Eric Wargo, PhD, an anthropologist, is author of Time Loops, Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages From Your Future, From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination, Becoming Timefaring: Time Travel & the Human Future, and most recently Where Was It Before the Dream? His website is https://www.thenightshirt.com/

In this interview he focuses on the creative works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Franz Kafka. He suggests that their creative genius often stems from a precognitive anticipation of their own lives, and particularly how their individual works will impact themselves in later life.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:57 Reductionist literary criticism

00:09:09 Time loops in literature

00:20:16 Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan

00:27:23 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

00:35:45 J. R. Tolkien’s Hobbit

00:44:02 Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Trial

00:58:16 Einstein’s debate with Henri Bergson

01:03:05 The story of Caedmon

01:06:45 Conclusion

(Recorded on May 3, 2025)

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Published on June 13, 2025