The The Welcome back to the UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast. I'm your host Kelly Chase. Today we have a very

special guest on the show, Dr. Jeffrey Cripel. Dr. Cripel is an esteemed scholar and author in the study of religion,

focusing particularly on the esoteric, mystical,

and paranormal dimensions of human experience. He serves as the J Newton

Razor chair in philosophy and religious thought at Bryce University, and he is the

author of several phenomenal books including The Superhumanities,

Mutant and Mystics, Supernatural, which he co-authored with Whitley Streber,

and The Flip.

I'll have links to all of these and more in the episode brief if you want to check them out.

I really can't recommend his work highly enough.

As you'll recall, we talked about Dr. Cripple's book The Flip in part three of the

Waking Up Inside the Cave series.

The Flip is of particular significance to me because it was asked the result of my own

flip that I embarked upon the project that would become this podcast.

Discovering Jeff's work soon after that experience gave me the reassurance that my radical shift

in perspective wasn't some kind of a mental break, something that I frankly feared at the time, but rather a somewhat

common occurrence among people who have dealt intentionally or otherwise with the anomalous.

Beyond simple reassurance that I'm not crazy,

or at the very least that if I'm crazy I'm in good company,

Jeff's work has also given me essential frameworks

for venturing into the more challenging aspects of the phenomenon.

Much of his work deals with what we generally refer to as The Impossible, or the places where

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