Anomaly Academy 2024-08 – August – Joshua Cutchin
This was the Anomaly Academy lecture event for August 2024 brought to you by the nonprofit Anomaly Archives. Each month we host a fascinating presentation from fellow Anomalists and Fortean Seekers. Each month’s presentation becomes part of a growing back-catalog of content available to our community of Patreon members. This month’s presentation is by Joshua Cutchin.
“SoulCraft: Understanding the UFO as a Death Symbol”
We live our entire lives knowing that death awaits us. The hopeful believe—they insist—that some part of us endures after we make our final transition. Their convictions are corroborated by eyewitnesses who swear to have seen spirits of the dead haunting the living… and even appearing during alien abductions.
Is the UFO mystery reaching out to us from beyond the stars… or from beyond the grave?
This staggering implication demands not only scrutiny of the UFO phenomenon but nearly every unexplained mystery haunting us today. In this first of two volumes, Joshua Cutchin takes readers on a methodical journey through ancient traditions to lay the crucial foundation for a new mythology of death and the paranormal.
Welcome to the ecology of souls.
From altered states of consciousness and hauntings to ancient civilizations and UFOs, paranormal phenomena seem to share a common suite of attributes. But why do these disparate fields have so much in common?
The answer may have been hiding in plain sight: death, the greatest mystery of all, binds together the entirety of the supernatural.
Drawing upon a wealth of supporting evidence from his first entry, Joshua Cutchin concludes Ecology of Souls with an exploration of how death manifests both across the UFO phenomenon as well as in sightings of cryptids, those animals whose very existence conventional science denies. A shocking possibility reveals itself: that supposed “extraterrestrials” may be more invested in souls than spaceships… and, in fact, may not be so alien after all.
“Prior to pursuing his dream of becoming a full-time author and musician in 2015, Joshua Cutchin served as Public Affairs Director of the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music for three years.
He is the author of seven critically-acclaimed books: [from] 2015’s A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch (translated into Spanish as Banquete Troyano); [to] 2018’s Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions; [to] In 2022, … his two-part masterwork: Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal.
Cutchin has been featured on the hit History Channel television show Ancient Aliens as well as in the documentaries I Believe in Bigfoot, The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers, and The Beyond: UFOs & A New Reality.
[He has appeared at numerous conferences including most recently…] Archives of the Impossible (TX 2023), An Inquiry Into Anomalous Experiences & the Phenomenon (NYC 2023), Mystic South (GA 2024), and the Association of Paranormal Study’s Paranormal Research Symposium (PA 2024).”
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