In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Couliano was teaching and writing about the history of mystical literature and paranormal experience and their likely relationships to quantum physics, hyperdimensional geometry, and modern cosmology. He was asking, in so many words, why historians were writing about “history,” as if time really were a simple linear causal process, when we have known, since Einstein, that this is simply not so, that time does not likely work like this at all. In effect, Couliano was asking this bracing question: How should we think and write about the history of religions,
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