March 31st, 2018
“The Paranormal Bible,” Dr. Kenneth Hanson weaves accounts of other-worldly visitations and mystical visions into the Bible as no other scholar can. The fact that he is fluent in Hebrew and an academic scholar in both ancient Jewish and pre-Christian texts, makes him uniquely qualified to identify writings from obscure historical sources and juxtapose them onto correlating passages in our modern Bible. Dr. Hanson’s user-friendly narrative should transport you back in time as he paints a picture of a group of people called “Visionaries,” who engaged in spiritual practices that purportedly put them in mental contact with supernatural beings in order to make sense of the volatile world around them. His new work gives you a flavor of the formative years of ancient Judaism, as a dynamic struggle for the hearts and minds of the masses by those in power and those at the edge of society who believed they were divinely inspired to offer moral guidance. From this vantage point we can reexamine our history through an expanded lens and get a feel for the largely misunderstood transpersonal mindset of a small group of ecstatics whose apocalyptic warnings continue to influence our Western worldview to this day.
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