{"id":11222,"date":"2020-02-09T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2020-02-14T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T03:41:22","slug":"conference-on-current-pagan-studies-2-holing-up-in-claremont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Current Pagan Studies 2: Holing Up in Claremont"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunrise scene, Claremont station.<\/p><\/div>\n

Part 1: The Southwest Chief<\/a><\/p>\n

After killing time at Augie’s Coffee, I faced a mile walk through bosky Claremont to the hotel, but because of the roller bag, I gave in and summoned a Lyft driver. No need to put extra wear on the little plastic wheels. That is my story, and I am sticking to it.<\/p>\n

Expecting to be told that my room would not be ready until 2 p.m., I was happy to learn that I could have it right there at 8:30 a.m. I could sleep! Only I could not. Exercise is good, so I did walk about a mile to a copy-print shot to get fliers made up promoting The Pomegranate <\/em><\/a>and Jefferson Calico’s excellent new book on Heathenry, Being Viking.<\/a> \"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

I spotted a Trader Joe’s grocery near the hotel, and picked up a sandwich and a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck.((Charles Shaw wine, the grocery chain’s house brand, is priced at $1.99 for 750 ml, the same as a small bottle of water at the hotel. Now which is a better deal?)) Half a bottle gone, I finally slept.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Later, I spent the evening re-reading parts of George Hanson’s The Trickster and the Paranormal<\/a><\/em> (2001)<\/a>. This is not an easy book. Hanson was a paid university parapsychology researcher, one of a “club” of about fifty such people in the United States. As he points out, the budget of one paranormal-themed Hollywood movie is bigger than the budgets of all the programs such as his.<\/p>\n

The book is not an easy read. It goes into lots of area: sociological theory, history of paranormal researched, history and personalities of the professional skeptics (think CSICOP), the prevalence of cheating by psychics, etc. Hanson wonders why, when at least half of the population accepts some level of “psi” phenomena, it is so completely off the table for academic researchers. Likewise, scholars of religion are all about texts, not “woo.” They would rather discuss gender theory than people’s experience with divine power. (Hint: part of the problem is monotheism and the idea of a transcendent god who is outside of the cosmos.)<\/p>\n

There are exceptions, my favorite being Jeffrey Kripal at Rice University.<\/a> I want to blog about some of his newer work . . one of these days.<\/p>\n

And so to bed, because the next two days would be wall-to-wall sociability.<\/p>\n

Part 3: Harper Hall<\/a>
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