– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Vallee’s method here is quite interesting. He begins with the hypothesis that the absurd is meaningful, that the dilemma signals new thought, that we…
Eric Gable on becoming an insider
– Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau (2010) Several months later I shared another, far more momentous, meal. I was attending an initiation ritual for blacksmiths. Among Manjaco, as in much of…
Tanya Luhrmann on laboratary psychiatry & grants
– Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (2001) In the summer of 1994, I called Randy Gollub because a senior psychiatrist had described her to me as a star. (Unless otherwise indicated,…
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Debbora Battaglia (& Charles Peirce) on abduction
– “For Those Who Are Not Afraid of the Future”: Raëlian Clonehood in the Public Sphere I am aware that it could seem almost weird to propose recovering the concept of abduction from pragmatic philosophy,…
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Jeffrey Kripal (& Charles Fort) on ‘oneness of allness’
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) But it is precisely that “though not absolutely” that haunts us here. For Fort also suggested that all of these quasi systems with their…
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tokyo_vamp: the year is 1972, you’re receiving your MKULTRA programming, deep in a CIA warehouse, being dosed with high doses of LSD while being fed fascist activation phrases for possible assassination ops. you don’t realize…
Jeffrey Kripal on mystical overtones of evolution
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Little wonder, then, that Darwin shied away from the word evolution, citing its common mystical connotations as inappropriate to his own purely naturalistic understandings.…
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Jeffrey Kripal on the farming of the humans
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-creator of the evolutionary thesis with Darwin, attended the first official meeting of the Society for Psychical Research on February…
Jeffrey Kripal on trickstery
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) One of the most puzzling aspects of Spiritualism, and indeed of psychical and paranormal phenomena in general, is the confusing ways the seemingly genuine…
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