This is the audio version of my essay on the history of the idea of a “modern heaven” with angels and aliens in it, and how American religion and literature internalized that idea in the 19th century.
Skeptic Spirit
The Heart Is A Hyperdrive: How Emanuel Swedenborg Talked To Aliens In 1758 (Audio)
The Heart Is A Hyperdrive: How Emanuel Swedenborg Talked To Aliens In 1758 (Audio)
And shaped the modern spiritual imagination
Skeptic Spirit
Essays on the supernatural, especially the transition of Theosophy into flying saucer cults.
Essays on the supernatural, especially the transition of Theosophy into flying saucer cults.Recent Episodes
