What Magic is This?: Charles Fort

What Magic is This?: Charles Fort

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Douglas Batchelor 

Fish falling from the sky. People disappearing from one area only to be found in another. People igniting on fire for no reason. Such phenomena was finally given a voice in the early 20th Century all thanks to one man- Charles Fort. The word ‘Fortean’ is used by some to describe this phenomena but the thing is, cataloguing strange instances when reality seems to get weird should not be the only thing that Charles Fort is known for. The man who invented the Supernatural (a term Charles despised) has much insight into the odd currents of our reality and deserves a bit more respect, especially as things start to get much more strange.

Show Notes

• The Complete Works of Charles Fort
  
• Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Must Read
  
• The Book of the Damned – Free Audiobook
  
• Intermediatism and the Study of Religion by Dr. Jack Hunter – Great Essay
  
• No Limestone in the Sky: The Politics of Damned Facts by Amba J. Sepie – Also Great
  
• Many Parts: Remnants of an Autobiography by Charles Hoy Fort
  
• The Correspondence of, and to, Charles Hoy Fort
  
• Reclaiming the Damned: Toward a new understanding of Bigfoot, flying saucers, leprechauns and other inconvenient realities by Mitch Horowitz
  
• The Dominant of Witchcraft – Gordon White on The Higherside Chats – Gordon also has a mind-blowing presentation about the Dominant of Witchcraft if you are a Rune Soup Premium Member
  
• Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort by Colin Bennett
  
• Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer – The Best Biography on Charles Fort, no contest
  
• Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal Edited by Dr. Jack Hunter
  
• The Damned Universe of Charles Fort Edited by Louis Kaplan
  
• The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Must Read
  
• Robert Kirk
  
• Theodore Dreiser – Fort’s best buddy
  
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn – Fort beat this fella to this idea by 40 Years (and better)
  

Some of his work is available as free PDF.

https://www.pdfdrive.com/search?q=charle...rchin=&em=