Pixie Investigation With Mr. Erwin Saunders.

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Always entertaining!

I love how Tom is using Facebook style sales hooks to promote the channel - "This Old Guy uses one weird trick to find Pixies". What's the trick? Is it really so simple as ONE trick? Is it really weird? Can I use the same trick to find pixies? Or "You Won't Believe What Happened To The Guy Who Films Fairy Folk!" - what happened to him? How did it happen? When did it happen? Details! We need details! Inquiring minds want to know... they MUST know! It sucks you right in, like the intake vent of a jet engine!

And Erwin never changes, but is somehow always freshly entertaining! As an example, he bumbles along and sets a time limit on the new promotional video, then flat out states -in his inimitably bumbling way - that was wrong, because he doesn't want to set a time limit, and then proceeds to bumble along the same worn trail and set yet another time limit for it!

Entertainment at it's finest! No wonder the channel has managed to garner well over a quarter million subscribers.

Yes, this self-created phenomena of Erwin Saunders is very well put together and seems to have many levels
that caters for those who come across his videos.

Initially, he's offered as a mild-mannered man seeking something that may have held our attention as children,
but as we develop, the materiality aspect of everyday life demands us to leave a harmless magical world void
of going to work and paying bills and deaing with a reality that holds no such fanciful innocence.

For many, the place that Erwin wanders is somewhere we miss and wish to go back to. He draws us back to
a kinder time that may have never truly existed in our individual lives, but one many believe is a template for
a period where the harshness of being a biological entity embraces a more compassionate existence bound to
the metaphysical and spiritual.

Also -staying in the infantine paradigm, our undeveloped need to obtain this insubstantial world of imagination
forces us to seek out and capture those we want to believe inhabit this ethereal realm. However, even though
such an arrest would prove that we are something more than we believe, the success of such an appropriation
would also sully the concept by dragging it back into the rigid world we live in daily.

So we make a pact with ourselves, we take our nourishment from the quest, the hunt and self-shoulder-patting
that -even though we failed to grasp what we would need to prove ourselves right slipped through our fingers
this time, we will learn more about an intangible presence without the need for scraped-knees and bruised
faith. It's a win-win of our own making!
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Erwin Saunders -himself, emits a feeling of harmlessness and counsel at the same time. He's the go-to-guy
and yet he offers a display of someone not adept in our computerised and materialistic world. Erwin is aware
as an adult that he needs what everybody requires to live a fairly-comfortable life, but his gift comes in the art
of off-handedly assuring the viewer that a far-less uncouth dimension awaits just beyond our utilitarian world.
All we have to do is follow him.

Erwin falls, fails, stumbles and gets confused. He mildly blames himself and deliberates without the worry that
he may be wrong. Basically speaking, he physically demonstrates what would be a high-morally act to do.
If we fail at something, we brush ourselves off and try again. If we succeed in something, we look to the horizon
for the next stretch of the 'Yellow-brick Road'!
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Tom is a vital link to all of this and not just because of the representation of 'the youth'. In many stories, parables
and legends, the young learn from the old. Pitfalls and other perils have been located by those who've already
walked that track and accepting sage advice from an elder is always an extra arrow in one's quiver of experience.
Tom is the 'Fool' in the true-sense of the Tarot, a first-timer who is learning from the Magician in the pack. That
Shaman is Erwin and he sports the traditional look very well, don't you think?!

But Tom also bridges the gap of hesitation to believe in a domain of the enchanted. When the majority in Tom's
world have commanded him to accept and conform to his practical world he was born into. For him, the bills, the
mortgage and the car-payments are real, you can touch them. In Erwin's cosmos, they're merely distractions that
divert our attention from a better place.
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The entertainment value is superb and the easy pace soothes the soul in our world of supposedly dynamic and
vital information that is really unsalable and meaningless. Where Erwin wanders, our imagination runs barefoot
and for our well-being, it cleanses our palate.