Friends, I am delighted to report that this week I begin rolling out on Substack my seven-episode limited historical podcast, Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real.
Recording this historical and human journey into parapsychology for SpectreVisionRadio was a literal dream come true. Composer and sound designer Dean Hurley (Twin Peaks: The Return, et al.) wrote the score. Producer Jim Perry (Euphomet) elevated my efforts across the board. Editor Jon McEdward made it all sing.
Here is our aim and an episode breakdown:
Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real is a seven-episode limited podcast on the history, struggles, and proofs of parapsychology, the science of studying the supernatural. In each hourlong audio episode, occult historian Mitch Horowitz (“solid gold”—David Lynch) uses revealing, stringently documented historical and scientific data, interviews and archival recordings, to explore the dramatic rise, attacks on, and revolutionary findings of parapsychology in areas from ESP and precognition to after-death survival and reincarnation.
Episode 1: Moonrise | The dawn of parapsychology as a science, commencing humanity’s effort to clinically study, map, and codify the supernatural.
Episode 2: Institute for Experimental Religion | How parapsychology—or scientific study of the supernatural—transformed and grew into a lab-based, academically rigorous, if controversial, field.
Episode 3: Mushroom X | Parapsychology enters the Age of Aquarius and psychedelia—and the remarkable and replicable clinical findings that follow it.
Episode 4: The Empire Strikes Back | The rise of professional skepticism—and how the most vociferous partisans, or pseudo-skeptics, obfuscated veritable and replicable data supporting the existence of psychical abilities, even concealing their own confirmatory studies.
Episode 5: Reincarnation, Randomness, and Retrocausality | We explore some of the most remarkable and widely replicated findings from parapsychology, including evidence for reincarnation, precognition, retrocausality, and existence of a global consciousness.
Episode 6: Pink Buckets, parts one and two | A special two-act conclusion considers the Holy Grail of parapsychology: a theory of how ESP and other psychical abilities actually work. How particle physics, multiverse, special relativity, and psychical research converge to reveal a world where not only is ESP a genuine probability but a logical necessity.
Accompanying each episode is my brief written historical supplement and selected source notes.
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And do not miss this multi-media presentation, which previews some of my themes:
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