14 March 2025

Welcome back to my Soul Planet Channel! As I had mentioned earlier this week, I have felt the spirit move me once again towards this work of documentation of my experiences with the various spirits I enter into conversation with under a wide variety of circumstances. And as I also mentioned in post #62, I am referring to these records as my Akashic Field Notes.

In today’s episode I will introduce you to the group of spirits that inhabit a forest swamp not far from our house. I can best refer to these spirits as Swamp Elves, and as you will see in the notes that follow, they introduced themselves to me as the Kännare. I will have lots more to say about these particular Elves as well as the other species of Elves I have encountered in my spirit journeys near and far.

This is Gabriel Hartley, and you are about to hear episode #63 of my Soul Planet Channel on the 14th day of March 2025. Today’s episode is entitled “Kännare, the Swamp Elves of Fiskars, Finland.”

As with all forms of social media these days, if you like this post, please hit the like buttons, share it with your friends, and become either a free or paid subscriber. If you wish to help me out in this work but aren’t yet able to sign up for a paid subscription, you can make a one-time donation to this project by clicking the “Buy Me a Coffee” link. In any case, thanks for being here and following along with me on this journey!

Click this logo to make a 1-time donation!

TRANSCRIPT

Okay, this is Gabriel Hartley. It is the 14th of March in 2025, and I'm doing a spontaneous audio recording for this particular episode. I'm hoping I don't do too much editing when I go back through the file, but we'll see how that turns out. I'm trying to find a good balance between spontaneity and my perfectionist streak, which makes it a little difficult at times.

But in any case, what I wanted to do was talk today, keeping in the spirit of things that I was speaking about earlier in the week, of just giving my Akashic Field Notes, a record of things as I go through this very magical landscape here in Fiskars, Finland. ­

It's not really that much different from any other place I've been to except that it seems much richer. I mean, what I should say is that the experience of being able to tap into the geomantic qualities of the landscape isn't necessarily different here, but the intensity is quite a bit different, or perhaps the way it's spread out—for me anyway—much more over the landscape. There are not just single spots off in the distance on top of a hill. Almost every rock in this area is pretty powerful, pretty charged with this geomantic energy, the spirit of the Earth as it reaches out and grabs me on an energetic level.

So, the topic I wanted to talk about today is the what I refer to as the Swamp elves. And this goes back actually quite a ways back into my experience in Athens, Ohio in particular. That is where I first made conscious contact with the elves, in that area. And then through conversations with Monitor later I had it confirmed. I'll even give a link to that particular conversation I had when Monitor confirmed that, yes indeed, these particular spirit entities that I was in conversation with and could feel on an energetic level were elves.

And one of the points then in that conversation with Monitor was my initial discomfort in being in the presence of the elves. I know I had this feeling even back in childhood, but the discomfort led me to assume that these were perhaps ghosts or some kind of scary spirit on some level. I came to realize after speaking with—well, first of all speaking with the elves themselves and having them identify themselves as elves—that this was not something to be worried about. And, in fact, especially after conversation with Monitor [I recognized that] this was something that was part of my soul path here.

Now, I want to distinguish between elves and fairies, because I've had quite a bit of contact with fairies as well, but on an energetic level my experience of them is quite different. I understand through my conversations with representatives of both species (I guess you could say) that they follow a different path in this planetary project that I'm pursuing here in my Soul Planet Channel. (It goes beyond my channel, of course.)

This brings it all back together for me. So in the forest of Athens outside Stroud's Run I came into contact with some elves there in a swampy area. I would say it's to the West, the kind of the Northwestern tip of of the lake now called Dow Lake that's been formed with a dam over Stroud's Run— the actual little creek that goes through there, but the park itself referred to as Stroud's Run—where we spent quite a bit of time exploring the forest and tapping into the energies of the area. In fact, from my first time in Athens after moving moving there in 1999 and going out to Stroud's Run, I immediately picked up on the power of that spot, although at that time I had no real conscious awareness of what it was I was experiencing.

So the elves contacted me in this little swampy area and I could actually see them in what I refer to as etheric vision in the swamp, and they were more or less just revealing themselves to me, introducing themselves, but we didn't go into a lot of conversation. This was after I had first consciously openly been communicating with the elves in the Blue House out on the way to Amesville where Anna and I had lived. That was our first house together in Ohio once she moved back here in 2013—back there, I should say, since I'm in Finland—and on my first night there I had a dream which I had had in Austin [Texas], the same dream that a raccoon had crawled into bed with me, which if you know anything about raccoons, especially being up close, that was a pretty frightening experience and I woke up with a very strong sense, both back in Austin but also in Athens, that there was a reason for this dream. Something was being communicated to me. So I went into another room upstairs in the Blue House on the way to Amesville and I could feel the presence of this entity and recognize that feeling very much from what I had, as I said previously, understood as kind of ghostlike figures in Austin. I understood that they were overseeing a portal and the power of them there was really overwhelming, but very frightening to me at the time.

And I was pretty on edge this night in Athens, and I made my contact with the elf there, and I said “What are you? You know I'm uncomfortable with this experience. Can you tell me who or what you are?” And I was told that they go by the name of Elf in English.

So that actually made me feel quite a bit more comfortable immediately, and then after conversing with Monitor I realized I really didn't have anything to worry about with these particular spirits.

So, to bring that back to here in Fiskars, Finland, there are swampy areas throughout the area. In fact, there's one particular contested sense of what the name Finland refers to, an older version of “Finland” as in “Fenway” in Boston where my father grew up, the swamp lands. This was the land of the swamps to the east of Sweden. And the swamps here surround our house. In fact, our yard I know was originally part of a swamp. I can see the swamp here from out of my window in the second floor now. The water drains out throughout the year into that area. This particular neighborhood was filled in back in 1950 when it was all built up and houses were first put in as a neighborhood here. And I could sense the elves in the swamp right here outside our yard, but I haven't really been called to them in the way that I have been to some of the other swampy areas here in Fiskars.

So, one particular spot is at the head of one of the bike trails that we walk on every day, and it's just off the logging road onto the bike trail. And I would often look over and I could see the elves, as I said, in this kind of etheric vision, and they greeted me all on a kind of like a head nodding since, you know, if you walked past a person and they just nodded their head in well and appreciation but not really speaking.

But at one point I went out to the swamp and I said, “Okay, I've got to figure a little more out about this” and I said, “Who are you? Can you please tell me, you know, how I should refer to you?” And the answer I got was “We are the Cheneray.” That's how I remember hearing it, and that was a word I had never heard before, a name I hadn't heard before, chenerei. I at first thought it might be some kind of Slovak name, and that it would be if it were transliterated into the Latin alphabet, it would have the kind of Czech caret over the letters at the beginning, č, as in Czechoslovakia (Československo) and with TCH would be some French approximation of it (Tchécoslovaquie) and so on, but I was told by them, I said “Where's this word come from?” and they said, “Well, you would you would get the closest connection to it by thinking of it as a Swedish word.” I do not yet know Swedish—I'm just barely learning it now in this fifth year being here in a Swedish-speaking municipality in Finland—and uh so I spent some time on Google trying to find out, okay what is this cheneray? And I tried various spellings in Google Translate and finally came up with a version with the Swedish translator with AI voice that comes with it. I got some information about it and I pursued it further, and what I'll do right now is read a conversation I just had in text with the ChatGPT here on the 14th of March 2025, trying to figure out because I hadn't really pursued this beyond the conversations with the elves in the fo