Uncanny Spaces and Gods in the Multiverse

Editors, Angela Ndalianis & Leonie Cooper

1. Uncanny Spaces & Gods in the Multiverse: an Introduction - Leonie Cooper

2. Three Poems by William Stobb

4. The Martian in the Multiverse - Michael Punt

5. The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: questioning the post-Christian bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George - Felicity Colman

6. The Most Charismatic King: Nascent Celebrity in the French Renaissance - Lisa Mansfield

7. Microstatecraft: Belonging and Difference in Imagined Communities - Darshana Jayemanne

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I existed independently of time and matter, I felt myself departing from my body as I imagined a spirit would depart -emanating into the cockpit, extending through the fuselage as though no frame of fabric walls were there, angling upward, outward, until I reformed in an awareness far distant from the human form I left in a fast-flying transatlantic plane. But I remained connected to my body through a long extended strand, a strand so tenuous that it could have been severed by a breath.

.. and later

My visions are easily explained away through reason, but the longer I live, the more limited I believe reason to be.

Charles A. Lindbergh (cited in Philips, E. ed. 1987. Psychic Voyages, Amsterdam: Time-Life Books.)

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Few escaped his spell, and even the most astute observers were quite taken with him. By all outward appearances Francis [I] was the very picture of royalty, one of the few Renaissance kings who actually looked and acted the part. (Hansen 1980, p. 98)

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