Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought in the Department of Religion, is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities and host of the school's podcast series, Connections: Humanizing the Humanities. He is also the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.

Kripal is the author of eight books, including, most recently, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge (Bellevue Literary Press, 2019), which began as a widely popular article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In this book, he envisions the future centrality and urgency of the humanities in conversation with the history of science, the philosophy of mind, and our shared ethical, political, and ecological challenges.

He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction for the University of Chicago Press collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies.

His full body of work can be seen at jeffreyjkripal.com.

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