What Magic is This? : The Return of Jeffrey Kripal

The Return of Jeffrey Kripal

My guest for this episode is the associate Dean of the school of Humanities and holds the J. Newton Rayzor chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston Texas. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he also serves as Chair of the Board. He is also the author of several books, many of which are required reading if you listen to this Podcast. For all that Dr. Jeff gets up to, click the smilin’ fellow below!

Show Notes

• Dr. Jeff has a new book out! The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities – A wonderful book!
  
• Books by Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Without a doubt, many of these books are well worth your time (see below)
  
• Last year Dr. Jeff held the Archives of The Impossible with such guests as Leslie Kean, Whitley Strieber and Jaques Vallée – Be sure to watch these presentations, they’re all amazing!
  
• Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – On Radar and Revelation: Connecting the Dots (and One Another) – Video from Archives of the Impossible
  
• Jeffrey Kripal on how to think about the UFO phenomenon
  
• Dr. Kripal talks about ‘The Flip’ at the Pacifica Graduate Institute
  
• ‘The Flip’ is now on Audiobook! Have a listen
  
• Herbert Thurston and his amazing book The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
  
• A couple names which Dr. K brought up are Barbara Newman (a scholar of Hildegard of Bingen, no less) and Paul Eno
  
• Zora Neale Hurston – Extremely fascinating figure and her biography Dust Tracks on a Road
  
• Bron Taylor
  

Doug’s Favourite Books by Dr. Jeff

• The Super Natural – Co-authored with Whitley Strieber
  
• Authors of the Impossible
  
• Changed in a Flash: One Woman’s Near Death Experience and why a Scholar thinks it Empowers us all
  
• The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and The Future of Knowledge
  
• Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions