Join Frank as he chats with Jeffrey Kripal, PhD. Dr. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is the author of multiple books on the Paranormal, Super Realities, High Strangeness, and his most recent book “The Superhumanities”

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“The Superhumanities” is a fascinating read whereby Dr. Kripal’s central thesis is that often super events, paranormal, altered states of consciousness, and Divine Revelation are the hidden drivers in the stream of history’s social movements, and break throughs in science and mathematics.

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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks...

Chicago University Press

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...

Reach out to Jeffery Kripal’s website: www.jeffreykripal.com

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0:00:05 Summary of J. Kripal

0:01:00 Whitley Strieber

0:03:25 Dr. Jeff Kripal

0:03:55 What is it that drive’s Jeff to pursue Spiritual as a discipline?

0:04:20 The Catholic and pious background of Jeff

0:05:12 Jeff’s coming of age, anorexia, and religiosity all blended together

0:06:24 Benedictine Monastic spirituality, what took Jeff away and what has stuck with him?

0:07:45 Biblical Historical Criticism: the Benedictine gift of learning

0:09:00 Celibacy and not fitting in with the Monastic community

0:11:50 What type of worldview does Jeff’s student’s have?

0:12:40 What is Comparative Religions as a study?

0:14:25 Why are so many anti-transcendent college staff almost all in the humanities departments?

0:18:10 The harm refusal to take religions seriously entails “violence against people”

0:21:42 What does Jeff think about UFOs?

0:25:35 UFOs and the development of religions as an elite phenomena related to Top Secret Clearances

0:27:00 Lack of “free flowing” information regarding UFOs coming from government

0:29:00 Jeff hung out with Dr. Avi Loeb two weeks previous to interview

0:29:30 Jeff talks about the strengths and methodological weaknesses of Loeb’s “Galileo Project”

0:33:10 “You might as well being trying to shoot down souls” regarding U.S. Govt. & UFOs

0:34:40 Quote from the late-Anne Streiber “We’re to young for beliefs”

0:36:30 The backstory of Jeff’s “Sigil” and the practice and belief of Magic

0:40:50 Mind, intention, and will as vehicles of Magic

0:44:30 Evolutionary biology and “Future Human” and the reverse of Garden of Eden story

0:50:15 DNA and coding and messages and alterations

0:53:50 Where does “The Superhumanities” fit into the rest of Jeff’s work?

0:57:00 The importance of taking Metaphysical claims of religion and mystical experiences seriously-one argument of his book

1:00:00 The role of Friedrich Nietzsche in Jeff’s “The Superhumanities”

1:02:10 Sigmund Freud loved Nietzsche

1:05:20 The “Ape” and “Superman” and transitional humans (us) in Nietzsche

1:05:38 Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence Theme and Belief

1:07:25 Nietzsche was anti-German Nationalism

1:13:40 Jeff’s belief in non-linear time model

1:15:20 Dramatic story of Pre-Cognition told to Jeff

1:19:09 Closing thoughts and thanks