How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, Ufos, Time, Belief, and Everything Else - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226833682ISBN-10:226833682UPC:9780226833682Book Category:Philosophy, Body, Mind & Spirit, ScienceBook Subcategory:Metaphysics, Psychic Phenomena, Philosophy & Social AspectsBook Topic:ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy)Size:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.19Product ID:SCWRTDBFF9
A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human.
From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen--all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. How to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both. Thinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to foster an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible.
From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen--all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. How to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both. Thinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to foster an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226833682ISBN-10:226833682UPC:9780226833682Book Category:Philosophy, Body, Mind & Spirit, ScienceBook Subcategory:Metaphysics, Psychic Phenomena, Philosophy & Social AspectsBook Topic:ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy)Size:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.19Product ID:SCWRTDBFF9
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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