An impossible opening: the magical politics of Bobby Kennedy
Introduction: off the page : Definitions and broken lineages ; Restoring a lineage ; Authors of the impossible: the paranormal as meaning ; The fantastic narrative of western occulture: the paranormal as story
The book as séance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research : After life ; Myers and the founding of the S.P.R ; The subliminal gothic: the human as two ; The supernormal and evolution: the world as two ; Telepathy: the communications technology of the spirit ; The perfect insect of the imaginal ; The telepathic and the erotic: Myers's platonic speech
Scattering the seeds of a super-story: Charles Fort and the fantastic narrative of western occulture : The parable of the peaches: Fort's mischievous monistic life ; Collecting and classifying the data of the damned: Fort's comparative method ; The three eras or dominants: Fort's philosophy of history ; The philosophy of the hyphen: Fort's dialectical monism ; Galactic colonialism: Fort's science mysticism and dark mythology ; Evolution, wild talents, and the poltergeist girls: Fort's magical anthropology
The future technology of folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO phenomenon : Forbidden science (1957-69) ; Passport to Magonia: from folklore to flying saucers ; The invisible college ; The present technology of folklore: computer technology and remote viewing in the psychic underground ; The alien contact trilogy and the mature multiverse gnosis ; Sub rosa: the three secrets ; The hermeneutics of light: the cave become window
Returning the human sciences to consciousness: Bertrand Méheust and the sociology of the impossible : A double premise ; Méheust and the master ; Science fiction and flying saucers ; The challenge of the magnetic and the shock of the psychical ; "If only one of these facts . . .": the impossible case of Alexis Didier ; The collective mind: Bateson, De Martino, Vallee, and Jung ; Agent X: projection theory turned back on itself
Conclusion: back on the page : The eclipse of the sacred and psyche in modern oblivion ; Consciousness, culture, and cognition: the fantastic structure of the mind-brain ; From realization to authorization: toward a hermeneutics of the impossible
Impossible [dis]closings : two youthful encounters.
