Host Michael Taft speaks with creator and professor Jeffrey Kripal about his early aspiration to be a Benedictine monk, the prophetic dimensions of the humanities, the sudden conversion, or “flip,” right into a weirder worldview skilled by some materialist scientists, the phenomena of UFOs, alien abduction, altered states, Philip Okay. Dick, and the way most breakthroughs into mysticism happen by way of trauma.
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Spiritual Thought at Rice College, the place he served because the Affiliate Dean of the College of Humanities, chaired the Division of Faith for eight years, and likewise helped create a doctoral focus within the research of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that’s the largest program of its sort on the planet. He presently helps direct the Heart for Concept and Analysis on the Esalen Institute in Large Sur, California.
Jeff is the creator or co-author of 13 books, and specializes within the research of maximum non secular states and placing “the inconceivable” again on the educational desk once more. He’s presently engaged on a three-volume research of paranormal currents within the historical past of religions and the sciences, collectively entitled The Tremendous Story.
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