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On Alien Authority and Angelic Mediation
“We are completely outside ourselves, and the world is completely inside us.”

Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Oct 1, 20204 min read


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...

Christine Skolnik
Sep 24, 20202 min read


Got Psi?
Reposted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences: Many people have had precognitive dreams or successful intuitive hunches and ask...

Christine Skolnik
Sep 18, 20201 min read


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...

Christine Skolnik
Sep 3, 20203 min read


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;...

Sam Stoeltje
Aug 24, 20206 min read


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....

Christine Skolnik
Aug 16, 20201 min read


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...

Christine Skolnik
Aug 8, 20205 min read


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...

Christine Skolnik
Aug 2, 20201 min read


Eric Wargo Beyond the Observer Effect, with Japanese Subtitles
Paracultures highly recommends . . . John Craig’s interview with Eric Wargo titled “Precogntion and Time Loops” on the Japanese webcast,...

Christine Skolnik
Jul 22, 20201 min read


Bridges, Literacy, and Visionary Education
I’m so pleased to post the first of six short excerpts from A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers –...

Christine Skolnik
Jul 11, 20205 min read


Frankissstein
Excerpt from Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson Lake Geneva, 1816 "[ . . .] "That night we sat around the steaming fire...

Christine Skolnik
Jul 2, 20201 min read


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...

Derek Lee
Jun 23, 20204 min read


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...

Christine Skolnik
Jun 14, 20201 min read


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....

Christine Skolnik
Jun 8, 20204 min read


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...

Christine Skolnik
May 31, 20205 min read


Death, Transformation, and the Virtues of Composting
Composting, in this light, becomes an act of almost miraculously potent healing. And so we would participate in this ritual, interacting wit

Sam Stoeltje
May 26, 20205 min read


Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious
"Book Review Time Loops. Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious, by Eric Wargo" Reviewed by Robert A. Charman Reposted from...

Christine Skolnik
May 15, 20201 min read


“TIME TRAVEL NARRATIVE TECHNOLOGY”
Reposted form TILT: The Institute for Love and Time A strong future orientation, or habitually planning for a positive future, is...

Christine Skolnik
May 5, 20201 min read


Haunt the Walk: (Super)Nature Writing, Pt 2
...the paranormal is inextricably connected with rural and wild environments in our contemporary imagination.

Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Apr 27, 20206 min read


I Understand Philip K. Dick
Excerpts from “Afterword” by Terence Mckenna, In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis, Philip K. Dick, edited by Lawrence...

Christine Skolnik
Apr 24, 20202 min read
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