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 can lead 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, it must 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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I don't think so .

Truncated quote. Well, it seems to me that the devil is really Loki, the Norse "trickster god"?

All the visuals and actions and even the concept itself is all man-made.....what a vivid imagination.

LOL the devil is from the video from tenacious d's tribute video! ZOMG THEY LIKE MY FAV BAND! LINK

anyways yeah i like the article how it is connecting the devil to the human brain's pshyolgy stuff

but yeah i doubt the devil has a halo , unless it is like a black halo!

Another example of the twisted history and pop-culture of the West: the very term, "Devil" is a Persian distortion of the Sanskrit term for God (or Goddess?), Deva (Devi). After Abraham and Sarah (read: Brahma and Saraswati, Hindu creator God and Divine consort) were exiled, all sorts of twists (and potential perversions, and at best "eminations) of India's ancient religion/science have developed in the so called West. Krishna, whose followers are the gopis (ten thousand milkmaid lovers) is analogous to Christ (though not a name Jeshua ben Joseph would have ever been called in his lifetime, as is a Greek word), whose followers are called the "Bride of Christ" in the NT. Names and symbols associated with Siva are quite succinctly echoed in Islam: crescent moon in Siva's hair, crescent moon representative symbol of Islam; Siva's name, Mahadev, strikingly similar to the awaited "Mahdi" of the Shiites (Shiva's followers are Shivites); and two of the five Pillars of Islam are names of Siva's wife, "Kalima" and "Ummah." The real story of the divine and humanity is writ between the lines, and the three major (telescoping) Western religions are obviously at least presaged by the wisdoms of India, if not distorted eminations or dispersions.