Jeffrey J Kripal – How to Think Impossibly: About UFOs, Souls, Time, Belief, Everything Else
Jeff offers a powerful opener to the captivating upcoming series
“WE ARE NOT ALONE – What could it mean?”
hosted by Àlex Gómez-Marín, starting March 31st!
David Lorimer will be in conversation with Prof Jeff Kripal about his latest book How to Think Impossibly, with a special emphasis on the various approaches to understanding UAPs within our larger cultural ideas about reality. UAPs – along with pre-cognitive dreams, telepathic visions and their death experiences are defined within our mainstream worldview as impossible phenomena that are not supposed to happen – yet they do happen, all the time.
With respect to UAPs, the recent spate of drone sightings and the political momentum behind disclosure has the potential to create a seismic ontological shock with respect to conventional understandings of the nature of consciousness and reality if it is openly acknowledged that these and other sightings by credible military and intelligence personnel involve non-human intelligence (NHI) – the same applies to human interaction with the subtle realms.
Jeff encourages us to think about such phenomena and experiences as an essential part of being human, as expressions of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material, but gives rise to both. We now need to open our minds and find ways of integrating so-called impossible experiences into a larger understanding of reality – this means thinking with individuals about their experiences and their implications, especially since, as Jeff maintains, ‘there is no final distinction between subjective and objective states, between consciousness and cosmos’ – hence we need to postulate a fundamental unity of space, time, and mind.
Come and join us on this rollercoaster adventure into reperceiving and restructuring the very order of knowledge that our universities take for granted.
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About the speaker:
Jeffrey J Kripal is the J Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he hosts the Archives of the Impossible collection and conference series. He also co-directs the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Jeff is the author of numerous books, most recently How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (Chicago, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com He thinks he may be Spider-Man.
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Jeffrey J. KripalJeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of Humanities and holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of Humanities and holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has previously taught at Harvard Divinity School and Westminster College and is the author of eight books, including The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters. For more see: www.kripal.rice.edu.
