Modern Fictions – How the Sacred Manifests in Chaos, Superheroes and Outer Spaces
Gnostic ideas are being gnawed over, processed, and consumed in ever more popular forms of culture. Perhaps through the loss of our gods we have had to become our own multiple gods, as we realized a need to fill a vacuum left by myth.
Radiation: Metaphysical Energies and Super Sexualities
Einsteinian physics and the atomic bombing of Japan birthed an era of global anxiety and metaphysical awe. Thus the major mythemes of science fiction and the comic book superhero came to play a special role in the early 1960s and the American counterculture.
Edgewalker: An Interview with Jeffrey J. Kripal
Jeffrey J. Kripal is one of the most unusual scholars of religion working in America today. His interests include superhero
comics, the paranormal, UFO research, the
human potential movement, and the mystical experiences of religious scholars.