I think we are all ensnared in a very tangled and convoluted trap of our own making. We are struggling against ourselves and in all of the struggling and wiggling and kicking lies only the fear fed phenomenon tightening its grip around us. This is what I think. You are permitted to think otherwise, of course.
The Trickster (Human Collective Subconscious Mind) is at work at such a subtle level that we don't even recognize our own projected attributes as we confront them. The turmoil, the infighting and the mental cannibalization of brother against brother and sister against sister, it is all there in front of us to clearly see but we do not.
Encapsulated in our own fear-based constructs, we wander aimlessly about in an accusatory manner toward each other all the while the brilliantly ingenius subtle nature of the Trickster Mind revels in its ability to justify its existence through the chaos it has created within us.
You see, I think we have never not been in constant contact with the very things that have us searching. The saucers, the cryptids, the apparitions, the disembodied voices and the bizarre phantom entities are only decoys or subconscious mental projections. We fall for the bait every single time. We have always hunted that which we fear. We have always killed that which we fear. We are tormented by this Trickster Element because we can neither hunt it nor kill it. We are constantly seeking it without and so we blindly pursue the thing that all along dwells within.
Do you want to know what I really think the Paranormal is? It is that forgotten source within us that becomes the phantom projections of our darkest imaginative machinations buried deep within our subconscious mind. We chase these phantoms saying, "I've seen a ghost!" or "I saw a strange craft land over there!" and then get frustrated when those whom failed to have the same experiences have now labeled you as a kook. That is the Paranormal! It is that subtle reptilian brained, fear based catalyst residing within that has a voracious appetite for conflict and confusion. The acts of hostility and disorientation both feed it and perpetuate it and we stand duped with mouths agog in abject frustration because we can't catch the phantoms that are causing the frustration.
Place yourself in a straight jacket. Lock it up and throw away the key. You, in my opinion, have now caught the Trickster!
Here is a variation of the old Zen Koan that asks if a tree falls down in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound. Of course it does. But how about we change the flavor of this age old question.
Does Paranormal Activity occur if there is nobody around to observe it? This includes equipment left behind such as cameras and recording devices so in effect, you are still there with the machines listening and watching vicariously for you. It's still the Observer. You are still there. Remove you completely and entirely from the picture. In other words, you have no thoughts at all being directed to any given area. The area is not an object in your awareness. Would Paranormal Activity occur in such an environment? We know that where ever attention goes, energy flows. Well if your attention is not fixated upon a certain area or space, would any anomalous affectations still occur?
It has been said that when Ghost Hunters first start out trying to gather EVP (electronic voice phenomenon), that they are for the most part, fairly unsuccessful but should they continue with an avid interest at attempting to collect this type of data for three months or more, the EVP begins to come in clearer and with more frequency. Now is this because they think that the "Spirits" are getting used to them and they are therefore showing some sort of trust in the investigator by giving them more and more communications or is it the investigator through their focus and concentration by exercising an aspect of their mind like a weak muscle that is getting better through expectation at projecting their thoughts from their subconscious mind?
The other Red Flag or clue that I suspect is the causation of conflict whence all of this is talked about in a public forum is everybody, including myself, thinks that they have an angle or a perspective of some sort with the illusion of clarity on these issues. I suspect that everybody indeed, does without exception. The conflict arises when we can find little to no corroborative camaraderie in our fellow man who has shared the experiences with quite the same details you did. Everyone has a unique experience in regards to the Paranormal. To muddy up the waters further, you now have researchers and theoreticians like myself that throw their tidbit of information out and more often than not it doesn't match what anybody else is saying or thinking and so more conflictive frustration arises and the Trickster within has a Field Day as it skips about in glee with its mission accomplished. Viral Memetics works similarly only at a social or group level but the mental disease is the same with the same outcome of conflict and frustration because only the guy who came up with the idea gets it while his followers are blindly believing him with only their own mental translations of the originators teachings. The two are completely different and so again, conflict is inevidible.
Even the closest of research partners cannot come together completely on anything Paranormal. Nothing. It is always a variation of agree to disagree. So where am I going with all of this? Why do I keep harping on the topic of conflict amongst ourselves when trying to share and come together on any aspect of this field? Because I believe we never will and further more it is impossible. Why? Brace yourself for this and this is only my opinion in the mix of EVERYONE's opinions. So, why?
Because your reality is entirely subjective whether it is manifested from your subconscious mind or not and it is the belief in the manifestations from your subconsious mind that you have projected outward that is causing all of the conflict everywhere and at every level of human existence and in every system of our established lifestyles and societal management. So long as we do not consciously remain present and attentive to our thoughts, actions, beliefs and emotions, shift happens and anomalies arise.
You can no more share your Paranormal Experiences with any kind of accuracy with one another than you can share your heart and hope to stay alive. You are doomed to deal with your subconsious manifestations ALONE. You are Source and Observer. Turn your attention onto yourself. Really look deep. All of this crazy stuff is in there or else you couldn't see it out here.
This brings me back to my Psychoterrestrial Hypothesis once again. I think we are experiencing the cumulative effects of what happens when the Human Collective Subconscious Mind rubs or connects with Gaia or Universal Consciousness and thereby creating subjectively observable phenomenon unique only to the observer at the Touchpoints of Consciousness. They are for you, of you and by you soley and you are afraid of one thing only; yourself.
And so now that I put this out there, I can now expect conflict because of the very nature of this material being subjectively observable with any accuracy by myself only. Ha! The Trickster reigns supreme!
Once we learn as individuals, to stop projecting our fearful images from our subconscious mind onto everything by being brave enough to observe them directly, the projections at that point will then become extentsions and thusly recognized as Self.
This is only food for thought by a thought for other thoughts. From one idea to another...
Cheers,
~Erik~
I am a product of my Desert Southwest up-bringing. By that I mean that I enjoy large, quiet spaces to reflect and observe. I am an Artist, Musician, Composer, Zen practitioner, Paranormal Researcher/Investigator, Philosopher and Reiki Master. I love to draw and paint, take long walks, meditate and eat cookies and read while taking long, hot soaks in the tub. I am also a happily married father of two teenaged girls and I have belonged to the most tolerant woman on the planet for nearly two decades and still going.
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