The Elephants in Our Rooms
Oct 28, 2026
Title image prompt: A vast, dimly lit Victorian living room seen from a doorway, crowded with five enormous, translucent elephants standing among the furniture while a family sits on the couch staring at their phones, oblivious. Each elephant glows a different color and carries a faint symbol on its flank: an empty bowl, a broken mirror of a woman’s face, a cracked rainbow of skin tones, a tangle of puppet strings and broadcast towers, and a faded American flag over a paycheck. Collage style, rich textures, painterly detail, cinematic lighting, wide 16:9 composition, ultra-high resolution for large screens.
Janet Kira Lessin | Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. | © 2026 Aquarian Media
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Watch the video on the elephant of misogyny in the Trump-sphere: Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny after the election
Spears, Arrows and Perspectives
Image prompt: Two ancient warriors in a torchlit hall hurling spears and arrows labeled with glowing words, “FAKE NEWS” and “FRAUD,” across a table piled with scrolls, star maps, Sumerian tablets and newspapers. Collage style, warm amber light, high detail, 16:9.
My husband, Dr. Sasha Lessin, and I write, research, and investigate. We have interviewed thousands of people on Aquarian Media and work with diverse groups at our conferences and events.
In ancient history, UFOlogy, Anunnaki studies and politics, people hurl the words “fake news” and “fraud” like spears and arrows. My research and long life have taught me that religion, belief, history and “facts” each hold many truths at once.
Life works like the fable of the elephant and the blind men. When we open our minds, we discover that most of life rests on perspectives, and few absolutes survive the test of time.
When we relax, observe, listen and open our minds, we find “a truth” that works for everyone: the win-for-all.
That open stance lets us catch the information and ideas that serve the common good of humanity, the world and all species.
Six Blind Men Meet an Elephant
Image prompt: Six blind men in simple village robes surround a patient gray elephant in a sunlit village square. One hugs a leg, one grips the tail, one strokes the trunk, one touches the broad ear, one presses against the belly, one holds a tusk. Each man’s thought bubble shows what he imagines: a pillar, a rope, a tree branch, a hand fan, a wall, a pipe. Storybook collage style, warm earth tones, high detail, 16:9.
Once upon a time, six blind men lived in a village. One day the villagers told them, “Hey, an elephant has come to the village today!”
The men had no idea what an elephant looked like, so they decided, “We can’t see it, but let’s go and feel it anyway.”
They walked to the elephant, and each man reached out and touched it.
“The elephant is a pillar,” said the first man, his hands around its leg.
“Oh, no! It’s like a rope,” said the second, holding the tail.
“It’s like a thick tree branch,” said the third, stroking the trunk.
“It’s like a big hand fan,” said the fourth, feeling its ear.
“It’s like a huge wall,” said the fifth, pressing against its belly.
“It’s like a solid pipe,” said the sixth, gripping a tusk.
The argument grew louder as each man insisted on his own picture, until a wise man passing by stopped and asked, “What’s the matter?”
“We can’t agree on what the elephant is like,” they said, and each described what he had felt.
The wise man answered calmly. “All of you are right. Each of you touched a different part of the elephant, and it has every feature you named.”
“Oh,” they said together. The quarrel ended, and the six men walked home happy, each one correct.
Someone may hold some truth in what they say, even when their perspective differs from ours.
Rather than arguing like the blind men, we can say, “Maybe you have your reasons.” That simple sentence keeps the peace and keeps us learning.
Five Elephants of the Coming Apocalypse
Image prompt: Five colossal elephants march in a line across a stormy apocalyptic horizon like the Four Horsemen reimagined, each draped in a ceremonial blanket bearing one word: POVERTY, MISOGYNY, RACISM, PROGRAMMING, THE AMERICAN LIE. Lightning splits the sky behind them; tiny cities sit at their feet. Epic collage style, dramatic chiaroscuro, ultra high detail, 16:9.
Five great elephants crowd the room of our civilization, and most of us walk around them every day:
- Poverty
- Misogyny
- Racism, bigotry and prejudice
- Programming
- The American Lie
The Poverty Elephant
Image prompt: A gaunt gray elephant stands in a rain-soaked city street, its ribs showing, holding an empty tin bowl in its trunk, while well-dressed pedestrians with umbrellas hurry past, pointing fingers of blame. Collage style, cold blue rain, one warm streetlamp, high detail, 16:9.
Poverty belongs to all of us. Our society creates it, yet we answer it with cruelty and indifference, withhold our empathy and blame the victims for a burden we placed on their shoulders.
The Misogyny Elephant
Image prompt: A man’s head in translucent profile, with a small dark seed inside, its roots winding through glowing regions of the brain while a thorny stem climbs toward the forehead; behind him, a shadowy elephant whose skin carries the faint, fractured face of a woman. Collage style, deep crimson and violet tones, surreal, high detail, 16:9.
Many misogynists have no idea they hate women. Misogyny usually lives below awareness, an unconscious hatred a man forms early in life, often from trauma at the hands of a female figure he trusted. An abusive or neglectful mother, sister, teacher or girlfriend plants a seed deep in his psyche.
Picture that seed germinating. Its tiny root works down into the places where fear and memory live, while its stem climbs toward the parts of him that weigh emotion and make decisions. The first signs barely show, but more neglect, more abuse and the absence of healing feed the growth until, in maturity, the man reveals his hatred of women.
Hatred of the opposite sex is self-hatred, because each of us carries both masculine and feminine within.
Hatred between the sexes wounds all of humanity. It shows how far we have drifted from Source. Balance between male and female creates harmony within and around us; balanced species live in peace. Humanity has lost that balance.
Read more on misogyny at wp.me/p1TVCy-9jg, and watch the video on the surge of misogyny after the election.
The Racism, Bigotry and Prejudice Elephant
Image prompt: A huge elephant bursting out from under a giant Persian rug in a stately parlor, its skin a mosaic of every human skin tone, while people in the room try to push it back into the corner with brooms. Collage style, vivid mosaic textures, dramatic lighting, high detail, 16:9.
We ignore it, overlook it, forget it, shove it under the rug and push it into the corner, yet the racism elephant keeps rearing its ugly head and threatens to trample every bit of progress humanity has made over the centuries.
However much we breed, marry and mate across lines, our reasons for separation still outweigh logic and understanding, and the deeper realization that we belong to one race: the human race. I envision a world where we all love one another and live in peace and harmony.
People hate parts of themselves and their families, especially the women they depend on and love.
Divisive leaders like Hitler and Trump find reasons to hate and make woman-hating popular. These haters polarize us because they resonate with the parts deep inside us that feel separate, even though so many of us carry mixed bloodlines and diverse ancestry.
The Programming Elephant
Image prompt: A giant marionette elephant hangs over a crowd of people, puppet strings running from its feet down to their heads; the strings trace back to church steeples, TV screens, cell towers, satellite dishes and streaking contrails in the sky. In the corner, one person snips a string and looks up, awakening. Collage style, eerie teal and gold palette, high detail, 16:9.
Programming begins in the womb, speeds up at birth and continues throughout our lives, and perhaps beyond death. Who knows?
Religious programming, cultural conditioning, patriotism, music, television, the internet, subliminals, rays, radiation, media, cell phone towers and chemtrails all mold us toward a hidden agenda.
Someday we will wake up and break free of this programming.
Governments suppress technologies that could give every human and every being a utopia. With them, no one would starve, sleep on the streets, suffer disease (including the disease of aging), or endure death and separation from those we love.
The American Lie Elephant
Image prompt: A towering elephant draped in a tattered American flag balances a golden penthouse on its back where a tiny elite toasts with champagne, while below its feet weary workers in chains made of paychecks and bills trudge past tents under a freeway bridge. Collage style, muted sepia with flashes of gold, high detail, 16:9.
Only the top 1% live the American Dream, the illusion that anyone can rise from rags to riches. You rise only if you play ball, sell your soul and trade away your values and integrity.
Slavery supposedly ended in the 1860s, yet today Americans live as corporate and economic slaves, paycheck to paycheck, one emergency away from disaster or bankruptcy. The elites who run us pay little to nothing in taxes, while most people lack a living wage, a basic income that lets them pay the bills, keep the lights on, and keep hunger from the door.
Economic mobility is a myth, no matter what the candidates say.
Our elections remain flawed at best, easy to hijack and manipulate. Our so-called democracy lets other forces override free will, human rights and the systems that give everyone a measure of dignity.
Homeless people line our streets, sleep under bridges and relieve themselves on our sidewalks. For centuries we looked down our noses at third-world countries while waving our flags; now we have become one, demonizing immigrants and caging them.
President Trump has gone crazy, rolling back pollution laws and opening our last forests and natural resources to the fossil fuel rapists. Politicians promote the idea that hard work can carry you anywhere, but the American Dream lives only in our collective imagination.
Name Your Elephants
Image prompt: A woman opens the curtains of a crowded living room and morning sunlight pours in, revealing the five elephants at last; the family on the couch looks up from their phones, wide-eyed, and one child reaches out to touch a trunk. Collage style, golden dawn light, hopeful mood, great detail, 16:9.
Please share this post. Encourage the people you love to look at the unconscious elephants trampling our reality, because once we see them, we can start to lead them out of the room.
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Author Image Prompt (image 10 of this batch)
Janet Kira Lessin and Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin seated side by side at a wooden desk, facing the camera, hands resting on the desk, behind them a collage wall of this article’s images: the five elephants, the six blind men, the puppet strings, the flag-draped elephant and the sunlit living room. Warm, welcoming light, high detail, 16:9.
Bios
Janet Kira Lessin is CEO of Aquarian Media, a lifelong ET contact experiencer, certified hypnotherapist and author of the six-volume Anunnaki series and the Dragon at the End of Time series. She studied with Zecharia Sitchin from 1998 to 2010 and has worked with thousands of experiencers. She lives on Maui.
Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin is a psychologist, author and Anunnaki researcher who co-writes and broadcasts with his wife, Janet, through Aquarian Media.
Janet & Sasha: Janet Kira Lessin and Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin co-founded the School of Tantra and Aquarian Radio (1,200+ episodes), now Aquarian Media. Together they write, research and broadcast on ancient history, contact and consciousness from Maui, Hawaii.
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References
- Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny after the election (YouTube)
- Janet’s earlier piece on misogyny
