Gnomes
Gnomes exist. I mean exist in the same sense that our spirits exist, the same existence in where you see the 'machine elves' in your shared DMT trip in which you experience the same 'hallucinations' as your co-trippers. This DMT is the same DMT your brain releases in excess upon death and meditation; the same DMT experimented with in the lost MK Ultra experiments. Our brains are of 2 parts: the reasoning side and the creative side; i.e. the side of order and the side of chaos. When we interact with spoken language we are seen to use the reasoning side of our brain --this side is more grounded in reality--, however, when we hear language in our heads --psychosis-- the voices emanate from the creative side. From the same side are voices from the gods presumed to originate, from the various legends of the Odyssey and other culturally sacred traditions and stories, we see the common theme of God's commanding the people directly from within their consciousness; today, many people experience the voice from God --the Christian God, an unmistakable voice originating from the chaotic side of the brain which, with the established context, should be considered the spiritual side.
The body is split into 2 parts controlled by 2 brains, unified by the strongest corpus callosum in the animal kingdom; we see this evident in the experiments after severing the connection in where the body begins to contradict itself (experiment in question) --as it should-- in perception and descriptions of these perceptions varying with the means of describing. We effectively have a world of reality and a world of imagination; imagination isn't coming up with an original idea, it's pulling that idea from the world of imagination as we do so often in the physical world by pulling from both worlds --we cannot create ideas out of nothing, they have to be predicated on an existing idea.
Why is it that we have these shared myths across the globe of little enigmatic, mystical creatures who live in forests --which are symbolic places of chaos? It's the same reason why many people still report sightings --and shared sightings-- to this day (The Fairy Faith documentary). They exist but are not real; maybe they can will themselves into a state where they can interact with the physical world --like an effect of sonoluminescence-- but I don't see why or how that would be the case. Like we have animals in the physical world, we have spirits of the non-physical.
Frankly, the creatures have too much commonly held belief in them not to be real; people don't seem to understand how impossible it is to prove the existence of something which is bombarded with the accusation of being pseudo-scientific, not even our modern theories of the nature of the universe can explain it --mostly because they have already been scientifically falsified. Science has become a cult --and really it always has been throughout history. Jung has a quote that goes something to the effect of 'when God is removed, the intellect replaces it,' meaning that the eternal has been superimposed on by the quantitative --ironically, a contradiction in logic. Symbolically, both eyes represent a separate world --a physical and a non-physical-- what humans have is the third eye, the connection between both eyes. This is our corpus callosum --more accurately, our pineal gland-- this is the sacred triangle, it is God and Lucifer --Lucifer meaning being akin to human nature purely in the physical and logical sense-- reunified by Jesus. When one eye becomes highly praised over the other is when we face issues of semi-blindness and in the reconciliation of our condition we tend to pretend that the depth we'd experience if both eyes were functions wouldn't exist and, rather, we'd be seeing more of the same.
Think of today's missing 411 cases --in which children go mysteriously missing in split second in the chaotic forest and reemerge days later at an impossibly distant location in perfect condition--, eerily similar to descriptions of innocent children interacting with the fairies and being taken by them for only a brief time. The forest has always been a place of chaos and inversion, the creatures that lay on it's precipice are of the same nature, they are emissaries of the forest and if you look too closely you may just fall into the other world, the first eye from the second.
We need to stop looking for evidence of the spiritual in reality; we have to look to reason and then past it, we need to see the metaphysical, we need to look towards human culture because, so far, we are the only people who can interact with both worlds --hence the importance of our corpus callosum.
We need to stop looking to aliens as an explanation for the paranormal, UFO's are created by us based on very simple laws of physics (using the real framework for physics, not patently wrong relativity) --anyway, if aliens did exist they would be normal because they are bound by the laws of physics.
We have countless accounts of encounters with these creatures from more than reputable sources --I've heard stories that explain the origins of other stories, e.g. in the woods of Sweden, a teenager is tempted further away from his camp by a vision of a woman and a feeling of wantonness. Our consciousness imitates life, life imitates our conscious expressions; a constant back a forth within a set framework. Sure, myths that aren't real may exist, but this interconnectivity of the mind with the visceral and physical world is undeniable and brings into question the truths behind legends. Take, for instance, the City of Troy, an arguably real place previously thought to be myth; we need to take our history and stories more seriously because it seems that mainstream science won't --calling it 'pseudo-science' which isn't even properly defined, a propaganda word, their science should, in actuality, be considered lower than pseudo-science since they can't even prove their primary theories through the scientific method.
The reason there's such an aura of disbelief around the subject of the supernatural is because of the hoaxes surrounding it. People taking pictures and videos of unsuspecting creatures, showing their full form seems severely unlikely and almost impossible --I still expect these creatures to have some kind of influence in the physical space through, possibly, interactions with the dielectric field which permeates all space, but I don't see how a form with distinct and accurate colour and form is possible.
The Christian world view doesn't actually deny the existence of the pagan-like supernatural --it actually recognises it as real if you take the scriptures seriously-- as many people like to believe so they can pretend that they're smart because they're part of the church of science too. The origin of these spiritual creatures is unknown but speculated upon, the two prominent theories go as follows: (1) elves, faeries, gnomes and the like come from the other children of Eve who, when met by an angel to be blessed, were hid by their mother because they didn't clean themselves in time to meet the angel so they didn't receive the blessing now their descendants live in as the little-people; (2) the creatures of the spiritual world --which is also inhabited by demons-- are the angels who didn't pick a side in the war in heaven, it's said that for an angel to enact their free will to be judged, who have foresight, are to only think of the decision which they might make. I tend to believe the second theory but we can never really know until the final days.
Reading this, you should now see how telling your catatonically schizophrenic friend that the tall, black man with the hat isn't real but is actually there and can hurt him is good for him and will alleviate some of that stress. The Folklore of Little People article