Ep 114 - Engaging The Anomalous With Dr. Jack Hunter Paranthropology, Alien Abductions, Multiverse

Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family. His doctoral research with the University of Bristol examined the experiences of spirit mediums and their influence on the development of self-concepts and models of consciousness, and is an effort towards a non-reductive anthropology of the paranormal. He is the author of Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic (2012) and Engaging the Anomalous (2018), editor of Strange Dimensions: A Paranthropology Anthology (2015), Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal (2016), and co-editor with Dr. David Luke of Talking With the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds (2014). SUPPORT OUR SHOW ON PATREON! We are only asking for $2/month. We appreciate your love and support! Subjects covered: Who is Dr. Jack Hunter? Why Jack stepped out of the paranormal closet? Understanding the human experience through the paranormal Jack's own paranormal experiences Psychedelic entities The multiverse of complexity Permaculture in relation to the paranormal Science accepting paranormal beliefs Spirit mediumship UFO experiences and alien abductions Trying too hard to rationalize the experience Entomological flooding Fortune telling Trickster element Power of doubt Jack's weirdest experience Opening of synchronicities Participating in the experience Can understanding the paranormal be beneficial in our daily life? Continued in our PLUS+ Extension: Jack's views on religion Religion and the paranormal Singularity Philosophy from paranormal knowledge Legitimate spirit mediumship vs charlatans Fraud in mediumship Bigfoot

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This episode was published on Aug 13, 2018.

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