Interview Series
Ask Ellen: Realms, Bigfoot, Atlantis
In this Q&A series, Ethereal Networks CEO and psychic medium Ellen Mahloy dives into the metaphysical ideas that matter.
Mary: What is a realm?
Ellen: A realm is a space in an astral plane that’s different from ours. In order to get from one realm to another, you’d have to travel out-of-body. Although, there are people who’ve tripped into another realm and have entirely physically gone there, but that’s very uncommon.
Mary: Is it kind of the same thing as a “dimension”, or is that different?
Ellen: I think that’s a different thing. A dimension is almost like a vibration. You can be in the same realm, but in a different dimension. I mostly know this from “Defense Against the Dark Arts” (as Harry Potter would call it), than anything else. Sometimes, something dark could come into the earthly realm on a non-earthly wavelength, as it were, which would allow them to hide and be kind of “in between”. Basically, they would be in our realm but on a spectrum where humans couldn’t easily perceive them. In that case, you’d have to be able to tap in psychically or travel out-of-body to see them.
Mary: What are all the realms that exist?
Ellen: There are many. In addition to the earthly realm, there is the heavenly realm, the hell realm, and there are two faerie realms. There are extraterrestrial realms, and realms for distinct groups, like there’s a galactic version of Interpol that has its own realms. And magick schools are in their own realms.
Mary: Wow, that’s a lot!
Ellen: And also, certain religious beings have their own realms. There is a realm for Christian saints, and a realm for past leaders of Native American culture. There’s a Buddha-type realm — I’m not sure what they’re called, possibly Bodhisattvas or something. Basically, if there is a group that’s large enough and they have enough magick — be it Divine magick, faerie magick, extraterrestrial magick, etc — they can create their own realm, and those realms are within the hologram of this particular multiverse. Different versions of the multiverse have different realms. For example, ours has two faerie realms, but some have three. Some of them only have extraterrestrials and nothing else. But what we’re going to talk about today are the realms in this particular instance of the multiverse.
Mary: Is there a purgatory realm? Like, Limbo or a Bardo area?
Ellen: Well, that’s not a realm in the technical sense. Basically, when someone dies they are given the opportunity to go to the heavenly realm. But because they have free will, they can say no. In that case, they’re just kind of floating around in the earthly realm, and that’s what we end up perceiving as ghosts. These earth-bound spirits sometimes choose not to cross over because they’re afraid they’ll get sent to hell. But that’s based on a misunderstanding of what hell is.
Hell in a Handbasket
Mary: Let’s talk about the hell realm, then.
Ellen: Hell isn’t where people are sent. No one is damned to hell. Hell is where demons live. The only people who wind up in hell are the ones who chose to go there, because they felt so bad about the choices they made in their lives. But no one is forced to go.
Mary: Do all dark beings live in hell?
Ellen: No, other dark beings have their own realms. For example, vampires are real, and they’re fallen (or “dark”) faeries. But they don’t like to live with demons, who prefer hot environments. Vampires like cold places. So they have their own realm, usually an ice realm where everything is frozen over.
Mary: Do they all visit each other?
Ellen: Some beings can cross over between realms, but others are restricted to their own realm. However, almost all beings can come into our earthly realm, which is why we have so much activity that we call “paranormal” here on earth.
Mary: And what about fallen angels, where do they live?
Ellen: They reside in their own area of the astral plane, which is a place outside of space and time, and it’s not big enough that I would call it a fully-fledged realm. But as far as I can tell, they spend a lot of time here in the earthly realm, mostly in cities. Thankfully I don’t encounter them very often.
Mary: So satanic beings, demons, imps, and so forth: do they die and just stay in hell after they’re dead?
Ellen: Well first of all, while demons and imps live in hell, satanic beings have their own realm, the satanic realm. They are the rulers of the hell realm. And the other thing to note is that these beings live much, much longer than us. Demonic beings can live hundreds, if not thousands of years. Satanic beings live much longer, and I think they’ve been around for billions of years. But what happens when they die is that they would be reabsorbed back into a particular area of their own realm. They may or may not regenerate, and they may or may not regenerate quite the same way.
After Life
Mary: When we die, how do we experience the afterlife? Does our consciousness remain intact? Can we see? Do we have bodies, or energy bodies, that we move around in?
Ellen: Yes. Initially, when people first pass away, they experience themselves very similarly to the way they were when they were alive. Eventually, they realize they don’t have to look exactly like that. You can look however old you want, wear what you want. Maybe they want violet eyes, or they could even take the shape of an animal. Often, people eventually pick the age where they were the happiest and felt most attractive, and they will appear that way.
Mary: What about the Akashic records? Is that a realm?
Ellen: That’s not its own realm, it’s a subsection of the heavenly realm.
Mary: When extraterrestrials die, where do they go?
Ellen: They have their own area in the heavenly realm. Humans and animals all go to the same part of heaven. But if a being is incarnated here on earth with a soul that is not human, they go back to a different part of the heavenly realm that is most conducive to them. That is to say, each area is made to be the right sort of environment for that particular type of being.
Mary: What about hybrid humans who are a mix of different things? For example, part extraterrestrial, part faerie, part angel?
Ellen: When people are a complicated mix of things, generally they are what I would call the Wise Ones. Some of them go to the heavenly realm, and some go other places — such as the faerie realm, a Buddhist realm, or even a magick realm. Most high-level Wise ones reside in, or travel frequently between, multiple realms.
Mary: Remind me about fallen angels, where do they go when they die? Because they came from God but they changed allegiances.
Ellen: Well, they generally don’t die. They are immortal, so far as I can see. I’ve only seen a few situations where fallen angels have “died”, or any angel for that matter. But when they do, they don’t go to the heavenly realm in the same way we would. They are not escorted into heaven and processed like humans are. They are reabsorbed back into the aspect of God where God creates angels. At that point, something would be decided: is this going to become an angel again, or is it going to be reabsorbed and remain part of the overarching energy of the Divine?
Bigfoot Crossing
Mary: When you said there are two faerie realms, what are they? What does that mean?
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Ellen: Well, there’s the faerie realm proper, which is probably what most people think of. That’s where you have elves and gnomes and satyrs and unicorns. Even mermaids. And of course faeries themselves, in all their variety. Then there is the Middle Earth realm, which is overseen by the leaders of the faerie realm, called the Fae. Middle Earth is included in the larger faerie realm, but it is still its own distinct realm. Everything in Middle Earth is very big, very animalistic. That’s where dragons live. Dinosaurs also live there. There are giants and sasquatches.
Mary: OK, so like…Bigfoot?
Ellen: Yes. What happens is that a sasquatch will come through the “tweens” and into our earthly realm. A tween is an in-between space between our realms. They’ll come in and walk around or stomp, or whatever they do, and go back. This also explains Loch Ness. That creature is what’s called a water dragon. Creatures like that come through a tween, come into our realm, goof around a bit, and go back to their home in the Middle Earth realm.
Atlantis
Mary: What can you tell us about Atlantis? Is that in its own realm?
Ellen: It exists in an astral plane, I wouldn’t call it a realm because it’s not big enough. I don’t understand it completely, because its intersection with our earthly realm was so long ago. Now, that intersection no longer exists, and you have to be psychic to tap into where it exists in the astral. It’s an extremely magickal place.
A Touch of Magick
Mary: Speaking of magick: you mentioned that magick schools are realms. What are those!?
Ellen: Well, let’s start with what magick is. There is human magick and non-human magick. We can talk in greater detail about all the different types of human magick next time, but for now, I think the most important thing to understand about magick is that it’s a source that is granting you an ability that is beyond what you would naturally have on your own. That source could be Divine, or it could be from the earth — Mother Nature, the Gaia being — as just a couple examples.
Mary: So what about the schools? Are we all going to Hogwarts?
Ellen: Some magick schools are like Hogwarts! But the only people who can get in are those who belong to that particular school. This is also a vast topic that we can discuss next time, but basically there are many different magick schools, and each school is in its own realm, and that realm is created by that particular magick.
Mary: How do you get there?
Ellen: The same way you could theoretically access any other realm: by out-of-body travel. You have to become an excellent out-of-body traveler and be able to sustain yourself out-of-body for long enough to learn lessons. If you can’t do that, then you can’t really study magick.
Mary: How many of these different magick school realms are there?
Ellen: I’d say several hundred.
Mary: Are there dark side magick schools?
Ellen: Oh yes, for sure.
Sacred Spaces & Command Centers
Mary: Are there any other realms that we haven’t talked about yet?
Ellen: Sort of. There are sacred spaces, for instance. All humans have their own sacred space in the astral plane that they can go to, and it’s a place for you to commune with your spirit guides. It’s set up exclusively for you. They are pretty small, though, so if anything they are extremely tiny realms.
Mary: What about command centers? Are they kind of their own realm?
Ellen: I suppose they would be their own realms, but not all humans have them. Only “lightworkers” do.
Mary: What are those?
Ellen: That’s not a term I came up with, and some people use different terms. But basically, it refers to people who are here on Divine assignment. They’re not just here living an earthly lifetime, learning earthly lessons; they’re here to serve God’s purpose, and so the way that their life works is a little bit different. Everything in the lightworker’s life is set up to help them move down the pathway of the reason that they were sent here by God.
Mary: What is the command center for? What do people do there?
Ellen: It’s kind of like a mission control. If I need to leave my body to do some task that has been asked of me, I always go to my command center first. All the information that is most relevant for the task at hand will be laid out for me, as well as any tools I need.
People who have command centers can have access to many different things there, including akashic records, information about sacred contracts, and so forth. But generally, only what you need for a particular task will be gathered and presented to you there at any given point in time.
And you get there the same way you get to all the other realms, through out-of-body travel.
“The Veil”, & Closing Thoughts
Mary: It’s October right now, and people talk about “the veil” being thin this time of year. What does that mean? Are other realms closer to ours now, or is it a dimensional thing?
Ellen: It’s more of a dimensional thing, and it has to do with astrology. There are certain times when, as a result of astrological influences, there is heightened spiritual energy, and people can more easily access their intuition or divine guidance.
Mary: Anything else you’d like to add?
Ellen: When I started my spiritual journey, I never heard of realms. No one talked about them. I don’t think I even knew anybody who believed in faeries or extraterrestrials, and I never thought of heaven as being a realm. I just thought of heaven in a religious context, not as an actual place that I could have interaction with.
But as the years have progressed and I’ve met more and more people, there is much more talk about realms. I’ve noticed a huge uptick in interest in out-of-body travel, and even people I would think are not interested in out-of-body travel have reached out to me, whether they be lawyers, venture capitalists, and people doing very conventional jobs. What happens when you start out-of-body traveling, you really start discovering a whole bunch of things that were not available to you in your body that you just can’t see, sense, hear, or feel. That starts to massively expand people’s understanding of what they think of as reality. Which is to say, people are increasingly becoming interested in, and aware of, realms other than the one we call home.
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Ellen Mahloy is the CEO of Ethereal Networks, the founder of the Reiki with Angels modality, and a psychic medium.
