The connections of these Western magical ritual guides to the djinn are quite clear: the claims to a Solomonic heritage, the djinnilike servants, the evoking of the Arabian lore of wish-granting djinni, and the lure of great treasure, one of the specialties of the djinn. The entities in the Western grimoires may be called spirits, demons, fallen angels, or angels, but the djinn lurk behind them. Material from the various grimoires has found its way into many books and texts on magic, mixing in some cases with Christianized material. Magical rituals continue to be reinterpreted in modern times, with additions from modern Paganism and even shamanic traditions. The result is that origins become increasingly obscuresomething the djinn would appreciate and encourage in order to mask their presence.
Some Western rituals have been specifically adapted from Middle Eastern sources to conjure djinn, not "demons" or "spirits." Many in the Islamic world disapprove of westerners meddling with djinn, believing that non-believers (infidels) do not have the right-or the proper knowledge-for doing so.
Middle Eastern texts and rituals for summoning the djinn have existed for centuries and are still available for use in modern times. Muslims may not think others have the "right" to engage the djinn, but the djinn pre-date Islam, and they are, in some form or another, everywhere.
Some djinn-conjuring rituals are taught orally, and others are written in magical handbooks. Like Western grimoires, djinn magical manuals are for sale everywhere, in marketplaces and on the Internet. One can even buy rings, pendants, and bottles allegedly holding djinn who are waiting to be released in order to grant wishes; it is more than likely many of these objects have little or no value.
Some djinn rituals that have made their way to the West come from the Sufi tradition. The djinn can be conjured in various ways: through child mediumship; through mental clairvoyance and dreams; and through manifestation in mirrors, water, and other objects.' Gazing into a reflective surface such as a mirror is called "scrying" in the Western tradition, and is a time-honored method of remote viewing, seeing into the future, and getting spirits to manifest. The Book of 1001 Nights also tells how to summon djinn.
Justification for Summoning the Djinn
Islam considers it acceptable to call up the djinn in order to educate them on Islam and convince them to convert and worship Allah. Asking the djinn to attack others or aid humans in committing sins and disobedience, however, is forbidden. For the most part, it is believed that consorting with djinn leads to trouble, and should not be undertaken. The medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Taymeeyah (1263-1328) regarded the djinn as "ignorant, untruthful, oppressive, and treacherous."8 Djinn, he said, will lie to their summoners and will not necessarily do as commanded. If they are ordered to harm a person or a djinni whom they hold in high regard, they will ignore the command: "Neither the one chanting incantations nor his incantations have any power to force the devils to help them."9 Furthermore, djinn are fond of creating illusions, appearing in visions and speaking in voices that conform to a conjurer's expectations. They are the ultimate deceivers, masquerading as other spirits such as angels and even religious figures. From that perspective, Christian visions of saints and the Virgin Mary could be djinn illusions-a view the Christian faithful would vehemently reject.10
Sheikhs (religious authorities) have the knowledge and skills for summoning and controlling djinn-but any one sheikh may not be able to control all djinn. Some learn their skills in a shamanic fashion, through healing themselves in an initiatory illness, in which they identify the djinni responsible and expel it from their bodies.
Islamic sorcerers (male and female) are said to traffic with evil djinn, the children of Iblis. They use "red magic" to summon them for such tasks as fortune-telling and procuring love and money, and they use "black magic" to summon them for evil purposes such as harming people through the evil eye, illness, misfortune, and even murder. Witches use djinn to "tie" spells, and also consult djinn for untying spells cast by other witches.
Some of the rituals for conjuring djinn are simple, and some, like Western magical rituals, are quite complex, involving fasting, meditation, supplications, and incantations over long periods of time, such as forty days. Any break in the ritual dooms it to failure.
A Dangerous Game
Dealing with and conjuring one's qarin, the djinni companion assigned at birth, is dangerous and risky, as it is with most other djinn. Trying to command or enslave the qarin can jeopardize one's health or even one's life, according to lore. If a qarin becomes problematic by exerting too much negative influence over a person, relief may be sought from a professional to perform a banishing ritual, but this, too, is considered a risky undertaking. If the ritual is not successful, the qarin may become vindictive and cause more problems.
It is possible to summon djinn with little effort, which can land a person in trouble. Even talking about djinn can summon them, and so one must speak of them in whispers or refer to them with euphemisms, such as "them" and "those other people." According to Turkish beliefs, green djinn are easy to summon because they are very curious about us and will take any opportunities to get closer. The different forms a green djinn can take will depend on its age and experience. If their motive is harmless contact or curiosity, they may take on a number of forms pleasing to the human eye and to hide their true nature. However, if a djinni is angry or annoyed at a person, it may take on a very hideous appearance that would terrify even the bravest.
If open to communication, a green djinni may take on the form of a friendly dog, elf, fairy, or even a beautiful, glowing, angelic being. On the other hand, if you summon a djinni who does not want to be bothered, you might be in for a great deal of trouble.
Can djinn ever be conjured for beneficial purposes? The Qur'an states that God gave humans authority over all things in creation, which implies inclusion of the djinn:
Sheikhs are able to conjure djinn for mediumship, and to learn about a person's illness. For example, a sheikh will ask his personal djinni to talk to the djinni of a sick person in order to find out valuable information about the affliction.
It has been suggested that the djinn's abilities of invisibility, rapid movement, flying, and penetration of the human body and material objects could be harnessed for surveillance, intelligence gathering, crime investigation, weather reporting, transport of objects, and medical diagnosis and treatment.14 Given the inclinations and temperament of the djinn, however, the feasibility and even desirability of a cooperative relationship is questionable.
Djinn Sorcery
According to Islamic views, djinn attach themselves to disbelievers and enable them to perform miraculous feats that amaze others, such as predicting the future. This is considered sorcery, and the lies of the djinn influence the disbelievers themselves to lie to others. The Qur'an states that the lies are based on the information the djinn glean from eavesdropping on angels:
Disbelievers beguiled by such glamor become themselves the servants and allies of Iblis.
We cannot leave the subject of conjuring the djinn without giving more consideration to their possible influence on Western culture. As we have noted, the distinctions between djinn and other entities are often blurry. Western magic is syncretic, that is, it blends diverse sources, among them Egyptian, Greek/Roman, Judeo-Christian, and pre-Islamic Middle Eastern influences absorbed into the culture of the early Hebrews. So, we must consider the hidden role of the Hidden Ones, who are part of that mix. Perhaps the entities who answer the call of magic and who arise in the imaginations of artists and writers are really djinn. We do not have space to examine all of the influences in detail here, but the following examples show the complex picture that emerges when one starts tracking down all of the interwoven connections that trace back to the hidden djinn.
Did H. P. Lovecraft Know the Djinn?
Strange, unnamed entities who may be djinn populate the fictional works of the famous American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). An atheist, rationalist, and scientific materialist, Lovecraft disavowed any personal belief in the supernatural. However, he was steeped in fascination with the supernatural, and created his own original mythos, Cthulhu, based on his knowledge of Egyptian and Arabian mythologies and occultism. His extensive knowledge of Arabian lore brought him into contact with the djinn. Did he weave the djinn into his horror stories? He certainly excelled at evoking a sense of dread of unknown and unnamed horrors dredged up from dark depths, evocative of the djinn.
Of particular note is Lovecraft's Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of powerful magical rituals. The Necronomicon was born in his 1936 essay, "A History of The Necronomicon." Lovecraft said the grimoire was originally titled Al Azif and was written by "the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred," a fictitious name he derived from The Book of 1001 Nights, and an epithet he used to call himself. According to Lovecraft, the mad Arab was a poet who lived in Yemen and wrote the ritual book in 950 CE.
Lovecraft said a copy of the book existed in his fictitious city of Arkham. He referred to it in some of his other stories, but never produced an actual book. As interest in his works grew, cult status around the mysterious Necronomicon arose as well. Whether or not such a manuscript ever did exist, versions of it have been "found" and published. Some Lovecraft enthusiasts believe he knew genuine secret rituals for conjuring the dreaded entities he called the "Old Ones" or the "Great Old Ones," an ancient race older than humans beings, huge in size, and of immense power. The Old Ones have a physical form composed of a different kind of matter than exists in the human universe. They are imprisoned beneath the sea, inside the earth, and on far-flung planets. They either removed themselves, or they were banished by the gods for using black magic. They are waiting for the opportunity to rise again and rule the world. The Old Ones have been compared to extraterrestrials, demons, archetypes, "Aristotelian elementals," and "specters of a future mentality."16 But they could very well be based on djinn, banished for their transgressions and residing in remote and far-flung places in this and other dimensions until they can return and reclaim the earth.
One of the central Old Ones is Cthulhu, whom Lovecraft introduced in 1926 in "The Call of Cthulhu," describing it as "a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on its hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." Cthulhu lived in R'lyeh, an ancient city that had sank beneath the sea. This is an interesting cross-correlation to djinn, for according to Muhammad, the throne of Iblis lies beneath the sea, surrounded by sea serpents:
Jabir reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The throne of Iblis is upon the ocean and he sends detachments (to different parts) in order to put people to trial and the most important figure in his eyes is one who is most notorious in sowing the seed of dissension. 17,11
As noted earlier, some of the djinn conjured by King Solomon came up out of the sea, specifically Abezithou, a one-winged djinni who lives in the Red Sea. Cthulhu's unsettling octopus-like form is not out of the question for djinn, who can shapeshift into any form, especially a disturbing one.
According to Lovecraft, the Old Ones are worshipped by a depraved cult with origins dating back to the first human beings. The cult, wrote Lovecraft in his story:
Similarly, the djinn reside in wasteland-type places and desolate areas, biding their time.
The theme of liberating the Old Ones to let them back into the world appears again in the story "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). The protagonist, Wilbur Whateley, the son of a deformed albino woman and Yog-Sothoth, a type of god, searches for a Latin edition of the Necronomicon so he may open the gates for the return of the Old Ones. Whateley is unfortunately killed trying to steal the book, and his twin brother terrorizes the town of Dunwich as an invisible monster.
The Necronomicon appears elsewhere in Lovecraft's works. "The Book" (1934) does not mention it by name, but revolves around a "worm-riddled book" of rituals obtained by the narrator, who uses it to access what appears to be a parallel dimension. After chanting a "monstrous litany" from within five concentric circles, he acquires a permanent shadow entity and is swept away by a black wind into an unknown abyss. When he manages to return, his perception of the world is permanently changed, and the shadow is permanently attached to him. The shadow is interesting-could it be similar to the shadow people phenomenon described earlier?
Did Lovecraft possess secret occult knowledge of the djinn, or did his fertile imagination access their realm without his realizing it? Many science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors are visionaries of genuine realities, and they bring awareness of those realities into our dimension via their work. Perhaps Lovecraft had experiences he never acknowledged that seeded his inspiration. Carl L. Johnson, Lovecraft scholar and founder of the H. P. Lovecraft Commemorative Activities Committee notes:
Anton Szandor Laney (1930-1997), who founded the Church of Satan in 1966, was inspired by Lovecraft in creating rituals for his church. Laney, whose real name was Howard Stanton Levey, believed Lovecraft was influenced by real occult sources. Wrote Laney:
Djinn and the Golden Dawn
LaVey's comments move us into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the greatest Western esoteric order, founded in England in 1888 by individuals steeped in occultism, including the Kabbalah, Freemasonry, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and Western esoteric and magical lore.
The Golden Dawn began as an esoteric order and evolved along magical lines, using as primary sources the Key ofSolomon, The Book of Sacred Magic ofAbra-Melin the Mage, and Enochian magic-all of which have djinn roots.
The Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage is heavily derivative of the Key. It is attributed to Abra-Melin (also spelled Abramelin), a Jewish Kabbalistic mage of Wurzburg, Germany, who supposedly wrote the grimoire for his son in 1458. Though the manuscript claims to be a translation of Abra-Melin's original Hebrew manuscript, it was written in French in the eighteenth century, probably by an anonymous source. According to the story presented in the manuscript, Abra-Melin learned his Kabbalahbased magical knowledge from angels, who told him how to conjure demons and tame them into personal servants and workerssimilar to King Solomon-and how to raise storms. He said that all things in the world are created by demons, who work under the direction of angels. Each person has an angel and a demon as familiar spirits, similar to the daimones and the qarin. Abramelin magic is based on sacred names and on magical squares of numbers, for purposes such as conjuring spirits, invisibility, levitation and flight, commanding spirits, necromancy, shapeshifting, and other feats, all within the abilities and powers of the djinn.
Enochian magic evolved from the sixteenth-century occult work done by John Dee, the royal astronomer to Queen Elizabeth I, and his assistant, Edward Kelly, who claimed to have psychic ability. Dee and Kelly used scrying and Kelly's mediumship to communicate with beings they identified as angels. Dee and Kelly developed an alphabet and genuine language-Enochian- for constructing "calls" for contacting angels and spirits, and for projecting consciousness into levels of awareness called "aethyrs." Enochian has a melodic sound similar to Sanskrit, Greek, or Arabic. Kelly-who had a reputation for fraud-may have invented the language himself, telling Dee that it was spoken by angels in the Garden of Eden. Dee and Kelly developed nineteen calls of ascending magnitude. The nineteenth call included thirty aethyrs that were never precisely defined, but which the Golden Dawn believed represented new levels of consciousness. The only member of the Golden Dawn during its short original life ever known to work actively with the aethyrs was Aleister Crowley.
Aleister Crowley, "The Beast of the Apocalypse"
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was arguably the most colorful figure to ever emerge in Western magical history. Precocious and dark in temperament from an early age, he seemed to possess an innate rapport with the spirit world, as well as a natural ability to tap into its power. Though his mother referred to him as "the Beast" and he later called himself "the Beast of the Apocalypse," he was not a Satanist. He envisioned ushering in a new religion and spiritual age, the Aeon of Horns, based on his system of Thelemic magic inspired by his experiences with entities. In 1898, he joined the Golden Dawn, but clashed violently in personality and power issues with Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, one of the original founders. Within a couple of years, Crowley was kicked out and went off on his own.
Crowley had numerous entity contacts and was adept at conjuring, or evoking, them in magical rituals. In addition to his own inspirations, he used Abramelin and Enochian magic. Three entities are of interest to us for their possible djinn connections.
In 1903, Crowley married Rose Kelly, the first of two wives, who had mediumistic ability. They spent their honeymoon in Cairo in 1904, where Rose spontaneously made contact with an entity named Aiwass (originally spelled Aiwaz). Aiwass said he was a messenger for the Egyptian trinity of deities Isis, Osiris, and Horns. Crowley had a vision of him, seeing Aiwass as a man dressed in old Assyrian or Persian clothing and having what he described as:
Aiwass ordered Crowley to take dictation. For three hours between April 8 and 10, 1904, the entity spoke in a voice that emanated directly out of the air, while Crowley wrote in longhand. The result was the The Book of the Law, the seminal work of Thelemic magic, which contains the axiom "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." In other words, do what you must to surrender to total alignment with cosmic law.
For years, Crowley remained in awe of Aiwass, and admitted he never fully understood exactly who or what the entity was. He alternately described him as a god, demon, devil, preterhuman intelligence, minister or messenger of other gods, and his own guardian angel. For a time, he considered Aiwass part of his own subconscious, but then rejected the idea, favoring at last the explanation that the entity was his holy guardian angel, or an aspect of his higher self. Crowley also said he was occasionally allowed to see Aiwass in a physical appearance, inhabiting a human body like a normal human being.
Over the years, opinions on Aiwass have run the gamut from benign to evil. It cannot be determined whether or not Aiwass was a djinni, of course, but his smoke-like dark appearance, Middle Eastern garb, and ability to take on human form evoke djinn associations. Was Crowley in contact with a djinn representative who wished to channel certain ideas into the mortal world?
In 1909, Crowley made contact with Choronzon, an entity known by Dee (who spelled the name "Coronzon" and referred to it as 333). Dee never considered Choronzon a demon, but Crowley called it "the Demon of Dispersion" and "the Demon of the Abyss." He also said Choronzon was the "first and deadliest of all the powers of evil," and a being comprised of "complete negation."23 Could Choronzon be Iblis, or one of his high-ranking djinn?
In December of 1909, Crowley and his assistant, Victor Neuberg, went into the desert outside Algiers to conduct rituals for the purpose of accessing the high-level aethyrs in the nineteenth call of Enochian magic. Crowley had a number of breakthroughs in consciousness as a result, including the instruction that he would have to confront Choronzon and cross the Abyss.
In an evocation, a magician stays within the protection of a magical circle and evokes an entity into a separate magical triangle. Crowley intended to break that rule and sit within the triangle, go into trance, and offer his own body for possession-a dangerous magical act.
According to Crowley's account, Neuberg, standing within the protected magical circle, got the brunt of the entity's force. First Choronzon manifested in the form of a seductive female prostitute, and then turned into an old man, and then into a snake. Choronzon told Neuberg he spat upon the name of the Most High. He was Master of the Triangle who had no fear of the pentagram. He said he would give Neuberg words that seemed like great secrets of magic but would be worthless, as a joke.
Choronzon breached the protection of the magical circle around Neuberg, and the two wrestled physically. Although some observers have opined that Neuberg wrestled with a demon-entranced Crowley, Neuberg insisted he fought the entity itself. It had frothcovered fangs and attempted to tear out his throat. After a considerable struggle, Neuberg forced Choronzon back into the triangle, and repaired his magical circle. The two hurled insults and threats at each other, and Choronzon vanished.
Crowley and Neuberg felt they had bested the demon, and Crowley considered himself to have achieved great magical status as a result. Some critics of Crowley's work believe that Choronzon left a permanent mental and psychic scar upon him.
We cannot prove Choronzon's true identity, but like Aiwass, djinn presence is strongly suggested. The snake is a favored form of djinn, and the Trickster-like taunting is telling as well. A hostile djinni summoned from the depths of its realm in another dimension might easily attack in such an aggressive manner, boasting that the magical "rules" of mortals had no effect upon him.
In 1918, Crowley made contact with a powerful entity named Lam, who was to help him fulfill the work Aiwass had began. The contact was made through a sex magic ritual in which he opened a portal "in the spaces between stars" (a parallel dimension), enabling Lam to enter the physical universe. Crowley believed Lam to be the soul of a dead Tibetan lama from Leng, between China and Tibet. Lam is Tibetan for "Way" or "Path," which Crowley said had the numerical value of 71, or "No Thing," a gateway to the Void and a link between the star systems of Sirius and Andromeda.
Since that time, some followers of Crowley's work have come to believe that the portal he opened continues to widen, enabling other entities to enter our world that are behind our experiences with UFOs and extraterrestrials. As we have noted, we found a significant connection between djinn and UFOs/ETs. Crowley drew an image of Lam, and it is believed by some that meditating on or contemplating this image enables contact with Lam and access to the portal. The entry of entities through a portal to a parallel realm is yet another interesting correlation with the history and activities of djinn.
The idea that the djinn may be behind major forces of Western occult thought will undoubtedly be controversial to some, and be outright rejected by others. We believe the evidence is there, and has been hiding in plain sight for centuries, just like the djinn themselves. If factions of the djinn are intent on regaining their hold on the physical world, they would infiltrate as many streams of human thought and action as possible. Certainly we should expand our perspective beyond the entities familiar to us in the West, an act that could help us gain valuable insight into the nature of all our extraordinary experiences.
Real-Time EVP of Djinn
There is yet another way we might be in contact with djinn, one that is quite popular with modern paranormal researchers and investigators: electronic voice phenomena, or EVP. Ever since the development of the telegraph, tape recording, the telephone, the radio, and high-tech communications, people have been hearing and recording mysterious voices of unknown origin. In the 1970s, these voices came to be called electronic voice phenomena. Most of the voices are thought to be of the dead, and some from extraterrestrial or ultraterrestrial realms.
In traditional EVP (developed since the early twentieth century), a recorder is turned on, questions are asked, time is allowed to elapse for an answer, and the recording is played back. Answers to the questions-EVP-may appear in the gaps. Newer techniques involve real-time answers, that is, hearing the voices live rather than passively after they are recorded. Real-time EVP is one of the cutting-edge technologies of paranormal research.
We have been experimenting with a range of equipment for real-time EVP, taking it to different paranormal hot spots to see if we can contact the dead or beings in other dimensions. The devices used for this employ radio sweep. They are popularly known as "ghost boxes" and "Frank's boxes," the latter name referring to one of the developers in the field, Frank Sumption. The boxes rapidly scan the AM band of radio (some also scan FM) to create a jumbled noise matrix composed of broadcast fragments. This matrix of sound seems to facilitate the manifestation of mystery voices. Their answers do not come from the fragments of radio broadcast, but are superimposed on top of the jumbled sound. We acknowledge that the use of real-time EVP boxes is controversial and unpredictable-you never know what you are going to get, and it is often impossible to validate the identities of communicators, because the communications are brief. Like passive EVP, answers to questions usually are just one to several words. Getting a communicator to "stay on the line," so to speak, is difficult, probably because of our limited technology.
How Real-Time Radio Sweep EVP Works
Because of his scientific background, Phil has been trained to question extraordinary claims; he was very skeptical when he first heard about the "ghost box." However, after working with it a number of times with Rosemary, he became convinced that it was picking up voices that were beyond this realm of reality. Phil felt there was no other explanation-according to our current understanding of modern physics, the voices should not be there. What is most remarkable about the "ghost box" is that who- or whatever is on the other end responds to questions the operator(s) ask.
The "ghost box" operates by scanning through an entire band with the EVP being received over a number of adjacent frequencies in the AM, FM, and upper and lower sidebands. This means the EVP is not on any particular channel, but is a signal with a very wide bandwidth that our research shows is spread over 100 kHz or greater. In our opinion, this is what makes it so unusual. In order for the device to work and pick up a "spirit voice" you must have a strong standard signal, so the more crowded the band with radio stations, the better chance you have of getting EVP. It seems the EVP part of the signal is so weak that it needs a stronger standard AM signal on which to "piggyback" in order to be heard. The piggyback effect is simple to understand: one weaker radio signal on the same frequency rides on another stronger one to reach the receiver. This is what seems to be happening with the mystery voices on the ghost box-they are riding (or piggybacking) on standard AM radio station transmissions to the receiver. Due to the sweeping effect, the commercial AM transmission is garbled, but the EVP comes through clearly with a different sound and with fully formed words.
Light and radio signals follow the curvature of space, so theoretically, these messages should not be able to reach our reality from another dimension unless tiny holes, perhaps the size of atoms, are somehow created in the space-time continuum. Such holes could create a bridge or tunnel to connect our world with the dimension of the djinn. What makes matters so puzzling is that the operator uses no transmitting equipment at all! It seems that the voice of the operator and the questions asked are heard by the entity directly on the "other side." Or, it may be possible that the voice of the operator is being transmitted through the circuits in the radio. It is interesting to note that sometimes, despite optimal conditions, the ghost box does not work at all. The person operating the device seems to play an important part in its success-some people never get results, while others frequently do. We believe that the psychic makeup and attitude of the individual operating the ghost box is an important component in its success though we also must consider that the intelligence on "the other side" may want to communicate only with certain people. There is a considerable amount of research and analysis to be done in this area, but the one conclusion we have reached is that the ghost box, although limited in its performance, does work.
Djinn Communication Using the MiniBox
One of our favorite real-time EVP devices is the MiniBox, developed by Ron Ricketts of Carrollton, Texas.24 The MiniBox features multiple scan methods, programmable memory, printed circuit boards, a long-lasting rechargeable gel battery, and a controllable rate of scan. We have taken the MiniBox to some of the stone chambers in upstate New York that Phil researched in connection with his UFO investigations. The chambers have been associated with apparitions, poltergeist activity, mysterious lights, visions, appearances of shadow people and hooded beings, and other phenomena. We believe the chambers sit on energized sites that serve as interdimensional portals. At one, we got quite a surprise when the communicators identified themselves as djinn!
On a hot summer day in 2009, we took the MiniBox to one of the most famous stone chambers (we prefer not to disclose the exact location in order to protect the site's integrity) and set it up at the entrance.
In a typical session, it takes five to ten minutes to synchronize with whoever is communicating. There is an initial warm-up period, after which intense communication usually begins. After about thirty to forty-five minutes of peak intensity, the links start breaking up and communication declines. We can only speculate that the energy can hold for just a certain amount of time. During the peak, various communicators come and go. We believe it is possible to get only a fraction of what is being issued from their side-and perhaps they only hear a fraction of what we say in return.
The session at this particular chamber was exceptionally long, about seventy minutes. The communicators accurately told us our first names as recognition. We asked, "Who built this chamber?" and heard back, "God did... weapon... Satan." Was the chamber a portal or tool of some sort in the perpetual struggle between good and evil, we wondered. It was not the answer we expected.
"Who are you?" we asked the unseen speakers. "Djinn," was the immediate answer. They also told us they liked our box device for communication, and that the chamber was a portal. "Do you come through the chamber?" we asked. "Through," they said. "Where are you?" we asked. "In the park" and "in the chamber" they said (the chamber is located in a state park, deep in the woods). It seemed as though the communicators had come through an interdimensional portal and manifested in the space around us.
We usually repeat questions to see if we get consistent responses. "Are you human?" we asked.
"Negative... demon. "
"Are you djinn?"
"Unh-huh... surprises. "
"Who is here besides demons?"
"Satan ... demons... monster. " (After this reply, we heard strangesounding laughter.)
"Tell us who you are," we repeated.
"Djinn. "
"Is anyone here besides djinn?"
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"Give us more information."
"No. "This was followed by more weird laughter.
We could not get past this Trickster-like exchange for the remainder of the session.
During the peak intensity, we both felt enveloped by a strange energy or atmosphere, as though the air around us was being electromagnetically charged. Neither of us had expected djinn to show up and identify themselves-in fact, in all the years that both of us have been experimenting with EVP of varying types, neither of us had ever heard directly from djinn in a manner such as this. We have heard communicators identify themselves as the dead, entities in other realms, and as extraterrestrials. Perhaps the djinn decided to reveal themselves because they knew about the research we were conducting for this book!
Our results made us wonder just how many other EVP communications are a summoning of djinn who masquerade as the dead, aliens, angels, and other entities. Given the present limits of technology, we have little way of knowing for certain who is at the other end of the connection. At the very best, we might be the victims of a Trickster. At worst, we could be already led astray in accordance with the djinn agenda.
Future EVP Experimentation
The success of picking up complex EVP on the standard AM band has produced limited success, but it has proved to us that communication can be established with another reality using standard electromagnetic radiation. One of the problems with the commercial AM band is that it is simply too noisy! If the djinn exist in another nearby dimension, it seems the only way for them to get clear reception of possible EVP signals is to punch "holes" in the earth's magnetosphere and dimensional rift. As stated earlier, occurence of these "holes" may be natural and dependent on the amount of solar radiation reaching earth.
Theoretically, one might have more success in obtaining clear EVP by eavesdropping on a frequency that is able to pick up signals from beyond the ionosphere (a portion of earth's upper atmosphere). The section of the radio band best suited for this is the Very Low Frequency (VLF) area of the electromagnetic spectrum. VLF receivers are simple but relatively uncommon. Consisting only of an antenna and an audio amplifier, they are sensitive to radio waves with frequencies between a few hundred hertz and sev eral hundred kHz. For comparison, AM broadcast band radioslike the ones in the ghost boxes and most automobiles-span the much higher frequency range 540 kHz to 1.6 mHz.
A signal on this frequency possesses a very long wavelength and would be able to reach us from the magnetic field that encompasses our planet. This band is very quiet with few man-made transmissions. For many years, scientists, researchers, and radio enthusiasts have picked up strange signals from this region that have not been fully understood.
If the human body had radio antennas instead of ears, people would hear a remarkable symphony of strange noises coming from the space that surrounds our planet. Scientists call them "tweeks," "whistlers," and "snap, crackle, and pop." At times, these sounds picked up in the VLF band are so strange they seem suited for the background noise of a science fiction film. These remarkable radio emissions are real and although scientists don't fully understand how they are produced, they are around us all the time.
The source of most VLF emissions on earth is lightning. Lightning bolts emit a broadband pulse of radio waves, just as they unleash a visible flash of light. VLF signals from nearby lightning, heard through the loudspeaker of a radio, sound like bacon frying in a pan or the crackling and popping of a campfire. Even if there is no lighting in your area, depending on the size and efficiency of your antenna and the sensitivity of the receiver, you can still hear VLF lightning crackles from storms thousands of kilometers away. Sometimes the ionosphere leaks lightning pulses into space. These pulses exit the atmosphere entirely and follow earth's magnetic field lines that guide them more than 13,000 kilometers above the surface, and back into our planet's magnetosphere. It is this phenomenon that scientists think are responsible for the "whistlers" because they sound like slowly descending tones. Whistlers are dispersed because they travel great distances through magnetized plasmas, which coincidently enough are strongly dispersive media for VLF signals.
It is theorized by scientists at the NASA Marshall Space Center that some of these returning flashes of lightning produce plasma that could create holes in the magnetic field of our planet. This theory intrigued us since this is what might be needed to connect the world of the djinn with our own.
In 2009, Rosemary was able to purchase a Panasonic RF-4900 radio receiver, a model the company no longer manufactures. This receiver was one of the great radios from an earlier period before the days of satellite transmissions. It is amazing that she was able to find one, as the few that are left are owned by die-hard, oldtime ham radio operators and SWLs who see them as a collector's item.25 Although the receiver has the potential to become a super EVP box, it lacks one feature-it does not receive in the VLF area. Rosemary was able to find a converter, and with Phil's know-how (being an old ham radio operator himself), we were able to connect the receiver and get the converter working properly. However, at that low frequency, the wavelength is very long and one needs an antenna several hundred feet long to even hope of picking up signals from the upper atmosphere and beyond.
As a temporary fix, we hooked up twenty feet of 20-gauge insulated copper wire to act as an antenna. On our first attempt, at a frequency of 100 kHz, we picked up a strange series of faint tones that sounded like navigation signals. The sounds lasted for about five minutes, then grew fainter, and eventually vanished. The tones sounded artificial in nature and definitely should not have been there. It seemed odd to us that we turned on the receiver at the exact time and frequency to pick up this transient signal. Perhaps some other intelligence was involved and wanted us to hear some thing on our first attempt. Was the signal coming from another dimension or a parallel reality? We might never know for sure, but two things are certain: the signals should not have been there, and we never picked them up again.
Over the next several weeks of listening in the wee hours of the morning, Phil was able to pick up sounds that sounded like popping and crackling, which he was able to identify as electrical bursts in the upper atmosphere. However, on more than one occasion, he picked up unusual sounds that were almost musical in nature. After considerable research, we found out that NASA, in addition to a number of independent researchers around the globe, had also been receiving the sounds for years-no one can fully explain them. The sounds have been attributed to natural discharges of plasma energy in the magnetosphere. Again, the word plasma caught our attention, as it relates to djinn physiology. It is possible they might discharge energy in the same way as other celestial bodies, resulting in some of it spreading across the VLF spectrum. Of course, this is pure speculation, but speculation often leads to discovery!
A Bold Experiment
We intend to do more research with both the MiniBox and the Panasonic, and to use the VLF band and fully document these signals. We plan to find a large field where we can set up a series of very long dipole antennas, which will greatly expand our capabilities in receiving the mysterious signals on the low-frequency radio band. As EVP is rather weak, we are also in the process of designing a low-power transmitter that will produce a signal with a "dead carrier," which will allow the EVP to piggyback on it.
Besides the many technical difficulties that await us, the biggest problem still lies ahead: communication is a two-way street and if the other side is not interested in conversation, there will not be any results. Perhaps the djinn like using the crowded radio bands to communicate with us, since most of the messages are partial and almost cryptic in nature. Perhaps the communication is a game that green djinn play with humans. We cannot tell you what the chances of success are, but one thing is for sure: if we do not try, our results definitely will be zero. In the months that follow the publication of this book, we will publish any successful results. Our readers are invited to get in touch with us at the emails and website listed in the "About the Authors" section.
OW CAN HUMANITY COUNTER THE influences of beings as
powerful as the djinn? They seem to have many advantages over
us-but we are not without recourse. Since ancient times, people
have developed ways of warding off and repelling all sorts of
negative entities and their effects. Some remedies against demons
can be applied to troublesome djinn but others do not work. Here we
discuss some of the ways humans have successfully dealt with
djinn.
Exorcizing Djinn
Islamic belief holds that djinn possess people for a variety of reasons. They attack those whose faith is weak or nonexistent and those who are not religiously inclined. Sudden emotional and physical shocks, bouts of depression, and fear and anxiety make a person vulnerable to possession by ripping tears in his or her barrier of spiritual protection (the aura). The djinn, having no defined form, can slip through these tears and cracks quite easily. It is believed that a person should never go to bed crying or with feelings of fear and worry, as this invites the djinn to attack during sleep. A fall in the bathroom-considered a polluted place-is especially dangerous, and can result in djinn possession. People who willfully or accidentally injure djinn can become ill or possessed as well. And as explained earlier, people with whom the djinn have become infatuated may become possessed. Whatever the causes of djinn possession, exorcism is usually required.
Exorcism is not only rightful, but obligatory, part of one's duty to aid the oppressed, fight evil, and promote righteousness. Muhammad said that those who aid others will be rewarded on the Day of Resurrection. The duty to alleviate suffering extends to both humans and djinn. Some modern scholars dispute the reality of djinn possession, but traditionalists point to the Qur'an, hadith literature, and the anecdotal record as evidence that possessions have indeed occurred throughout history and continue to plague people in modern times. It is not permissible to abandon or decline to treat a person who is possessed if someone has the ability and time to do so. Exorcism, said the Qur'anic scholar Ibn Tameeyah, "is the most noble of deeds. It is among the deeds performed by the prophets and the righteous who have continually repelled the devils from mankind using what has been commanded by Allah and His Messenger."2 Aid should be rendered in only the same way that Muhammad and his companions acted. Whatever actions are allowed concerning humans are allowed concerning djinn.
Djinn have been ordered to worship Allah, according to Islamic law.' Possession without the consent of the human is a grave of fense against God and is forbidden-but djinn do it anyway. They must be informed that they do not have the right to occupy a human body-or home, for that matter-without consent. If a djinni has possessed a person out of lust, it must be so informed that it has committed a forbidden act. If it possesses a person who has accidentally harmed a djinni, it must be told that the person acted out of ignorance and with no intent to harm.
If the djinn do not cease after being warned, it is permissible to punish them. A person can summon one djinni to banish or kill another who is causing possession-but whether or not they obey such commands is questionable.
Taking Refuge in the Qur'an
The most reliable and permissible ways of exorcizing or repelling djinn involve reciting certain verses from the Qur'an. All of the verses of the Qur'an are considered the will of Allah, and create a structure and order to daily life. The words are powerful, and if recited with deep faith, have a great positive effect. In relation to djinn, certain verses will chase them away and purify any environment. Angels listen to the words as well, and can be called upon for help.
Qur'anic verses considered especially effective against the djinn and their whisperings in the ear are the Al-Mu'awwidhatayn and the Al-Kursi. The Al-Mu'awwidhatayn are the last two chapters of the Qur'an, Al-Falaq (The Dawn) and An-Nas (Mankind), 113 and 114, respectively:
The Al-Kursi (The Footstool or The Throne) is verse 255 from the second surah of the Qur'an, Al-Baqarah (The Cow). It is considered to be highly effective in warding off djinn and countering their evil spells, as well as exorcizing them from the possessed. It also nullifies illusions caused by the djinn, devil-aided supernatural feats, and the erroneous thinking and acts of musicians, tyrants and the lecherous and lustful:
According to hadith literature, the Al-Kursi recommendation came from a djinni. The Sahih al-Bukhari tells a story of a man whom Muhammad put in charge of the food collected for charity at the end of Ramadan. One night, the man caught a stranger rummaging through the food. The stranger said he was in great need because he was poor and had a family. The man let the stranger go. When informed, Muhammad said the stranger was a liar and would return. Sure enough, he did, and once again begged off on claims of poverty, promising he would not return. The man let him go. Muhammad repeated that the stranger was a liar and would return. On the next night, the stranger came back and the man grabbed him. This time, the stranger said that in exchange for letting him go, he would give him some words that would prevent Satan from approaching during sleep at night. It was the Al-Kursi. Muhammad told the man that the stranger told the truth, but revealed his identity as an "evil djinni."4
Another accepted practice is to read just the last two verses (285 and 286) of Al-Baqarah for three consecutive nights:
The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers. Each one believes in Allah, His Angels, His Books, and His Messengers. They say, "We make no distinction between one another of His Messen- gers"-and they say, "We hear, and we obey. (We seek) Your Forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the return (of all)."
Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope. He gets reward for that (good) which he has earned, and he is punished for that (evil) which he has earned. "Our Lord! Punish us not if we forget or fall into error, our Lord! Lay not on us a burden like that which You did lay on those before us (Jews and Christians); our Lord! Put not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Pardon us and grant us Forgiveness. Have mercy on us. You are our Matron (Protector) and give us victory over the disbelieving people."
Invoking the name of Allah and cursing is another tactic. Muhammad repelled Iblis once when the djinni attempted to interfere with his prayer. Iblis thrust a fiery torch in his face, and Muhammad said three times, "I seek refuge in Allah from you" and then three times, "I curse you by Allah's perfect curse."6 But Iblis did not back off, so Muhammad grabbed hold of him and choked him, and could feel the coldness of the djinni's spittle on his hands. Had it not been for Solomon's prayer, Muhammad said, he would have tied Iblis to a post as a public spectacle.' Allah forced the djinni away. This incident established the precedent for evoking Allah's curse against offending djinn.
Possessing djinn should be urged to convert to Islam. As we noted earlier, djinn who say they will convert or have converted often lie, and repeatedly possess people. In 1987, a possession case of a Muslim woman in Riyadh made international news. The offending djinni had supposedly already converted to Islam, but possessed the woman anyway. The exorcist reminded the djinni that it was committing a sin, and it replied (through the female victim but in a male voice) that it was a Buddhist djinni from India. The exorcist cajoled and shamed the djinni into converting to Islam, and to agreeing to preach conversion to its own people. It departed the woman, who remained free of possession for at least two months, at the last report. Whether or not the deceitful djinni possessed anyone else, or fulfilled its promise to proselytize to other djinn, is not known.'
Beating the Djinn Out of a Body
Muhammad used beatings to exorcize djinn. He struck one possessed boy with great force, and then wiped his face with water and said a prayer over him. The exorcism was successful.
The Power of Breath
In esoteric lore, breath has supernatural or mystical power, either for good or for bad. Breath transmits power-and can also deplete the life force.
Popular Exorcisms
In addition to the official religious ways of dealing with djinn, there are myriads of folk remedies. Books offering help to counter djinn oppression and possession, witchcraft, and the evil eye are popular in marketplaces. The books' rituals are often complicated, and readers mix them with folklore they have learned from their own families, usually their mothers. It is usually advised to keep these books hidden away.
Some of the lore in these books is undoubtedly derived from Solomonic tradition. Flavius Josephus said Solomon left behind exorcism techniques that others successfully used. He himself witnessed such an exorcist, named Eleazar, who expelled a demon in a demonstration to the Roman Emperor Vespasian, his sons, military captains, and troops:
He put a ring that had a foot of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils; and when the man fell down immediately, he abjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed. And when Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man; and when this was done, the skill and wisdom of Solomon was shown very manifestly: for which reason it is, that all men may know the vastness of Solomon's abilities, and how he was beloved of God, and that the extraordinary virtues of every kind with which this king was endowed may not be unknown to any people under the
An example of a folk remedy for possession comes from folk tales such as found in The Book of 1001 Nights:
In the 1950s, a surveyor for an oil company in Saudi Arabia was in a remote part of the desert. He drove a surveying stake into the sand and accidentally hit a djinni who lived underground. That night after he went to bed in his tent, invisible djinn attacked him. They bound his hands with invisible ties. He felt an intense burning in his wrists and was unable to move his arms. He was unable to speak. Others in camp heard a strange voice shout, "You have attacked us, you must be punished!" but they could not see anyone.
Many people with djinn and black magic problems consult a sheikh for help, to exorcize, cast, or break spells. Sheikhs vary in their exorcism and magical skills and must be confident and know what to do at all moments, for the djinn will try to paralyze their tongue and prevent the right words from being said, ensuring things will go wrong. For example, a woman in Cairo was con vinced that a spirit was in love with her, and came to her at night to make passionate love. She consulted a sheikh to chase it away. It departed, but came back as a dog, and then in the form of her husband."
Some sheikhs perform exorcisms with special amulets, talismans and incantations from magical texts, but these are considered shirk, a neglect of one's duty, or in some cases, unforgivable sin. Making animal sacrifices to djinn is strictly forbidden.
A favored respectable remedy is Zamzam water, a miracle water that a sheikh may decide to administer to a possessed person. Zamzam is a famous well in al-Masjid al-Haraam (the Sacred Mosque in Mecca), near the Ka'bah. The well is only five feet deep and is self-replenishing. Its water plays an important role in Islamic faith. Allah quenched the thirst of the infant Isma'el, son of Ibrahim, when he was an infant. His mother, Haajra, searched for water in vain. She climbed to the tops of Mount al-Safaa and Mount al-Marwah, praying to Allah for help. Allah sent the archangel fibril, who struck the earth; water appeared.'`' When Muhammad was a child, two angels appeared and washed his heart in Zamzam water, to strengthen and purify it, and enable him to see the kingdoms of earth and heaven. Muhammad also drank from the well. According to hadith literature, the water of Zamzam is for whatever purpose it is drunk for: "It is a blessing and it is food that satisfies."" Zamzam water is used for magical, exorcism, and healing purposes.
Applying the words of the Qur'an directly to the possessed body is considered an effective and popular way to ward off or expel possessing djinn. Verses from the Qur'an are written in certain kinds of approved ink on paper, which is dipped in water. The treated water is used for bathing or drinking by the afflicted and sick. Verses are carved onto bread, which is baked and eaten. Verses are put into alphabet soup and eaten. When the Qur'an is recited before sleep, one should first blow into one's hands and wipe them over the body.
Protection Using Science
We do not claim that the methods above are successful when dealing with the djinn. Many rituals of exorcism are so ancient that they come from a time when fear of the supernatural ruled ev- eryone's mind. These older rituals might work if you encounter a djinni who believes in the old ways or is afraid it will be held accountable by God at the end of time. Some older djinn believe in the existence of angels, and might be fearful that one might intervene. Having free will, djinn think like people do: some are religious and can be controlled by saying the name of God, others are atheists and cannot be controlled in this manner. If a djinni does not believe in God or angels, reciting passages from the Bible and Qur'an will have no effect. In some of the cases that we have investigated or researched, the entity seemed to show increased anger and aggression when a Bible or other religious book is used as a weapon to try to drive it away. In some instances, the entity played along and seemed amused at the attempts of the exorcist.
Westerners may not have access to Muslim experts, sheikhs, Zamzam water, or be able to recite the Qur'an in its native Arabic. Are there other ways to counter the djinn?
Electromagnetic Disruptions
We must regard djinn as another form of intelligent beings in the universe and not as supernatural creatures. Although when compared to humans they are capable of incredible feats and have a very long life span, they are still beings with limited abilities. It is our belief that the djinn are composed of plasma; this is their strength but also a weakness. Plasma can be affected by electromagnetic pulses and other types of magnetic fields. Plasma can also be disrupted by a high-voltage burst of electricity. We have many cases in our files of people being tormented by some unseen force in their own homes. In such cases, the victims found that when they turned on their lights, radio, television, and computer, the disturbances decreased in severity or stopped completely. However, if everything was shut off, the disturbances would start again within a short time. Alternating current and the electrical items listed above create magnetic fields. The djinn are not permanently harmed by them, but they suffer pain or other discomfort. It's important to note that this electrical method may only work on the less powerful green djinn; it may have little or no effect on a djinni of greater power belonging to a higher order.
THE TESLA COIL
A Tesla coil is a resonant transformer that will produce high voltage and current. It was invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891.22 The Tesla coil works by generating an electrical field in the air. Depending on the coil's size, it can light fluorescent lights, neon tubes, cathode ray tubes, and other gases without a physical connection. The Tesla coil produces an electromagnetic wave that can interfere with radio and television reception and cause digital watches to malfunction. Small coils can be purchased from a number of scientific distributors and although they tend to be somewhat pricey, are interesting to use in experiments. We have two small coils at our disposal, but have not used them in the field, since we are waiting for the right case to try them. The small coil may not drive the djinn away, but theoretically it could be used to keep the disturbances at a minimum. The range of these small Tesla coils is limited to a small room. Operating one may not banish a djinni, however-it may only retreat to another part of the house in frustration and anger, and then cause even greater disturbances there.
Their Energy Level Is Sporadic
Djinn consume energy as a main source of sustenance. Like humans, they get tired when they are very active and then they require rest. In many homes that are experiencing paranormal phenomena the activity is sporadic and sometimes cyclic in nature. If a djinni is responsible, then during times of inactivity it may be resting. Djinn have longer life spans than humans. When we rest, some of us may sleep for eight hours. When a djinni sleeps, it could remain dormant for decades. The length of time a djinni "sleeps" depends on its age, its level of power, its health, and how much energy it has used. While at rest, a djinni is at its most vulnerable, perhaps presenting the best oppportunity to remove it.
Final Words
Djinn are composed of plasma, and like all plasma, are greatly affected by magnetic fields. If you are having paranormal disturbances in your home such as shadow people, poltergeists, strange lights, and other signs of a "haunting," try keeping lights and electrical appliances turned on. Unless you are an engineer, we don't recommend buying devices that generate electromagnetic fields like the Tesla coil, as they consume a considerable amount of power and could be dangerous if used improperly. We are constantly seeking information to learn more about the djinn and their purpose in this world. If you are having experiences similar to the ones we've discussed, please contact us. We respond to all letters and in some cases may want to visit your home and do an on-site investigation.
One final word to all paranormal investigators: please consider the djinn as part of the paranormal world. We believe that once you become acquainted with the djinn race, many of the more perplexing cases you investigate might make more sense. Also, consider that you are dealing with very old entities, and even the youngest of these beings are much older than most of human history. We hope the publication of this book will help inform people in Western countries, about this ancient race of neighbors who live next door, but who we rarely see.
Kings
Powerful black djinn. It is not known if all djinn are ruled by one king or many.
Clans
No one really knows how many clans exist. They are ruled by blue or yellow djinn and obey a djinn king.
Families
A yellow djinn or older green djinn may head a djinn family. A family usually consists of djinn who are related, but this may not always be the case.
Outcasts
Djinn who have no living family or those who have been exiled from a family or clan are considered outcasts. Most are not necessarily evil, but may be dangerous to other djinn and humans.
Rebels
Djinn that have broke away from the order of a king, clan or family. They are called red djinn and are considered evil and very dangerous to humans. Red djinn may be the "demons" of religious writings. They follow Iblis instead of God.
Black Djinn
The most powerful of all djinn, little is known about them. The only reference we have is from ancient Persia, where they were called shamir.
Blue Djinn
The elders and clan leaders of the djinn order. They have little interaction with humans, but have been known to participate in important moments of history. They are known as Marid, Nekratael, and Afreet.
Yellow Djinn
Middle-aged djinn with considerable power. Most are family leaders. They have little if no interest in the human race and the physical world. They are known as Juzam and the nastier ones are called Efreeti.
Green Djinn
Youngest and least powerful of the djinn. They are curious and like to interact with the human race in the physical world. Many young ones like to play pranks on humans. They are known as Erhnam, Kookus, Aamar, Arwaah, Jann, and Amir.
Red Djinn
Very old and powerful djinn. Most were once blue djinn. They worship Iblis and their goal is to destroy all humans. They are served by other djinn, and in rare cases, humans. Some serve willingly, some by force. They are known as ghouls, shaitan or shayteen, and ifrit.
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1 The Bin Sultan Al Nahayan Foundation.
2 The Encyclopedia ofIslam: International journal ofIslamica ndArabic Studies, Vol. V (1989).
1 An alpha particle is actually a nucleus of the element helium having two protons and two neutrons. Its mass is 4 atomic mass units and has a charge of +2.
2 Stephen Hawking, The Hawking Paradox, Discovery Channel, 2005.
3 Iman Ibn Taymeeyah (1263-1328) was a famous Muslim scholar born in what is now Turkey, close to the Syrian border. Writings from the latter part of his life warned people of the djinn and how to deal with them.
4 Documented in the book Celtic Mysteries in New England: Windows to Another Dimension in America's Northeast by Philip J. Imbrogno and Marianne Horrigan (Cosimo Publishing, 2005).
1 The word Iblis is Arabic that translates into to English as "he who is despaired." The name was given to this djinni after he lost favor with God. His original name is unknown. However, many Muslim scholars and holy men believe his original name was Iblis, and after his fall from grace his name became "Shaitan" or "the deceiver." In some stories he is also identified as the fallen angel Azazel.
2 AI-A Raf, 11-18
3 1 Kings 3:5.
4 Ibid., 3:12.
5 John D. Seymour, Tales ofKing Solomon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924), p. 124.
6 F. C. Conybeare, The Testament of Solomon. Revised English and partial translation by Jeremy Kapp. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2228881/The-Testament-of-Solomon- Revised-English, verse 7. Accessed November 2010.
7 Ibid., verse 1.
8 Iron has the power to weaken or repel supernatural entities, especially malevolent ones, including fairies, demons, and djinn.
9 A corruption of the name of the Canaanite deity Baal-zeboul, "lord of the divine abode." Beelzeboul is also given as Beelzebub, the lord of the flies.
10 The Greeks described Tartarus as the lowest region of the earth, a gloomy pit or abyss where wayward souls were imprisoned and tortured.
11 Conybeare, op.cit., verse 27.
12 Ibid., verse 18.
13 Genesis 6:1-4 and the book of Enoch tell of the Watchers or Sons of Gods, angels who broke the rules by descending from heaven to take human wives and birth monstrous offspring called the Nephilim. Here Asmodeus makes no claim to this particular origin despite his hybrid nature.
14 Conybeare, op.cit., verse 21.
15 Told in detail in the apochryphal book of Tobit, probably written c. the 2nd century BCE.
16 Seymour, op. cit., pp. 133-134.
1 A phonetic pronunciation.
2 Years later, Rosemary was told by a source who encountered two reptilian creatures in New Mexico wearing belts that, when touched, enabled them to pass through walls. Were these belts related to the technology the military was seeking in Saudi Arabia?
3 Jibril is Gabriel in Judaic and Christian lore.
4 The Tertiary period began about 65 million years ago and ended approximately 1.8 million years ago.
1 Outcast or cursed one.
2 Criminals or people who do evil deeds.
3 Devils or evil djinn and men.
4 Trustee of affairs.
1 The Thief of Bagdad (1940) is a British fantasy film produced by Alexander Korda, and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan. It starred child actor Sabu, in addition to Conrad Veidt, John Justin, June Duprez, and a brillant performance by Rex Ingram as the djinni.
2 This method of imprisonment was not a lamp as told in The Book of 1001 Nights but a brass bottle with a lead stopper and covered with a magnetic iron mesh with the seal of King Solomon or one of his priests,
3 See chapter 2 about Phil Imbrogno's journey to Saudi Arabia.
4 The black king of the djinn, Al-Masjid al-Aswad is mentioned in a fifteenth-century Arabic manuscript known as Kitab al-Bulban (The Book of Wonders).
1 E. I. Brill's First Encyclopedia ofIslam 1913-1936 (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 1993), vol. VII, p. 1046.
2 AI-Rahman, 33-35.
3 Sahib al jaami, 8.217. footnote 3.
4 AI-Israa, 65, and Al-Saba, 20-21.
5 Al-Israa, 62.
6 Edward William Lane, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1908), p. 230.
7 Ibid., p. 231.
8 AI-Anfaal, 48.
9 This story has Judeo-Christian roots, but is told also in Islam as an example of the deceits of the devil (evil djinn).
10 Al-Shuaraa, 210-212, and Al-Isra, 88.
11 In chapter 5, we noted the cautions against urinating and dumping garbage in holes, and related the story of the little man in the hole whose roof was inadvertently disturbed by an innocent hiker.
12 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2008), p. 96.
13 Ibid., 121.
14 Drieskens, op. cit., p. 70.
15 Ibid., p. 170.
16 Sahih al-Jaami, Ibid.
17 Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar, The World of the jinn and Devils (Boulder, CO: AIBasheer Publications and Translations, 1998), p. 18.
18 Drieskens, op. cit., 102.
19 The details of the Bell Witch case are taken from Rosemary's The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, 3rd. ed. (New York: Facts On File, 2007), pp. 48-52.
1 Ramadan was already a holy month for the Arabs before Islam had spread.
2 AI-Alaq, 96.1-4.
3 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofAngels, 2nd ed. (New York: Facts On File, 2004), p. 266.
4 AI-Qadr 97.1-5.
5 The World of Jinn and Its Secrets." http://www.islamonline.net/ servlet/Satellite?pagename= Islam Online-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/ FatwaE&cid=1119503543990
6 Isaiah 14:12.
7 Some Muslims believe the qarin is a separate type of entity from the djinn.
8 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinn: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2006), p. 181.
9 Al-Oaf, 27.
10 Sahih Muslim, 6757.
11 http://www.thewaytotruth.org/metaphysicaldimension/angels.html. Accessed October 2010.
13 Al-Jinn, 8-9.
14 This story shows the gullibility of djinn, and has parallels to stories in Christian lore about how easily the devil can be fooled.
12 Another similarity to the Watchers.
15 Sahib al-Bukhari, vol. 5, book 58, no. 200.
16 Corinthians 11:14.
1 Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions ofIreland (Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1887), p. 1.
2 Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica (Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable, 1900), p. 353.
3 AI-Araf, 7.27.
4 In Norwegian lore, the fairies are the offspring of Adam and his first wife, Lilith, rather than Eve.
5 "Theories of Fairy Origins," http://waeshael.home.att.net/origins.htm#17.
6 Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, The World ofjinn andDevils (Boulder, CO: AI-Basheer Publications and Translations, 1998), p. 69.
7 Al-Araf, 15-16.
8 Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969), p. 27.
10 AI-Israa, 62.
11 AI-Asaaf, 14-15.
9 Wilde, op. cit., p. 208.
12 W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (New York: Carroll Publishing Group, 1990. First published 1911), p. 36.
13 Ibid., 49.
14 AI-Asqhar, op. cit., p.131.
15 Ibid., p. 136.
16 Evans-Wentz, op. cit., p. 39.
17 "The Welsh Fairy Book," http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/wfb/wfb29.htm. Accessed November 2010.
18 Briggs, op. cit., pp. 159-60.
19 William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Ghouls and Faeries (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893), p. 93.
20 D. A. McManus, The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World ofIreland (London: Max Parrish), 1959, pp. 62-63.
21 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofDemons &Demonology (New York: Facts On File, 2009), p. 85.
22 Martin William, "Collecteana III In the Isle of Man" (Folk-Lore, vol. 3, 1902), p. 186.
23 Al-Ashqar, op. cit., p. 131.
24 "The Welsh Fairy Book," op. cit.
25 Katharine Briggs, The Vanishing People (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), p. 151.
26 Guiley, op. cit., pp. 85-86.
27 Ibid., p. 29.
28 Drieskens, op.cit., p. 99.
29 No one knows precisely where the kingdom of Sheba was located, but modern historians believe it was in or near modern-day Yemen.
30 AI-Ashqar, op. cit., p. 22.
31 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2006), p. 182.
32 Ibid., pp. 182-83.
33 Kathleen Krull, A Pot O' Gold: A Treasury ofIrish Stories, Poetry, Folklore, and (of Course) Blarney (Hyperion Books for Children, 2004), pp. 147-151.
1 Dr. J.Allen Hynek (1910-1986) was an astronomer best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the US Air Force under Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and Project Blue Book (1952-1969). Hynek coined the term "close encounter."
3 An-Nas, 114.
2 The term "high strangeness" was used by Hynek to describe those UFO cases that did not fit the normal bulk of reports. They include electromagnetic effects, abductions, the appearance of strange beings, and psychic communication with an alien intelligence.
1 NASA/AMES Research Center: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/ lookingatearth/29dec_magneticfield.html. Accessed October 2010.
2 Kitt Peak National Observatory supports the most diverse collection of astronomical observatories on earth for nighttime optical and infrared astronomy, and daytime study of the sun. Kitt Peak is located 56 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona.
3 NIDS was created by real estate developer Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas in 1995 as a privately funded organization to scientifically investigate UFO and paranormal phenomena, and to advance fringe science. It was discontinued in 2004. NIDS involved teams of scientists and researchers.
4 Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker (New York: Paraview/ Pocket Books, 2005), p. 6.
5 Ibid., p. 64.
6 Ibid., p. 209.
7 Christopher O'Brien, Stalking the Tricksters, Shapeshifters, Skinwalkers, Dark Adepts, and 2012 (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2009), pp. 158-159.
1 A book of Muslim short stories.
2 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofDemons &Demonology (New York: Facts On File, 2009), pp. 100-104.
3 John D. Seymour, Tales ofKing Solomon (London: Oxford University Press, 1924), p. 58.
4 Ibid., p. 57.
5 The Black Pullet, http://www.scribd.com/doc/11062300/The-Black-Pullet-Science -of-Magical-Talismans, p. 13. Accessed November 2010.
6 Children up to the ages of twelve to fourteen are considered immune to the influences and dangers of djinn.
7 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft &Wicca, 3rd ed. (New York: Facts On File, 2008), p. 172.
8 Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, "Visions of the Jinn: Ibn Taymeeyah's Essay on the Jinn," http://islaam.com//Article.aspx?id=75. Accessed November 2010.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Author interview.
12 The authors know of a case involving a youth who attempted this method and was mentally destabilized by the djinni. Details cannot be divulged to protect privacy, but the youth was institutionalized, and a great deal of money was spent to hire an adept in another country who could command a powerful enough djinni to cast out the one afflicting the youth.
13 AI-Luqmaan, 20.
14 Mahmood Jawaid, Secrets ofAngels, Demons, Satan and jinn: Decoding Their Nature through Quran and Science (self-published, 2006), pp. 57-59.
15 Ibid., 221-223.
16 Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Rituals (New York: Avon Books,1972), p. x.
17 Sahib Muslim, 39.6754.
18 In some modern views, Iblis' throne is located in the Bermuda Triangle, and all the disappearing ships are sacrifices to him.
19 H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, 1926. Published online at http://dagonbytes .com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm. Accessed November 2010.
20 Carl L. Johnson, "Providence's Master Spirit," revised November 2009, in correspondence to the authors.
21 LaVey, op. cit.
22 Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofDemons & Demonology, op. cit., p. 46.
23 Ibid., p. 40.
24 The story of the development of the MiniBox is featured in Talking with the Dead (Tor, 2011), co-authored by Rosemary and George Noory, the host of Coast to Coast AM.
25 Short Wave Listeners.
1 As noted earlier concerning zar cases, cajoling, reconciliation, and bribery are sometimes used to appease possessing djinn who cause domestic problems.
2 Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, An Taymeeyah's Fssay on the jinn (Demons) (New Delhi: Islamic Books Service, 2002), p. 81.
3 Umar Sulaiman al-Ashgar, The World of the jinn and Devils (Boulder, CO: Al Basheer Co., 1998), p. 205.
4 Sahib a1 Bukhari, vol. 6, p. 491, no. 530.
5 An Taymeeyab's Essay on the jinn (Demons), op. cit., p. 76.
6 Sahib Muslim, Vol. I, pp. 273-274, no. 1106.
7 According to Saad 38:35, Solomon's prayer was "My Lord forgive me and grant me sovereignty not allowed to anyone after me."
8 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2008), p. 90.
9 An Tameeyah' Essay on the jinn (Demons) op. cit., pp. 107-108.
10 http://www.inter-islam.org/faith/jinn2.html#Exorcism. Accessed October 2010.
11 Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Hadith Musnad, vol. 4, p. 170.
12 Flavius Joseph us, The Antiquities of the Jews, pp. 250-251.
13 In Jewish lore from the book of Tobit, the archangel Raphael teaches the young man Tobias how to exorcize demons-especially the dreaded Asmodeus-with the smoke of burning fish gall.
14 Ibn Taymeeyab's Essay on the jinn (Demons), op. cit., p. 77.
15 Robert Lebling, Jinn Discussion Group, www.yahoogroups.com, Nov. 6, 2009.
16 Ibid.
18 Ibid., p. 52.
19 Similarly, in Christian lore holy wells and springs were created by saints striking the ground with their staffs.
17 An Taymeeyah-Essay on the jinn (Demons), op. cit., p. 59.
20 Sahib Muslim, 4:1922.
21 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofMagic 'Alchemy (New York: Facts On File, 2007), p. 299.
22 Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an inventor and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism.
