Authors of the Impossible(English, Hardcover, Kripal Jeffrey J.)

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Authors of the Impossible(English, Hardcover, Kripal Jeffrey J.) is written by Kripal Jeffrey J. and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226453863 (ISBN 10) and 9780226453866 (ISBN 13).

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred, and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; Cold War psychic espionage; galactic colonialism; and, the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture all come together in "Authors of the Impossible", a dazzling and profound look at how the paranormal bridges the sacred and the scientific.