A defense of Lévy-Bruhl’s participation mystique as a real mode of consciousness that explains ritual, religion, and group minds better than its critics admit.
Participation Mystique and the Many Ways to Be a Mind
History - Research Articles
Linguists of the Word, Unite!
How the Soviet Union’s unique mix of ideology and academia produced an outsized cadre of linguists obsessed with linking the world’s languages.
Christopher Columbus’s Esoteric Ties and New World Rumors
An exploration of Christopher Columbus’s possible esoteric influences, including Renaissance Hermeticism and Medici patronage, and the pre-1492 rumors of lands across the Atlantic.
Phoenicians in the Americas: A Chronological Analysis of a Controversial Theory
A comprehensive historical analysis of claims that Phoenician sailors reached the Americas before Columbus, examining evidence and scholarly debate from classical antiquity to modern times.
Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic Contact: Current Knowledge and Debate
A comprehensive analysis of evidence and scholarly debate surrounding pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact between the Americas and Old World civilizations.
Medici and the Americas: Foreknowledge?
Survey of speculative theories on pre-Columbian knowledge of the Americas and possible Medici foreknowledge.