Embracing the anomalous

Jeffrey Kripal’s latest book is an intellectual route-map towards exploring authentic anomalous, paranormal and mystical experiences ostracised by orthodox science, says Bob Rickard

How to Think Impossibly About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else Jeffrey J Kripal University of Chicago Press 2024 Hb, 312pp, £28, ISBN 9780226833682 There is something, up ahead in the future, called “superhumanities”. It attempts a new approach to what Fort called a “more inclusive science”, paying attention to its exceptions as well as to its core principles. It is a concerted academic discipline comprehending the totality of our existence between the extremes of our inner and outer sensoria, from the furthest stars down to infinitesimal quantum eddies, and (importantly) embracing the ostracised realms of authentic anomalous, paranormal and mystical experience so energetically cancelled by a cynical scientific materialism. In this sequel to his Authors of the Impossible (2010) and The Superhumanities (2022), Jeffrey Kripal sets out an…

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