The Vengeful Djinn: Unveiling the Hidden Agenda of Genies (3 page)

I have been investigating paranormal phenomena with an emphasis on UFOs for more than thirty years. I have found myself
amazed and sometimes even confused by the variety of reports I've
received. I'd often ask myself, "Where do these phenomena come
from and where do they go when they aren't seen?" The answer
to this question can now be answered by new ideas in theoretical
physics. One of these new ideas states that our universe is composed of not one, but multiple dimensions, some very close to our
own and many far away in space and time. Periodically, several of
these closer dimensions may interact with our world, resulting in
the merging of several realities.

My investigations over the years have led me to believe that
what we call "the paranormal" takes on a variety of guises, making us humans think we are witnessing multi-faceted phenomena.
Actually, this may not be the case at all. In one of these other realities or dimensions close to our own is an intelligent, ancient race
that has existed before humans walked the earth-beings with
great power who throughout recorded history have been identified by every culture. The Native American shamans call them the
"great tricksters," and to the Hindu of India they are known as
"deceivers." In the West, they are called "devils" and "demons."
New Age spiritualists know them as "the con men of the universe."
This ancient race may be responsible for the majority of paranormal events witnessed over the centuries. We have known very little
about them, for only one part of the world has historically documented them and their effect on the human race. Ancient Middle
Eastern lore tell tales of a race of mysterious and highly intelligent
creatures called the djinn. In the Qur'an, a surah entitled Al-djinn
frequently mentions the djinn and refers to them as "God's other
people." The word djinn is thought to be derived from the Arabic rootjanna, which means "hidden" and should not be confused
with the Arabic word jannah, which means "paradise."

In the West, the djinn are known as the genies of fairy tales,
wish-giving entities trapped in bottles, lamps, and rings. The word
genie usually conjures up exotic but harmless images, such as the
1960s television series I Dream ofJeannie, in which Barbara Eden
played an obliging, well-meaning, and often ditzy genie freed from
a bottle by an astronaut, played by Larry Hagman. "Genie" also has
comical associations, such as in the Disney movie Aladdin, based
on the tale from Arabian lore. In these depictions, genies may have
a bit of prankster in them, but they seem benign, even helpful, and
we in the West laugh at them. We have little knowledge and lack
fear of the real race, the djinn.

Middle Eastern cultures have a considerably different view of the
djinn, however. In many Islamic households, just speaking the name
of the djinn will cause the bravest to flee in terror. They consider the
djinn to be quite real and a great threat to humanity, causing misfortune, illness, possession, and even death. The djinn hide in the shadows, biding their time and watching us, looking for opportunities
to strike, interacting with humans only when it suits their purpose.
They are powerful shapeshifters and can live for thousands of years.
To cross the djinn is to invite destruction.

My introduction to the world of the djinn began in the mid1990s while I was traveling through the Middle East researching
the Knights Templar and their connection to the Holy Grail. After
two weeks of what seemed to be nothing more than a wild goose
chase, I began to hear stories about the djinn. At first I had no idea
what they were. An old friend, who later became my guide through
some very perilous country there, explained the djinn as the origin
of the Western "genie." Like many westerners, I laughed, thinking
of those jolly wish-granting spirits. Well, my host took the existence of the djinn very seriously-to him, they were very real. The
djinn's true nature and reality became evident to me as I collected
a great deal of information on them and visited some of the places
where they are reputed to enter our world. I realized they represent
an aspect of the paranormal that had been largely untouched by
western researchers. I also realized the djinn could be the hidden
source of the diversity of paranormal events everywhere.

I briefly introduced the djinn in two of my previous books,
Interdimensional Universe: The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal
Phenomena, and Otherdimensional Beings and Files from the Edge:
A Paranormal Investigator's Explorations into High Strangeness. Although I didn't go into much detail, I found the djinn attracted a
lot of curiosity and attention among readers.

Several years ago, noted paranormal investigator Rosemary Ellen Guiley and I began investigating paranormal hot spots in New
York that generate a great number of reports relating to UFOs and
other types of phenomena. We have been exploring the possibility that in many of these high strangeness locations, portals that
connect our world to an unseen world exist. When I mentioned
my research on the djinn to Rosemary, she told me she was very
interested in them due to her research into angels, demons, fairies, and shadow people. After many long discussions, things began falling into place; we could see the connections among parallel dimensions, the emergence of paranormal phenomena, and the
race of ancient beings that exist in a reality very close to our own.
During our research, we gathered evidence of the djinn in the
Western Hemisphere and applied it to paranormal and UFO phenomena. The result is an interesting and compelling picture that
raises many questions about what people are really experiencing.
Are the djinn behind our paranormal encounters and experiences?
Are they behind some of the terrifying experiences people report?
If so, what is their purpose? According to ancient lore, the djinn
once occupied this world, and they seek to reclaim it. Are they using paranormal avenues to invade our reality? Is their reality merging with ours? We should consider all of these possibilities. There
may be a dark agenda below the surface of our experiences, and we
fail to see it because we're preoccupied with the superficial characteristics of the experiences themselves. No one has the complete
solution to this cosmic puzzle yet, but I believe we are offering a
number of important pieces to solve the mystery.

This book will take you on an adventure into a world of the unseen, hidden from us in the shadows for countless centuries. We present to you the truth about the race of beings you thought only existed in your imagination-or your nightmares. If you choose to fear
anything in your life, fear the djinn. Enter their world... if you dare!

Philip J. Imbrogno

F YOU TAKE A WALK on a sunny day, any number of beautiful
things might attract your attention: the blue sky, beautiful flowers, green leaves on trees, or the fresh smell of nature adding fragrance and oxygen to the air. This is the world we perceive with
our five senses, and our conscious mind identifies it as the reality
in which we live. As we age, what we see, smell, hear, and taste
comprises more of the real world, as we are taught in school that
things outside our physical existence and beyond the extension of
science don't exist. When we touch the ground, throw a stone, or
bump our elbows on furniture, it certainly feels solid. Who in their
right mind would say it isn't? Most of us are shocked to learn that
what we interpret as our physical reality is not what it appears to
be. There is actually a great deal of space between the atoms that
compose matter. Although everything we touch feels quite solid
to us, it isn't. Observations made using only one's physical senses
can be very deceiving. For example: during the early Renaissance,
the greatest minds would have staked their reputation on the fact
that earth was stationary in space; the sun, moon, and stars circled our planet, it was said. Really, who could argue this point? When
people looked up at the sky, they saw celestial objects rising in the
east and setting in the west, and there was no sense of motion (rotation) on terra firma. The geocentric (or "earth-centered") theory
was the logical train of thought explaining this movement because
it was supported by visual observations made daily and nightly.

These Renaissance-era scientists made the mistake of arriving at their conclusions about movements on the celestial sphere based only on their sense of sight, not a very good tool for judging reality. The people who supported the geocentric idea (including the astronomer Ptolemy [90 CE-160 CE]) were considered the greatest minds of their day. However, just being intelligent and well educated doesn't guarantee that one will never be wrong. For a very long time in history, anyone who contradicted the geocentric model was laughed at and called a heretic, fool, or troublemaker. The revolutionary thinkers who opposed this idea were ridiculed, jailed, or sometimes even put to death for insisting that our earth circled the sun, and not vice versa. Today, we know these "heretics" and "fools" were correct.

The question of physicality concerning matter may seem like a wild claim, but it was scientifically proven at the beginning of the twentieth century by Dr. Ernest Rutherford and two assistants. Today, it's known as the Geiger-Marsden experiment, or sometimes the Gold Foil experiment. This experiment was performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909, under the direction of Ernest Rutherford at the Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester, England. Rutherford's team measured the deflection of alpha particles-particles that have an atomic mass of four, consisting of two protons and neutrons, carrying a +2 positive charge.'
Using a controlled radioactive source, the scientists directed the particles to strike a sheet of very thin gold foil. They
observed that a very small percentage of particles were deflected
through the dense gold foil, and some were even scattered back toward the source. However, most of the particles passed through the
metal sheet without hitting any gold matter at all. From this observation, Rutherford concluded that the physical space between
atoms was much greater than anyone had previously thought. Although the gold metal appeared solid, it was mostly empty space!
Rutherford and his associates were astonished to find that only
1 in 9,000 particles were reflected by the gold sheet and the rest
passed through as if nothing was there. This result was completely
unpredicted, prompting Rutherford to later comment, "It was almost as incredible as if you fired a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of
tissue paper, and it came back and hit you."

In 1911, Dr. Rutherford published an analysis of his by-then
famous experiment, and his results shocked the physics and chemistry communities. His observations indicated that a model of the
atom with a diffuse charge was incorrect; actually, a large amount
of atomic charge was concentrated at a very small point, giving it
a very strong electric field. He concluded that an atom is mostly
empty space, and that most of an atom's mass and a large fraction
of one of its two kinds of charge are concentrated in a tiny center.

To give you a clearer idea of this theory, imagine we expand the
nucleus of the atom to the size of a penny. We place the penny
in the middle of Giants Stadium in New York. The first level of
electrons would be in the top bleachers while the next closest atom
would be about 1,200 feet from the penny's center! The apparent
solidity of a substance is the result of strong electrical bonds between electrons and their nuclei. Despite their distance from the
nucleus, the negatively charged electrons are held strongly in place
by their attraction to the protons in the atom's center. This attraction creates a great deal of structural integrity and a strong force that repels the electrons of other atoms. To explain this principle,
imagine a fan that has been unplugged-its blades aren't moving.
Looking at the fan, we see there are three blades, and the space between the blades is large enough for us to stick our fingers and perhaps our whole hands through, from front to back. We plug in the
fan, turn the power on, and set the control to maximum speed.
The fan blades now appear as one solid object. If we attempt to
stick a pencil through the blades, the pencil will be deflected, as if
hitting a solid wall.