From Nowhere

Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination

Eric Wargo

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English

Anomalist Books
17 May 2024

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Memory improvement & thinking techniques; Clairvoyance & precognition; Psychic powers & psychic phenomena

Creativity Is Time Travel. Literally.

Artists and writers very often predict future events in their work. Skeptics dismiss these anomalies, but what if they hold the key to the creative imagination? In this mind-bending book, the 40,000-year history of art is reconsidered as a literally prophetic enterprise. From Ice Age cave paintings to the novels of Virginia Woolf and Philip K. Dick, the films of Werner Herzog and David Lynch, and even the songs of The Beatles, Wargo makes a case for the inherently time-defying nature of inspiration. Creators often channel their own futures-and the future of their culture-in their art. It is an entirely new way of thinking about one of humanity's oldest questions: Where do new ideas come from?

""There are books, and then there are books. The latter change one's life, change how one thinks of pretty much everything. From Nowhere is such a book ... that turns one around to think anew, to be inspired from the future as well as by the past. I have been turned around, temporally and existentially, by Eric Wargo."" -Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly

""Eric Wargo's work is not only on the cultural cutting edge, his pen is the knife that is cutting the edge. From Nowhere is impossible to put down. ... After speaking with and interviewing many creative scientists and artists, I believe that Wargo's explanation is not only accurate, but game changing. He's right. If this framework was taught in schools of art (and science!), the consequences would be transformative."" -D. W. Pasulka, author of Encounters

By: Eric Wargo
Imprint: Anomalist Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 599g
ISBN: 9781949501339
ISBN 10: 1949501337
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 17 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Wargo has a PhD in anthropology from Emory University and is the author of two previous books on precognition: ""Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self"" and the acclaimed ""Time Loops."" He also writes about science fiction, consciousness, and parapsychology at his popular blog, ""The Nightshirt.""