My Cosmic Trigger: High Strangeness in Theory and Practice

by Matt Vaughn

Overview

High strangeness denotes happenings so uncanny they are deemed “utterly absurd.” It involves the intersection of multiple paranormal phenomena, revealing an eerie undergirding of reality. MY COSMIC TRIGGER is a deep dive into the subject, covering its history, theories, and notable researchers, analyzing mechanisms behind this cosmic enigma. The author’s personal experiences provide a penetrating understanding of the phenomenon by demonstrating how and why extramundane weirdness manifests on a personal level, helping people navigate their own ‘synchromystic initiation’ with a sense of clarity, fostering a constructive relationship with odd occurrences (not a destabilizing one), and enabling readers to successfully pull their own cosmic trigger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634244527
Publisher:	Trine Day
Publication date:	07/29/2024
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Vaughn’s career in the mental health field spans over 20 years. He has worked at notable psychiatric and addiction treatment centers in the US and more recently as a psychotherapist in private practice, working with clients from over 30 countries. His academic background is equally noteworthy, having earned his MA in psychology from the University of West Georgia, a department started under the direction of Abraham Maslow (a founding father of Humanistic Psychology).

Vaughn has been a paranormal researcher since his elementary school days in the mid 80s and immersed in mystical and shamanistic spiritual practices for over a quarter of a century. Vaughn entered the podcasting arena in 2006 and ventured into stand-up comedy in 2011, performing extensively in both Atlanta and Istanbul. He is a multi-dimensional artist: a writer, poet, screenwriter, painter, and member of an avantgarde rock band. He is also a nature enthusiast, working to create sacred space on his land in Western North Carolina and Türkiye. For more info: mycosmictrigger.com

Editorial Reviews

"Matt Vaughn is a name you will be hearing more and more of as he helps us peel back the veneer of these perplexing events and make us all better for the experience. If you are a student of the strange and uncanny, do yourself a favor and add this book to your library, you won’t be disappointed."—Trey Hudson, Author of, The Meadow Project: Explorations into the South’s Skinwalker Ranch and Director of the Oxford Paranormal Society (OPS) and the Anomalous Studies and Observation Group (ASOG)

“Buy this book immediately!”—Bob Dobbs, Para-media ecologist, author of Phatic Communion with Bob Dobbs, Magus of the Paramodern age, ionandbob.com, dobbstown.com

"Spanning a multitude of perspectives, My Cosmic Trigger interrogates the paranormal with a unique analysis of high strangeness offering the reader an accessible, yet highly integrative approach that produces new insights on the seemingly logic-defying interconnections between exceptional experiences of all kinds."—Jacob W. Glazier, Ph.D., Author of Arts of Subjectivity: A New Animism for the Post-Media Era, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Head of Psychology B.S. Undergraduate Studies Program, University of West Georgia

“Fascinating! - experiences of a flesh and blood young man trying to navigate little charted territory. An enjoyable read and thought provoking.”—Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Affiliated Distinguished Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies, Coauthor of Personal Mythology: Using Ritual, Dreams, and Imagination to Discover your Inner Story

"This book opens fresh possibility for seeing; it is crazy, fun, smart, startling and ultimately invites us into the mysterious, the unknown. Surely there will be dead ends in the pursuit of high strangeness, but more importantly this work radically opens to a world still full of mystery, one in which our tidy default explanations and dismissive reactions turn out to be way too small and stubbornly naïve. Buckle up.”—Tobin Hart, PhD, Professor in the University of West Georgia's Humanistic, Transpersonal and Critical psychology program. co-founder and chair of the Board of Directors of ChildSpirit Institute. Author of The Four Virtues: Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation

“In My Cosmic Trigger, Matt Vaughn has written a book that is sure to become a classic. I was truly unprepared for the majesty and depth of Vaughn’s research. The trippy-ness of what he is contemplating is so psycho-activating that it deserves a warning to the reader – proceed at your own risk (of losing your ideas of how the world works and who you are). As I turned the pages, the image of Robert Anton Wilson—the inspiration for this work—dancing in his grave in utter delight at what Vaughn has accomplished kept on coming into my mind. Reading this book is like taking a psychedelic, but without the negative side-effects. Highly recommended!” -Paul Levy, author of three books on the wetiko mind-virus, and most recently, The Quantum Revelation




 

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