Dear Subscribers,

Some of you may be interested in the following new publication:

'Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal' -
Edited by Jack Hunter.

Available through Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Damned-Facts-Religion-Folklore-Paranormal/dp/9963221424/177-9581606-0776029?ie=UTF8&keywords=damned%20facts%20jack%20hunter&qid=1462883941&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr

...and Amazon.co.uk:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Damned-Facts-Religion-Folklore-Paranormal/dp/9963221424?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc

Here are a couple of blurbs:

'Jack Hunter's Damned Facts, a collection of well-researched and closely
argued essays into all things anomalous, presents some delightful,
fascinating, and eye-brow raising evidence that there are more things in
heaven and earth-and anywhere in between-than are dreamed of in practically
anyone's philosophy. Taking their cue from the original anomalist, Charles
Fort, who argued that mystery begins everywhere, Hunter and his
contributors plunge headfirst into some deep waters and drag up to the
surface enough oddities to satisfy even the most discerning taste in the
unusual. It's my bet that Fort himself would have been damned proud.'

- Gary Lachman <https://www.facebook.com/gary.lachman.3>, author of
Revolutionaries of the Soul and The Secret Teachers of the Western World.

'I have a confession to make. My secret inner reaction to claims of
anomalous phenomena is usually this: we haven't yet converged to even a
half-decent ontology to explain the ordinary, why bother with the
extra-ordinary? What this fascinating book does, however, is to disrupt our
attempts to draw neat and smooth boundaries around what we consider real.
The damned facts discussed in it spoil our elegant tentative models.
Frankly, it's damn annoying. But books like this are also crucially
important to keep us honest, insofar as our pursuit is for the truth, not
merely intellectual reassurance.'

- Bernardo Kastrup <https://www.facebook.com/BernardoKastrup/>, author of
Why Materialism is Baloney and More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth
and Belief.
Over the course of four ground-breaking books published between 1919-1932,
Charles Fort gathered thousands of accounts of weird events and experiences
that seemed to upset the established models of mainstream science and
religion. In order to explore these events Fort developed the philosophy of
Intermediatism, whereby all phenomena (from the most mundane to the most
extraordinary), are understood to partake of a quasi-existence, neither
real nor unreal. It is from this indeterminate vantage point that the
chapters in this book begin their investigations...

Foreword - Damned Comparisons and the Real - Jeffrey J. Kripal

Introduction - Intermediatism and the Study of Religion - Jack Hunter

Chapter 1 - No Limestone in the Sky: The Politics of Damned Facts - Amba J.
Sepie

Chapter 2 - The Methodologies of Radical Empiricism: The Experiential
Worlds of William James and Charles Fort - Timothy Grieve-Carlson

Chapter 3 - Extraordinary Religious/Anomalous Cases from Brazil and the
Fortean Approach - Wellington Zangari, Fatima Regina Machado,
Everton de Oliveira Maraldi and Leonardo Breno Martins

Chapter 4 - A New Demonology: John Keel and The Mothman Prophecies - David
Clarke

Chapter 5 - UFO Abductions as Mystical Encounter: Faerie Folklore in W.Y.
Evans-Wentz, Jacques Vallée, and Whitley Strieber - Robin Jarrell

Chapter 6 - Misunderstanding Myth as History: The Case of British-Israelism
- David V. Barrett

Chapter 7 - The Transmediumizers - Eden S. French & Christopher Laursen

Chapter 8 - The Mirror Maze: True Reflections of the Hyperprophets - James
Harris

Chapter 9 - Implications of a Paranormal Labyrinth - Roberta Harris Short

All the best,

Jack.

-- 
Jack Hunter

PhD Candidate, Dept. Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol.

Visiting Lecturer, Dept. Theology & Religious Studies, University of
Chester.

Lecturer, Religious Studies, North Shropshire College.

Co-Editor with Dr. David Luke of 'Talking With the Spirits: Ethnographies
from Between the Worlds
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Spirits-Ethnographies-Between-Worlds/dp/0987422448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410249897&sr=8-1&keywords=talking+with+the+spirits>
'

Editor of 'Strange Dimensions: A Paranthropology Anthology'
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Dimensions-Jack-Hunter/dp/1326360108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439553226&sr=8-1&keywords=strange+dimensions+jack+hunter>

Author of 'Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic: A Beginner's
Introduction to the Anthropology of the Paranormal
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/People-Believe-Spirits-Magic-Paranormal-ebook/dp/B00B03HSDI/ref=la_B00JAO94FO_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410291715&sr=1-7>
'

www.paranthropology.co.uk

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