Jeffrey J Kripal: 8 books
The Flip
Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
“One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing.” —Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind
“Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He] continues to believe that spirituality...
Esalen
America and the Religion of No Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human potential movement. Forged in the literary and mythical leanings of the Beat Generation, inspired in...
Authors of the Impossible
The Paranormal and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena,...
Secret Body
Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal’s study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves together in surprising ways through a blend of...
Mutants and Mystics
Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men," thrilled readers and audiences—and simultaneously...
The Super Natural
Why the Unexplained Is Real
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally understood.
Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor professor...
Changed in a Flash
One Woman's Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A fascinating first-hand account of an awakening into a psychic consciousness, paired with a revolutionary analysis by a respected professor of religion
When Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons in the parking lot of her synagogue on a late afternoon in September...
by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world.
A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religions
Draws on a wide range of religious traditions to...