Can’t drive off the cliff if you’re really really good at building roads quickly
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Can’t drive off the cliff if you’re really really good at building roads quickly
Life changing magazine. Thank you Jay.
Here's an excerpt from a piece I'm working on for a talk at Ephrata this fall:
Nice!!
This week I’m digging into a very gnarly 18th century (!) poltergeist/seance account from Pennsylvania for a talk at Ephrata this fall.
"...Such an analysis does not require the scholar to share the conclusions of tradition, but it does allow the reaching of such conclusions to be seen as other than stupid.
"I think that the present study has amply demonstrated that at least some apparently fantastic beliefs are in fact empirically grounded and that that the empirical data have been dealt with rationally by those who have assimilated these experiences to their world views...
I love this concluding passage to David Hufford's 1982 book The Terror that Comes in the Night:
"Countless articles and books on supernatural belief have stated that such belief is irrational and, sometimes even by definition, not empirically grounded.
Glad you found it worthwhile, Daniel!
A man points towards a small island in a roadway with a gnarled massive banyan tree. It is “the grievous tree of ba chuc”
Cant stop thinking about this piece @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social sent me about a tree in Ba Chuc Vietnam that witnessed a massacre of 3157 civilians in 1978, a similar kind of witness to some of the trees here that lived through genocide/war. The Brompton Oak in Fburg saw 18000 casualties in one day.
Very pleased to finally share a new open-access issue of Correspondences: A Journal of Esotericism on ecology and esotericism.
Featuring work from Harry Danon, Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke, Susannah Crockford, Tjalling D. Janssen, and Anna Milon.
correspondencesjournal.com/volume-12/is...
Wrote a little post for the @harvardcswr.bsky.social Thinking with Plants and Fungi blog about supernatural plant communion in Algernon Blackwood:
cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/04...
The #climatechange of the Little Ice Age forced radical thinkers to reconsider humanity’s place in the universe.
🔓 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
I wrote a short piece about religious understandings of early modern climate for History Today:
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
I had a lot of fun talking about American Aurora at the Ephrata Cloisters this morning.
Amazing John Cleese quote in this piece:
“I think it is absolutely astonishing and quite disgraceful, the way that orthodox contemporary, materialistic reductionist theory treats all the things — and there are so many of them — that they can’t begin to explain.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/s...
"The whole history of forest entomology is rife with X-Files imagery and language—its mysterious emergent organisms, its vast bureaucracy of government control and eradication."
From our 2023 series Jose Chung's December Issue.
Interesting too that as in the 20th century, the francophone world seems to be a step ahead of the anglophone on the ufo phenomenon!
Southeastern PA folks: I'm giving a talk about Johannes Kelpius and early Pennsylvania Pietism and Christian mysticism at the Ephrata Cloisters in the morning on January 9th:
ephratacloister.org/events/winte...
Podcast Wednesday! Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora #Podcast #History #Climate #Religion #Mysticism #Paranormal @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social
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Update from Sphere HQ: Episode 126 is out next week! My guest is @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social, who joined me to discuss his fantastic recent book 'American Aurora' and the unusual life of Johannes Kelpius - a theologian, mystic, hermit and much more. Available Wednesday! #Podcast #History #Paranormal
Dear #aarsbl #aarsbl24 friends, the Esotericism Unit has our first panel AND business meeting at 12:30 today (CC-28B), come on down to hear three excellent papers on esotericism and violent extremism AND to have your say in the work of the unit going forward!!
Many many thanks to the PA German Society and everyone who came out on Thursday night in Philly to talk about American Aurora.
I was very psyched to talk about the book in the same library where I did much of the original research and translation for it back when I was a Library Fellow in 2021.
