Elementals or nature spirits are the elves, goblins, brownies,
leprechauns and “the little people” in folk legends
How to
Contact Elemental Beings
by Tanis
Helliwell
Elementals or nature spirits as others call them exist throughout
the world in all countries and cultures. They are the elves,
goblins, brownies, leprechauns and what are generally called “the
little people” in folk legends. They are said to dwell in natural
places in old forests, running brooks, deep oceans and high
mountains. In some cultures these beings are well known and in
others almost lost or forgotten.
Meeting the Elementals of Haida
Gwaii
 In
northern British Columbia in Canada are the Queen Charlotte Islands
that the Haida people call Haida Gwaii. I was invited to give a
workshop on nature spirits and while there I met many Haida people
and spoke to them about their experiences with elementals. Although
many had never heard of nature spirits, others had and some had even
had personal experiences. Captain Gold is a Haida who has spent his
life studying the history of his people. He said that although he
had never seen the little people himself that several elders had
spoken to him about them.
“The little
people live in the forest and are as high as this,” he said opening
his left hand and pointing from the bottom of his wrist to the point
of his middle finger— a space of about eight inches. They are not
bad and are always trying to help us. They have retreated from us
because we’re walking the wrong path. They watch everyone. “
He paused before
continuing. “I’ve never seen them but my older sister had something
happen. It was in the mid '50s and my sister was in Charlotte with
others on a hike when four of them got split up from the others in
Miller Creek Valley. They were a day or two in the bush. While way
up, and getting dark, they were panicking and trying to choose a
way, when they came across a baby’s footprint in the mud. The
footprint led them to a creek which they were able to follow out
to the road.”
“They look just
like us,” Captain Gold said, “but they’re small. They live in
amongst all the old trees and so they are not happy about the
logging that is destroying the forest. Long ago in Haida Gwaii there
were grasslands and the little people have been here since trees
started in the grass lands. Haida believe that even trees have souls
and I talk to trees before cutting one. Even rocks have a soul but
their time like that of trees is different. It takes a season for
the chop to be felt on a tree. The rocks have been here for
thousands of years. They move around, but much slower than us.”
“Are there any
other elementals that the Haida believe in?” I asked Captain Gold.
“Another one of
what you call elementals is Creek Woman. She is normal looking,
actual human size. I know this because our elders do not refer to
her as over large or as tiny. She lives at the head of creeks. Out
of Creek Woman pours forth the creek, the river, the fresh water
source. That is how the salmon come back and are reborn. Also in
the sea there are ones we call devil-fish who have a society like
humans under the water. They can change shape and become humans.”
Hearing him
speak I was reminded of the Selkies of Celtic mythology who are
seals who can take human form and marry humans. I said good-bye to
Captain Gold and his wife Bernice and the next day was walking in an
old growth forest when I felt myself called by the little people. A
group of them from about eight inches to almost two feet high and
dressed in various human clothes from blue jeans to yellow hard hats
and some carrying fishing gear approached me. I commented on their
contemporary state of dress and they immediately changed to forest
green saying that they can dress any way that I or another human
would expect to see. I could tell by their choice that they had
either been watching humans closely and had chosen clothes that they
had seen on humans in Haida Gwaii.
“Why are you not
known to many Haida?” I asked.
“When they don’t
believe in us we disappear,” one of them replied. “Without their
belief we become smaller and many of our race have died out. In fact
we lose the memory of what we were just as the Haida and humans have
lost the memory of who they are.”
“What do you
remember,” I asked.
“We remember
that we are related to the elementals in New Zealand just as the
Haida are related to the Maori and we also have cousins in Japan.”
The little man’s
words took me on a journey to discover more about the elementals of
Japan.
Nature Spirits
of Japan
When
most people think of Japan they see crowded cities like Tokyo in
their minds and few know that 65 percent of Japan is forested with a
diverse ecosystem that include tropical islands like Hawaii as well
as mountains which resemble the Swiss Alps. Although Buddhism is
considered the chief religion of Japan it is founded on an older
religion of Shintoism which is basically a nature religion. Even
today festivals to these nature spirits and shrines to honour them
occur in major cities and form a framework for the cycles of the
seasons.
The Ainu, the
indigenous people of Northern Japan, call the “little people”
Koropek Guru which means the people who dwell below. They say that
they are very small, only a few inches to two or three feet in
height and that they live in holes in the ground. These little
people do everything that humans do such as going fishing and they
do this in thin leaves of bamboo that they sew together. These
Koropek Guru are the same kind of elementals that I have met both in
Canada and in New Zealand and, like the Ainu, the Haida and the
Maori have known of them for thousands of years. The Ainu and
Koropek Guru, which they sometimes call by a derogatory name “earth
spiders,” became enemies and warred against each other until the
Koropek according to some Ainu were destroyed. Actually, these
little people of Japan like the Tuatha de Danann in Ireland have
gone underground and only show themselves to those people who
respect them and their way of life.
There are many
other elemental beings in Japan and one of the best known is the
Tengu. The tengu inhabit trees in the forest and mountains and look
human except for their wings and beaks and often the beak becomes
like an elongated human nose so that they resemble goblins. The
tengu are not malicious and have a fondness for a practical joke. In
personality they resemble the raven of the Haida and other North
American indigenous people who is a trickster who pokes fun at our
weaknesses thereby teaching us a lesson.
Another
elemental being is the Kappa who is shaped like a monkey with scaly
skin and webbed fingers. It inhabits ponds and rivers and is said,
like it’s ocean going cousin the Celtic Selkie, to be fascinating to
human women and to mate with them. The Kappa are clever and
dangerous, have excellent manners and must be treated with courtesy.
Another being of
Japan’s mountains are the mountain men and women who are humanoid
but larger and hairier. They bring good fortune to people if you are
kind to them and feed them but ill fortune to those who try to
capture them. These beings are very like the Yeti of Nepal or the
Sasquatch of the remote forests of Canada’s west coast. It is said
that some mountain men and women have magical houses in the
mountains called Mayoi-ga and if you bring an object away from them
you will have great prosperity.
There are even
elementals who live in peoples homes in Japan as do the brownies and
leprechauns of England and Ireland and like their cousins they also
bring you luck. They are called Zashi Kiwarashi and resemble
children of approximately 12 or 13 years of age.
For 16 years I
have led tours to sacred sites of the world and in my travels I have
met many elemental beings. Some resemble humans like the little
people in Japan, Ireland, and the Queen Charlotte Islands and some
are quite foreign like the tengu and goblins. These race of beings
share our planet and many are looking to work with humans to create
a healthier world. Here are a few guidelines that will help anyone
who seeks to actively work with elementals.
Ten Commandments
for Humans Who Want to Work with Elementals
-
Believe in
elementals. Human belief strengthens elementals and gives them
energy.
-
Be happy and
enthusiastic. Elementals are not attracted to depressed sad
humans.
-
Go to healthy
places in nature as often as possible. Walk in forests, along the
seashore, lie in a meadow, listen to birds, sit by a brook. Enter
into the right vibration of the Earth and listen to what it wants.
Humans will purify their vibrations if they do these things.
-
Appreciate the
beauty in nature. When humans do this, elementals will be
attracted to you.
-
Cooperate and
create with nature by planting trees, growing flowers, feeding the
birds.
-
Send energy to
elementals, who look after trees, flowers, water and mountains, to
keep them healthy. Do this with joy and gratitude.
-
Teach other
humans to appreciate nature. Do it with love and joy, and these
humans will begin to understand the Earth’s needs.
-
Do things
spontaneously; free yourself from over planning and organizing.
-
Take time
every day to do nothing. Create a space in your house and head for
magic to occur.
-
In order
to contact an elemental who wants to work with you on an ongoing
basis, sit in a quiet natural place, close you eyes, and call this
elemental to you. Notice what kind of elemental has come. Ask it
what its gift is and its name. Listen to this elemental on an
ongoing basis; act on its suggestions, and your relationship will
become stronger.
Tanis Helliwell M.Ed, is the founder of the International Institute
for Transformation, which offers programs to assist individuals to
become conscious creators to work with the spiritual laws which
govern our world. IIT programs are offered in Canada, the United
States, Germany, Britain, Italy, Holland and Ireland.
Tanis Helliwell is the author of
Summer with the Leprechauns: A true story,
Decoding Destiny: Keys to Mankind’s Spiritual Evolution, and
Take Your Soul to Work and is a student and teacher of the
inner mysteries, living in Vancouver, Canada. For twenty years, she
has led people on tours to sacred sites in Egypt, Israel, Peru,
Bolivia, India, Nepal, France, Britain, Scotland, Ireland, the
American Southwest, New Zealand, Japan, Kenya, and Greece.
She is currently writing a new book called Hijacked by the
Leprechauns: a true story of an Irish tour. For workshops and tours
please click on her website
www.iitransform.com or
www.tanishelliwell.com
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