Anthony North: The history of the paranormal has been plagued with the Devil and his cohorts of Demons. Offering a direct link between phenomena and culture, perhaps we need to understand just what the Devil is. In one sense, he is the fallen angel, forever causing trouble, and in another he is a Jungian "archetype" -the trickster, forever to be found in various cultural clothes throughout world mythology. He is also the guy with whom we have a pact. : Sell your soul to the Devil and you get rewards -but don"t worry, it will come at a price, eventually. And in this sense, he is part of our psychology. Our urge to do wrong, knowing it is -well -wrong. In a variation on the theme, the pact canlead to possession, where the Devil or one of his friends takes you over, and you are either influenced to do bad by this supernatural entity, or blatantly possessed, complete with red eyes and green vomit.
And here, too, we can attach a non-supernatural tag. : We can argue, rather than supernatural possession, the person is taken over by split-off elements of his own mind. But this continual fascination with such demonic influences is rarely discussed. This is a problem with paranormal research. Researchers and enthusiasts often chastise the scientific community for their intransigence -they"re only interested in "how", not "why" -but this mentality exists in this community as well. The devil won"t go away.: And for a supposed supernatural "force" to be continually experienced in the paranormal, itmust have a reason for its existence. We can, of course, blame culture for this. After all, it is culture that maintains stories of the Devil. But we can go deeper still. A peculiarity of our existence is the fact that we advance. This is the process of history itself, forever changing the focus of culture and society. If we didn"t do so, we would not have evolved our society in the way we have. Why does social evolution occur? : I think the central element of change is that we are never happy with what we"ve got.
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