The Trickster: Consciousness, Meaning and Culture
In mythology and folklore, a trickster is a character in a story who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.
Tricksters, as archetypal characters, appear in the myths of many different cultures. Lewis Hyde describes the trickster as a "boundary-crosser". The trickster crosses and often breaks both physical and societal rules: Tricksters "violate principles of social and natural order, playfully disrupting normal life and then re-establishing it on a new basis.”
This is why tricksters are honored for the creation and regeneration of culture. One of the ways trickster myths can be viewed is as a story of meaning. Carl Jung believed that they are a story of an earlier state of consciousness.
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Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art
Frederick Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Tricksters don't trick people, the people trick themselves; this is an often overlooked truth.
@MrJoraymo20
2 жыл бұрын
I believe I fit this archetype. Figuring out what that looks like moving forward. I’m curious to your insight ROCKSTARHOLIC
@HerbFlowers
2 жыл бұрын
Ur so wrong
@dashiellhouse
2 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY!!! The trickster is often the truth mirror and people are mortified by themselves being acknowledged
@RockStarholic
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrJoraymo20 it is often people's biases, hopes and fears that set all of us up to be tricked. The trickster is merely a presenter of choices and possibilities, it's up to you to choose wisely.
@nav1519
2 жыл бұрын
Brown Jesus.
The trickster is an important and necessary archetype to maintain balance in society but they are hated for what I believe are two reasons: Their intellect and the knowledge that they carry makes the common man feel insecure and stupid and they have the power to shake up the status quo which makes people uncomfortable even if that change in the status quo is much needed.
@funkytown2305
Жыл бұрын
Not true they are not component
@delusionalpriest9699
Жыл бұрын
perfect description
@DDXY2K
6 ай бұрын
Beautiful
The trickster is my favorite archetype character. It's a vital role to play in the world for without the trickster the world would most likely stagnate and collapse.
@CaptainHertz
2 жыл бұрын
It surely indeed collapses with him anyway... the question is whether it is a must have in the human evolution?
@theevanator517
2 жыл бұрын
@@CaptainHertz well said
@theevanator517
2 жыл бұрын
@@things_leftunsaid nah
@kinginblack1120
2 жыл бұрын
It sucks being one, though. Just because you have a role to play doesn't mean it is a fun one, and it often leads to the tricksters demise, anyway. Pretty much the worst job there is, no pay, get a bad rep, and then die.
@theevanator517
2 жыл бұрын
@@kinginblack1120 on gang lol
This is so brilliantly put together.. Explains it on the highest level. Appreciated.
This presentation was fantastic. The music and art was wonderful and inspiring to feel / watch. Thanks for making this! c:
@hermesnoelthefourthway
2 жыл бұрын
Agree , 100% it is so good to come into contact with ideas and myths which originate from higher mind/consciousness in a world submerged in everyday trivia and meaninglessness. I got into classical philosophy and myth many years ago , best thing that ever happened to me. The nous and the logos (the word and the mind)
@ritasjourney
2 жыл бұрын
This was exactly what I wanted to say. :-)
"Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion." (Aristotle) "History abundantly shows that people's views of the universe are bound up with their views of themselves and of their society. The debate in cosmology has implications far beyond the realm of science, for it is a question of how truth is known. How these questions are answered will shape not only the history of science, but the history of humanity." (Eric Lerner, 1992) spaceandmotion
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Wow this was outstanding and so well put together and delivered! Thank you for this wonderful video! I haven’t checked your channel yet but I hope you continue making videos!
I had three ads on this video all of them were highly synchronic (about personal stuff) and hilarious (not purposefully just the double meaning). Well played trickster. One of them about a telecom brand called salt. Alchemists would have loved that.
A great footage this is! Treat a world with a little trick and with love, don't ask for one side of life, and a world will be pleased!
Beautiful music and artwork and great presentation all round!
Sweet video! Thanks for making this!
As someone who trolls, I embrace the trickster archetype.
@JustBe776
Жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I'm saying
@thereisnosanctuary6184
9 ай бұрын
Trolling is godlike
@DDXY2K
6 ай бұрын
😅
@legtit132
3 ай бұрын
Same here brother
@legtit132
3 ай бұрын
It’s god like
This storry is the thrue which is hapening now to all off Us.. Every day is much more awakening people.. Love is the thrue energy and give Us a power to change with world! Love you my friend❤️
I really enjoyed your video 😎👍👍 Whatever you want to call it, they or, them? It is not always just a form of mythos. It was our ancestors way of rationalizing the inexplicable. Your video has more relevance than most will ever realize. If you are truly an astute and unbiased observer? You will notice a plethora of circumstances, defying logical or, any reasonable explanation. A famous Shakespeare quote, sums it up rather well. "There are more things on heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy", End quote😎👍
Good job sir !
The more i research about the trickster. The more I am convinced I (unfortunately) am a trickster archetype. Man, this is hard. We literally sacrifice ourselves for seemingly "meaningless" reasons. I just can't explain this, but what I can say is that no matter what, we cannot change our destiny. Instead we shall embrace it!
@ameliagentle7873
6 ай бұрын
shoot I was Excited!!!! because I was always comedic, but i went through a rough unconscious period, when I started to learn about this archetype I knew this was me I can't wait to start ranting my truth ppl finna be cracking up!! you too it's time to get our shine on!!
I've been the trickster, I've been the clown, still broken wings can't hold me down, I'm free again... goodbye to romance by: Ozzy
This explained a lot. Thank you.
Just came across, spoke to me, thank you.
Could you do more archetypal overviews?
Great content.
Great video !
Good stuff bro
Nice.. well done 👍..
Thank you
Cool channel dude 👍 subscribed 🙏
Great 😊
This was very interesting, I felt this.
Brilliant, thank you!
I like the music
to me, Trickersters are highly intelligent people that are just bored in life. so they "trick" or play around so they wouldnt be too bored in their lives
AMAZING
loved the art
Wow youre videos are amazing! If you ever need any music let me know!
So interesting ty
Lewis Hyde has some beautiful and gripping sentences.
This was fascinating and insightful, but I'd prefer if the music volume was turned down, it's very difficult to concentrate on the spoken word.
Ask questions without expecting what the answers may be.
Interested in your opinions of Machiavelli given your channel name, I'm certain it might frame your perspective?
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Everything was great but you should turn the volume of music a little bit
To be sincere to insincere people is a great mistake. There is a teaching brought to the world by a Greek mystic named Gurdjieff knows as The fourth way. It also known as the way of the sly man. It is the most miraculous teaching ever brought to the world. The results are atomic. I speak from personal experience. Nice painting of Hermes in the underworld. Hermes , the master trickster. Formerly Thoth of Egypt
@brandonheat9785
2 жыл бұрын
Just stop you sound so cringe
@cyph3rfuge802
2 жыл бұрын
Oh' you mean, "wise as serpent's, gentle as dove's"- maybe? Idk. I'm just a silly rabbit.
@hermesnoelthefourthway
2 жыл бұрын
@@cyph3rfuge802 that's a good one, isn't it?! Especially coming from a "silly rabbit ". Gives it that added clout. Have a good one, silly rabbit 🐰
Please turn the volume of the music down. I can't make out what you're saying some of the time.
that would be The Old Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan personality
@oiiiich
2 жыл бұрын
Trickster is for the children
Higly poetical. Reminded me a bit of my lif. Thanx i cried.
Subscribed
Why is music just as loud as voiceover? Very hard to listen to
I would love to interview you!
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Destruction is necessary in our current condition, it is by being able to slowly detach and destroy our mental images that the separation between Creation and Creator slowly becomes harder to distinguish. In other words, the lack of self, and devotion towards Godly purposes, will likely remove or unlearn ill behaviors of greed, aversion, and delusion. If mankind can comprehend these things and slowly separate "I" from reality it will become amazing. But sadly, they are tied down by so much, therefore destruction is necessary. Destruction of their idols, destruction of their love for their idols and the return to the True Path, away from self-hood. So yeah, be prepared, because that feelin is deep and it is as vast as the sea. There's going to be a lot of sneaking around and playing along but its all for the fun of laughing at this life and proving the point that the societal understanding of reality is heavily flawed and we can be less condemned by our own afflictions we cause to ourselves and through others. By doing this, man can deny his own mind's understanding and live over his intellectual nature, free and joyful, and likewise on the outer, the god of this world will be denied and fall, his influence will diminish and reason will enter the world. The trickster will be king for an hour, only to return the planet to its rightful Creator, and then belial will become a man and shamefully struggle as we have. He will be in agony and suffer the life of a man, but he will rebel and take the world eventually. But all of this is worthwhile.
@isaacvr6947
2 жыл бұрын
@Grey Philosopher because I have to destroy the current one.
@isaacvr6947
2 жыл бұрын
@Grey Philosopher It's the heart. Or the masses conciousness. That's why it'll be troublesome and very very difficult to put these things into play and give them murky water revelations. How to do so? How do you destroy a world? From the inside, out. It's not about me, in the end it's about you, and your world. And beyond that, it's about you and the very source of life, who else? The Creator is. But that's all nonsense, just another lunatic speaking, amirite? But in all sincerity, I want to leave this world a better place before I leave, and share everything I learned in devotion and silence. I'm going to free people from their own madness of the self and their hearts will be broken, but open.
@isaacvr6947
2 жыл бұрын
@Grey Philosopher first comes destruction, the disassembling of societal norms and understandings. We are not the body, but something else, re-implementation of meaning in the world. And then the self being proven false. Then liberation begins. Then a re-creation begins and these inner motivated individuals will maintain that world. Influence from even beyond the 🪦
@isaacvr6947
2 жыл бұрын
As for any outside forces, it would be quite pleasurable to see them realize their works have been in vain. The breaking down of their identities also and less motivated to influence. Neither man nor gods are free from the cycles of this living Cosmos, so all are capable of being destroyed, so long as they have a conciousness. Therefore even the gods fear a trickster.
@isaacvr6947
2 жыл бұрын
@Grey Philosopher I think it's optional. Because so many people will go without really understanding or experiencing what I'm saying. So those people need to first become sensitive torwards life. And with sensitivity comes embracing.
Hey your beautiful philosophical share is getting picked up by the algorithm!!
It's hard to hear through the veiled explicit images
Ty
WOW. Thank you for this
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"There is no peace at the gate."
Gotcha
Papa Legba.....👑
please no loud distracting music during narration. It's just a bad touch. No offense.
@razony
2 жыл бұрын
It really is/does.
"Do" or be done unto. Be like gold. Gold acts , it isn't acted upon
Agent of change
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Interesting, but extremely disturbing with the music in the background.
Life is but what we, Accept your strife and precept the free. The world is now a swirl of when and how. The why is your sky see the high, but know the low.
Painting at 2 mins? Please somebody help please 🙏 I gotta know. Thnks
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great content .. background music is BAD .. choose something less distracting .. please !
Very difficult to follow your argument due to added music. Otherwise, pretty interesting channel.
Life can be very lonely when you’re living life on a whim
music could be lower volume
The devil comes to steal kill and destroy,the son of God has come to destroy the works of the evil one.
Jester yes fool no. But yea you found me out. Bravo. Wonderful show. Let's continue on to act 2.
The content was good but music background was a mess...what was the point of that ?
So let's do something. Let's prosper with good ideas and resolve.
"These myths are only stories" what an unintelligent statement
@VictoriaWonders
2 жыл бұрын
- anyone under 30 yeeees
music is too loud.
The music very loud
Even in the Universe's creation; there is such a legend in which the Light (Yahveh; the Elohim, etc) escaped the Darkness, and by roaming across the universe the Light got created.
I’ve been a trickster my entire life. Always questioning, destroying and creating. Remembering all is 1 and nothing 0. Life is Balance.
@lewissmith6086
2 жыл бұрын
The on off symbol on your electronics is on off
@lavelleandrae27
2 жыл бұрын
@@lewissmith6086 G
@Schmusan
2 жыл бұрын
I feel you!!
@lavelleandrae27
2 жыл бұрын
@Infinite Shoeblack no I’m not a disruptor. The Trickster openly questions and mocks authority, encourages impulse and enthusiasm, seeks out new ideas and experiences, destroys convention and complacency, and promotes chaos and unrest.
@lavelleandrae27
2 жыл бұрын
@Infinite Shoeblack all is SELF. So you all are correct. 😁
The Trickster as an unlikely teacher
Based
Tricks don't make plans
Very informative but sometimes difficult to hear all, because the music is too loud
Some people need to learn to TALK. .....Lol ! .....Thankyou, so very interesting to say the least.
Love ye trickstaz
So that is what I am.
This is very base, and to me appears as the most rhetorical information i learned when i was about 5 years old. Nothing new here.
F60.81 uses the trickster and projection.
9:43... the moment I realized that this video was a tool of the enemy. Please Like if you agree.
@bethanienaylor
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for liking. I'm trying to see how many people see what I see
@jilloutthebox1381
2 жыл бұрын
This part confused me/went a bit over my head but I knew it didn’t resonate so I didn’t try and dissect it but maybe that means I should… I’m very open to hearing your perspective as I too felt iffy about this section….
@bethanienaylor
2 жыл бұрын
@@jilloutthebox1381 for me, it was a bit too specific, mentioning the Good News of Jesus Christ as a direct example of what not to believe. But I am a little biased 😅
@Idothinkysaurus
2 жыл бұрын
The music getting super loud around here doesn't help with trying to criticize it as it's coming. I've been getting better with it, but selective hearing is hard to master.
@bethanienaylor
2 жыл бұрын
@pizza berry confusion is another tool of the enemy....and your message is confusing to me.
I was told about the trickster as a teenager. Was told by an ol lady who was my bosses wife , and closeish friends , explained was evil , because would give the feeling of a cat above you on stair case swatting your head on way down , in there house I learnt a little about it and in some ways I have grown up as this sorta way as in my youngest years I was up to no good , and I grasped a meaningthat took me to great lenghts , I learnt to stay away from my parents they made me feel different and my mom almost had a phsycic controll almost to copy her emotion or follow the imagination , my first house I woke up to missing shoes my blankets a mess , shooting from one state of mind to another , and it really became clear over time bonds with people , plus reki , and the belif you can do something or what ever without trying you can phsocologically mess with someone help them or controll even help your self . It's all in the state of mind and for me it's not always guess work but you look back sometimes cause of lazy and u realise why you felt the way you did . Also, useing intuition to mess around with SoMeone like telling them by instinct to turn down the music and if they follow you cause a reaction like makeing them seccount guess there intitive propertyy , the lieing of the feel , this is where my mind rests on the trickster innocent because he can see the good the fun , cold as ice because aslong as he sees no evil and has a clear objective anything goes . Thanks for a trip down meme lane
@brandonheat9785
2 жыл бұрын
That was a really complicated way of coming out the closet.
Why you need music when you talk?
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Plagiarism is a form of trickster.
@vladimiroboukhov8395
2 жыл бұрын
And so is parody
According to the ancient greeks, all things are composed of the gods. Sound familiar?
Bringing something from one realm to another, like green myth of stealing sun from the gods 😅
But what when these tricksters try to mess with you? Would anyone like that?
Thanks for the essay. Curious how the trickster has entered pop culture in the early 2000s and has had a stellar career ever since. But the most fascinating tricksters remain in real life, I think. Catiline, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Aleister Crowley, they all come with a biography full of mischief, failure and, most importantly, an incorrigible nature. And even a Donald Trump has the potential to be one. EDIT: the German Religion Ethnologist, Dr. Alexander Knorr, did an insightful and humorous take on mythological and real life tricksters, called "Metatrickster". I highly recommend it, not sure it is available in English, though.
@SorbetCitron17
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the reference. Looks good. I'll try to get it.
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