276 - Jeff Kripal & The Super Humanities

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Dr. Jeff Kripal of Rice University's Religious Studies dept. He's the author of several books that cover topics overlapping MonsterTalk's bailiwick including: The Superhumanities The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained (co-authored with Whitley Streiber) and Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/monstertalk and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0	It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.
0:46.0	A giant airing creature pod ape on mass.
0:51.0	In Loch Ness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.
0:55.0	It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster.
0:59.0	Music
1:20.0	Monster Talk
1:22.0	Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters. I'm Blake Smith.
1:26.0	And I'm Karen Stolzner.
1:28.0	Today we're starting a two-part interview with Dr. Jeffrey Cryple.
1:31.0	He's come up again and again in my research into topics for the show, and he's well-known
1:35.0	name in the field of religious studies. Don't worry, we will get to some monsters
1:39.0	in the discussion, but one of my resolutions for last year was to talk to more people
1:43.0	who have a different viewpoint about these topics that we're so into.
1:47.0	And to do so politely and reasonably, and to that end, I've reached out to several
1:50.0	folks in this field of weird stuff studies and had some very interesting conversations.
1:55.0	I intend to continue that into 2023, and I'm finding value in it.
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