble upon them and find ourselves catapulted to another world, and be unable to return home, I did speculate earlier in this chapter that this might have happened to some of the elementals.
If so, and all these different dimensions are real, and they exist somewhere, what else may be out there somewhere? There could be dimensions that are devoid of anything, and are just dark, uninhabitable and barren wastelands. If we found ourselves catapulted to any of these, we would surely perish very quickly. It could also be that some dimensions are very populated, and very advanced, and more than aware of our existence. They might have technology that easily surpasses our own, and have sealed off any vortexes and gateways, especially to keep beings like us out.
Our history is replete with legends and myths of strange happenings and occurrences; we have folklore that intimates there are certain places or areas that have these portals to other worlds and dimensions. These same places have a higher than usual amount of people whom disappear every year, but our rational and mundane ideology tells us that this is myth and legend and should not be taken too seriously.
If we consider all the people who do go missing every year, in our country alone it is in the hundreds of thousands, although most of them are found or return home themselves eventually. Most have just runaway because of personal problems or family feuds, some may have fallen foul to dastardly deeds and been murdered.
However, there is a percentage who are never seen again, is it possible that the same people have fallen through a portal or vortex to another dimension? And at this very moment are with the elementals in their realm, surviving in any way they can. That is assuming that space and time are the same in this alternate dimension, we may find if we step through the doorway that our fate is instant death! It is an almost impossible scenario to even contemplate, let alone believe.
I feel we must try and move away from our preconceptions of these mythical little creatures being funny and possessing entertaining mannerisms, such as leprechauns collecting gold, and elves repairing our shoes, or fairies granting wishes. If these elementals are real, then they are a life form in their own right, and could pose a danger to us and other worlds. We ourselves have a history of conquering perceived lesser or less advanced civilisations, they just might have the same philosophies and ideologies as we do, and therefore we should take any evidence we have of them very seriously indeed, if we really do have any evidence of their existence at all.
In our world of three dimensional existence, of sight, sound and touch, of electrical and petrol driven technologies, we are, or may appear mundane' to many life forms from these other worlds. It might actually be cases of these elementals have an extra sensory talent to us, in that they can play or alter matter in someway! Their legends are replete with magical mischief in some form or another.
If the elementals live and dwell in great numbers, they would need a massive infrastructure, huge food supplies and distribution networks, and trade, or maybe not? If they have a gift of manipulating matter in some form, they might not need anything else. If you are hungry, you can transform rocks, sticks, anything into food. You may want some shelter from the rain or cold, well, manipulate matter and create your own home. It would appear with talents of this kind, you would not really need anything, except company. Another possibility is that we too would attain these abilities if we could transgress to their realms of existence.
Whilst contemplating alternate dimensions, we cannot overlook another startling possibility, and that is of us, ourselves and our mortality, is it possible that when we pass away, that our energy leaves our flesh and blood three dimensional existence and becomes a pure energy life form, living continuously in another realm? I did touch on this earlier, but I intend to take a closer look at the subject in another chapter.
Another factor in this equation is that of angels, by their very nature and visual perception they are extremely difficult to believe in. They are alleged to have the appearance of being humanoid, but with feathery wings. I cannot help but wonder with this entire scenario, are we actually seeing a perception, something that either we want to see and can mentally accept, or something that some other alien or entity feels is acceptable to us?
If the latter is along the lines of truth and reality, who is determining what it is that we see? Can some alien or elemental force reach deep into our minds and understand us, in a way that we cannot understand ourselves? Or could it be that we ourselves are creating the image or illusion, in that we in some unfathomable way are bending or manipulating matter and forming the visualisation? If any of this scenario of elementals and aliens, their history and ours combined, have been, are now, or ever will come to fruition, then this must be along the right lines, either one or both of these scenarios are near the truth, I cannot really see any alternative.
I believe the difficulty in trying to ascertain anything connected to the elementals, is our lack of understanding of nature. The elementals are supposed to represent nature, or be an inaugural part of nature. This would tally with their alleged mischievous behaviour, nature by its own definition is cruel and abhorrent, and so we cannot really expect the elementals to be any different. Thus they attempt to abduct humans for what ever reason, in the sense that it is their nature.
There is one outstanding connection between the elementals and our world today; their legends are replete with contact and habitation in and around Tress'. And of course the tree has its roots, if you will pardon the pun, in most human philosophies and ideologies. It is perceived as earthly and motherly by nature, and has been seized upon by Christianity, in that Christ was crucified on wood, and in the garden of Eden, Eve took an apple from a tree that lead to both her and Adam being expelled from paradise. In fact trees are replete through Norse mythology, Sumerian, The Druid philosophy and other Pagan beliefs, to mention just a few.
If we really believe or have an inkling towards the elementals, maybe an expedition to your nearest woods would be apt, however, if we look at this logically, you are unlikely to find pixies, fairies, leprechauns and elves living in council accommodation on some estate in an inner city, so maybe we should keep an open mind on this!
I must consider another possible option and scenario with these little beings, an idea that intimates that they are still here, and all around us. They may be living outside of our space and time, and as a result we cannot see them, unless they want to be seen or contacted. However, their dimension still dictates that they are on earth, and living along side of us, and that they can see us, but we cannot see them.
I do not believe that any notion of them still being here is really that farfetched, as I have already intimated, we know very little about the universe around us. Since science tells us, and can prove that plants and trees scream when we cut them, I can believe most things. It does point to the fact that many perceived primitive and obsolete religions, do have a point and fact in nature, and of their basis in nature.
There is one aspect that could have a contributory factor with the elemental scenario that I have not mentioned, and that is of electromagnetic forces. Our ancestors were verging on obsession with theses particular forces; I suppose it is possible that they held an insight into the elementals, such as where we could find them, and especially, where we could avoid them.
Electromagnetic forces might hold a significant key in the search for them, in that we do not truly understand the effects they have on the human brain. If elementals are mere illusion, nothing more than a figment of human perception, it could be these electromagnetic forces help initiate the onset of an encounter. On the other hand, it could be these forces that help them breach our dimension and give them access to our world, access to create a very real threat, or perceived threat at the time.
There is a human saying, an analogy of life that usually helps find us the truth, and that is, There are two sides to every story'. I wonder what the chances are that the elementals are genuine, flesh and blood creatures, who have legends about us? Their stories might tell of giant people from another realm, which will pursue and kill you, as soon as they look at you, it is just as possible that they have grown in fear of us, in the same way that we have of them.
I cannot really say either way if any form of elemental being exists or not, I do not really know if I believe in them or not! There is probably more of the subconscious than conscious about them, there is probably more of an illusion than impugn to the stories and history of them. However, we have feared the shadows on our walls, we hide under the duvet when we hear a sound in the darkness. It is in our nature to frighten ourselves with horror stories and science fiction, we understand that nature does not respect a fool, and we run for home when we hear the thunder and see the lightening. And only a fool would deny the existence of something so powerful, that it could blow them away like a leaf on the breeze, and a sane and rational person will know, that the truth points to itself.
