In this writers belief, not only could mythical creatures exist, they do!

To paraphrase a very wise shaman, everything that our imagination can come up with; goblins, elves, dwarves, giants, dragons, and all the other creatures that are written about in science fiction, are real and existing in the spirit realm of shamans.

Every person makes journeys to that/those realms in what they think of as dreams. This gives each person insights into the creatures that dwell there. Remember that the spirit realms overlap humans. When a creative writer has one of those strange “dreams”, he or she sees things that are outside mans common knowledge, and are strange to people. Thus, they are able to write about them or incorporate them in their stories.

Consider how detailed many descriptions are. Pure imagination can only go so far, and even then, it must be based on something that has been seen or experienced. Someone writing or talking about a huge, winged, flying dragon, and describing its color, method of flying and walking, sounds it makes, colors and appearance of its scales, is at a severe disadvantage if they have never seen a picture, emblem, movie, or engraving of a dragon. Yet, those other images had to have also come from somewhere, to be depicted in such enormous detail.

A great imagination helps people to describe the known. However, someone with a superb imagination may be hard-pressed to describe an elephant, if they’ve never seen one and have never seen any representations of one. That takes the involvement of actually seeing one, even if it is in another realm.

Is any of this really all that strange? How else can one explain that every major civilization has had both Gargoyles and dragons, even if they were never linked, physically, in any way, or in time? If an ancestor of this writer, a thousand years ago, journeyed and saw a dragon, whether they wrote about it or not, would it be different than a dragon seen on a journey today? The story might be different, but the thinking is that the dragon would not be, at least not greatly.

Shamans take journeys to the other realms on purpose. Most people don’t, yet they have the same connections as anyone else, to those realms. They can and likely do make journeys without intentionally doing so. Many scoff at this idea. Yet, explain the similarities of descriptions from totally different cultures, in different times, and between people who have never read the depictions of the other. It would logically seem less likely for this to occur, than it would for both (or all) the people to have seen the same thing at some point in time.

Of course, nobody has to believe this. Two hundred years ago, it would have been hard to find anyone to believe that man would ever set foot on the moon, be able to go great distances over land without horses or other animals pulling them along, or that one could put food in a little metal box, press a button, and that it would be hot within minutes. To them, the world of today would be mostly myth. Not necessarily mythical creatures, unless a person wants to take that to include those that aren’t alive in the conventional sense.

So do mythical creatures exist? In mans realm, the physical realm, the creatures probably don’t exist, at this time. (No guarantees there.) However, in the other realms that exist … well, there is no reason to think that they don’t.