Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal | The Super Natural, Religious Experience, & A Hermeneutics Of The Imagination
The Higherside Chats
Greg Carlwood
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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About Today's Guest:Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023), chaired the Department of Religion for eight years, and also 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 presently helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he served as Chair of Board from 2015 to 2020.
Jeff is the author or co-author of thirteen books, nine of which are with The University of Chicago Press. He has also served as the Editor in Chief of the Macmillan Handbook Series on Religion (ten volumes, 2015-2016). He specializes in the study of extreme religious states and the re-visioning of a New Comparativism, particularly as both involve putting “the impossible” back on the academic table again. He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of religions and the sciences for The University of Chicago Press, collectively entitled The Super Story.
Dr. Kripal's Website: jeffreyjkripal.com
Dr. Kripal's Books: jeffreyjkripal.com/body-of-work
The Archives of the Impossible: impossiblearchives.rice.edu
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| 0:00.0 | The planet puppet masters puppet masters almost surely have a plan. |
| 0:09.0 | There's clearly maybe something there beyond the realm of man |
| 0:13.8 | until you thoroughly tested every last close-chested view. |
| 0:18.2 | A fathom all you think you know the less you created. Where would we be without the C? |
| 0:27.0 | Because we know they're lying to us just don't know what degree. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, where would we be without THC? |
| 0:42.0 | The highest side shots. Without the |
| 0:45.0 | higher side chats show |
| 0:49.0 | great coward and company |
| 0:50.0 | the power of Christ compels you people. |
| 0:54.7 | From the Sunshine State, I'm Greg Carlwood. |
| 0:57.1 | And as we roll on through another yearly cycle, |
| 0:59.7 | there is something about such times |
| 1:01.5 | that does have us pondering the deeper questions about what exactly life is. |
| 1:06.2 | An illusionary physical realm for fractals of the one true consciousness to live out story |
| 1:10.8 | and a spectrum of experience before reintegration with the whole, some sort of |
| 1:15.1 | cosmic college for universal truths we explored through many incarnations until graduation day. |
| 1:21.2 | Or might it be some kind of Gnostic prison from which we seek illumination and ultimately |
| 1:25.6 | liberation? |
| 1:26.6 | Whatever the case, it seems pretty clear that there's something much deeper going on than what |
| 1:31.1 | we see on the surface and the system itself is very content to keep |
| 1:34.7 | us distracted from it all with the more mundane experiences of physical life, car registrations, |
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