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Daimonic Reality is a sweeping look at strange, otherworldly events in the world around us -- UFOs, fairies, phantom animals, visions of the Virgin Mary, alien abductions, and mysterious lights in the sky. But rather than simply listing the events, Patrick Harpur shows how they can all be tied together using his concept of Daimonic Reality. Starting with a look at the events themselves, Harpur shows how they are connected by using ideas proposed by Carl Jung and the Romantic poets, William Butler Yeats and William Blake. Harpur connects the old-fashioned fairies to the modern occupants of UFOs. He highlights the similarities in sightings of the older Black Dogs, more recent mysterious cats, and Yetis, Yowies, and Bigfoot. Lights in the sky have existed throughout history; once they were seen as witches, now they are UFOs. The ephemeral materializations of Spiritualism's seances have been replaced by tangible crop circles. And all of them are manifestations of Daimonic Reality.
Daimonic creatures and events are not literally real. We will never capture unequivocal evidence that any of these entities exist. However, they are daimonically real. If you try to deny the existence of the Otherworld, it will simply find other ways to express itself. It is a real thing that we sense in other ways besides the physical senses. In fact, according to Harpur, the recent plethora of Skeptical opinions in the press may actually be causing the Otherworld to produce more tangible signs such as crop circles and bogus social workers who can't be traced. The Daimonic is part of us and cannot be banished by denial and disbelief.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780937663615 |
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Publisher: | Pine Winds Press |
Publication date: | 05/01/2024 |
Pages: | 329 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | x | |
Introduction | xi | |
Part 1 | Apparitions | |
1 | Lights | 3 |
UFOs and fairy lights | ||
Witches | ||
The anthropologists v. the Gusii | ||
Ancestral spirits | ||
The cultural context | ||
2 | UFOs | 11 |
A Modern Myth | ||
The collective unconscious | ||
The soul | ||
Dreams | ||
3 | Aliens and Fairies | 23 |
Prefatory sightings | ||
Alien classification | ||
Fairy classification | ||
The Christian-scientific view | ||
Psychic reality | ||
Plato's daimons | ||
4 | Daimons | 37 |
Guardian angels | ||
Personal daimons | ||
Helping spirits | ||
Two horrors | ||
Complexes, archetypes, myths | ||
The Soul of the World | ||
Animism | ||
5 | A Little History of Daimons | 51 |
Demons | ||
The Longaevi | ||
Reason and the decline of daimons | ||
Spiritualism | ||
6 | Beasts | 67 |
Black dogs | ||
Mystery cats | ||
Kaptars, Yowies, Yetis | ||
Bigfoot and fairies | ||
Part 2 | Vision | |
7 | Seeing Things | 85 |
Misidentification | ||
Projection | ||
Paranoia | ||
Delusion and revelation | ||
8 | Ladies | 97 |
Our Ladies | ||
The spinning sun | ||
The feminine principle | ||
White ladies | ||
The banshee | ||
Phantoms of the road | ||
9 | Imagining Things | 115 |
Primary and secondary imagination | ||
Alchemical imagination | ||
Imagination and soul | ||
Myths, stories, hypotheses | ||
A note on lake monsters | ||
Fairy glamour and pishogue | ||
10 | Daimonic Traces | 133 |
A close encounter | ||
A fairy shoe | ||
UFO relics | ||
Treasures | ||
An alien exchange | ||
Gifts of the BVM | ||
Photographs | ||
Circular marks | ||
11 | Circles | 145 |
Crop circles | ||
Causality and synchronicity | ||
Sympathy and analogy | ||
12 | Structures | 157 |
The structure of Imagination | ||
Nature vs. Culture | ||
Literalism as idolatry | ||
Hoaxes | ||
Daimons and gods | ||
The Trickster god | ||
13 | The Otherworld | 169 |
Spatial metaphors | ||
The Otherworld as temporal | ||
The Otherworld as the Unknown | ||
Part 3 | Otherworld Journeys | |
14 | Missing Time | 179 |
Remembering and forgetting | ||
The elasticity of time | ||
Hypnosis | ||
The abduction of the Avises | ||
15 | Supernatural Branding | 187 |
The operations of the grays | ||
Virginia and the deer | ||
Scars | ||
The stroke | ||
Elf-shot | ||
Mr. Cunningham's near-death experience | ||
Wounding and healing | ||
Stigmata | ||
16 | Changelings | 203 |
Da Silva's dwarfs | ||
The hunter's enchantment | ||
Albert and the Bigfoot | ||
Alien sex | ||
Wise babies | ||
The midwife's journey | ||
Supernatural food | ||
Reciprocity | ||
Dancing with the dead | ||
17 | Human Demons | 221 |
Satanic ritual abuse | ||
The image of the witch | ||
Witches, satanists, social workers | ||
The curse of the bogus social workers | ||
Men in Black | ||
18 | Daimonic Humans | 231 |
Rites of passage | ||
The shaman's tradition | ||
Death and rebirth | ||
Orpheus | ||
Dream initiation | ||
The psychic and the shamanic | ||
John Keel's quest | ||
The wise fool | ||
19 | Soul and Body | 249 |
Souls | ||
Bodies | ||
Soul and spirit | ||
The Heraclean ego | ||
A note on technology | ||
Siegfried's loss of soul | ||
20 | Approaching the Otherworld | 267 |
The modern myth of gray aliens | ||
"Convenient rites" | ||
Why grays? Why now? | ||
The error of humanism | ||
A guide to the Otherworld | ||
Perseus and the Gorgon | ||
The death of Siegfried: a modern shaman's journey | ||
Epilogue: The Golden Chain | 287 | |
References | 291 | |
Select Bibliography | 309 | |
Index | 315 |
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