T. Peter Park, Date of Birth

    

T. Peter Park

American historian

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1941

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States, Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About T. Peter Park

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  • Peter Park (born Tiidu Peter Park, 1941) is an historian, a former librarian, and a prolific Fortean commentator on anomalous phenomena.
  • According to Chris Perridas, Park is "a foremost Fortean authority on H.
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  • Lovecraft and the cultural impact his writing has had on our culture through folklore."Born in Estonia, Park has lived most of his life in the United States.
  • He received a Master's degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1965 and a Masters of Library Science from the University of Maryland College Park in 1972 His Master's thesis was a comparison of the racial views of John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle.
  • In 1970, he received a PhD in Modern European history from the University of Virginia.
  • His PhD dissertation, entitled "The European reaction to the execution of Francisco Ferrer," described and analyzed the protests to the execution of a Spanish anarchist educator.
  • He has a strong interest in anomalous phenomena, philosophy, linguistics, social psychology, and the history of social and scientific world views.
  • He currently lives on Long Island, New York. In an email to a Fortean LISTSERV, Park described his approach towards anomalous phenomena as "basically 'open-minded hard science'".I find cultural attitudes toward anomalous phenomena as intriguing as the phenomena themselves.
  • I think many Fortean mysteries (e.g., ESP, ghosts, UFO's, abductions, "Bigfoot" and other "Hairy Hominids," "Nessie" and other Lake Monsters, etc.) do involve genuine, fascinating scientific or even cosmological puzzles--but also reflect social and cultural attitudes, tensions, and conflicts, as well.
  • I have a basically "open-minded hard science" approach to things like UFOs, abductions, "Hairy Hominids," and "Lake Monsters," tending to favor extraterrestrial and unknown-animals explanations for whatever defies a more mundane explanation--but I'm also still open to parapsychological, "paraphysical," or "metaphysical" explanations as well, for the more truly weird and bizarre cases.
  • However, if "psychic" or "metaphysical" explanations don't seem to be really called for, but something rather unusual was still seen, I would still favor a "nuts and bolts" ETH ufology and a "flesh and blood, fur and feathers" cryptozoology in preference to occultist approaches.
  • I think the modern "mainstream" scientific world-picture is mostly correct so far as it stands, but also quite incomplete--with paranormal and "Fortean" phenomena pointing to some of its gaps and omissions.
  • In my own outlook and orientation, I personally very much straddle the "Two Cultures" of "mainstream" academic, scholarly, scientific, and literary "high culture" on the one hand, and of parapsychology and Forteanism on the other. In a 2006 article in Fate magazine entitled "Little Men, Hobbits, and Ultra-Pygmies", Park discussed the Homo floresiensis find with cross-cultural legends of little people.

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