How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else - Hardcover

Kripal, Jeffrey J.

 
9780226833682: How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226833682 ISBN 13: 9780226833682
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226833682
ISBN 13 
9780226833682
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
297
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