the other trickster book in ez tote form

[Wade]

For those of you who are interested, and you know who you are, George P. Hansen's most excellent " The Trickster and the Paranormal" is available on-the-cheap as a downloadable pdf over @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/56134198/The-Trickster-and-the-Paranormal i find it to be the perfect companion to that other excellent book; Trickster makes this World...just kidding chris... Stalking the Tricksters by our very own mr. O'Brien

I picked up the bricks and mortar version of this book some years ago and for those of you who aren't familiar with it, at 550 + pages, it's not very backpack friendly, in fact because i tend to immerse myself in books that interest me and over-analyze them, i ended up photocopying whole sections of T &the P at a time and finishing those before carrying on with the next sections, as it was somewhat onerous to carry around. Now,aren't you glad you're not me?

Those of you who are familiar with scribd are well aware that some of the things to be found there are not necessarily there with the publishers and/or writer's permission, but this site is put up by the self-publishing firm xlibris so i would assume It is with George's consent

it looks like i may have double posted guys, for some reason sometimes even when i am logged in and i post something and hit save post i get "you do not have permission...." despite the fact i'm logged in, so i log in again and hit save post and thus i have two entries, je regrettes

 

[Christopher O'Brien]

This is a highly complex, little understood subject that most people have a problem understanding. Thanks for reminding folks of this excellent book which I too highly recommend. Hanson does a great job explaining how the trickster force operates--especially as it relates to parapsychological research and I was impressed by Hanson's observations concerning the liminal nature of the trickster phenomenon. His work inspired me to look at the causal mechanism(s) that draw the trickster through the doorway of potential change and suggested to me that there is more to the trickster archetype than standard anthropology realizes.

 

[Wade]

well, that review of george's book made my "review" look pretty pathetic but it was dead on, it was because of mentions of mr. keel and mr. vallee in his book that i got acquainted with them and i began to accept the llikelihood that there was more to ufos than little grey men piloting flying tin cans

george even has a interesting spin on all the hoaxers out there

"...Hoaxes plague the paranormal, but few think deeply about them.They are regarded as nuisances, not fit for scientific consideration inthemselves. At best they are viewed as minor contaminants to serious investigation, and most researchers want to ignore them and study“more important” things. This view is pervasive, but naïve, because hoaxes hold a key to the paranormal and supernatural..."

which i guess is his way of saying that the world needs more Billy Meiers out and about​