Deep Weird with Dr. Jack Hunter: A Talk on High Strangeness and Non-Human Consciousness at Rowtons' Museum

Rowtons' Museum extends a warm welcome Dr. Jack Hunter to deliver a talk on High Strangeness and Non-Human Consciousness in the chapel of the museum.

Doors open at 6.40pm for a 7pm start. Pay online or on the door. The talk with the chance to ask questions is expected to run for 90 minutes, but may exceed this time.

Dr. Hunter's presentation aims to straddle the liminal space between the philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness, and the bizarre world of Fortean and paranormal phenomena. The field of consciousness studies has yet to crystallise its own distinctive paradigm. Rather than a single framework for investigating consciousness, the field harbours a pantheon of different approaches and various theoretical positions that are seemingly in constant competition with one another. Different theoretical positions, as well as recent developments in empirical research on the extent of mind in the non-human world (plants and animals), point in the direction of understanding consciousness as much more ubiquitous in nature than is often assumed. This opens up huge scope for considering the wide varieties of encounters with bizarre beings documented in the paranormal and Fortean literature, which have previously been understood as ‘anomalies.’..

About Dr. Hunter:

Jack Hunter, PhD., is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, where he teaches on the Approaches to Consciousness module. He is the author of Manifesting Spirits (2020), Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020), Ecology and Spirituality (2023) and The Folklore of the Tanat Valley (2025), editor of Deep Weird (2023), Greening the Paranormal (2019) and Damned Facts (2016), and co-editor of Talking With the Spirits (2014), Mattering the Invisible (2021) and Folklore, People and Place (2023). He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family.

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