(2019-06-22, 07:05 PM)diverdown Wrote: Would you be able to expand on this a little?
Are you using Trickster, as in John Keel's research? If so, then that is quite an interesting possibility!
My notions of the Trickster come mainly from George P. Hansen's book, The Trickster and the Paranormal.
And maybe I'm just looking for the Trickster, so I'm seeing him, but there are a few things with Bob that might fit...
First thing was that he had a particle accelerator in his bedroom and was putting jet engines on just about everything... made a jet powered Honda which he drove to work and got him an article in the newspaper. Lots of people were probably unhappy about the noise from a jet powered Honda on his commute. And he's into blowing stuff up... fireworks and whatnot. I think one of his current business is pyrotechnics. So imagining him tweaking on a particle accelerator in his home and carefully crafting pyrotechnics, and racing around the desert on his jet-powered Honda... kind of remind me of Wile E Coyote a bit.
He sort of stumbled into this high security job partly because of the local fame from his jet-car and having the particle accelerator in his bedroom raised some eyebrows.
Then there's the bit about how he got arrested for starting up some kind of neighborhood brothel... (the trickster breaks taboos) the documentary didn't give any details on this, but George Knapp, said "Bob did a very Bob thing..." he didn't explain what that meant, but it communicated to me that he was often engaged in various oddball or questionable enterprises and didn't care what people thought of it or what the repercussions might be.
Then there's the fact that the whole process of blowing the whistle on what was going on there was a rejection of the structure and hierarchy and involved some degree of deception and obfuscation in order to protect his identity for a bit... first they used his boss's name. Later he came out publicly and essentially gave the super-secret-security state the finger...
So he was in a very high (security) position and then through "folly" of his own doing was cast down, narrowly escapes death, lives on the margins and fringe of society, and now is being elevated again to fame.
Maybe this is a stretch, but when he gave the Q&A recently he was wearing the bright red converse shoes... which was like a hybrid geek gangster hipster fashion statement... hipster = hip trickster. He just generally seems to have the "don't give a fuck what other people think" vibe and so some people now see him as a geeky rockstar.
There are probably more things, but that's all I can think of now.
Edit: one more thing... he plays coy about the fact that he absconded with a significant quantity of Element 115. He won't publicly admit this because he says he has to be careful that what he says could get him in trouble. But he strongly hints at the fact that he has some or had some or knows where some can be obtained. Since a stable isotope of 115 has not yet been synthesized, but is predicted to exist, then producing a quantity of this isotope would go a long way towards validating his story. He has said before that there is more he could do to validate his story and he hints at the fact that he could reveal some of this Element 115, but he dances around the issue. One of his businesses is a scientific chemical supply company... makes me wonder if this could be a front for some exotic substances which the FBI apparently wondered about as well since they raided his business during the filming of Jeremy's documentary.