Just watched this interesting video by Patrick Harpur from 2003 about his Daimonic Reality theory. Cultures all over the world have talked about the existence of little people or fey fold that live in an alternate world. It has so many parallels with all the modern tales of UFO’s, ritual magic ideas as well as integration in with Hero’s Journey mythology and narrative based reality.
All of these themes that you hear consistently across different cultures and even modern encounters of high strangeness have standard tropes and idioms. I want to collect these tropes here at the site and make a “TV Tropes” for multi dimensional high strangeness experiences.
Have a look and see what you think of the video.
I haven’t read his books but think that I may just order them for the kindle soon.
My key take away’s from the video:
- More study should be placed on the origan and story’s of the daimons
- They appear at times of liminal states. Either on a macro or micro level. People historically see them at times like Halloween, a liminal time of the year. The full moon is also associated. But go a little deeper. You hear of modern people encountering strangeness in Liminal times of their lives. This is a key idea that has been talked about on Paratopia in recent episodes. The whole sleep paralysis thing is even a more micro level of a liminal state. You are in the state between being awake and asleep. Why are liminal states so important? I would think because this is where “Boundry Layer Transference” is occurring. In the information reality model that I have developed, information can not just pass between two states without there being interence, loss and noise. This is a meta concept that has roots in information theory.
- Marginalities of the culture. These things are always at the fringes, causing cultural noise that is an evolutionary force in the development of art, culture, technology and ultimately consciousness.
- Shapeshifters : These entities have a shapeshifting faculty which can be thought of as sublime and ridiculous. There is a level of mirth and strange connection of disparate elements like you find in surrealism. This is also a noise producing factor in the phenomena. This is a definite link to psychedelic thought and theory and needs to be investigated further.
Enjoy and leave any thoughts and feedback below