The Sacred Space Conference

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw an apparent triumph of materialism and a disenchantment of the average person’s perceptions of the world. With that, folk knowledge and the spirits which were once recognized by the average person fade to obscurity or become the quaint stories and superstitions of the past. At least, this is what we’ve been told. Much of the world still believes in and experiences the uncanny. People relay urban legends and create new folklore because they need to process those things which exist beneath the surface. In this class we will explore how the paranormal, the weird, the pop-cultural, and the creepy lore of the internet may tie into the living and animistic reality of the world.