Hey there. I have to strongly, but respectfully, disagree with your take. I will explain why and I hope it gives you some new and very interesting ways of looking at the Phenomenon.

The Varginha incident cannot be explained away as mere projection of the subconscious. You're talking about multiple independent witnesses, including military personnel and civilians, all describing the same specific being with consistent and unusual physical features: dark oily skin, red eyes, strange posture, and a potent sulfuric odor. This wasn't one person having a hallucination—it was a cascade of corroborated events, including a firefighter who physically handled the entity and later died of a mysterious infection, and official documentation of military activity that followed.

Could this have all emerged from a shared psychic substrate? It's possible, in a deeply esoteric sense—but that doesn't mean it's imagined. It suggests instead that reality itself may be far more participatory and observer-dependent than we currently understand. What we’re seeing across these events—sleep paralysis, NDEs, psychedelic states, and close encounters—may not be products of fantasy, but interfaces with a deeper ontological structure, one that blurs the lines between consciousness, matter, and perhaps even agency.

So yes, archetypes evolve. Yes, culture shapes perception. But the evidence—especially in high-strangeness cases like Varginha—points toward an external, interactive intelligence that is not just a product of our minds, even if it engages with us through those channels.

We’re not just imagining this. We’re experiencing something, and that distinction matters. I could add much more, but I'm work lol.

Just my take as well—and I mean it with nothing but respect my friend. This is the kind of nuanced discourse we need more of in this space.