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

By Jeffrey J. Kripal

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2024
ISBN
0226833682, 9780226833682
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5349179 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
297\312
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-09-01 13:05:38

Description

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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