Dr. Jack Hunter

Journal and Magazine Articles


(2023). 'Confronting the Boggle Threshold of Tramont's "Spirit Releasement" Therapy.' Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 737-739.


(2022). 'Review: Pan: The Great God's Modern Return.' Fortean Times, Issue 420, p. 58.


(2022). 'Review: Eco-Vampires: The Undead and the Environment.' Gothic Nature Journal: Haunted Shores, Vol. 3, pp. 285-290.


(2022). 'Parapsychology and The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience.' Mindfield: Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, No. 13.3pp. 7-11.


(2022). 'The Folklore of the Tanat Valley: Fairies, Giants and Forgotten Ecological Knowledge.' Newsletter of the Fairy Investigation Society, Jan 2022, pp. 31-47.


(2021). Editorial: '“…not the action of mind upon matter, but the action of mind-matter upon matter-mind…”: A World of Many Minds in Archaeology and Ethnography.' Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 481-485.


(2021). 'Antropoloog Jack Hunter: ‘Bedrog kan het paranormale triggeren’.' ParaVisie, December 2021, pp. 19-22. [English Interview Responses Here].


(2021). 'Fairies in the Tanat Valley.' Tanat Valley Chronicle, June 2021.


(2021). 'Editorial: Stone, People and Place.' Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 179-180.


(2021). 'MA Ecology and Spirituality: Background and Interview with Dr. Andy Letcher.' Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 140-145.


(2021). 'Editorial: Religious Experience and Ecology.' Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 3-16.


(2021). 'Deep Weird: High Strangeness, Boggle Thresholds and Damned Data in Academic Research on Extraordinary Experience.' Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 5-18.


(2021). 'Editorial: The Future of Research on Religious and Spiritual Experience.' Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 2-4.


(2021). 'What About Traditional Ecological Knowledge? Further Thoughts on 'Are Plants Sentient?’' Edgescience, No. 45, pp. 17-19.


(2020). 'Review: Diabolical Possession and the Case Behind the Exorcist.' Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 84, No. 2, 333-334.


(2020). 'Editorial: Folklore, Landscape and Ecology: Joining the Dots.' Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 221-225.


(2020). 'Sacred Landscapes and Philosophical Gardens: Religious Education as a Response to Climate Change.' RE Today Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 53-56.


Paphitis, T. & Hunter, J. (2020). 'Editorial.' Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 115-116.


(2020). 'Review: Understanding Religion: Empirical Perspectives in Practical Theology.' Journal of Empirical Theology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 152-153.


(2020). 'Parapsychology and the Ecological Self.' Mindfield: Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 15-18.


(2020). 'Faeries at the Bottom of the Garden: Non-Human Intelligence and Nature Connection.' The Supernatural Magazine (Online).


Hunter, J. & Paphitis, T. (2020). 'Editorial.' Time and Mind: Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-3.


(2020). 'The Next Generation of Parapsychology Researchers' (Interview). Mindfield: Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 118-119.


(2019). 'Review: Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religion and Ecologies of Participation: Agents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners.' Religion and Society, Vol. 10, pp. 185-186.


(2019). 'Religious Experience and Ecological Participation: Animism, Nature Connectedness and Fairies.' De Numine: The Journal and Newsletter of the Alister Hardy Trust, No. 67, pp. 4-9


(2019). 'The Contribution of Anthropology to our Understanding of Religion (and how RE and Anthropology might be able to help each other out).' RE Today Magazine, Summer 2019, pp. 64-69.


(2019). 'Rev. Elias Owen and the Folklore of the Tanat Valley.' Tanat Valley Chronicle, April 2019, p. 5.


(2018). 'Review: Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture.' Fieldwork in Religion, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp 231-233.


(2018). 'Review: Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture.' Religion and Society, Vol. 9, pp. 192-193.


(2018). 'Preliminary Report on Extraordinary Experience in Permaculture: Collapsing the Natural/Supernatural Divide.' Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 12-22.


(2018). 'Reflecting on Edith Turner's Work and Influence.' Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, Vol. 4, No. 1. pp. 102-104.


(2017). 'Re-Thinking Charles Fort.' Bulletin of the British Association for the Study of Religion, No. 131, November 2017, pp. 22-24.


(2017). 'Reflecties op Paranthropology.' Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie & Bewustzijnsonderzoek, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 8-11. (Translated by Fred Melssen).


(2017). 'Religious Education and the Paranormal: Reflections on Discussing Anomalous Experiences in the Classroom.' Religious Studies News: Spotlight on Teaching, October, pp. 4-8.


(2016). ‘Engaging the Anomalous: Reflections from the Anthropology of the Paranormal.’ European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 170-178.


(2016). ‘Ordinary Theology in the Classroom: Experience and Belief in Secondary Religious Education.’ RE Today Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 58-61.


(2016). ‘Religious Education and the Paranormal: Discussing Anomalous and Exceptional Experiences in the R.E. Classroom.’ Anomaly: Journal of Research into the Paranormal.


(2016). ‘Ghosts, Spirits and Gods: Perspectives from Anthropology.’ Anomaly: Journal of Research into the Paranormal.


(2015). ‘“Between Realness and Unrealness”: Anthropology, Parapsychology and the Ontology of Non-Ordinary Realities.’ Diskus: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 4-20.


(2015). ‘“Spirits are the Problem”: Anthropology and Conceptualising Spiritual Beings.’ Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 76-86.


(2015). 'Three Legends of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant: Re-Animating the Landscape.' The Chronicle: Newspaper for the Tanat, Cain and Vyrnwy Valleys, April 2015, pp. 24-25.


Luke, D. & Hunter, J. (2015). ‘Talking With the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds: An Overview.’ Paranormal Review: Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research, No. 73, pp. 18-20.


Caswell, J.M., Hunter, J. & Tessaro, L.W.E. (2014). ‘Phenomenological Convergence Between Major Paradigms of Classic Parapsychology and Cross-Cultural Practices: An Exploration of Paranthropology.’ Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 467-482.


(2014). ʻParanthropology: Towards a Parapsychological Anthropologyʼ Anomaly: Journal of Research into the Paranormal, Vol. 47, pp. 102-112.


(2014). ʻDefinitions, Origins, Functions and Experiences: Trends in the Anthropology of the Supernatural from Tylor to Turner.ʼ Beyond Borderlands: A Critical Journal of the Weird and Occult, No. 0, pp. 6-11.


(2013). ʻIntroduction: Taking Experience Seriously.ʼ Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 3-8.


(2013). ʻBeyond Castaneda: A Brief History of Psychedelics in Anthropology (Part 2).ʼ Psychedelic Press III, pp. 59-66.


(2013). ʻBeyond Castaneda: A Brief History of Psychedelics in Anthropology (Part 1).ʼ Psychedelic Press II, pp. 9-14.


(2012). ʻExpressions of Spirithood: Performance and the Manifestation of Spirits.ʼ Anomaly: Journal of Research into the Paranormal, Vol. 46, pp. 144-156.


(2012). ʻOn the Nature of the Psilocybe Folk.ʼ Psychedelic Press I, pp 3-5.


(2012). 'Anthropology and the Supernatural: From Spirits to Consciousness.ʼ Edgescience: Current Research & Insights, Issue 10, pp. 14-17.


(2012). ʻContemporary Physical Mediumship: Is It Part of a Continuous Tradition?ʼ Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 35-43.


(2012). 'EMFs and Spirit Mediumship: A Research Proposal.' Seriously Strange Magazine, Issue 138, pp. 16-17.


(2011). ‘The Anthropology of Spirit Mediumship: Mediumship, Animism and Altered States of Consciousness.’ Anomaly: Journal of Research Into the Paranormal, No. 45, pp. 128-142.


(2011). ʻPsychical and Anthropological Approaches to Spirit Mediumship.ʼ Seriously Strange Magazine, Issue 137, pp. 13-15.


(2011). ʻTalking With the Spirits: Anthropology and Interpreting Spirit Communicators.ʼ Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 75.3, No. 904, pp. 129-142.


(2011). ‘Review: The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen and The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.’ The Bristol Magazine: The Magazine for the City of Bristol, Issue 88, p. 44.


(2010). ʻAnthropology and the Paranormal: What's the Point?ʼ Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 2-4.


(2010). ʻThe Persistence of Spirits.ʼ The Searchlight: Newsletter of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 8-9.


(2010). ʻTalking With the Spirits: More Than a Social Reality?ʼ Paranormal Review: Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research, April 2010, Issue 54, pp. 9-13.


(2010). ʻAnthropology and the Ontological Status of the Paranormal.ʼ Rhine-Online: Psi News Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2. pp. 4-5.


(2010). ‘Talking With the Spirits: Anthropology and Interpreting Spirit Communications.’ Anomaly: Journal of Research Into the Paranormal, Vol. 44, pp. 34-39.


(2010). ʻContemporary Mediumship and Seance Groups in the UK: Speculations on the Bristol Spirit Lodge.ʼ Psychical Studies: Journal of the Unitarian Society for Psychical Studies, No. 76, pp. 7-13.


(2010). ʻThanks for the Memorates.ʼ Paranormal Magazine, September 2010, Issue 51, p. 82.


(2010). 'What Are Ghosts? My View.' Paranormal Magazine, June 2010, Issue 48, p. 64.


(2010). ʻThe Anthropologist and the Spiritualists.ʼ Paranormal Magazine, April 2010, Issue 47, pp. 40-43.


(2009). ʻThe Issue of Fraud and Performance in Mediumship.ʼ PSI: Journal of Investigative Psychical Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 17-25.


(2009). ʻAnthropology and The Paranormal: Approaches to the Investigation of Paranormal Beliefs and Practices.ʼ Anomaly: Journal of Research Into the Paranormal, Vol. 43, pp. 24-36.


Blog Posts


Paranormal, Occult, Religious Education


'"Spirits are the Problem": Anthropology and Conceptualising Spiritual Beings' - Alternate Perceptions Online Magazine, December 2021.
'Faeries at the Bottom of the Garden: Non-Human Intelligence and Connection to Nature' - Supernatural Magazine, 31st March 2020.
'Gothic Psychology, The Ecological Unconscious and the Re-Enchantment of Nature' - Gothic Nature Journal Blog, 26th March 2020.
'Nature's Spirits: Religious Experience and Ecological Participation' - Daily Grail, 15th January 2020.
'Lovecraft, the Psychedelic Experience and the Problem of Religious Language' - X-Files of the Humanities, 10th March 2017.
'Mysterium Horrendum' - X-Files of the Humanities, 23rd October 2016.
'Toward a Fortean Religious Studies' - X-Files of the Humanities, 13th October 2016.
'Slender Man and the Ontological Argument' - X-Files of the Humanities, 4th October 2016.
'Can Science See Spirits?: Neuroimaging Studies of Mediumship and Possession' - Daily Grail, 27th May 2014.


Permaculture, Ecology, Education


"Stop Blaming Farmers for Everything": Challenges Communicating Change - One School One Planet, 10th January 2018.
'Reflecting on Classroom Experiences So Far...' - One School One Planet, 29th November 2017.
"Everything Can Impact Everything..." - One School One Planet, 24th November 2017.
"They Got the Soil to Come Alive..." - One School One Planet, 22nd November 2017.
"Soil Means Dirt, Crops and Ploughing a Field..." - One School One Planet, 17th November 2017.
"The Earth Just Looked Simply Beautiful and Awesome..." - One School One Planet, 27th October 2017.
"My Name is --, I Live in a Farmhouse in a Small Village in Wales..." - One School One Planet, 20th October 2017.
"Animism and the Personhood of Ecosystems" - One School One Planet, 12th April 2017.

"What is Systems Thinking?" - One School One Planet, 29th March 2017.


Other Media


Harvard University - 'Anthropologist discusses the role of the paranormal - Harvard Gazette, March 28th 2022.
Sophia Centre - 'Welsh university offers course on 'Spirits, Gods and Magic' - Swansea Bay News, June 7th 2021.
University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Press Release: Mattering the Invisible Book Launch, May 27th 2021.

The Harmony Institute - 'Finding Harmony' - Transform Magazine, December 11th 2020.

One School One Planet - 'School takes lead in environmental issues' - Advertizer, March 27th 2018, p. 18.

One School One Planet - '2050 vision book launched.' Powys Country Times, March 23rd 2018, p. 20.

One School One Planet - 'One School One Planet' by Jack Hunter - Tanat Valley Chronicle, Number 394, March 2018.

One School One Planet - 'Change is Opportunity' by Steven Jones & Jack Hunter - Tanat Valley Chronicle, Number 393, February 2018.

North Shropshire College - 'Dr Jack Hunter Celebrates Academic Success.'

North Shropshire College - 'New Anthropology of Religion Course Starting at Oswestry Campus.'

One School One Planet - 'Photography Students Turn Focus on Project' - Oswestry and Borders Advertizer, April 18th 2017, p. 18.