Dr Psychonaut
Rising Star
I have often seen machine elf-type beings in my DMT trips and have a tremendous deal of curiosity about exactly what/who they are and what they might be trying to show us. I have just finished reading ‘Astral Plane: Its scenery, inhabitants and phenomena’ by C.W. Leadbeater (an early 20th century theosophist) and I was fascinated to find a description that for me had significant similarities to what I have experienced of the elves and what a lot of Terrence Mckenna’s descriptions of them along with posts on the nexus seem to say. Here are key excerpts from the book:
These nature-spirits are known in popular language by many names – fairies, pixies, elves, trolls, goblins, etc. – some of these titles being only applied to one variety, and others indiscriminately to all.... Their forms are many and various, but most frequently human in shape and somewhat diminutive in size......Under ordinary conditions they are not visible to physical sight at all, but they have the power of making themselves so by materialization when they wish to be seen...
There are an immense number of subdivisions or races among them, and individuals differ in intelligence and disposition precisely as human beings do.... instances are not wanting in which nature-spirits have as it were made friends with human beings and offered them such assistance as lay in their power. This helpful attitude however is comparatively rare, and in most cases when they come into contact with man they either show indifference or dislike, or else take an impish delight in deceiving him and playing childish tricks upon him.... practical joking and silly though usually good-natured horse-play... They are greatly assisted in their tricks by the wonderful power they possess of casting a glamour over those who yield themselves to their influence, so that victims for the time see and hear only what these fairies impress upon them, exactly as the mesmerised subject sees, hears, feels, and believes whatever the magnetizer wishes.....
We stand so entirely outside such a life as theirs that it is impossible for us to understand much about its conditions; but it appears on the whole to be a simple, joyous, irresponsible kind of existence, such as a party of happy children might lead among exceptionally favourable physical surroundings...Some among the many subdivisions of this class are much less childlike and more dignified than those we have been describing.... such entities would be quite sensible of the flattery involved in the reverence shown to them, enjoy it, and are usually quite ready to do any small service they can in return.
For me a lot of the description seemed to match quite well what I have experienced of them. Particularly when they talk of their ability to cast a glamour over us, as whenever I have seen the elves all I can do is stare in awe as if I am indeed being glamoured. For me they never seem pesky though, instead seeming sincere and helpful, but have read many accounts and heard reports from friends of them playing practical jokes in hyperspace, though never maliciously. Leadbeater’s description of them (if indeed these are interpreted to be machine elves) implies that the majority of the time they are simply glamouring us then playing funny jokes on us for their own amusement. So when they are showing us these marvellous inventions and trying to wow us with these things ‘look at THIS!’, perhaps this is all a good-natured prank of playing on our naivety and having fun in the process, rather than bigger messages of the future of our evolution etc. Though they do sometimes offer a hand to humans Leadbeater says, so perhaps sometimes they are trying to help us in some way.
I’d love to hear what others think about this description and how much it rings true for their experiences with elf/fairy/pixie-like beings encountered in hyperspace. I also highly recommend any avid psychonaut read this book as it provides a very objective and scientific approach to the astral plane and its inhabitants.
These nature-spirits are known in popular language by many names – fairies, pixies, elves, trolls, goblins, etc. – some of these titles being only applied to one variety, and others indiscriminately to all.... Their forms are many and various, but most frequently human in shape and somewhat diminutive in size......Under ordinary conditions they are not visible to physical sight at all, but they have the power of making themselves so by materialization when they wish to be seen...
There are an immense number of subdivisions or races among them, and individuals differ in intelligence and disposition precisely as human beings do.... instances are not wanting in which nature-spirits have as it were made friends with human beings and offered them such assistance as lay in their power. This helpful attitude however is comparatively rare, and in most cases when they come into contact with man they either show indifference or dislike, or else take an impish delight in deceiving him and playing childish tricks upon him.... practical joking and silly though usually good-natured horse-play... They are greatly assisted in their tricks by the wonderful power they possess of casting a glamour over those who yield themselves to their influence, so that victims for the time see and hear only what these fairies impress upon them, exactly as the mesmerised subject sees, hears, feels, and believes whatever the magnetizer wishes.....
We stand so entirely outside such a life as theirs that it is impossible for us to understand much about its conditions; but it appears on the whole to be a simple, joyous, irresponsible kind of existence, such as a party of happy children might lead among exceptionally favourable physical surroundings...Some among the many subdivisions of this class are much less childlike and more dignified than those we have been describing.... such entities would be quite sensible of the flattery involved in the reverence shown to them, enjoy it, and are usually quite ready to do any small service they can in return.
For me a lot of the description seemed to match quite well what I have experienced of them. Particularly when they talk of their ability to cast a glamour over us, as whenever I have seen the elves all I can do is stare in awe as if I am indeed being glamoured. For me they never seem pesky though, instead seeming sincere and helpful, but have read many accounts and heard reports from friends of them playing practical jokes in hyperspace, though never maliciously. Leadbeater’s description of them (if indeed these are interpreted to be machine elves) implies that the majority of the time they are simply glamouring us then playing funny jokes on us for their own amusement. So when they are showing us these marvellous inventions and trying to wow us with these things ‘look at THIS!’, perhaps this is all a good-natured prank of playing on our naivety and having fun in the process, rather than bigger messages of the future of our evolution etc. Though they do sometimes offer a hand to humans Leadbeater says, so perhaps sometimes they are trying to help us in some way.
I’d love to hear what others think about this description and how much it rings true for their experiences with elf/fairy/pixie-like beings encountered in hyperspace. I also highly recommend any avid psychonaut read this book as it provides a very objective and scientific approach to the astral plane and its inhabitants.
