Kevin Cann
A guy who refuses to stay in one lane, because reality doesn’t either.
Peer-reviewed research
Published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (Elsevier, 2026). Four years of continuous measurements from the Sierra Nevada ELF station show Schumann resonance amplitude rising monotonically with geomagnetic storm intensity, surviving controls for season, global lightning activity, and autocorrelation. doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2026.106931
Under journal review
An artifact-control protocol for historical photographic plate archives, submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Tested at Harvard College Observatory across 12,510 exposures and at Palomar across 638 POSS-I fields, it falsifies the principal artifact objection to the VASCO transient findings. Pre-registrations and analysis code at osf.io/u9nas
Scholarship
Enlightenment for Professors of the Humanities traces the division between the verbal and wordless channels of cognition across civilizations, and argues that the category “enlightenment” was manufactured in nineteenth-century English and applied to traditions that never asked for it.
Background
Retired nuclear engineer and Navy veteran. Co-authored Chapter 3 of How to Think Impossibly (University of Chicago Press, 2024) with Jeffrey J. Kripal. Taught at the Esalen Institute. Featured on New Thinking Allowed and Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.
Writes the Platonic Surrealism series, a metaphysical framework integrating Neoplatonic thought, systems engineering, and sixty years of lived anomalous experience; the Awareness & Aplomb trilogy, literary fiction set in the small California town of Peculiar; and the Plato & Jesus duology, which traces what happened to the most radical ethical teaching in Western history and lets Plato answer in his own voice.
He lives in California with his wife and their Chorkie.