Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Jeffrey Kripal
Rice University religion scholar (b. 1962) who studies the paranormal and founded the Archives of the Impossible in 2014.
2014 CE · 29.72, -95.40 · status: account
The account
Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair at Rice, where he helped found a doctoral concentration in Gnosticism, Esotericism and Mysticism. His books include 'Authors of the Impossible' (2010), which profiles Jacques Vallée among others, 'Mutants and Mystics' (2011), and 'The Super Natural' (2016) with Whitley Strieber. The Archives of the Impossible collect papers of UFO and paranormal researchers.
The sceptical view
Critics argue that his sympathetic, humanities-based approach to anomalous experience sidesteps the question of evidence; his first book, 'Kali's Child', was also controversial.
Connections in the atlas
- Jeffrey J. Kripal
- Diana Walsh Pasulka
- Richard F. Haines
- Whitley Strieber
- Vallée's control-system hypothesis
- Jacques Vallée