I've been reading the forums for a little while now after getting interested in the Yowie phenomenon through a friend. For me there has always been something there, along with other cryptids, but I never gave it a lot of thought. His keen interest in the topic actually reminded me that once, years ago, something very large and bipedal chased me and another mate several hundred metres through thick scrub back to his car. I'll post that story in a separate thread.
At any rate, I'm in the rabbit hole well and truly now, and I've read or listened to most of the experiences here, and plenty others elsewhere. And in reading people's thoughts here and there, I've noticed a split in the community: between those who hard line believe that the Yowie can only be flesh and blood, 'like we are', and that no 'magic' is happening; and those who essentially believe they're godlike beings of pure energy who can materialise and dematerialise at will, shapeshift, etc etc. I might be exaggerating one or both sides, but not by much.
I propose a solution. I've seen Dean say that, given the sheer number of 'spooky' and apparently magical experiences people have had - telepathy, appearing and disappearing at will, apparently projecting fear into every animal around them, etc - it can't really be ignored. Somehow it has to be explained; we can't just say that all these people are hallucinating. By the same token, these are big hairy smelly things that stomp their feet and make screaming noises, and they live in the forest. It seems like a paradox, but it needn't be, if we change a few of our assumptions about what exactly 'flesh and blood' means, and what 'mind' means.
Occult conceptions of consciousness.
Let me be abundantly clear. I am not a New Ager, and I don't subscribe to Wicca or any of that stuff. Oh, it 'works', in the same way any trick on your subconscious works, but that's about as far as it goes. My occult background is among the secret societies, Rosicrucian and Hermetic, whose traditions can be (legitimately) traced back to the Middle Ages, though they invariably claim roots in ancient Greece and Egypt. In these schools you're taught fundamentals of philosophy (logic, metaphysics, etc), meditation techniques, divination techniques, and eventually, plant and mineral alchemy. If there is one major difference between the kind of occult I'm talking about and the New Agey stuff you're no doubt used to, it's that the 'ancient' version hasn't surrendered its critical faculties. Skepticism and empirical enquiry are the only ways to stay sane if you take mysticism seriously.
With that out of the way: we see mind differently. Or more to the point, we see all information processing as 'mind' and reality as a (mostly subconscious) information processor. If I say that all is 'mind', I mean it in the way your brain handles digestion and heart rate, and not the ego consciousness most people associate with the word. Mind as a verb, not a noun, if you like.
The information processor is made of a single substance, and is, in fact, a single object. But it's a special kind of object, in that new properties emerge from it. If this sounds familiar, it's because that's where some theories of physics - particularly, Quantum Field Theory (not the same as Quantum Mechanics!), Causal Sets, and Digital Physics - are heading. Consider an ocean. You can't predict or even produce the behaviour of waves from a singular molecule of H20. It's only when you stack trillions and trillions of them into the same space that you get the emergent property of waves. This, in a nutshell, is what reality is doing. It's one ocean, made of one (functionally infinite) substance, but the substance does things that cause objects to emerge and give us the illusion of separate things with differing properties - separating species of 'animal' is like comparing wave 'x' and wave 'y' and deciding that they are different species of 'water'. It's meaningless from the ocean's perspective - they're not even separate objects.
Reality is, in this view, one big mind (information processor) and all it does is think (compute outcomes). Erwin Shrodinger came to the same conclusion when he said that 'the total number of minds in the universe is one'. And this isn't some Deepak Chopra s#@t either; it's a simple matter of category. Whatever processes information is thinking; what else is reality doing but that?
Telepathy.
I'm going to come right out and say I've experienced telepathy many times with other humans. None were initiated by me on purpose, but on some occasions have been initiated by others on purpose. I can go into this more in PM if anybody is interested - but, relevant to this post, it's exactly as the lady who had a Yowie friend as a child describes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXH6a9dO7M4). Images and emotions, not words. Any discerning skeptic should rightly ask: how?
Thankfully, science has recently made some headway on this and I have a link handy: http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists- ... cal-fields
The crux is this: the 'one substance' is by nature a field, even if we experience excitations in the field as particles and waves and so on. At the base level, one defining attribute of fields is nonlocality (look into QFT for some mind-bending stuff on that). There is no such thing as 'distance' from the field's perspective; there is only distance from the perspective of the pseudo-objects (us) in the field. Thus, a conscious thought happening in my head is happening everywhere simultaneously, but only my brain hears them. You can think of this as being similar to the constant presence of radio waves, but radios only picking up the frequency they are tuned into.
What if a station could force itself into other frequencies? In fact, they technically could broadcast into any frequency they want already. We are all - silly as it may sound at face value - just like those radio stations. We can pick up from or broadcast into any frequency we like, with the right training.
And so can anything else that has thoughts, conscious or otherwise.
Where am I going with this?
The Yowie doesn't need to be a hyperdimensional god being to do telepathy. Fish and social insects are doing it daily. When you're talking about animals, ultimately you're talking about beings very much like us but with the ego layer removed. Imagine yourself without language - without words and symbols and things like that. What's left? Emotions, sensory data/memories. A subconscious mind!
It makes evolutionary sense for social animals to develop telepathic communication (assuming a universe where it's possible, which I do - I realise how silly that sentence may sound to some people). This is especially true for any animal that has not developed language. I would even privately wager that the development of language is why Homo Sapiens isn't generally in on this skill most animals around us seem to use.
Glamour vs Archetype Manipulation - how to dematerialise at will
Wait, what?
These are two kinds of 'magic' in Hermetic occultism which I think shed some light on the Yowie's apparent ability to appear and disappear at will. Again, I don't mean magic in the 'burn a candle and say a poem' sense. And, I'm happy to go into it some more with people in PM - I'm trying desperately to stay on topic here.
Glamour magic is altering someone's perception of the world. So if, as an extreme example, I wanted you to see me with brown eyes instead of blue, I would not change the colour of my eyes. I would, through some techniques that resemble NLP, or telepathy, or both - I would make you think my eyes were brown and then you would see brown eyes. Check out some Derren Brown videos where he swaps people's perceptions of colour around using some basic NLP and hypnotic techniques for an example.
Archetype manipulation, on the other hand, is changing the world. In this case, using the prior example, I would change my eyes to brown. Generally speaking, archetype manipulation takes place through alchemical processes. It is exceptionally difficult and requires a lot of conscious effort, and I have only met one person who can do it - a Master Alchemist with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry.
What I'm getting at here is that the Yowies are probably glamouring you. They aren't disappearing or appearing at will - they are deleting from or inserting into your perception. You think they've disappeared, when in fact all they did was create a Yowie-sized blind spot in your consciousness.
TL;DR
Yowies are, to my mind, likely a relic hominid; a descendant of Gigantopithicus Blacki seems the most likely candidate. They are 'flesh and blood' alright, 'just like we are', but all flesh and blood things are ultimately inseparable elements of a field. Physical, mental, it doesn't matter - it's one stuff, One Thing. Based on what I've read, watched, and heard about experiences with them, they are not conscious like we are. They don't have that ego layer that talks in abstracted syntax (which is the gateway to things like formalised systems of logic etc). In that respect, they are in all likelihood a simpler creature than we are. That said, simpler creatures all over the world seem to be capable of remarkable feats of communication, feats that defy a pure or traditional physicalist explanation. They are communicating with you subconsciously, in the ways they know how - some of these you experience as foot stomping and yelling and so on, and some you experience telepathically.
I'll leave it there now before it gets so long nobody wants to read it
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