• Ecstatic Knowledge and the Study of Religion - featuring Jeffrey Kripal

  • Dec 7 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
  • Podcast

Ecstatic Knowledge and the Study of Religion - featuring Jeffrey Kripal

  • Summary

  • For episode five of the pod, we are honored to welcome Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Chair of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. In this career-spanning chat 10:36 we discuss Kripal’s Catholic upbringing, psychoanalysis, and the ecstatic experience in Calcutta that changed the direction of his career. From there, we touch on Jeff’s role at Esalen, historical mystics and paranormal powers, telepathic insects, and how the study of religion and popular culture come together in film, comedy, and music.

    NOTES

    Peripheries No. 6 launch event
    Jeffrey J. Kripal's personal website
    Jeffrey Kripal, Mutants and Mystics
    Kripal, The Superhumanities
    Kripal, Authors of the Impossible
    Kripal, Kali's Child
    Kripal, How to Think Impossibly
    The Archives of the Impossible
    Hellier, season 1
    Hellier, season 2
    Esalen's Center for Theory and Research

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