Jeffrey J. Kripal Books

With his 2003 debut, I Know Why The Aliens Don't Land!, Amazon best-selling author Jeremy Vaeni redefined what an alien abductee sounds like. Not one to sit meekly in the shadows while some researcher told an audience what his bizarre experiences were, Jeremy offered the depth, humor, and raw honesty sorely lacking in ufology.Now, as he attempts to write its sequel, he can't shake the feeling that he's just going through the motions. Thankfully, there are deeper forces at work who don't want him to write that book, anyway. They want him to write a better one. What emerges is a book unlike any you have ever read before. I Am To Tell You This And I Am To Tell You It Is Fiction sets a new standard for what it means to think deeply about alien abductions, the multiverse, the afterlife, and the life we're living now. And it does so wrapped in the author's trademark, wildly inappropriate sense of humor.

What if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? This vision celebrates the fantastic undercurrents within humanistic disciplines, opening up new cultural worlds and meanings. Jeffrey J. Kripal seeks to revive the suppressed dimension of the superhumanities, which encompasses rare but real altered states of knowledge that have fueled the creativity of many revered authors, artists, and activists. He posits that the history of the humanities is rich with superhumanist thought, possession states, and out-of-body experiences. For Kripal, the concept of the superhuman is central to humanity's aspirations throughout history and across cultures. He diagnoses the humanities' malaise, suggesting that the prevailing belief that truth must be depressing can be challenged. Kripal advocates for the decolonization of reality to honor human diversity, engaging with psychoanalytic, Black critical, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and ecocritical theories. He addresses objections to the superhumanities while acknowledging contemporary scientific realities. Ultimately, he aims to transcend mere critique, promoting a holistic perspective that recognizes humans as both social-political beings and evolved cosmic entities capable of experiencing something super.

'Mindblowing' Michael Pollan Why do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only science, mathematics and technology reveal truth? The Flip shows us what happens when we realise that consciousness is fundamental to the cosmos and not some random evolutionary accident or surface cognitive illusion; that everything is alive, connected, and 'one'. We meet the people who have made this visionary, intuitive leap towards new forms of knowledge: Mark Twain's prophetic dreams, Marie Curie's séances, Einstein's cosmically attuned mind. But these forms of knowledge are not archaic; indeed, they are essential in a universe that has evolved specifically to be understandable by the consciousnesses we inhabit. The Flip peels back the layers of our beliefs about the world to reveal a visionary, new way of understanding ourselves and everything around us, with huge repercussions for how we live our lives. After all, once we have flipped, we understand that the cosmos is not just human. The human is also cosmic.

"From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen, but do happen all the time. These are the kinds of fantastic experiences that Jeffrey J. Kripal takes up in How to Think Impossibly. The impossible, Kripal asserts, is a function not of reality, but of our present social constructions and subsequent perceptions and cognitions. In other words, we think these events and experiences are impossible, but they are only impossible within our historically constructed frameworks. In How to Think Impossibly, Kripal thinks-with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways. These lines of thought interweave the mental and material dimensions of humanistic and scientific inquiry, resulting in a developing awareness in the reader that what we think of as the impossible is not impossible at all"--