Christine SkolnikMar 1812 min“And I the Fire”: The Fluid Spirits of Babalon by Sandra Huber Abstract: Three spirit tales: 1. the love, sex, and death rites of artist Marjorie Cameron and rocket scientist and...
Christine SkolnikFeb 56 minRealist Magic in the Anthropocene Hi all, Reposting a few old Environmental Critique posts on Tim Morton's Realist Magic. The first post, which I wrote, focuses on...
Christine SkolnikJan 2711 minBlack land; Or, reading Egyptian Hermetica & *Mumbo Jumbo* as ‘Afrotopian’ propheciesNat Mengist, M.Ed Abstract: The old gods of the Black land did not retreat to the heavens — they took refuge underground (you can feel it...
Christine SkolnikJan 201 minExploring the ParanormalLots of fascinating content in this issue of Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT . . . including my interview with Terje Simonsen, which focuses on...
Christine SkolnikJan 127 minDon't Miss *Archives of the Impossible*ARCHIVE CONTACT REGISTRATION Archives of the Impossible“I never said it was possible, I only said it was true.” – British chemist and...
Christine SkolnikNov 26, 20213 minThe Quadruple Object and Weird RealismI'm reposting this Environmental Critique review from 2016 as a precursor to a forthcoming comment on a recent Galileo Commission talk,...
Christine SkolnikNov 1, 20213 minNotes on Creative Ecology: IIn contemporary Western contexts we generally think of intuition, the imagination, and creativity in general as means to a more or less...
Christine SkolnikSep 18, 20211 minConsciousness Unbound: Liberating the Mind from the Tyranny of MaterialismBreaking News: "Consciousness Unbound: Liberating the Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism." A two-day online conference, Friday,...
Christine SkolnikMay 12, 20213 minAnthropocene UncannyExcerpt from ANTHROPOCENE UNCANNY: Nonsecular Approaches to Environmental Change by Nils Bubandt Reposted from Institute for...
Sam StoeltjeMay 2, 20218 minDisclosure! UFOs, the Military, the State, the New Yorker, and Structures of DiscourseWhen I was a kid, somewhere between the ages of eight and twelve, my dad gave me an old briefcase of his. It must have been a gift from some
Christine SkolnikApr 23, 202111 minMystical Realism and Memoir: An Interview with Karen Kaplan Paracultures is pleased to present an exclusive interview with writer and international speaker Karen Kaplan. In her first memoir,...
Christine SkolnikApr 15, 20215 minSymbolic Bonfires and Academic CondemnationsThis post features an excerpt from a translation of an interview with François Laruelle conducted by Philippe Petit and published in...
Christine SkolnikFeb 9, 20214 minPrecognition and Free WillSee below an excerpt from my recently published interview with Terje Simonsen, author of A Short History of (Nearly) Everything...
Christine SkolnikDec 3, 20204 minSecular Messianism, Myths of Progress, and the Fall of TimeThe following is an excerpt (set of excerpts) from a previous SLSA talk, and a companion piece to Sam Stoeltje's recent post, Spivak on...
Christine SkolnikNov 26, 20203 minIntuition from a Logical PerspectiveHere is the last of our excerpts from Terje Simonsen's A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal Thank you again to the author...
Christine SkolnikNov 20, 20201 minRiff Along to Troll 2Dear AWE-friends, Thank you for your ongoing support in our AnOther Worldly Endeavors — we were humbled by the turnout at last month's...
Sam StoeltjeNov 17, 20204 minSpivak on the Supernatural (Yes, you read that correctly)Dualism, or dvaita, becomes through Spivak’s learned (but as she continually emphasizes, non-specialist) consideration, a way of seeing or
Timothy Grieve-CarlsonOct 1, 20204 minOn Alien Authority and Angelic Mediation“We are completely outside ourselves, and the world is completely inside us.”
Christine SkolnikSep 24, 20202 minSymposium on Metaphysical EnterprisesBy Nat Mengist We hope this invitation finds you safe and greets you with high spirits! Near the pandemic’s beginnings, ten friends came...
Christine SkolnikSep 18, 20201 minGot Psi?Reposted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences: Many people have had precognitive dreams or successful intuitive hunches and ask...