Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Kripal & Strieber, 'The Super Natural'
Dialogue between Rice University religion scholar Jeffrey Kripal and author Whitley Strieber about anomalous experience and consciousness.
2016 CE · 29.72, -95.40 · status: account
The account
Strieber recounts his encounter experiences, and Kripal frames them within the history of religion and mysticism, arguing that such experiences are real as experiences and point to unexplored aspects of mind. It is a key text for the humanities' engagement with the phenomenon.
The sceptical view
Skeptics see it as taking a single experiencer's claims at face value; the book deliberately avoids testing them.
Connections in the atlas
- Jeffrey J. Kripal