Subject: Con Journal.  Part 4 of 4.                                   Jan. 
10, 2012.

This talks about unusual type beings.

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There are curious reports of creeping strangers the likes of
the infamous "Grinning Man," described by John Keel in his
volumes pertaining to supernatural lore and oddities. There are
reports of "Mad Gassers" that sneak noxious fumes into the homes
of the middle class citizenry through pinhole-sized crevices
along the edges of windows.

There are also tales of d-mons, d-vils, and otherworldly
goonies that lurch at the unsuspecting as they wander suburban
roadsides during the still moments after the sun has gone down.
While many of these denizens of the shadow realm might be
attributed to various goings on of the physical realm (if not
misidentification or outright hoaxes), one of their curious
propensities relies on their odd tendency to court ill fortune
and disasters and for many readers of this blog, such creepy
creatures of the night do have a particular name.

Indeed, here I'm speaking of what I call "Fortean Folk De-ils,"
the more high-strangeness entities within the areas of Forteana
tha bear a number of consistencies throughout various reports,
often bridging the gap between differences in cultures beliefs
and societal norms.

Recently, I spent a few minutes outlining the curious
preponderance of strange visitations by uninvited guests
throughout the centuries, encapsulating this "Folk Dev-l"
concept, where I noted that these "entities," whatever they may
be, could be both physical, in some sense, as well as the result
of some strange archetypal formation or manifestation from
within the mind. But how, exactly, could this be?

Does it suggest that people's reports of strange encounters
with mystery beings might actually be rooted in our own
subconscious, and that the kinds of stories being elucidated by
those claiming to have had encounters are really the result of
"thought projections" or, to borrow the Tibetan term for this,
Tulpas?

To answer these questions might really involve a foray into the
realms of psychology and the subconscious mind, and certain
extends beyond the scope of the present article. However, to
begin with another question, I first might be inclined to ask,
"can the resolution to the Folk -evil mystery not draw from each
of these, perhaps being both physical as well as archetypal or
mystical in nature?

In a sense, it might not be too much of a stretch to consider
whether the human mind, under the right circumstances, couldn't
interpret an uncomfortable or unsettling event in such a way
that it literally interprets (or we might even say "projects)
imagery that, while not wholly physical, is something that
appears very real in the eye of the beholder.

Even more curious, perhaps, would be the notion that certain
phenomena that is discussed within the annals of paranormalia
could bear striking resemblance to each other from one encounter
to the next, based solely on the consistent elements involving
human perception that stem from within the mind. To put it
concisely, the sorts of "archetypes" that Carl Jung spoke of
could be likened to being "programs" that come pre-installed
within every human mind, and remain capable of interpreting
various phenomenon, given certain conditions, with remarkable
consistency.

I don't think this removes the possibility that there could be
strange beings in a very real sense that do appear and haunt us
from the fringes of humanity at times. What it does lend itself
to, however, is the resulting cultural interpretations that stem
from such encounters, lending to a sort of legendary
substructure that builds itself into our folklore, inspired by
people's chance encounters with outright weirdness.

A recent article featured by Reuters news even discussed this
notion to some degree, building on the cultural parallels that
seem to exist within the interpretation of ideas such as "the
unknown visitor," a concept that has close cultural consistency
spanning a number of traditions around the globe.

Perhaps unraveling the mysteries of the Fortean realm lay not
so much in interpreting whether they exist solely within a
physical capacity, or merely within the realms of the mind; it
could very well be that culture, perception, and belief work
together to interweave what ultimately becomes our
interpretation of reality, and in ways that continue to allude us.

Source: Mysterious Universe
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/12/unknown-visitors-andoutsiders-theres-a-folk-devil-in-every-crowd/#more-9230

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John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com