Guess what? Jeffrey J. Kripal, you know him, you love him, is on this episode of Earth: A Love Story. Jeff holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He worked with Rice’s special collections director to create and host the Archives of the Impossible, which is a collection of accounts detailing the supernatural, including thousands of firsthand abduction accounts, letters written to Whitley and Anne Strieber, once highly classified government remote reviewing files and has become one of the largest and most significant collections of research materials related to these marginalized and tabboed topics in the world. Jeff also organized the Archives of the Impossible conferences. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna and The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge. His present areas of writing and research include the articulation of a New Comparativism within the study of religion that will put “the impossible” back on the table again, a robust and even conversation between the sciences and the humanities, and the mapping of an emergent mythology or “Super Story” within paranormal communities and individual visionaries. Jeff’s new book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else is out now.
Through my own personal lens, there have been a few really pivotal interactions with Jeff’s work which have informed my own journey and work. First, Jeff is the one who said, in reference to experiencer accounts, If you haven’t heard about the trauma or the sex, you haven’t heard the whole story. Second, he said We need to tell better and better stories so that we can have better and better experiences. We essentially control our future and our children’s children’s future. We can constantly make a different ‘movie’ that we then exist in and experience ourselves in. (Which, you guys, I think is evolution through creativity).
I hope you enjoy my conversation with the one, the only, Jeffrey J. Kripal.
Jeff Kripal's work
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