Jeffrey Kripal
J. Newton Rayzor professor of religion at Rice University and the leading academic scholar of the paranormal and anomalous experience. Wrote the definitive scholarly history of the Esalen Institute, co-authored The Super Natural (2016) with experiencer Whitley Strieber, and founded Rice's Archives of the Impossible - a rare bridge legitimizing the study of the non-physical, experiential side of the UAP phenomenon within the academy. His 2024 book How to Think Impossibly (About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else) argues the flying saucer and the soul are the same order of phenomenon - that the UFO is a modern form of an ancient contact experience.
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wrote its definitive scholarly historyKripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007)
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co-authored The Super Natural (2016) with himStrieber & Kripal, The Super Natural (2016)
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fellow religion scholars studying the UAP/paranormalRice Archives of the Impossible; academic religious studies
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keynoted his Rice Archives of the Impossible conference (2022)Rice University Archives of the Impossible (2022)
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both featured on the Third Eye Drops podcast; each argues DMT / anomalous 'entity contact' points to a real non-physical realityThird Eye Drops (SpectreVision Radio), Mind Meld 397/405/434
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Kripal engages his DMT 'entity' research in arguing anomalous contact is a real non-physical phenomenonKripal, How to Think Impossibly (2024); Strassman, DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001)