Coltan Scrivner

And those kind of run from pre-event to the event to post-event, right?

That's kind of like a spectrum there of what can happen in a dangerous situation.

And then there's the fourth one, and it took me a while to disentangle what this really meant and what it was.

The fourth one, I called it paranormal danger to try to encompass a broad range of things.

And let me give you some examples of it and then tell you what I think it is.

Examples would be anything to do with ghosts or aliens or even deities, ancestors, spirits.

I think what's going on there is people have historically used

agentic beings that they can't see to explain misfortunate events.

There's a long recorded history of that.

There's a lot of good anthropological work on that, witches in particular.

And so I think what's happening is that's tapping into dangers that we don't understand.

We tend to give those agentic beings, right?

We tend to say, oh, well, the ghost made that knock in my house or the witch cursed me, right?

Exactly.

Because how else are you going to take an action against it, right?

If you don't have a thing that you can take an action against, you feel helpless.

And that's a terrible feeling.

It's better to guess.

In human life, almost everything that happens to us happens to us because someone else does.

Did something.