Strange Dimensions: A Paranthropology Anthology - Edited by Jack Hunter
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About the Book
Editor: Jack Hunter
ISBN: 9781326360108 Binding: Paperback Pages: 440. It is from the paranormal’s multifaceted nature that the title of this book takes its meaning. Throughout its pages we encounter, time and again, talk of a wide variety of dimensions, levels and layers, from social, cultural, psychological and physiological dimensions, to spiritual, mythic, narrative, symbolic and experiential dimensions, and onwards to other worlds, planes of existence and realms of consciousness. The paranormal is, by its very nature, multidimensional. About the Editor
Jack Hunter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester. His research takes the form of an ethnographic study of contemporary trance and physical mediumship in Bristol, focusing on themes of personhood, performance, altered states of consciousness and anomalous experience.
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Endorsements:
"Once again, Jack Hunter takes us down the proverbial rabbit hole, here with the grace, nuance and sheer intelligence of a gifted team of essayists, each working in her or his own way toward new theories of history, consciousness, spirit, the imagination, the parapsychological, and the psychedelic. Another clear sign that there is high hope in high strangeness, and that we are entering a new era of thinking about religion, about mind, about us."
Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred