Are they time travelers, observers, tricksters, specters, or what?
This about the purported beings who show up in UFO encounter reports.
The Trickster is a categorized attempt by humans to explain the vicissitudes -- the ups and downs -- of everyday (human) life.
Life is a common struggle, with bad moments and good moments.
To attribute a mythical or mystical being to a human construct, without tangible reality make me intellectually remorseful, furious even.
Bryan's comment was judicious and sensible so I'm not citing him for errant thought. It was only an aside.
But the constant use of The Trickster archetype by UFO buffs is egregiously ignorant and causes those who take psychological and philosophical disciplines seriously to move away from the UFO topic.
Althought there is a raft of commentary about The Trickster in anthropological circles and among Jungian acolytes (Joseph Campbell, for one), the concept is seen as a fictive being, not a real thing.
Just as Christians and other religious aficionados think Satan or angels are real beings, ufologists like to use The Trickster as a real being, causing some UFO sightings or events.
It's an ignorant stance.
Even as God is an iffy reality, The Trickster is so much more so.
I would hope that readers here would refrain from stretching credulity to a breaking point by using The Trickster metaphor as an explanation for some UFO events.
Was this encounter a Trickster event or fictional account by a woman with an irate husband who was trying to abate any knowledge of a dalliance? [See previous posting here about that .]
The Trickster does not exist, has never existed, and should be relegated to the fiction category. Please.
RR
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