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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 Criple. Dr. Criple 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, Mutants 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. Criple'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 as 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 human experience both exceeds and obliterates our

traditional models. I was lucky enough to read a few chapters of his new book

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