Introduction
Jake Poller
Mapping the Psyche
1. Writing in the Space Between: Life After Death in the Fiction of Richard Matheson
Jennie Chapman
2. Psionic Boom: John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction and ‘psi-powers’ in
post-war science fiction
Brian Baker
3. Everyday Magic: Surrealism and Parapsychology
Gavin Parkinson
4. Precognition as a Problem of Heredity in the 1930s
kitt price
5. Divining the Distant Past: Altered Consciousness, the Paranormal, and
Archaeology
Olav Hammer
Millennialism
6. Alice A. Bailey and the Consciousness of the New Age
Tim Rudbøg
7. The Herald of the Christ: Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical Imagination
Jake Poller
8. Prism of Lyra: UFO Consciousness and Portals to Cosmic Awareness
Andrew Fergus Wilson
Entheogens
9. Carlos Castaneda and the Construction of Non-Ordinary Reality
Christopher Partridge
10. ‘The prophetic discernment of what is possible’: Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of
Perception and Bergsonian Mysticism
11. Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States: A Historical and
Phenomenological Analysis
Kevin Fisher
12. ‘Damned voice in my head’: Jean Rhys and Drunken Consciousness
Steven Earnshaw
Biography
Jake Poller recently contributed a chapter to The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge, 2018). His articles have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including Aries, Literature and Theology, D.H. Lawrence Review and the Aldous Huxley Annual.
