Thinking Impossibly (Jeffrey Kripal, PhD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

“We need to be open to things that offend or transcend our worldview because they're clearly doing that for a reason,” says Jeffrey Kripal, PhD. Kripal—who holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University—returns to the podcast for a second time. We talk about different ways to understand the deeper realities of our lives, and his latest book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else. Yes, we get to time travel and conspiracy theories. And also what makes Kripal’s work fun—and funny. See more about this episode and guest on my Substack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm joined by a returning guest,
0:06.2	Professor Jeffrey Kriple, author of How to Think Impossibly. This episode is brought to you by
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0:50.7	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:56.9	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. Pulling the thread is about big questions, why we do
1:03.9	what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical context,
1:09.9	the ways in which we might begin to understand
1:11.9	ourselves and each other better, and what's required to heal ourselves and our world.
1:17.1	I'll be joined in conversation by luminaries and wise elders, those who have laid tracks in their
1:22.1	work and lives to help us bring meaning and understanding to a world that often feels chaotic
1:27.2	and overwhelming.
1:28.3	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness
1:34.3	so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
1:38.3	What I think is actually happening now is that we are more and more aware that we're living
1:44.6	in a story and that story sucks and that it's killing us.
1:52.0	It's really bad.
1:53.6	And I think that these events, these impossible events are triggering or happening at a pretty
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