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Tim Grieve-Carlson

@tgrievecarlson.bsky.social
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Historian of American religions, ecology, esotericism Author: American Aurora with OUP (2024) www.timothygrieve-carlson.net open.substack.com/pub/timothygrieve…

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Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked @tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rounding out the roundtable is @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social a phenomenal scholar of religion who can be found at Never More Real & elsewhere, check out his work! If you’re in the neighborhood, follow the PGH UFO Club he formed for events and book club meetings. timothygrievecarlson.substack.com
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Never More Real | Timothy Grieve-Carlson | Substack
Research dispatches on the paranormal, history & folklore, ecology, etc. Currently working on a book about the weirdness of early modern climate change https://www.timothygrieve-carlson.net. Click...
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Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked @tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
PA fringe researchers unite in a wide-ranging conversation, crossing the streams even though Egon warned us. In a casual format, we cover cryptids, UFOs, spirituality, & more in this crossover ep with Consensus Unreality, hosted by the wonderful Dave & Ben. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/33-squonk-...
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[#33] SQUONK TALK 1: Cryptid lore, UFOs and Religion, Conspiracy Chatter, Manson, Mirage Men and More (CU Crossover)
Listen now | In a meeting of the minds, Ben and Dave from Consensus Unreality host yours truly and Timothy Grieve-Carlson of Never More Real for a broad Pennsylvaniac convo.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Nova Religio is doing a special issue on religion and disclosure. Papers on any related topic welcome. Get in touch if you have any questions.
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Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked @tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What's all the UAP hubbub? I try to answer in "The Disclosure Conundrum: Who to Trust When You Should Trust No One"—a piece on recent UFO releases, the uneventful days after revelation, & how to find the real flying saucer within us all—the one that matters. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/the-disclo...
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The Disclosure Conundrum: Who to Trust When You Should Trust No One
On recent UFO releases, the uneventful days after revelation, and finding the real flying saucer within us all—the one that truly matters.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Life changing magazine. Thank you Jay.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Here's an excerpt from a piece I'm working on for a talk at Ephrata this fall:
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The Ghosts of Longmarsh Run, 1761
[This is an excerpt from a piece I’m working on now for a talk at the Ephrata Cloisters on September 19th (probably no tix available yet but if you’re local and want to come, let me know).
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’m doing this now: open.substack.com/pub/timothyg...
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Never More Real | Timothy Grieve-Carlson | Substack
Research dispatches on the paranormal, history & folklore, ecology, etc. Currently working on a book about the weirdness of early modern climate change https://www.timothygrieve-carlson.net. Click...
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This week I’m digging into a very gnarly 18th century (!) poltergeist/seance account from Pennsylvania for a talk at Ephrata this fall.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I love this concluding passage to David Hufford's 1982 book The Terror that Comes in the Night: "Countless articles and books on supernatural belief have stated that such belief is irrational and, sometimes even by definition, not empirically grounded.
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Cant stop thinking about this piece @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social sent me about a tree in Ba Chuc Vietnam that witnessed a massacre of 3157 civilians in 1978, a similar kind of witness to some of the trees here that lived through genocide/war. The Brompton Oak in Fburg saw 18000 casualties in one day.
A man points towards a small island in a roadway with a gnarled massive banyan tree. It is “the grievous tree of ba chuc”
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Very pleased to finally share a new open-access issue of Correspondences: A Journal of Esotericism on ecology and esotericism. Featuring work from Harry Danon, Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke, Susannah Crockford, Tjalling D. Janssen, and Anna Milon. correspondencesjournal.com/volume-12/is...
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wrote a little post for the @harvardcswr.bsky.social Thinking with Plants and Fungi blog about supernatural plant communion in Algernon Blackwood: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/04...
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New Names for Very Old Ideas: Theosophy and Vitalism in Algernon Blackwood’s "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" | Center for the Study of World Religions
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History Today @historytoday.com · 23/01/2025
The #climatechange of the Little Ice Age forced radical thinkers to reconsider humanity’s place in the universe. 🔓 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I wrote a short piece about religious understandings of early modern climate for History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I had a lot of fun talking about American Aurora at the Ephrata Cloisters this morning.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Amazing John Cleese quote in this piece: “I think it is absolutely astonishing and quite disgraceful, the way that orthodox contemporary, materialistic reductionist theory treats all the things — and there are so many of them — that they can’t begin to explain.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/s...
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Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It.
Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"The whole history of forest entomology is rife with X-Files imagery and language—its mysterious emergent organisms, its vast bureaucracy of government control and eradication." From our 2023 series Jose Chung's December Issue.
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A Nice Trip To The Forest
With so many crop dusters, somebody’s bound to see a UFO.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Southeastern PA folks: I'm giving a talk about Johannes Kelpius and early Pennsylvania Pietism and Christian mysticism at the Ephrata Cloisters in the morning on January 9th: ephratacloister.org/events/winte...
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Winter History Class 2025 - Historic Ephrata Cloister
01/09/2025 - 02/27/2025 @ 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Historic Ephrata’s Cloister annual Winter History Class is back for 2025, offering a deep dive into history over eight engaging weeks of sessions. Held o...
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Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Podcast Wednesday! Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora #Podcast #History #Climate #Religion #Mysticism #Paranormal @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
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Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora
Podcast Episode · Some Other Sphere · 04/12/2024 · 1h 13m
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Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Update from Sphere HQ: Episode 126 is out next week! My guest is @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social, who joined me to discuss his fantastic recent book 'American Aurora' and the unusual life of Johannes Kelpius - a theologian, mystic, hermit and much more. Available Wednesday! #Podcast #History #Paranormal
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Dear #aarsbl #aarsbl24 friends, the Esotericism Unit has our first panel AND business meeting at 12:30 today (CC-28B), come on down to hear three excellent papers on esotericism and violent extremism AND to have your say in the work of the unit going forward!!
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Many many thanks to the PA German Society and everyone who came out on Thursday night in Philly to talk about American Aurora. I was very psyched to talk about the book in the same library where I did much of the original research and translation for it back when I was a Library Fellow in 2021.
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Tim Grieve-Carlson @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
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