What is the paranormal? How can we make sense of out-of-the ordinary experiences? How can we study the paranormal—anthropologically? Please join Dr.Giovanna Parmigiani in a conversation with Dr. Jack Hunter about the anthropology of the paranormal.
“Paranthropology: The Anthropology of the Paranormal” is part of the CSWR’s new initiative, “Transcendence and Transformation.”
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, and a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where he is lead tutor on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and teaches on the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a lecturer on the Alef Trust’s MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. He is a Research Fellow with the Parapsychology Foundation, and a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association. In 2010 he founded Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal. He is the author of Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020) and Manifesting Spirits (2020), and is the editor of Mattering the Invisible (2020), Greening the Paranormal (2019), Damned Facts (2016) and Talking with the Spirits (2014). He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family. His website can be found at www.jack-hunter.webstarts.com
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