Category: THE FOREST DARK LOGBOOK

Research for my Forest Dark movie project led me to a field trip to the magic Island of Rügen, North-East of Germany. As in many areas of West- and Middle Europe you will find impressing megalithic tombs and dolmen there. Their similarity with prehistoric places in Ireland or England, Scandinavia and even some places in Nova Scotia in Canada is remarkable. Many of these sacred sites have been destroyed but you still get the idea of something wonderful and intriguingly impressive with many mysteries unsolved. As far as we know Stone-Age-People had neither airplanes to travel fast nor any internet or mobiles to communicate. If there was really a very widespread common culture ages ago, even long before Romans appeared, we must question our ideas about the history of mankind. We don’t know really know a lot about our origin. The day will come when advanced technologies allow us to better understand these sites and maybe that day we will have to rewrite human history.

As in legendary Stonehenge we find big blocks of stone in Rügen’s megalithic tombs, and it’s still hard to imagine how stone-age people could have moved these huge and heavy stones away or erected them. What’s much more mysterious is the purpose of these sites which are really big and have openings related to the cardinal directions. Maybe even the word “tomb” isn’t appropriate. However, archaeologists found bodies and often armour and valuable items there. The whole setting indicates that the deceased was prepared for his last journey. Their locations were chosen carefully and some people strongly believe that our ancestors had a strong sense for the Earth’ energies and even more. We further know that our ancestors were convinced of the existence of the Otherworld. Megalithic tombs can only be understood if we accept this belief system. They seem like some preparation room, yes, indeed like the transporter room of the famous spaceship “Enterprise” preparing its occupants for their journey into another dimension.

What about megalithic tombs today? There are many mysterious reports and some of them strongly related to the Sleagh Maith from Reverend Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth. They might visit these places too, and maybe there was a time where man even met entities from other realms there. Contemporary visitors speak about strong energies they feel and even more. Indeed, these places can induce intensive experiences and visions due to their psychic atmosphere.  However it’s always the visitor who ignites visions and other things. Furthermore any experience is different and personal. In many senses visitors are advised to treat these places with utmost respect. They are not only part of our cultural heritage, which should be protected for future generations but indeed holy places where people prayed for their friends and relatives.

For your own sake keep in mind that certain places are also paranormal hotspots for elemental forces. Furthermore there might be guardians and still activated protection systems on alert there. Particularly for those who prefer the “fast lane” to enter the other realm there might be also some unpleasant surprises in store.
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Robert Kirk, minister of Aberfoyle, Scotland, left one of the most fascinating and reasonable accounts of the unseen world in 1691. His work was much later discovered and published by novelist Sir Walter Scott. Kirk’s record describes in his account the fairies „they call Sleagh Maith or „The Good people“ as paradoxical beings inhabiting both the air and underground caves and he combines the banal with the surreal:  On one hand it is said that „they live in houses underground that are large and fair, lit with lamps and fires but without fuel to sustain them. They may abduct mortal women to nurse their children. Their clothing and speech is that of the country they live in (from Highland Folklore)“. On the other hand their pure nature and physics is completely alien to anything we know: „THERE Bodies of congealled Air are ƒome tymes caried aloft, other whiles grovell in different Schapes, and enter into any Cranie or Clift of the Earth where Air enters, to their ordinary Dwellings; the Earth being full of Cavities and Cells, and there being no Place nor Creature but is ƒuppoƒed to have other Animals (greater or leƒƒer) living in or upon it as Inhabitants; and no ƒuch thing as a pure Wilderneƒs in the whole Univerƒe (From Robert Kirk’s manuscript).“

This sounds pretty much like modern accounts of extra-terrestrial visitors or like „the separate evolution to that of humanity“.  The similarities between medieval accounts about demons and fairies and modern „close encounters“ have been mentioned a lot of times and Jacques Vallees emphasized this continuity in his accounts as “Passport to Magonia”. But what’s so interesting about Kirk’s account is the complex nature of these beings and the fact that they seem completely alien to us and exhibit very familiar behaviour at the same time. „Bodies of congealled air“ – this is a not like any life-form on earth but something close to the discoveries of modern scientists on a subatomic level.  The „human aspect“ of these entities doesn’t make really any sense. Maybe this is staged for us, since if we could see what these elemental spirits are we would loose our wits. Indeed there are many accounts about encounters with the „Sleagh Maith“ where people lost their sense or  – again like in modern Ufo-Folklore „lost time and orientation“. It’s not surprising that Robert Kirk’s dead became a mystery. It is said,  „he was taken“.

It seems like we have companions here on earth, we don’t know much about and who seem like tricksters, shape-changers and maybe some form of mediators between our world and the unknown. They must be here for a very long time, maybe much longer before man appeared on the face of earth and they are very close to us, a secret commonwealth playing a role in our destiny and we don’t know very much about them and their plans.

In my opinion they are part of the gateway to the otherworld, sometimes they might act as guardians, sometimes they are gatekeepers. And we do not know what they really are and should be aware about their reality-shifting abilities. Maybe somebody is creating realities for us, like the engineers of modern virtual-realities and from time to time at certain places we are allowed to get a glimpse about what’s really going on.

“There are other forms of life as well as ours whose sphere evolution impinges upon the earth”, DION FORTUNE, Psychic Self-Defense

Sometimes I wish she would be wrong, but she isn’t. The truth might be even more frightening. That’s what I’ve learned.

Legendary occultist Dion Fortune not only tells us about elemental forces and the background of demons but also about a scary idea which doesn’t sound so far away considering today’s speculation about parallel dimensions. In her classic “Psychic Self-Defense” she mentions the Deva-Evolution, which refers to entities or non-human souls, which emerged from a separate evolution to that of humanity. However there is no talk about humanoids with a different DNA as some sorts of alien-sightings suggest, but a whole cosmos of souls which are not really human but which could also incarnate in a human body. They could use human bodies as a hull, as humans not aware about their true origin and live among us undetected.

This triggered something when I thought more about it. It is indeed not a new idea, it was also mentioned by Algernoon Blackwood. My immediate thought was if there is a parallel evolution to that of humanity, there might be numerous species. There might be some entities, which are not friendly at all and some of them might have a plan. Some of them might even protect humanity as long as it fits their purposes. And we might be straight in the middle of a war of cosmic proportions.

However there are much more troubling questions if we dig further: if there are life forms, which exist on a kind of “higher frequency” our usual limitations of space and time means nothing to them. They could keep a hidden influence on our lives. Maybe there would be no need to communicate with humans in an ordinary sense. What if somebody could have access to our mind or to our conscious, manipulating us in secret ways?

Dion Fortune’s ideas can’t be explored in an ordinary sense. We can speculate and we can make up our fantasies about countless parallel universes and their various inhabitants. We might feel their presence in certain places but the only chance to understand would be to remember. It might be not them but us who came originally from another place. And are you really sure that you don’t belong to a separate evolution to that you always thought you would belong?

It is often said walking in the woods is good for you. Sometimes we can experience many different things there and learn about long kept secrets. There are bright places there but also some places, which are very special. There might be even dark corners there, where something can take us by surprise. We might think sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts. However do we really know where certain thoughts come from? Stroll around for a long time and maybe you will meet somebody in the dark corners of the woods. It has always been there, maybe waiting for somebody who will come like Maupassant’s legendary “L’Horla”. In a certain state of mind we might even get a glimpse of what it is and learn about forbidden things, which happen sometimes in the woods in a certain place.