Review of Simon Young’s edited anthology of essays examining a classic Fortean mystery: the Wollaton Gnomes.
Category: Comparative Religion
Review: Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion: Revised Edition – Darren W. Ritson
A review of Darren Ritson’s absorbing study of poltergeist parallels and poltergeist ‘contagion.’
Reached By The ‘Real’: What Might Religious and Spiritual Experience Be Telling Us About What Reality Really Is?
What might religious and spiritual experiences be telling us? Are they simply tricks of the mind or might they be telling us something about what ultimate reality, ultimately, is?
A Crafty Unlocking: Covid-19 and Other Shapeshifters
Examining Covid-19 through the lens of ‘trickster studies.’ Is there a ‘bigger picture’ of the pandemic that involves no conspiracy theories whatsoever yet still allows us to see hidden things beneath the surface of recent events? If so, what might that bigger picture be?
Review: American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology – Diana Pasulka
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D. W. Pasulka. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. ISBN: 9780190692889. Hardback: 269 pp. Having… Read more Review: American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology – Diana Pasulka
Review: Deliverance: Everyday Investigations Into Poltergeists, Ghosts and Other Supernatural Phenomena By An Anglican Priest – Jason Bray
Deliverance: Everyday Investigations Into Poltergeists, Ghosts and Other Supernatural Phenomena By An Anglican priest by Jason Bray. Coronet, London, 2020.… Read more Review: Deliverance: Everyday Investigations Into Poltergeists, Ghosts and Other Supernatural Phenomena By An Anglican Priest – Jason Bray
The Other Side Of Death: C.S Lewis and Near-Death Experiences
What would C.S Lewis have made of what we now call ‘Near-Death Experiences’? Clues from his other writings allow a tantalizing glimpse of what he might have said.
C.S. Lewis, Covid-19 and Spirituality
What is Covid-19 teaching us about human spirituality? Is it teaching us anything new? If so, what might that be?
Review: ‘Death, The Gateway To Life: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Near-Death Experiences’ by Shirley Firth & Joanna Wilson (eds.)
Review of a published collection of papers given at the conference, ‘Is Heaven for Real? Significant Implications of Near-Death Experiences’ held at the University of Winchester in July 2016.
What is Love?
What is love? Can we define it? Should we even try? Maybe it’s something that we can only, essentially, feel.… Read more What is Love?