Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Kripal, 'Authors of the Impossible'
Kripal's scholarly study of four writers on the paranormal: Frederic Myers, Charles Fort, Jacques Vallée and Bertrand Méheust.
2010 CE · 29.72, -95.40 · status: account
The account
Kripal argues that paranormal experiences behave like texts that mean something to those who have them, and that the sacred and the paranormal are historically linked. Published by a university press, it legitimised the paranormal as a subject of religious studies.
The sceptical view
Critics say the 'paranormal as meaning' frame avoids the question of whether the events happened.
Connections in the atlas
- Jeffrey J. Kripal