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The Trickster


Karl Jung's explanation for the archetypes that surface in cultural and
religious literature is that they are the product of what he calls the
collective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all human
beings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked eye,
one must look for the signs of it by researching cultures who are long gone and
comparing them to each other and our own. Studying it reminds us that all humans
are bound together by a common source.
The "Trickster" is an archetype that surfaces in many cultural and
religious stories. Each trickster is unique to it's own culture, but all
tricksters are bound by certain characteristics no matter what religion they
show up in. Anthropologists would argue that each trickster should be evaluated
in it's own cultural setting, but in order to see their archetypal value they
must be and can be evaluated as a group. Jung would say he is a manifestation of
our own......

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