Category: Kenny Paul Smith
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The Wife Who Was Visited By Her Dead Husband
By Kenny Paul Smith In Beyond Knowing: Mysteries & Messages of Death & Life from a Forensic Pathologist (2006), Janis Amatuzio relates a remarkable and, yes, mysterious case she worked on in her decades-long career as a crime scene investigator. “As I started through the tunnel that connects the hospital and the professional building,” her…
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Are Vegan Athletes Tapping the Super-Natural?
By Kenny Paul Smith Being vegan, or better yet, eating a plant-based diet, is seriously hot right now, and has been for several years. As elegantly illustrated in the 2018 documentary, The Game Changers, it’s not only the ethical and environmentally responsible thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do for preserving, or even…
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American Magics And The Mirror Of Erised
By Kenny Paul Smith In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, a very young Harry stumbles upon The Mirror of Erised. This highly enchanted looking glass shows those who peer into it precisely what they most desire, for as long as they are willing to look, though it is unable to give them what it shows…
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Is Wonder Woman Your Therapist?
By Kenny Paul Smith In his superb study of superhero comics, graphic novels, and films, Jeff Kripal notes that, “contemporary American culture is awash in myth, magic, and the supernatural.” He has a point. Take a quick glance at the most profitable Hollywood films and TV shows over the past twenty years: alternate realities abound…
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The Horrification of the Paranormal
Kenny Paul Smith Search “Paranormal” on Google Images. In a fraction of a second, tens of millions of images are returned, most of which implicitly define paranormal (i.e., that which is beyond the normal) in disturbing terms, to say the least: demonic possession, alien abduction, unseen forces slamming doors and hurling household objects left and…
Paranormal Culture: A Popular Journal in the Superhumanities! 