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All in all, Religion and popular music in Europe is a timely and promising book, as it supplies case studies of both topical and geographical relevance to the study of religion and popular culture. He is the author of several books, including Esalen: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion.
But the history of psychical phenomena, University of Chicago Press Bolero Ozon.
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Kripal grounds his study in the work of four major figures in the history of paranormal research: Through incisive analyses of these thinkers, Kripal ushers the reader into a beguiling world somewhere between fact, fiction, and fraud. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; cold war psychic espionage; galactic colonialism; and the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture all come together in Authors of the Impossible , a dazzling and profound look at how the paranormal bridges the sacred and the scientific.
As well as being carefully researched and theoretically interesting, it is also engaging, witty, and thoughtful. In the process, the reader is introduced to the largely rejected knowledge of the psychical, the sacred is resurrected in the paranormal, and lazy skepticism is challenged.
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
Authors of the Impossible will contribute significantly to the intelligent, open-minded study of the sacred, while Kripal will, I suspect, become a key figure in the development of new trajectories in the study of religion. He demands nothing short of a paradigm shift in order to make sense of the odd, the anomalous, and the inexplicable.
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All of this he calls the impossible—the paranormal situations in which thought forms are said to become physical realities and the future to morph into the present and past. Kripal is no fluffy believer; he argues incisively and in detail in ways that seek to shake our materialist and rational foundations at their base, so that our defensive walls come tumbling down.