About
The concept of “unseen” encompasses paranormal, transcendent, supernatural, mystical, spiritual, otherworldly, strange, astral, outlier, alternative, or otherwise downright weird.
Inspired by the approach of Dr. Michael Heiser, we insist on radical openness to high strangeness and intellectual rigor to make sense of the opaque, as best we can.
Most of us, if we’re being honest, have already had encounters with the Unseen already. The question is what sense we’ve made of the encounters, and with whom we’ve shared our experiences
“A key aspect of the human experience, giving purpose, guidance, and happiness, is relationship with the unseen”
To the many who will disagree, we invite you to disagree on content. Engage on the merits of the evidence or deficincies of our arguments. But please, don’t be intellectually lazy, arrogant, or dismissive. You’re only doing damage to your own position.
Know that we are not a short-form blog. The questions we’re asking, and our approach of showing our homework, require in-depth exploration.
If you’re new to our approach, Start Here.
Who we are
Our backgrounds span research, analysis, and history — disciplines that share a common thread: making sense of complex, often hidden systems. We’ve spent careers surfacing what others overlook. We bring that same mix of curiosity, skepticism, and rigor to the unseen realm. We’re learners at heart who draw from a wide array of literature, scripture, and primary documentation. And we’ve each had our own strange experiences that refuse tidy explanations. For now, we’re keeping our specific stories in the background. We want the claims on this site to be evaluated on their own merits.
Why we study the unseen
We’ve invested thousands of hours in the study of the unseen for two primary reasons.
Intellectual: We realized years back that we were living with a massive gap in our philosophical and intellectual frameworks. The language and concepts we had to make sense of the transcendent–both in what we read as well as our own experiences–seemed woefully lacking. We set out to remedy that hole, primarily by compiling the insights of others into an easy-to-navigate set of essentially wikipedia-like entries.
Personal: More significantly, in our own journeys, we found that we don’t exist as somehow apart from the unseen. We don’t stand in life as an outside observer neutrally watching the unfolding of some isolated experiment. Instead, the most pressing life questions–having to do with our origin, purpose and meaning, ethics, and the afterlife–compelled us to look beyond a woefully thin materialistic framework. What we believe about the unseen profoundly affects how we live our own lives.
How we study the unseen
Our approach draws from a mix of sources and disciplines: academic, investigative journalist, intelligence analyst, and spiritual seeker.
Sources: The sources we draw from include eye-witness accounts, historical documents, tradition, archeology, and mythology. From these disparate sources we assemble a fact pattern. By fact, we don’t mean scientifically verifiable facts–we are, after all, studying the unseen–but rather historically, philosophically, or otherwise tenable claims. Claims we make in any article will be maximally sourced. Don’t believe us. Test the research yourself.
Methods: The methods we use have at foundation an assumption that truth exists. Written differently, after articulating a fact pattern, we will identify one hypothesis that has more explanatory power–expresses more consistency with the fact pattern–than other competing hypotheses. That’s not to say every aspect of every fact is fully accounted for. When one is assessing is unseen, the scientific method’s requirement of measurable data in a controlled environment with repeatable outcomes is untenable.
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