How to Think Impossibly

About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-26
Mått:152 x 231 x 25 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226833682

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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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"Kripal’s How to Think Impossibly boldly goes where most scholars fear to tread."

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Prologue. Knowledge before Its TimeIntroduction. The Fantastic Foundations of RealityPart One. When the Impossible Happens1. Words Are Experiences: Evolutionary Origins and the World of the Dead2. Why They Don’t Land: Mantis, Mystical Theology, and Social Criticism3. “That They Are Not Human”: Thinking on the Autistic SpectrumPart Two. Making the Impossible Possible4. The Timeswerve: Theorizing in a Block Universe5. The World Is One, and the Human Is Two: Some Tentative Conclusions6. We Are God (and the Devil): Further Thoughts and Moral ObjectionsConclusion. How to Think ImpossiblyEpilogue. The Three BarsAcknowledgments. A Sociology of the ImpossibleNotesIndex