The superhuman, it turns out, lies at the very core of who and what the human species has tried to become over millennia and around the planet.
Both the deeper history of religions and the recent history of the humanities have been guided by such moments-precognitive dreams, evolving superhumans, occult capacities called forth by traumatic injustice, non-human agents in the environment, and psychedelic revelations of God. What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? What if we flipped our ways of thinking and understood consciousness to be as irreducible, fundamental, and cosmic as we now consider it to be constructed, arbitrary, and historical? What if we no longer thought of the mind being in a body but of a body being in the mind? Such a project foregrounds and reconceptualizes all of those rare but real altered states of knowledge that have driven the creative processes of many of our most revered authors, artists, and activists.
