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Thursday, January 16, 7:00 p.m. CT
The evidence is overwhelming: People have paranormal experiences all the time — ghosts, spirits, UFOs, precognition, telepathy. These events are too common and universal to be dismissed as mere hallucinations. But then how are we to think about them?
Jeffrey J. Kripal, a professor of religious studies at Rice University, explores this question in his recent book How to Think Impossibly. He insists that the intellectual world must take these phenomena far more seriously than it has. But this leads toward a fundamental shift in our thinking about reality. In this conversation with Richard Smoley, author, and editor of Quest: Journal of the Theosophical Society in America, Professor Kripal explains where a serious inquiry into these issues might lead and discusses his revolutionary insights into them.
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Ph.D., holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. He is presently serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His full body of work can be seen at jeffreyjkripal.com.
This program will be streamed on YouTube, Facebook, and our website on Thursday, January 16, at 7 p.m. CT.