Platonic Surrealism: where Physics and Metaphystics Meet

Three books. One philosophical foundation, two scientific investigations, and one shared premise: physics and metaphysics belong in the same conversation, and the conversation is overdue.

The series is written by Kevin Cann, a retired nuclear engineer who spent sixty-five years thinking about both. Contributor to How to Think Impossibly (University of Chicago Press) with Jeffrey Kripal. Past co-teacher with Kripal at the Esalen Institute. No religious commitments required. No scientific training required. Just a willingness to take the strange parts of being alive seriously enough to look at them carefully.

Book 1 — Platonic Surrealism: A Modern Framework for Meaning Beyond Science and Religion

The groundwork. A plain-language framework for thinking about awareness, meaning, and the parts of human experience that don't fit neatly into either the laboratory or the sanctuary. Written for people who find pure materialism too thin and pure religion too thick. No grand claims, no cosmic revelations. Just a coherent way to hold the questions.

Book 2 — Plasma Space Weather and the Paranormal: How Solar Plasma Explains the World's Most Baffling Anomalous Events

The empirical half. A scientific look at correlations between solar plasma activity, geomagnetic disturbances, and a set of historical mass-witness events that have defied tidy explanation for over a century. Falsifiable, data-driven, and willing to follow the numbers wherever they go.

Book 3 — Platonic Surrealism: UFOs and the Extra-Consciousness Hypothesis

Where the philosophy and the physics meet the strangest phenomenon of the age. The Extra-Consciousness Hypothesis is offered as a named, testable framework for understanding UFO encounters as something other than nuts-and-bolts spacecraft or mass delusion. With a foreword by Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD. Builds on the foundation of Books 1 and 2.