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Sam Stoeltje
Apr 21, 20207 min read
Cognitive 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...
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Christine Skolnik
Apr 17, 20201 min read
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
Review by Stephen Dawson Reposted from Reading Religion, February 25, 2019 Jeffrey J. Kripal’s The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the...
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Sam Stoeltje
Apr 12, 20201 min read
Black Quantum Futurism (stream)
We are so pleased to present here a stream of a talk given by Rasheedah Phillips, Esq. of the AfroFuturist Affair.
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Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Apr 9, 20205 min read
(Super)Nature Writing, Pt. 1
Paranormal presences and phenomena as nonhumans of concern in contemporary nature writing is a new variation on an old theme.
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Christine Skolnik
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Altered States of Consciousness: not to be missed
Marc Wittmann’s *Altered States of Consciousness* is an update of sorts on what’s happening along the trail William James blazed.
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Christine Skolnik
Apr 1, 20202 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Mar 14, 20205 min read
Speaking with Plants in the New York Times
“Reality has become rather strange lately, Tech billionaires are trying to colonize the moon. U.F.O.s appear to exist, in some capacity."
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Christine Skolnik
Mar 14, 20207 min read
Divine Invasions Part 3: Reflections on Jeffrey Kripal’s Corpus
Coda: The Authors Effect. In the introductory remarks to Part 1 of this series, I alluded to my personal journey through Kripal’s work. ...
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Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Mar 7, 20204 min read
Supernature 1
"Science no longer holds any absolute truths...I find this tremendously exciting." -Lyall Watson
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Christine Skolnik
Feb 29, 20203 min read
Introduction/Invocation
At last, the Paracultures blog manifests! But what is, or are, paracultures exactly?
In the spirit of anarchy, metaphysical and otherwise
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Christine Skolnik
Feb 24, 20204 min read
Divine Invasions Part 2
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2010) and Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics
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Christine Skolnik
Feb 15, 20202 min read
Scarabs & the ‘Send’ Button: Synchronicity as Misrecognized Psi
Reposted from The Nightshirt by Eric Wargo "The cosmos seemed to be serving up my guilt to me on a platter. But in fact, it was just...
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Christine Skolnik
Feb 15, 20206 min read
Putting on the Bear-Serk with Leo (The Revenant)
by Sam Stoeltje Why do I want to talk about The Revenant, a gruesome prestige picture from 2015? It is at least superficially a realist...
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Christine Skolnik
Feb 11, 20205 min read
Divine Invasions Part 1
by Christine Skolnik Below is the first of a three-part metareview of the scholarly work of Rice University Professor, Jeff Kripal, a...
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