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