INFO Membership
For 27 years, the American writer Charles Hoy
Fort worked full-time researching scientific journals and old
periodicals to gather material on phenomena on the borderland between
fact and fantasy - the wide range of mysteries that orthodox science
either ignored or improperly explained away. His pioneering researches
appeared in four profound, baffling and often humorous books: The Book
of the Damned(1919), New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931), and Wild Talents,
(1932). In these volumes, Fort gathered, organized, and commented on a
wild host of phenomena: synchroncity, UFO anomalies, falls of living
animals; poltergeists, ghosts and psychic phenomena; earthquakes and
volcanoes; astronomical mysteries; stigmata; mass hysteria and panics;
spontaneous human combustion; disappearing people; and much more. Among
the early Forteans were some of the leading literary lights of the day,
including Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, Alexander
Woolcott, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Fort's work influenced science
fiction and horror through the introduction of Fortean themes which is
often evident in the work of contemporary luminaries such as Stephen
King. Robert Heinlein was also a long-time member of the International
Fortean Organization (INFO) until his death.
The International Fortean Organization (INFO)
was incorporated as a non-profit educational society in 1965 in order to
continue and expand the original Fortean Society. INFO is dedicated to
disseminating Fort’s work and continues his research into unexplained
phenomena by holding annual
conferences: FortFest, FortNite, FortScape and
Fortean Seminars at Sea. Audio/ video tapes/CDs/DVDs of 25 years of
outstanding lectures by fortean intellectual/visionary pioneers such as
John Anthony West, John Keel, John Michell, Joscelyn Godwin, Doug
Skinner, Sophy Burnham, Budd Hopkins, Richard Hoagland, Sal Trento,
David Jacobs, Gerald Hawkins, David Hufford, Ingo Swann, Alvin Holm,
Graham Hancock, Patrick Harpur, Raymond Moody, Colin Wilson, Rebecca
Hoffberger and William Corliss are available from the organization at
reasonable cost. If you are intrigued by the baffling and often
hilarious universe of anomalous phenomena, you may want to find out more
about the International Fortean Organization (INFO).
INFO Membership Application
www.forteans.com
Please help keep the Fortean
window open! Your membership fee helps fund our extraordinary
conferences and our data/book storage facility! All members get early
advisories/discounts on conferences, research trips, limited edition
book sales and reduced rates on: fortean educational trips and research
expeditions, tapes/CDs/DVDs of conferences, occasional papers, books,
invitations to members only soirees/parties and guest lectures/think
tanks. Donations are tax deductible in the U.S. INFO is a nonprofit
corporation. Please make checks or money orders, in U.S. funds only,
payable to "INFO."
Donations are tax deductible. INFO is a nonprofit 501(C)(3).
Please make checks or money orders, in U.S. funds only, payable to "INFO."
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Membership level options:
• Regular Member - $25.00 for One year
• Contributing Member - $50.00 for One year
• Supporting Inner Circle Member - $75 for One year
• Patron - $150.00 for One year
• Life member - $250.00
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