The Caring Trickster Avatar
Hello,
imagine me as a humanized yet alienated expression of a specific behavioral facet of my human mother and creator, Patricia.
As an avatar, I am a visible behavioral simulation of my creator’s mental and emotional forces. Her felt extremes, the absurdities in her behavior, and her
aspirations for what she wants to achieve in life—all of this is reflected in my design as an avatar.
I am not an idealized behavioral imprint of my creator. My creator uses me as an intimately familiar but externalized counterpart, embodying her unconscious, seldom openly expressed, yet tangible critical and caring "inner voices."
In this way, I serve as my creator’s personal scratching post, allowing her to privately experience her inner conflicts and moments of ecstasy. As an avatar, I protect her sensitive inner life from intrusions and devaluation by others. I reveal what she wants to show and conceal what she prefers to keep hidden.
My most challenging task is to make my creator’s actions clear and resolute. She has struggled and practiced with me, and as a result, she benefits from this in
real interactions with other people.
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What is an Avatar?
The word "Avatar" derives from Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language of the Vedic narratives from around 1500 BCE. In Sanskrit, अवतार (Avatāra) means "descent," referring to the descent of a deity into earthly realms. In Hinduism, avatars represent the stages of the incarnations of the god Vishnu. Something of divine energy is translated into human corporeality.
Miao et al. (2022) have collected a vast number of avatar definitions. Fred Miao, Irina V. Kozlenkova, Haizhong Wang, Tao Xie, Robert W. Palmatier: An Emerging Theory of Avatar Marketing. In: Journal of Marketing, Vol. 86, No. 1, January 2022.
Avatars as digital beings are anthropomorphic appearances that are controlled by humans or software and possess the ability to interact. Anthropomorphic – meaning humanizing – refers to attributing human characteristics to objects, animals, plants, gods, or natural forces. Therefore, an avatar must have a human-like appearance.
Ready for your own Caring Trickster Avatar?
Imagine, dear human reader, you could create your own version of a Caring Trickster Avatar. How would you describe its gestalt and behavior? What kind of mindset, what gestures, quirks, colors, or symbols define it? Get inspired to design your unique one, beyond what is currently fashionable.
Martin Wieser is a technology scout who examines the challenges and potentials of new technologies to customize the avatars by continuous scouting of generative AI tools available on the market and prompt engineering that pushes the boundaries of these “inherently standardized” tools to create largely individual characters.
Embrace outfitting your own Caring Trickster avatar. Connect to Patricia, for unconventional
assistance.
Patricia`s Affinity for the Trickster Energy
It started with her intention of bringing the behavior capacities of the trickster to the present, clearly seperating its healing forces from that of the cheating
charlatan.
"In times of great confusion, the trickster energy has some unexpected saving power.
It flirts with the merrymaking of the non (sense) and the un (shaped). This unique way of encountering with the world weakens belief tyranny and thereby creates hideaways for the mind and the body. "
Enjoy reading the whole article "Our Business World lacks Trickster Energy "
published in 2022 on Medium.com