Christine SkolnikSep 4, 20203 minAncient 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...
Sam StoeltjeAug 24, 20206 minFireflies as UFOs, or, Fear of Flying Pt. 2I meant for my writing here to focus on the paranormal and popular culture, but I find myself called to do another post about death;...
Christine SkolnikAug 16, 20201 minControlled Remote ViewingI just took Lori Williams's free, online Controlled Remote Viewing short course and found her intelligent, credible, and a great teacher....
Christine SkolnikAug 8, 20205 minParanormal Communication and Instinct: An Asynchronous Chat with Terje SimonsenIn A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal Terje Simonsen invites us to engage in a thought experiment—to take seriously his...
Christine SkolnikAug 2, 20201 minHow Artificial Neural Networks Paved the Way For A Dramatic New Theory of DreamsA provocative new theory out of machine learning and the neurosciences suggests dreams are a way of overcoming human "overfitting," the...
Christine SkolnikJul 22, 20201 minEric Wargo Beyond the Observer Effect, with Japanese SubtitlesParacultures highly recommends . . . John Craig’s interview with Eric Wargo titled “Precogntion and Time Loops” on the Japanese webcast,...
Christine SkolnikJul 11, 20205 minBridges, Literacy, and Visionary EducationI’m so pleased to post the first of six short excerpts from A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers –...
Christine SkolnikJul 2, 20201 minFrankisssteinExcerpt from Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson Lake Geneva, 1816 "[ . . .] "That night we sat around the steaming fire...
Derek LeeJun 24, 20204 minCommunion & UFO EpistemologyCommunion has haunted me over 30 years. In 1987, Whitley Strieber published his now (in)famous account of alien abduction in which he was...
Christine SkolnikJun 14, 20201 minHow the coolest Marvel show jumped a high bar to become one of the worst portrayals of Arabs on TVReposted 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 SkolnikJun 8, 20204 minA Short History of (Nearly) Everything ParanormalReviews reposted from booktopia. Available in paperback and on Kindle June 9, 2020. A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal....
Christine SkolnikMay 31, 20205 minParadigms and Perils of Synchronicity, Part 1Examples and explanations of synchronicity abound. There are many published theories and countless personal interpretations. When I first...
Sam StoeltjeMay 27, 20205 minDeath, Transformation, and the Virtues of CompostingComposting, in this light, becomes an act of almost miraculously potent healing. And so we would participate in this ritual, interacting wit
Christine SkolnikMay 25, 20202 minLumina rue: a dream. . . The “teahouse” wasn’t a restaurant or shop but a kind of library. There was no one inside but there were signs prominently...
Christine SkolnikMay 15, 20201 minPrecognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious"Book Review Time Loops. Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious, by Eric Wargo" Reviewed by Robert A. Charman Reposted from...
Christine SkolnikMay 5, 20201 min“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...
Timothy Grieve-CarlsonApr 27, 20206 minHaunt the Walk: (Super)Nature Writing, Pt 2...the paranormal is inextricably connected with rural and wild environments in our contemporary imagination.
Christine SkolnikApr 24, 20202 minI Understand Philip K. DickExcerpts from “Afterword” by Terence Mckenna, In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis, Philip K. Dick, edited by Lawrence...
Sam StoeltjeApr 21, 20207 minCognitive difference in Horse Girl and elsewhere: The Cassandra Complex Pt. 1“For God sakes, Owen, listen to me – he knew about the boy in Fresno and he says three billion people are going to die!” “Kathryn, you...
Christine SkolnikApr 18, 20201 minThe Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of KnowledgeReview by Stephen Dawson Reposted from Reading Religion, February 25, 2019 Jeffrey J. Kripal’s The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the...