They Flew: A History of the Impossible - Carlos M.N. Eire Audiobook
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An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals.
Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton’s scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity.
Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural’s relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores—such as why and how “impossibility” is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science—have resonance and lessons for our time.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 2.6/5
February 15th, 2024
Except of course that there are still folk who believe in levitation: the Natural Law Party campaigned on the basis of state-subsidized courses in astral plane voyaging and short-distance transcendental flying all over Europe well into the 1990s.
There are still voters in America who believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old, flat, and at the center of the Universe. They want that taught in schools.
Back in the 1920s there was a French cultural anthropologist - Paul Petit - who made a career out of writing about the stupid things people of faith believed until very recently.
Eventually the state had to shut him up.
February 16th, 2024
What happened to all these levitateors?
They hide when the cameras come out?
‘firsthand accounts’ don’t count. Eye witnesses are worse than useless.
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*The Bad Science of Eyewitnesses*
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https://youtu.be/20hyzmP9TPg
February 16th, 2024
What fun! Thanks hdgdf!
February 19th, 2024
Well said, apnea
February 19th, 2024
Well said, apnea.
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