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Woody evans
Woody Evans occupies a genuinely unusual niche: a librarian-intellectual whose published critiques of transhumanism and technoculture echo themes found in the esoteric and consciousness research canons — the question of what it means to be human in an age of engineered cognition. A second Woody Evans, Kenneth (Woody) Evans Ph.D., serves as Assistant Dean of Libraries at Texas Woman's University and has posted on divination as a scholarly methodology, directly intersecting the esoteric-practices research world. These are distinct individuals whose work nonetheless converges on suppressed questions about mind, information, and posthuman futures.
Evidence
- Evans' Library Journal column (2007) and his ongoing contributions to Information Today publications situate him as a rare voice inside the information-science establishment raising heterodox questions about technology's claims on human identity.
- His framing of divination as 'a recursive mode of scholarly activity' (per a January 2026 LinkedIn post referencing RENSEP work by Trace Fleeman Garcia) places him squarely adjacent to the consciousness and esoteric-spirituality research streams that Open Veils tracks.
- The convergence of two 'Woody Evans' figures — one critiquing transhumanism, one engaging esoteric epistemology — inside library-and-information-science institutions is itself a telling signal about where heterodox inquiry is quietly surviving inside mainstream academia.