{"id":257809,"date":"2026-07-13T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/daimonic-reality-a-field-guide-to-the-otherworld-patrick-harpur-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:51:12","slug":"daimonic-reality-a-field-guide-to-the-otherworld-patrick-harpur-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/daimonic-reality-a-field-guide-to-the-otherworld-patrick-harpur-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Daimonic Reality A Field Guide To The Otherworld – Patrick Harpur (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The \u201cwater-horses\u201d of European lakes from Italy to Siberia give way to immense humped serpents \u2014 which, in turn, reveal shaggy horse-like manes and blazing red eyes. \u201cFluid and elusive like the elements which shelter them, the lake serpents are, for the [American] Indians, beings which go through different metamorphoses. The waters where they live are endowed with the property of changing animals which drown into monsters.\u201d\u201d* Thus do traditional cultures recognize in their myths the power of Imagination to transform the ordinary into the uncanny, the supernatural.<\/p>\n

From Alaska to New Mexico the belief in a single huge, horned water-serpent is complemented by a host of hybrid beasts mirroring the animals of dry land \u2014 water-tigers, water-panthers, water-grizzlies, water-bison, water-dogs. Fairy glamour and pishogue Sometimes the water-monster becomes personified, as if to step out of its natural element were to fix it in human shape.<\/p>\n

The Scottish water-horse, the Kelpie, emerges in the shape of a hairy man in order to drag passers-by back into the depths \u2014 \u201cat Loch Barrachan in Sutherland, for example, only the clothes of two missing fishermen were found on the banks, surrounded by large hoof-prints.\u201d~ In 1938, Kari Ivarsdotter saw a Nykkjen (a water-man) in the Myrkevatn (\u201cdark lake\u201d) on the Norwegian west coast island of Hareidland. She thought at first it was an upturned boat moving through the water, but then the Nykkjen raised its head and shook the water from its dripping beard just as water-horses shake their wet manes.<\/p>\n

Kari fled.\u201d\u00b0 She had strayed from the usual well-worn path to the remote and wild mountain spot (she was looking for missing sheep). Thus one could say, along with Meurger, that her vision of the menacing water-man acted as a warning of the dangers that await those who trespass on the wilderness. This sociological reading of the event suggests that she misperceived some banal object because she was aware of having broken a taboo and so expected retribution. Her sighting was \u201cgroup induced,\u2019 an \u201cact of social allegiance.\u201d\u201d\u2019 Alternatively, one could say that Kari had strayed into a place of enchantment where for a moment her unconscious imaginative life had merged with that great Imagination which is congruent with the landscape.<\/p>\n

In this view of the world, the notion of subjective misperception is reversed: Imagining Things the object itself is deceptive \u2014 altered, as the Irish were wont to say, by fairy \u201cglamour\u201d so that it suddenly appears uncanny, not right.<\/p>\n

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\u201c… with the ancient philosopher, the deity is an immense and perpetually exuberant fountain whose streams originally filled and continually replenish the world with life. Hence the universe contains in its ample bosom all general natures, divinities visible and invisible, the illustrious race of daemons, the noble army of exalted souls, and man rendered happy by wisdom and virtue.\u201d (Thomas Taylor) Contents ACR W LOU SIN CIES s cccsseteeccncereevccosrianessvessrsisievoconseanscannsmnndcanensescede\u2019 Xx PREC OAUCH Os oes ccteecewasssapuecosacoatsvavasceceacenvavqenvadieUsvaaprerasedirencaielpayasene xi UFOs and fairy lights \u2014 Witches \u2014 The anthropologists v. the Gusii \u2014 Ancestral spirits \u2014 The cultural context A Modern Mvth \u2014 The collective unconscious \u2014 The soul \u2014 Dreams Aliens and Fairies ……….:::……-seescevscscocsosscncnecencsssseoceesssccecsvacevse 23 Prefatory sightings \u2014 Alien classification \u2014 Fairy classification \u2014 The Christian-scientific view \u2014 Psychic reality \u2014 Plato’s daimons DATION bsaswosscscaronscrssscenvouseyerscocay seep esasupuseasesaneasaamacmsnantaneeelinns 37 Guardian angels \u2014 Personal daimons \u2014 Helping spirits \u2014 Two horrors \u2014 Complexes, archetypes, myths \u2014 The Soul of the World \u2014 Animism A Little: History of Dattmons………cseossnnssasvramonaratinceagieteanenssee 31 Demons \u2014 The Longaevi \u2014 Reason and the decline of daimons \u2014 Spiritualism Black dogs \u2014 Mystery cats \u2014 Kaptars, Yowies, Yetis \u2014 Bigfoot and fairies Part Two Vision TS Ce os cs escgvesur eam ansosaos se nersousanasirnnatisiecrepaiinne NOTE DN EIS 85 Misidentification \u2014 Projection \u2014 Paranoia \u2014 Delusion and revelation vii vili Contents Our Ladies \u2014 The spinning sun \u2014 The feminine principle \u2014 White ladies \u2014 The banshee \u2014 Phantoms of the road D Teast TRS cecscacscepcesconspuerercasenneocsrevrensesenniinnrausonavansennsesss 115 Primary and secondary imagination \u2014 Alchemical imagination \u2014 Imagination and soul \u2014 Myths, stories, hypotheses \u2014 A note on lake monsters \u2014 Fairy glamour and pishogue LO Darmonid THACES …….ccrnrneoreoonnnonsassaa toca Qrovsnsetenis issanzaswelawewsrsets 133 A close encounter \u2014 A fairy shoe \u2014 UFO relics \u2014 Treasures \u2014 An alien exchange \u2014 Gifts of the BVM \u2014 Photographs \u2014 Circular marks Al!<\/p>\n

MGR GIBS ccceercerrreccasea cewewvapeassesveewuscisese scsnsowsavanaceacncenasacSebeehe 145 Crop circles \u2014 Causality and synchronicity \u2014 Sympathy and analogy LD SHUCHUILES cei ccescaosnstucavensusanersonennncosspsonseasouncsasezayvacsenitedetrereves 157 The structure of Imagination \u2014 Nature vs. Culture \u2014 Literalism as idolatry \u2014 Hoaxes \u2014 Daimons and gods \u2014 The Trickster god V3 The OMerwar sn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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