Sublime

Our future changes the meanings of their past.

But any adequate understanding of their past will also inevitably challenge our own present assumptions about the world and so change the meanings of our present.

What appears to the experiencer, after all, is a part of culture. Indeed, one of my deepest intuitions that I will play out in these pages is that the paranormal is culture working in heretofore unimagined ways—expressing itself, yes, but also overcoming,

we are forever limiting ourselves to this or that identity, culture, or religion, exclusively believing our belief systems and mythologies (including our scientific ones) and not looking “behind” them to know the presence that is creating or projecting th

paranormal phenomena are essentially pieces or parts of ourselves that we have projected outward, usually in a traumatic situation or because of a previous trauma and its dissociative nature. These things are projected outward so that we can read them and

there is a class of conscious experiences that come with a degree of lucidity uncommon in normal life. By and large, their mere existence was denied by science until the last century, and their study was consigned to the intellectual hinterlands of psychology, at the intersection of spiritualism, the paranormal, and the esoteric. But they are nothi