Tim Grieve-Carlson
@tgrievecarlson.bsky.social
Historian of American religions, ecology, esotericism
Author: American Aurora with OUP (2024)
https://www.timothygrieve-carlson.net/
https://open.substack.com/pub/timothygrievecarlson
Author: American Aurora with OUP (2024)
https://www.timothygrieve-carlson.net/
https://open.substack.com/pub/timothygrievecarlson
Can’t drive off the cliff if you’re really really good at building roads quickly
July 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Can’t drive off the cliff if you’re really really good at building roads quickly
Life changing magazine. Thank you Jay.
This took forever, but I am very glad to be able to write this morning that the entire run of Arthur magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) is finally available online as single issue PDFs. Every page of every issue, either scanned or from the original digital files. FREE.
arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...
arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...
July 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Life changing magazine. Thank you Jay.
Here's an excerpt from a piece I'm working on for a talk at Ephrata this fall:
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).
open.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here's an excerpt from a piece I'm working on for a talk at Ephrata this fall:
This week I’m digging into a very gnarly 18th century (!) poltergeist/seance account from Pennsylvania for a talk at Ephrata this fall.
June 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This week I’m digging into a very gnarly 18th century (!) poltergeist/seance account from Pennsylvania for a talk at Ephrata this fall.
"...Such an analysis does not require the scholar to share the conclusions of tradition, but it does allow the reaching of such conclusions to be seen as other than stupid.
May 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"...Such an analysis does not require the scholar to share the conclusions of tradition, but it does allow the reaching of such conclusions to be seen as other than stupid.
"I think that the present study has amply demonstrated that at least some apparently fantastic beliefs are in fact empirically grounded and that that the empirical data have been dealt with rationally by those who have assimilated these experiences to their world views...
May 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"I think that the present study has amply demonstrated that at least some apparently fantastic beliefs are in fact empirically grounded and that that the empirical data have been dealt with rationally by those who have assimilated these experiences to their world views...
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.
"Countless articles and books on supernatural belief have stated that such belief is irrational and, sometimes even by definition, not empirically grounded.
May 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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.
"Countless articles and books on supernatural belief have stated that such belief is irrational and, sometimes even by definition, not empirically grounded.
Glad you found it worthwhile, Daniel!
May 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Glad you found it worthwhile, Daniel!
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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.
May 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
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...
Featuring work from Harry Danon, Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke, Susannah Crockford, Tjalling D. Janssen, and Anna Milon.
correspondencesjournal.com/volume-12/is...
May 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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...
Featuring work from Harry Danon, Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke, Susannah Crockford, Tjalling D. Janssen, and Anna Milon.
correspondencesjournal.com/volume-12/is...
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
cswr.hds.harvard.edu
April 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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...
cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/04...
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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...
🔓 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀
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Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
www.historytoday.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
🔓 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
I wrote a short piece about religious understandings of early modern climate for History Today:
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
www.historytoday.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I wrote a short piece about religious understandings of early modern climate for History Today:
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
I had a lot of fun talking about American Aurora at the Ephrata Cloisters this morning.
January 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I had a lot of fun talking about American Aurora at the Ephrata Cloisters this morning.
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...
“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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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...
“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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"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.
From our 2023 series Jose Chung's December Issue.
A Nice Trip To The Forest
With so many crop dusters, somebody’s bound to see a UFO.
contingentmagazine.org
December 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
"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.
From our 2023 series Jose Chung's December Issue.
Interesting too that as in the 20th century, the francophone world seems to be a step ahead of the anglophone on the ufo phenomenon!
December 20, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Interesting too that as in the 20th century, the francophone world seems to be a step ahead of the anglophone on the ufo phenomenon!
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...
ephratacloister.org/events/winte...
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...
ephratacloister.org
December 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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...
ephratacloister.org/events/winte...
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Podcast Wednesday! Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora #Podcast #History #Climate #Religion #Mysticism #Paranormal @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social
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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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December 4, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Podcast Wednesday! Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora #Podcast #History #Climate #Religion #Mysticism #Paranormal @tgrievecarlson.bsky.social
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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
November 29, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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
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.
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.
November 12, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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.
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.
