We are told that civilization is in the late stages of transitioning from an era of superstition to one of rationality. According to this, the story of disenchantment, the U.S., Europe, and the larger post-industrialized world have passed through dark ages of widespread belief in magic, gods, demons, and spirits and into a glorious period of faith only in science and matter. But, in his 2017 book, "The Myth of Disenchantment," Dr. Jason Josephson Storm, Professor of Religion at Williams College, gives the lie to this fable. Storm argues this story is plainly false - belief in the supernatural and paranormal is utterly normal in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Furthermore, the narrative of a decline in paranormal and supernatural belief is essentially a re-telling of one of the most ancient pieces of European mythology: the fabulous tale of the end of the era of the miraculous. In this episode, Dane reviews Dr. Storm's book and explores some of the darker vicissitudes of European intellectual history to reveal the degree to which a handful of ideologues have sold us all on a false narrative about "progress" as entailing a rejection of belief in the paranormal, occult, and supernatural. In doing so, these intellectuals have only, inadvertently, perpetuated one of the most ancient myths of the European-influenced world - the myth of disenchantment.