Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld

by Patrick Harpur

Overview

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 The ephemeral materializations of Spiritualism's seances have been replaced by tangible crop circles.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
Publisher:	Pine Winds Press
Publication date:	05/01/2024
Pages:	329
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.79(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