Ten years ago, I spent a summer in Ireland living in an old cottage occupied by leprechauns. These seldom-seen beings taught me about the evolution of elementals – the race to which leprechauns, elves, goblins, gnomes, trolls, faeries, and devas belong.
They explained their interdependence with humans and urged me to promote an awareness of how humans and elementals need to work together in healing the Earth. Although my initial experience with the leprechauns took place in Ireland, they and other elementals have, over the past ten years, become part of my ongoing life. Elementals exist throughout the world and, being able to travel in space and time, can visit humans wherever we are if we call them.
What follows is a record of one of my first conversations with a leprechaun, which I hope you find interesting.
'In my world,' the leprechaun told me, with an Irish lilt in his voice, 'I'm a teacher of elementals who are studying humans, just as you are a teacher of humans who are studying other evolutions. In fact, in our respective worlds, our roles are very similar. You and I are both interested in helping beings to become conscious creators on this planet. I'm going to teach you about elementals this summer and you're going to teach me about humans so that I can pass my test. We're both at the same stage and we're both being tested this summer. You haven't quite got it right, you know.'
'What do you mean?' I asked, slightly nettled.
'You think you're here for enlightenment, and that's true, you are, but you don't fully understand how this happens. I'm going to help you. I can't help with the human learnings of course. But I can help with the process. I'm older than you and I've learned a few things over the years.
Humans, elementals and free will
'Maybe I should be starting at the beginning,' he continued, placing his hands on his stomach and assuming a teacher's pose. 'Most humans don't see us. Humans live most of the time in the third dimension and we live about half a dimension away from you. It is easy for us to see humans as you are coarser, denser, altogether more gross, and you vibrate at a slower rate than us.
'You humans,' he turned to me apologetically and said, 'not you personally of course, are not able to see the lighter vibrations. You can't see humans that have died, the beings that form the clouds, the ones that grow the trees. Elementals feel a combination of what humans call pity and disgust that you can't see these other dimensions. If you humans could raise your vibration and see these dimensions, then you would not be doing to the world what you've been doing. How could you be killing the streams and the trees if you saw the life force in them and the beings that are growing them?
'We elementals have got this theory that maybe humans have made themselves coarse and dense on purpose, so that if they can't see us and other beings, they could do as they wanted. Humans do this by eating meat, watching violent films, and generally focusing on their bodily appetites. By doing this, humans become too coarse to see elementals and all life in nature, so they can do as they like to 'inanimate' matter.
We've noticed that humans have got a very strong desire to do what they want. This is the downside of free will, if you like. Beings need free will to become creators but most humans have to go through a struggle with their strong will – ego you call it – in order to harness it to what's wanted by the creator.'
I sat quietly sipping my tea and listening to his words. I agreed with his insight and felt sad that so few people took the time to allow the beauty of their surroundings to affect them.
As if he sensed the change in me, he turned and said, 'See how much better you feel when you relax and allow the beauty of the world to move you?'
Although I hadn't projected my thoughts, I knew that he had picked them up easily. I realized, startled, that if he wished, he could be aware of every thought I had the entire summer.
'But I don't wish,' he said. 'I've got a life outside of this conversation. Also, I know how touchy you humans are about privacy.'
It was clear from his tone that, in some ways, he saw me and all humans as younger, and therefore less advanced, than him.
Immediately he started to giggle and soon was doubled up in laughter. Then, without speaking, he projected an image of tiny fairies with wings doing mischievous things, and I realized that he was conveying the stereotypical human image of elementals.
'Okay, okay,' I said, laughing. 'Both of us will have to work at eliminating stereotypes about each other's race, and we can have fun doing it.'
'As I was saying about free will,' he said, sober once again, 'elementals have very little because we don't need it. We can manifest whatever we want because, unlike humans, we don't doubt that we can. We might play a joke on humans, or on our own kind, but it's for a bit o' fun. It's not to do what you call an 'evil' thing. But humans can hurt elementals just by the force of their will and what they say and do. Humans have certainly harmed elementals by what they think. Humans have denied our existence, especially over the past hundred years and, because they don't believe in us, they don't give us the energy to exist. Some elementals, without human energy going into belief in us, have been snuffed out of existence. These are the ones who had the smallest wills and who needed human belief to keep going.'
I was feeling terribly guilty about what I had done, not through conscious intention but through ignorance. 'This is awful,' I said. 'I had no idea that humans had harmed elementals so much.'
He paused, and I could feel him considering options, struggling to maintain the objectivity of a human scholar. 'As it happens, humans have done elementals some good,' he said finally. 'When we saw that humans' lack of belief in us deprived us of energy, it forced some of us to take the path we're taking. We must develop our will and believe in ourselves.
A change of plan
'This was not the way it was meant to be originally in the scheme of things. We had our gifts to bring into the world and you had yours. Elementals' gifts are those of laughter, joy, and beauty. The gifts of humans are those of will, action, and doing. In the original plan, we were to evolve separately but in harmony to complement each other. But that's not the way it's gone over the last several hundred years. So the beings who control our evolution have changed our plan, just like they've changed yours, and now they're getting together a plan whereby we can both be creators. If elementals can work with humans, as I'm working with you, this will go much quicker. We're looking for humans to work with for the good of both our races and also for the good of the Earth.'
'How can we work together?' I asked simply.
He redirected his attention towards the horizon. He didn't seem to like looking at me as he spoke, and I realized that my energy was too distracting for him. He needed to focus all his attention on what he was saying.
How humans can work with elementals
'There are many ways that humans can work with elementals. The first is to believe in them and to understand that they bring joy and beauty to the world. Elementals help flowers, trees and mountains to grow. There is even an elemental that maintains your body. Just because humans can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. There are many dimensions in which humans aren't conscious. Even elementals – although conscious of your reality and other realities – can't see all realities. But both humans and elementals can improve this ability to perceive other dimensions. When humans believe in us, it creates and strengthens the thought-forms that allow us to function and grow. This takes very little energy from you and gives us so much. If humans were to do this, more elementals would develop consciousness so that we too could develop free will to become creators. It would definitely hasten our evolution.'
I was tempted to ask about thought-forms but his intent expression discouraged me, and he continued.
'Another way of working with us is to show gratitude, appreciation, and joy for what we have created. When humans do this we can enter them so that they are fertilized and catalyzed by our essence.'
Turning towards me, he added, 'This is what you did a few minutes ago; remember how you felt happier?' I nodded in agreement, opened my mouth to speak, and once again was washed back by the flow of his words. 'Humans sink into themselves and think about serious things like work and duties. This makes them tighter, denser, and delays their evolution. As humans become more conscious they become lighter and more porous. Elementals can see, just by looking at humans and noticing their density, what state of evolution they're at. If humans saw the beauty in the world, this would hasten their evolution.
'Elemental evolution is the opposite from humans. When first we incarnate, we are just wisps of energy. But as we grow and develop, we become increasingly solid and dense. So the purpose of elemental evolution is to increase density.'
Once again I attempted to comment on his words, only to be silenced by another stern look. I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to get a word in edgewise.
'Another way we could work together,' the leprechaun continued, looking at me with exaggerated patience, 'is for humans to commit to working with elementals who want to work with them. Our work is to create form, to see the pattern that is in nature, and to encourage that pattern to develop. Elementals can see the pattern that is in individual humans and we can help grow you – just like we grow a tree or a flower. This will accelerate your evolution. Humans say that every person has a guardian angel, and they're right, they do. They could also have a friendly elemental.
'What humans could do for us is meditate on what elementals are doing in nature and send energy to help us to do this. Elementals can learn to use their free will by working with individual humans. If we could work together, then elementals would not have to risk entering human evolution.'
With these words, he stretched his hands above his head, opened his mouth in a big yawn, and smiled at me. Relieved to have finished his lengthy monologue, he said, 'That's enough for today, don't you think?' Without waiting for an answer, he stood, turned, and walked through the wall back into the cottage.
From Summer with the Leprechauns, copyright 1997 by Tanis Helliwell; Cygnus Book Club edition (available exclusively to Cygnus members) published 2005.
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