Peter Skafish

Overview

ASSESSMENT: Dr. Peter Skafish is the INTELLECTUAL ARCHITECT of the Sol Foundation — bringing anthropology, philosophy, and metaphysics to UAP research. PhD anthropology, UC Berkeley. Positions: UC Berkeley, Collège de France, McGill, Bauhaus-University Weimar. Funding: NSF, Mellon, Fyssen. Director, Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry. Director social sciences, Sol Foundation. Co-founder + Executive Director (research), Sol Foundation. 'ROUGH METAPHYSICS' (Univ of Minnesota Press): Examines medium Jane Roberts (1929-1984) and channeled 'Seth' (inspired New Age). 'Philosophies ahead of their time.' 'Untrained writers, occult visionaries.' Judged 'absolutely original' for 'vast expansion of scope and possibility of anthropology.' 'COMPARATIVE METAPHYSICS' (co-edited): Descola, Latour, Strathern. Translated Viveiros de Castro 'Cannibal Metaphysics,' Malabou 'Heidegger Change.' UAP RESEARCH: 'Anthropological perspectives on pluralism, cosmology, modernity, religion to anticipate how nonhuman beings that design UAP might think.' 'Commensurate and incommensurate with our own.' 'Genuinely democratic, whole of society approach.' CURRENTLY COMPLETING BOOK ON US GOVERNMENT UAP DATA. NHI Project: multiyear research seminar on 'Concepts and Experiences of UAP-related Nonhuman Intelligences.' SOL WHITE PAPER Vol 1 No 6 (Nov 2024): 'The Prospect of Executive Branch UAP Secrecy: The Harm to Congress and Potential Remedies.' Sections: AARO's Errors Exposed, Reality of Nonanthropogenic Vehicles, CIA/DoD Corroboration, Evidence for Crash Retrieval Secrecy (CLINTON CABINET + HARRY REID), Testimony from Intelligence Community, Confidence from Senators, Existential Threat/Existential Gain, Harm to Congress, Proposal for Congressional Response. CRITICAL: 'Nonanthropogenic vehicles' = not made by humans. Clinton Cabinet knowledge = NEW. 'Whole of society' = democratic approach. NHI thinking = most advanced theoretical question.

Entity Type: Assessment — Peter Skafish (Anthropologist, Sol Foundation Co-Founder, 'Rough Metaphysics,' Sol White Paper on Secrecy) is an analytical assessment synthesizing multiple data points.

Source Documents

Intelligence derived from 5 source documents:

• thesolfoundation.org — Peter Skafish
• thesolfoundation.org — Sol White Paper Vol 1 No 6 (Nov 2024)
• theinstitute.com — Peter Skafish
• upress.umn.edu — Rough Metaphysics
• thesolfoundation.org — The NHI Project