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Acknowledgements | |
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An Impossible Opening: The Magical Politics of Bobby Kennedy | |
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Introduction: Off the Page | |
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Definitions and Broken Lineages | |
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Restoring a Lineage | |
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Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal as Meaning | |
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The Fantastic Narrative of Western Occulture: The Paranormal as Story | |
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The Book As Seance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research | |
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After Life | |
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Myers and the Founding of the S.P.R. | |
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The Subliminal Gothic: The Human as Two | |
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The Supernormal and Evolution: The World as Two | |
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Telepathy: The Communications Technology of the Spirit | |
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The Perfect Insect of the Imaginal | |
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The Telepathic and the Erotic: Myers's Platonic Speech | |
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Scattering the Seeds of a Super-Story: Charles Fort and the Fantastic Narrative of Western Occulture | |
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The Parable of the Peaches: Fort's Mischievous Monistic Life | |
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Collecting and Classifying the Data of the Damned: Fort's Comparative Method | |
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The Three Eras or Dominants: Fort's Philosophy of History | |
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The Philosophy of the Hyphen: Fort's Dialectical Monism | |
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Galactic Colonialism: Fort's Science Mysticism and Dark Mythology | |
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Evolution, Wild Talents, and the Poltergeist Girls: Fort's Magical Anthropology | |
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The Future Technology of Folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO Phenomenon | |
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Forbidden Science (1957-69) | |
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Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (1969) | |
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The Invisible College {1975) | |
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The Present Technology of Folklore: Computer Technology and Remote Viewing in the Psychic Underground | |
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The Alien Contact Trilogy and the Mature Multiverse Gnosis Sub Rosa: The Three Secrets | |
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The Hermeneutics of Light: The Cave Become Window | |
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HAetoahin the Human Sciences to Consciousness: Bertrand M�heust and the Sociology of the Impossible | |
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A Double Premise | |
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M�heust and the Master | |
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Science Fiction and Flying Saucers | |
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The Challenge of the Magnetic and the Shock of the Psychical | |
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"If Only One of These Facts...": The Impossible Case of Alexis Didier | |
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The Collective Mind: Bateson, De Martino, Vallee, and Jung | |
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Agent X: Projection Theory Turned Back on Itself | |
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Conclusion: Back on the Page | |
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The Eclipse of the Sacred and the Psyche in Modern Oblivion | |
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Consciousness, Culture, and Cognition: The Fantastic Structure of the Mind-Brain | |
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From Realization to Authorization: Toward a Hermeneutics of the Impossible | |
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Impossible (Dis) Closings: Turn Youthful Encounters | |
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Required Reading (That is Never Read): A Select Annotated Bibliography | |
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Some More Dammed Ahechote | |
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Index | |