Overview

Homins are hair-covered, humanlike beings purported to exist in oral and written literature across time and space. While traditional world mythology and folklore tend to take seriously the existence of entities like Sasquatch, mainstream Western culture often portrays such beings as misidentifications, hoaxes, or projections of the human mind. The result is a collective attitude that degrades, denies, or attempts to debunk the homin phenomenon. As a fresh take on that problem, this book focuses on how memory, anxiety, and trauma may play a role in such negative perceptions of these hairy others. Specifically, the text proposes that persisting memory of anxiety-provoking contact between humans and homins is at the heart of the matter. Drawing from oral history, published scholarship, citizen science, and more, this volume examines evidence, concepts, and hypotheses regarding the presence of homins as well as the effects of these entities on human psychology.

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""In this work, David S.B. Mitchell crafts an important conversation about fringed fields, specifically relating to the homin phenomenon. It offers a refreshing perspective on the nuances of the 'liminal Othered, ' and how this bordered space creates opportunity for deep shifts in consciousness. This intersectional discussion weaves folklore, humanities, mythology, and so much more into a web of interconnected human experience. This is an important contribution to the academic discourse on relict hominids, fringed experiences, and all those who engage with these spaces. Mitchell crafts this discussion approachably as well, ensuring that all readers intrigued by these topics will have an impactful experience and likely see a part of themselves mirrored on the pages.""--Courtney Block, associate librarian, Indiana University Southeast ""Sasquatch in the Psyche: Death Anxiety, Deep Memory and an Enduring Enigma is an extremely comprehensive, unique and very timely work. Western science should not hold an exclusive monopoly on our world-view of science per se, for non-western science, indigenous knowledge, is vastly older, and is much more deeply rooted, consciously and unconsciously, into the human psyche. The same can be said for the western notion of 'Human Exceptionalism, ' for our often myopic world-view acknowledges only a fraction of a far bigger, and a far more ancient, reality of life on this planet.""--Gareth Patterson, author of Beyond the Secret Elephants

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David Salisbury Brown Mitchell serves as core faculty and assistant professor of research psychology in the integral transpersonal psychology doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He serves on the leadership team for the Exceptional Experiences Empowerment Alliance and the editorial team for Mindfield: Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, and is also a member of the Parapsychological Association, the Society for Scientific Exploration, and Project Zoobook.

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