We can view Halloween as a festival of creative participation. Anyone can participate to any extent or no extent. It allows for a creative way of engaging across genres. The levels of participation can be judgment free.
Freedom of acquiescence
It’s about the idea enacting the representation of beings that don’t exist in this world or are looking to invade the living world. And we come to this with a sense of nostalgia and joy.
A wholesome scare. Sounds contradictory.
Dealing in the plate tectonics of the subconscious.