Christine Skolnik
Black land; Or, reading Egyptian Hermetica & *Mumbo Jumbo* as ‘Afrotopian’ prophecies
Nat 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...
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Christine Skolnik
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Exploring the Paranormal
Lots of fascinating content in this issue of Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT . . . including my interview with Terje Simonsen, which focuses on...
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Sam Stoeltje
- May 2, 2021
- 8 min
Disclosure! UFOs, the Military, the State, the New Yorker, and Structures of Discourse
When 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
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Christine Skolnik
- Feb 8, 2021
- 4 min
Precognition and Free Will
See below an excerpt from my recently published interview with Terje Simonsen, author of A Short History of (Nearly) Everything...
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Christine Skolnik
- Nov 26, 2020
- 3 min
Intuition from a Logical Perspective
Here is the last of our excerpts from Terje Simonsen's A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal Thank you again to the author...
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Sam Stoeltje
- Nov 17, 2020
- 4 min
Spivak 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
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Christine Skolnik
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Symposium on Metaphysical Enterprises
By Nat Mengist We hope this invitation finds you safe and greets you with high spirits! Near the pandemic’s beginnings, ten friends came...
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Christine Skolnik
- Sep 18, 2020
- 1 min
Got Psi?
Reposted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences: Many people have had precognitive dreams or successful intuitive hunches and ask...
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Christine Skolnik
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
Ancient Egyptian Liberal Arts and Sciences
“Ancient Egypt has a really curious relationship with a lot of paranormal beliefs and practices both because of the kind of Platonic...
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Sam Stoeltje
- Aug 24, 2020
- 6 min
Fireflies as UFOs, or, Fear of Flying Pt. 2
I meant for my writing here to focus on the paranormal and popular culture, but I find myself called to do another post about death;...
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Christine Skolnik
- Aug 16, 2020
- 1 min
Controlled Remote Viewing
I just took Lori Williams's free, online Controlled Remote Viewing short course and found her intelligent, credible, and a great teacher....
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Christine Skolnik
- Aug 8, 2020
- 5 min
Paranormal Communication and Instinct: An Asynchronous Chat with Terje Simonsen
In A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal Terje Simonsen invites us to engage in a thought experiment—to take seriously his...
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Christine Skolnik
- Aug 2, 2020
- 1 min
How Artificial Neural Networks Paved the Way For A Dramatic New Theory of Dreams
A provocative new theory out of machine learning and the neurosciences suggests dreams are a way of overcoming human "overfitting," the...
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Derek Lee
- Jun 23, 2020
- 4 min
Communion & UFO Epistemology
Communion has haunted me over 30 years. In 1987, Whitley Strieber published his now (in)famous account of alien abduction in which he was...
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Christine Skolnik
- Jun 14, 2020
- 1 min
How the coolest Marvel show jumped a high bar to become one of the worst portrayals of Arabs on TV
Reposted from RACEBAITR. Editor’s Note: This post contains spoilers of the FX show Legion. By A’isha Saleh I am one of Marvel’s biggest...
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Christine Skolnik
- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal
Reviews reposted from booktopia. Available in paperback and on Kindle June 9, 2020. A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal....
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Christine Skolnik
- May 31, 2020
- 5 min
Paradigms and Perils of Synchronicity, Part 1
Examples and explanations of synchronicity abound. There are many published theories and countless personal interpretations. When I first...
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Christine Skolnik
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
High Weirdness: latest from Erik Davis
"The Ravages of Revelation" by Rob Latham Excerpt from the Los Angeles Review of Books. OCTOBER 19, 2019 ERIK DAVIS’S NEW BOOK is at once...
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Timothy Grieve-Carlson
- Mar 28, 2020
- 6 min
Rethinking Skepticism, Pt. 1
With all of us in varying states of isolation during this difficult and uncertain time, we wanted to try something a bit more communal...
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Christine Skolnik
- Mar 23, 2020
- 1 min
Jeff Kripal's Secret Body
Secret Body addresses topics as diverse as Hindu Tantra, Christian mysticism, American counterculture, and the history of the paranormal.
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