Kevin Cann is a contributor to Jeffrey Kripal’s book How to Think Impossibly. He is a high-functioning autistic individual whose perspectives inform his philosophical work. Cann is the originator of a worldview he calls Platonic Surrealism.

Kevin Cann explores MetaTheurgy as an expansion of ancient theurgy, reframing ritual, consciousness, and wonderworking through the contemporary lens of his system, Platonic Surrealism. He explains how human beings function as interfaces between awareness, potentiality, monadic consciousness, and the physical world, offering practical methods to restore agency in a postmodern culture marked by alienation. Cann also discusses how ritual, transcendence, and expanded states of mind can foster healing, meaning, and participation in a larger cosmic process.

00:00:01 Introduction: metatheurgy and expanded awareness

00:01:42 Origins, Platonic surrealism, and, ancient theurgy

00:03:48 Wonderworking, UFO summoning, and, altered states

00:07:03 Metamodern, moving beyond postmodern despair

00:12:02 Rituals, daily practices, and, reframing life

00:15:12 Healing, empowerment, and, suffering in modern life

00:29:47 Wonderworking, personal transformation as the core

00:33:21 Freewill, determinism, and, feedback loops

00:44:06 Human beings, monads, souls, and, plasma symbiosis

01:08:53 Conclusion

(Recorded on December 9, 2025)

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Published on December 26, 2025