“Eric Wargo’s work is not only on the cultural cutting edge, his pen is the knife that is cutting the edge.”
–D. W. Pasulka, author of Encounters
Eric Wargo is a multidisciplinary researcher and author on edge science topics including time travel and precognition (the ability to see, know, or be influenced by future events). He has written three books on precognition: From Nowhere: Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination (Anomalist Books, 2024), Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self (Inner Traditions, 2021), and the acclaimed Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious (Anomalist Books, 2018). He also has two books forthcoming in 2025: Becoming Timefaring (on the myths and realities of time travel) and Where Was It Before the Dream? (on the implications of precognition for literary criticism).
Wargo received a PhD in cultural anthropology from Emory University in 2000 but left academia to work as a writer and editor. As a trained social scientist, he approaches controversial topics like unexplained psychic phenomena with a rigorous and skeptical eye. However, since the methods of science are limited where meaningful human experiences are concerned, he also brings a biographical, historical, and interpretive lens to bear on these topics. In addition to grounding his research in the latest physics and neuroscience, he draws on psychoanalytic theory, literary approaches (deconstruction), and Zen Buddhist philosophy, among other frameworks.
Wargo has presented his research at multidisciplinary academic conferences, at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and at the Esalen Center for Theory and Research, as well as meetings of the Society for Scientific Exploration and the Parapsychologial Association. He has published his work in several magazines and academic journals. For nearly two decades, he has also written about paranormal topics like UFOs, science fiction, and the history of parapsychology at his popular blog, The Nightshirt. He currently lives in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife and two daughters.
“I have been turned around, temporally and existentially, by Eric Wargo.”
–Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly
