Legends from the Shadows: Tales of the Unexplained

Exploring the Unseen: Mystical Beings, Fairy Rings, and Parallel Realities

• Eric J Dionne • Season 1 • Episode 1

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Ever wondered if there's an unseen world teeming with mystical beings, just beyond our human perception? Strap in for a mind-bending exploration into the realm of the hidden folk, the ethereal beings of folklore and fairytales. We'll embark on a journey tracing their origins back to ancient pagan beliefs and Nordic mythology, and share spine-tingling tales of encounters from around the globe. Uncover how these enigmatic entities have woven themselves into our collective consciousness, influencing folklore, superstition, and even shaping our cultural and literary landscape.

Can you handle the truth about fairy rings? These fascinating, naturally occurring phenomena have fuelled superstitions and legends for centuries, with beliefs stretching from endless dancing till madness takes hold, to devil's handiwork. Discover the extraordinary allure fairy rings hold, as we shatter scientific explanations and head deeper into the rabbit hole of folklore and tradition. From the good luck bestowed upon those who dare to enter, according to Welsh tradition, to the inspiration they've sparked in literature, these peculiar formations have mystified humanity for long.

Now, brace yourself as we venture beyond the physical realm, into the speculative domains of parallel realities and dimensional shifts. Drawing from research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, we peer into the quantum world, asking - could fairies actually exist in our world and beyond? Engage with the disparate views encompassing hallucinations, psychological manifestations, as well as the more tantalizing belief in entities manifesting from other realms. Finally, we plunge into the mystical world of hidden folk, contemplating their possible existence as spirits, aliens, or interdimensional beings. As we wrap up this enchanting expedition, we leave you, dear listener, with an invitation to keep your mind open to the magic that potentially exists in our world. Strap in, it's going to be a wild ride!

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Welcome to Legends from the Shadows, tales of the Unexplained. I'm your host, eric Dion, and I'll be your guide through the mysteries that lurk beyond the ordinary. Join me as we peel back the veil on legends, myths and enigmas that have nestled themselves in the shadowy corners of history. From cryptic creatures to eerie occurrences, we'll embark on a journey to uncover the truth, mysteries and whispers that have captivated curious minds for centuries. Get ready to venture into the unknown, where the line between fact and folklore blur and the stories that dwell in the shadows come to light. Greetings, dear listeners. Today we embark on a mystical journey into the realm of the hidden folk, creatures of folklore and myth that have enchanted cultures worldwide for centuries. Join me as we uncover their history, sightings and enduring presence in the modern world that we know it. So the hidden folk are also known as elves, fairies or other ethereal beings. They've inhabited the collective imaginations of humankind for ages now. These elusive creatures, often residing in hidden realms or within nature itself, are set to possess extraordinary powers and live parallel to our own world. But what lies behind these tales? That's one of the biggest questions right now, and that's what I want to delve deeper into, their history and their lore.

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The origins of the hidden folk are also known in Icelandic folklore. The hundan folk are deeply intertwined with the rich tapestry of North mythology and the cultural beliefs that the Nordic people had. Now, these mythical beings are believed to have traced their lineage to ancient pagan beliefs that predate the Christianization of the region. In North mythology there's a rich tradition of supernatural beings, including elves, dwarves and other mythical entities, which likely influence the conceptuation of what we know or refer to as the hidden folk. The roots of the hundan folk might also be connected to the ideal of land spirits or nature spirits that were revered by Nordic societies. These beings were believed to inhabit specific natural locations such as rocks, forests, caves, and they were also seen, though, as guardians or protectors of these places. Now, over time and, I guess, culture, these nature spirits became intertwined with folklore surrounding the hidden folk how, I don't really know, but a lot of the contributing factors to it and contributing to their association with certain landscapes and their roles as custodians, basically, of the environment. Now, legends passed down through generations that further embellished the origins of the hidden folk. They weave tales of their creations and existence into parallel with humans. There are some stories out there that suggest they are descendants of the Norse gods themselves, while others depict them as being born from the earth, itself tied to the natural elements that were imbued with magical abilities. Now, both these narratives can vary across regions, reflecting the diverse cultural beliefs and oral tradition of what we would know and consider as Nordic people.

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The origins of the hidden folk are persistent as a blend of ancient mythologies. You know, you have your folk beliefs and your cultural heritage that have evolved through the centuries of storytelling and shaping the collective imagination of the Nordic communities. Now there's specifics of their origins that might differ from one tale to the other, but the enduring fascination with these mythical beings continues to enrich the fabric of the Nordic region. So, in the end, when we're touching, based on history and lore, the folklore surrounding the hidden folk has just transcended cultures and civilizations from way, way back From the Scandinavian tales that said that the hidden folk dwelling in places to Celtic belief in these slide are residing mounds. They have woven themselves into the tapestry of other numerous mythologies. Legends describe the hidden folk as guardians of nature, possessing both a mischief and benevolence, which you know. That's kind of go If you can't see something, you're going to be afraid. You know, we're all usually afraid of the unknown. That's what, that's what causes fear and that's what can cause so many misconceptions. You have stories of encounters with these beings, ranging from helpful interactions with humans to like cautionary tales of those who dare to serve the domains of the hidden folk. Throughout history, there's sightings and interactions with the hidden folk have been reported, and each account keeps adding more and more layers to their mystique. Okay, so let's explore some notable, I guess, say, sightings and encounters that have contributed to the lore of the hidden folk.

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I want to start off by touching base over in Iceland, specifically near Reykjavik. Back in, I want to say it's 2014, they were supposed to be building a highway that would link the Alphins Peninsula to the Reykjavik suburb, near Gardevar, or Gardevar, if I'm pronouncing it wrong. I do apologize. I'm awful at pronunciations and stuff, but this road was actually halted from being done for a bit because they had campaigners protesters out there warning that if they disturbed the elf habitat and the protected area around it, that there would be nothing but trouble. There was two particular spots that were in question at that time One they actually had labeled as Elf Church and the other one was labeled as Elf Chapel.

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Now let me be very, very clear and distinct here. When saying elf and fairies and stuff like that, I'm not talking like you're what most people say. Oh, you know Santa's elves, these little guys that pointy ears, you know green, purple, pink, whatever color out there. Now, actually, when we're talking about hidden folks and the fey and elves and stuff, they're actually the same size as us. Some can be tall, some short, some fat, some thin. You know, it's not what we perceive, it never has been it. Just they are hidden to us. So, that being done, and said, they had these two spots that the locals and everybody did not want to mess with because they were said to be fairy locations or elf locations.

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In the end, the matter ended up being resolved in part. There was a local lady there. She claimed to talk to the fey and she was given a chance that she went and did her thing. She said she spoke with them and they ended up mediating and they came to an agreement that the road could be done as long as the elf's chapel was carefully moved in place elsewhere, and that's what they did. Now we're talking about a 70 ton rock and I don't know the cost of moving stuff like that very carefully. All I know is I'm trying to look up into information that the highway authority still to this day will not reveal the cost that it cost them to move that rock and they had to hire a bunch of cranes and stuff in the end. So that's one of the ones that I followed for a while, just trying to get more and more information on it here and there.

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So yeah, iceland, it's such a beautiful country, from the hot springs to just the countryside, but they're deep enriched folklore surrounding the elves. It's just something amazing. They even have a fairy school there that you can enroll in, and that, to me, is just one of those things that I'm just like. You know, this is great stuff. Let's move on now and let's talk about Fairy Ring.

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Now, there's a lot that goes on with the Fairy Ring. So if you break it down on a science level, it says you know, basically, science says that fairy rings are patterns of certain types of mushrooms that grow in a circular formation, are naturally occurring phenomena and they usually appear year after year on lawns or in fields or in the forest. But Fairy Rings they occur when mushroom spores fall in a favorable spot and then they spread out and basically there's an underground network of fine tubular threads called hyphen. Now the mushroom caps then appear at the edge of these networks that are formed underground and formation continues to expand upward and they use all this nutrients within them as they grow larger and larger. And you know there's a ring in Belfort, france, that was considered, and still is considered, the largest ever seen. I think it measures approximately a little over 2,000 feet in diameter and it's over 700 years old. Like it's been coming back and back and back and back, which is crazy.

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Now the lore behind a lot of this is people regard fairy rings with a strong sense of curiosity and fear because they believe them to have mystical and be places of supernatural powers. Within folklore we can tell that cultures across Europe have traditionally believed that fairy rings were the dwelling places and portals into the fairy worlds elves, witches and all types of other magical creatures, and some of them. You know there's some lore out there that states that it can be very dangerous to enter into these things, but there's just so much. And then you start getting to the thing where people are like well, what could be so dangerous about a circle of mushrooms? Well, to the English and Celtic tales, any human that would enter into a fairy ring would end up being forced to dance with the creatures, and they were unable to stop until they either went mad or they just basically died from exhaustion. You know you think, oh yeah, oh, I can dance. You know, you know, look, if you're having to dance for an eternity or until you pass out and die. You know that was the thing. You have Dutch traditions out there that tell you that the rings were created by the devil himself and what he would do is he would have that's where he basically would churn milk and that any livestock that entered into that circle, they would basically suffer by having their own milk, sour, I guess. And then you have Austrians um legends that you know said dragons burn the ground around there, and that's where you know, that's how you get fairy rings and stuff like that. There's.

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There's so, so many different concepts behind these fairy rings. You even have, like there's a well old Welsh tradition, and it varies a little bit, about the consequences of a human's arrival into the fairy ring and that the rings aren't actually brought about by fairies themselves but by the nature of their world and according to the legend, um, the pace of the fairy world differs differs from that than our pace. So you, basically, you're taking like two different planes of existence and they're moving, you know, at different speeds, um, and that, with that being the case, a person could dance for a minute in a fairy ring, only to discover that it had been days or weeks in our human realm. So you could sit there and I guess you could say that if you entered into a fairy ring and danced for 10 minutes, you might come back into the human world and it could have been 100 years and that's why you're dead. So there's a lot of interesting stuff, um, when you're going into that darker side about fairy rings. But then again, not all myths and legends and folklore surrounding fairy rings are quite so dark. You have some legends out there that say that fairy wings are actually really good luck. Um, you know that most, most your legends and folklore tales don't suggest entering into them, but some of them do say that there's a good omen and you should grow your stocks and keep your livestock and stuff and feeds around fairy rings because it'll help improve fertility and it will help with, like, good fortune.

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Um, over in Germany, the fairy rings down there. They were called witches rings or hexen ring and they were believed to be places where witches would come and dance and celebrate, um, the Walpurgis night, which was a festival that enters into or brings in the coming of spring. Um, you know now your fay and your fairy folk and hidden folk. You know, they're all. You know. They're usually typically, I guess you could say, associated with world otherworldly phenomenon, um, and magic. And you know mysteries, um, but you know even Shakespeare. He alludes to a fair ring with appreciation.

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I um, let me double check here. It was, yeah, act two, scene one of a midsummer's night stream in which the fairies say and I serve the fairy queen to do her orbs upon the green. So you know it's, there's, there's so much history around these and we still don't know. You know science. If we take the science stance or you take the skeptical stance, okay, it's just a occurrence of the way the mushrooms grow in the underground, rotting up and stuff, um, but then you have all the unknowns and you know other history behind it as well. You know, you figure, as the weathers start to cool and stuff, you know, rings start popping up all over the world and then you know, of course, here we go. You know our imaginations are let loose once again, um, and it's been going on for thousands upon thousands of years now. So when it comes to that aspect, I guess you could say it's going to be up to you to decide, with, like fairy rings and how much you really really want to go into it, um.

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So, moving forward a little bit, you know I want to talk about, um, ireland's Glens. You know, over there, you know you have witnesses and all types of people that have recounts about meetings with fairies and irons. Ireland's a lush greenery out there and this still ties in some with the fairy rings that we're just talking about. Or, um, the ring of wrath. You know, there there's good parts to it, like we've said. You know they say if a couple can't conceive, they can go visit the wrath at certain times of the year and ask the fairies for help. Um, it's also the case like somebody who's seeking to get married married, they can make a request to the fairies and their ancestral spirits at the wrath and it says their wish is granted, they will be married within a year, providing the ritual has done correctly.

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There's a lot of customs and rituals that go back and on. There's also, um, I guess you could say, a fairy gift associated with the ring of wrath, and that is that musicians can go there and sleep overnight during one of the ancient festivals and certain dates and that when they awake they will receive the gift, gift of otherworldly musicianship. Now, of course, my, my theory and this follows along with folklore and other legends of of it is, when you're going and doing something, there is going to be a price. Now, what that price is, you know I don't know. There's always a price. It's the whole deal with the devil and you know you get this great gift given to you, but there is a cost and there's not. I just didn't find enough information just yet on this, this first episode. Who say what those costs were? But you know, it's just, it's crazy and you know that's just how it goes and people believe it.

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There's a lot of belief in this. You know, like if a person or even a child goes missing in a lot of these places and countries there's, the locals jump right on it and their attitudes actually change towards the fairies. For example, there's a case in Wicklow A young girl vanished for three days and that whole community out there. They went out there, searching for all over the place. They were looking in ditches, they were looking in the forest, the woods, looking in fields, and they just couldn't find her. The girl finally reappeared. I think it was like three days later, three, four days later, and when she told her parents that she had been taken, this was what she said she had been taken away by tiny little red men and nothing was questioned of her about that. The girl said she managed to overcome her ordeal and she even took them to the site in location where she was abducted and the town. Nobody chastised her or anything. What they ended up doing was preserve that location and marked it off Because they didn't want any other kids or any other person to go and experience the same ordeal or suffer that same fate in the end.

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And that's how strongly they believe in that culture. I can only imagine the distress of having to look for my child when they were little, but it also ties back to your whole communities. They come together and that's one of those things that I wish society nowadays. More of us would all just come together. Naturally, I wish it wasn't gonna take things. It all is disbared, it everybody to do something, but that's just how it is.

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And then doing some more reading out there, the biggest thing I've noticed is that when people claim to have returned from a fairy realm and there seems to be different realms out there, their lives are often changed forever Just by recounting what has happened to them. There's another example out there it was an Irish example about a woman being abducted by a fairy. She went missing overnight and when she returned she told everybody that had been searching for her that she was in a lovely city and saw lovely women and they all bowed to her and it's almost like a contemporary I guess you could say parallel to UFO abductions, but where this lady was describing more advanced technology and fairies rather than aliens and probes. So there's just a lot going on within this. There's so much. This could be a whole series just devoted on fairies if I really wanted to break it down and I'll probably touch back on that more as well down the road.

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But going from the early middle ages up into the 20th century, many people living in rural countryside of Europe have the wild aspect of nature was. I guess back in those days nature was still untamed. You had dangers that lurked in the woods and the water and it was believed that the spirits around there, or the Fae and Faeri folk, they jealously would guard their territories and if you happen to trespass upon it or cross their paths, they're going to punish you. Now, on the other hand, you had many aspects where people believed that the spirits could be very helpful. When treated with respect, a human might be blessed or rewarded by befriending certain spirits and Fae and Faeri folk, or the hidden. But because spirits just like us, we're capable of good and bad tempers, your Faeri folk, they're just as bad. They can have good days, they can have bad days. So throughout the course of all these different cultures, it comes down that the biggest words of caution were to use caution when approaching these or when interacting with them.

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And this is really just an extension, I think, in general, of the dangers back then, of the unknown that were posed and put out there about entering the forest, just in general. We don't have all the technology that we do now, and woodlands and forests provided substance, building materials, medicinal plants and herbs, but they were also to us humans. They were home to fierce predators that would stalk throughout the woods of Europe and among, I guess all those creatures back in the day this first one is one of those that we'll cover down the road but they were thought to be werewolves. There are bears and wild boars and all types of other animals out there. So you had to basically keep your head about you when you were walking through the woods and people would just become paranoid because the fear of the unknown will influence you and it also, I strongly believe, the fear of the unknown has always influenced our beliefs and these beliefs sometimes lead to spiritual answers.

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But I think there's a lot of misunderstanding of urnces. So like getting lost, for example, on a path or a road that you've always transversed many times, over and over and you know like you know like the back of your hand. But let's say you got lost. Well, back then, when people would get lost for the same situation of knowing they took the correct path, they did all this their first thing was oh, it's the work of a mischievous fairy. So in the end, this you know they're traveling and they get lost because they followed an unnoticed trail that you know. They just didn't notice. You know now, all of a sudden, it's basically the work of that fairy trying to lead them off into another realm. So yeah, there's all types of stuff. And then there's other aspects and influences and stuff, because you could. They're like the foods and the berries and stuff that they might have ingested, because we don't have that knowledge like we did back then, you know, could it be a psychoactive plant? There's lots of plants out there that can alter our perception and even cause hallucinations, so that could allow us access, I guess, to other worldly realms and to see things or entities that would seem to exist all of a sudden, depending on you know what we ingested.

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Now this kind of brings me around to a discussion of DMT. You have many people out there who will question what causes their annoyance and what causes second sight or things like that, and that's a whole other show topic to begin with. But I'm not going to ask me to say the scientific name because that would just be butchered, but I'm going to say, with DMT, the molecule is one of the main active ingredients used by Amazonian shamans. It always has been. They're used with some vines to produce a brew and that brew was called ayahuasca, which in folks I guess, radically states of consciousness and lots and lots of encounters, visuals. But DMT was also produced, is also produced, I guess you could say, in our brains, naturally, even in the lungs, and you know, plant. Under certain circumstances it can be released in a higher quantity that would cause a very altered state of consciousness. That being said, in 1990 and 95, there was a general clinical research center at the University of New Mexico Hospital and it was a Dr Rick Strassman and he got volunteers and he injected them with varying amounts of DMT and they went underwent profound alterations of consciousness.

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I mean this involved intermediate stations of normal consciousness to transportation to different realms of reality with like divergent metaphysical properties and inhabited with a plethora of different creatures and a lot of them. A lot of these people describe it as you know, encountering creatures such as elves, fairies, lizards, reptiles, insects, aliens, clowns, various various entities. One woman even described a pulsating entity that she called Tinkerbell-like, and the experience, especially at higher doses, represented to the participants a complete parallel reality that was super, super, like, real, like. They did not believe they were hallucinating, it was not a dream, it was substantially a built reality with full sensory interactions and telepathy within the residential entities, within and when I say a lot of people, we're talking like. 2,561 testimonies were assessed and that was also assessed by John Hopkins School of Medicine there in Baltimore. So there was a lot of, a lot of stuff. The experiences they reported came from irrational, absurd, frightening, illogicals, all the way down to surreal. And there was no questions of like the volunteers, like you know, they're of them ever actually leaving the hospital bed during the experience. But all of them they say all of them, without any exceptions the world that they went to was completely as real as the one that they had left behind, like in their minds, it was true to form. So that research kind of demonstrates that under the right conditions, the human conscious ness can operate within distinct and a separate universe inhabited by a range of different entities.

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Now, how's this come in to everything else? It's, it's just saying that I guess you could say you know, there's so many factors of like we want to say oh. We can't just say oh, no, fairies are real, but we can't say they're not real. You know, it's like somebody eats something and take a certain drug or do anything, or are some of us just more attuned to things. When it comes down to it, you know there's a lot, there's a lot of, I guess you could just say questionings, and that kind of brings us back to more fairy experiences of what are these fairies that have been a part of humanity for thousands of years, like, where do they come from? Are they adapting to cultural codes or involving into new forms and what level of reality do they actually exist?

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Now there's a gentleman out who was out there, david Loot. He did a three part interpretation for non physical entity contact is what he called it, and he used it to access, I guess they study into otherworldly beings, many of which these beings were mainly like, I guess, fairies, or had very like attributes that were encountered by people who had altered states of consciousness with DMT. This is where I'm tying this back into the DMT thing, but it is. But it was also a valid tool to evaluate what may be happening to anybody who reports an experience that includes interaction with non human intelligent entities such as fairy. So his three parts to it first are they are hallucinations.

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I guess you could say that entities are subjective hallucinations, such as a position in favor by those taking a purely neuropsychological approach to the phenomenon, so a materialistic reductionist. Two would be they are psychological slash, transpersonal manifestations, which is, you know, communicating entities appear alien, but they're actually unfamiliar aspects of ourselves, be they are reptilian brain or ourselves, molecules or sub atomic particles going into it. And then, thirdly, the entities exist in other worlds. They can interact with our physical reality. A numerous experience provide access to true, altered dimensional dimensions inhabited basically by independently existing intelligent entities. They stand alone reality Now that exists co-laterally with ours and we may interact with our world when certain conditions are met. But then identity of entities remain Spectatively lived to us. But then, when the conditions are met, we can coexist and, I guess you say, bleed off into another realm or reality. Now, of course, all three of these interpretations could be true at different times and under various circumstances, within one individual's life through the next.

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From a materialistic Reduction standpoint, all very experiences could be reduced straight down to hallucinatory events, meaning that, nope, you saw this, oh, and in, not even just fairies. You know, you can say these alien reductions, bigfoot, whatever. From that material List reduction standpoint, it's all because we're hallucinating, smooth, whatever reason, but that's our own body, chemistry or Something external. You know, it's just, that's that. That's that standpoint. And there is no physical residue as an after effect to the interactions and the reports. They're all going to be limited to just visual and audio experiences, but you have the specific injunctions allowing for the hallucinations to take place and not be properly analyzed, so there's no way to do that. So seeing them all as Conflict rations of visual and audio fields remains one Guess you could say legit interpretation or conclusion of that.

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That model is still reliant on the theory that consciousness is, you know, I guess, a byproduct of the brain. Implication is that the brain, for whatever reason, is simply Misconstruing our sensory inputs from the physical world, where things like fairies simply don't exist. This is the hard, I guess, and fast standpoint of it all, which is I hate saying it, but it's, it's super embedded in Western culture and it's, it's one of those standpoints that now I think, should be challenged at not only a fundamental level but by religious and mystical traditions. You know, there's just, there's much and there's there's a lot just going on. You know it's, despite the advances of modern technology, the allora of Hidden folks still persist, very still persist.

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People believe, and pop culture, movies, it's there, their presence is still felt in literature, art, popular culture, influences, stories, movies, podcast. It's even expiring. Modern spiritual practices focused on nature and spirits, druidism is still coming back. You know, in today's world the belief of hidden folk varies greatly, but it's more collective still, and while some dismiss these as being mere superstition of folk lord, other people cherish this tradition and the stories are still being passed down through generations, keeping their essence alive in our collective consciousness.

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So, whatever their nature is, it seems, or Fairy folk or the hidden folk, or the hooded folk, to make contact with humanity it requires our consciousness to become loosened from the usual restraints and entered almost into an altered state. And when I say that, I'm not saying, okay, go do drugs, I'm saying think about it. And I and I can attest to this firsthand Today stresses in the world have us so tightly wound, and our brains so this, that it's ridiculous, whereas if Rewind, for 500 years we were more open, we were more Accepted, we were in a loosened state, um, from the restraints out there, we weren't necessarily in an altered state, but we were chill. So if the model of reality is affirmed by those statements out there, and I guess if we're allowing Access to a greater overall mind when the existence of entities and fairy folk can be represented either as a standard loan plus of their own, or Maybe perhaps it's just that aspect of the human collective unconsciousness out there, but either way, it just appears.

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You know fairies are here to stay. They're functioning on some Nebulous plane where any interpretation of them is reliant on us finding a way to incorporate consciousness Into a physical reality. This is something that still to this day, it's alluded both philosophers. It eludes the scientists, even just general people who like looking into this stuff. It's been going on for millennia, and so perhaps it's no surprise that fairy entities, whether their nature, spirits or aliens or Interdimensional beings or products of our collective imagination, no matter what they are for the moment and still, and I think, for Quite some time, they're gonna remain an intangible but enduring part of our culture that we have out there. So this is gonna. This is gonna kind of wrap it up right now.

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I got there's so much I wanted to tie in and go down and, you know, call me rusty because I haven't. I haven't done a radio podcast or anything, and God, it's been ten years when I stepped out of the field. But it'll get better, I promise, and we will come back and touch deeper into a lot of this stuff. But I just want to say, as we conclude our journey into the mystical world of the hidden folk. The presence remains a testament to humanity's fascination with the unknown, whether embodiments of nature's guardians, pigments of our imagination or just something beyond our understanding the legacy of the hidden folk indoors Nestled within the heart of folklore and legend.

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But thank you for joining me on this enchanting exploration Into the hidden folk, and I encourage you all to embrace the wonders of the unknown and continue to seek the magic that resides in our world. As our journey through the mysterious concludes, we step back from the shadows, but their secrets linger. Remember in the quiet corners of the world, mysteries still whisper their tales. And so we meet again, stay curious, embrace the darkness. Never forget that truth often thrives in the most unexpected places. As we part ways, may you always find fascination in the unknown and the courage to explore the depths of the unexplained you.