In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he notes that, while the idea of the werewolf may seem spooky, it entails shamanistic practices similar to those found in Native American wolf clans. The Egyptians worshipped the god, Anubis, who had a human form and a canine head. He was a psychopomp, or initiator into the depths [...]

In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he suggests that in order to engage in the scientific study of post-mortem survival of personality, it is important to begin by clarifying exactly what is being studied. This requires an understanding of such terms as human identity and continuity. He notes that there are many ways, in daily [...]

In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he notes that shame is a deep-seated affect that is located deep within the mammalian portions of the brain. He makes a point of distinguishing between shame and guilt, insofar as toxic shame can be completely crippling at an emotional level. It is typically the result of early childhood [...]

Professor Kripal organized the Archives of the Impossible symposium at Ric University. See https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/

Here he describes a series of intermittent apparitions associated with a Coptic church in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, between 1968 and 1971, that were witnessed by over a million people. He evaluates a number of conventional explanations for the phenomena and finds them all incapable of explaining the reported observations.

In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he reviews the writings about ancient Atlantis that appear in the philosophical literature. He focuses on Plato, Francis Bacon, Rudolf Steiner, and Colin Wilson. When taken as a whole, this literature is suggestive of an advanced civilization that may have existed about ten thousand years ago. Its inhabitants possessed [...]

Meditation practices can lead to permanent changes in awareness of the self and the transcendence of the ego. Shinzen Young is an ordained Buddhist Monk and scholar of Buddhism. He is author of The Science of Enlightenment. After about a year of meditative practice, he says, one establishes open access to a realm of altered [...]

In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he shares the progress he has made in developing a model of precognition based on our understanding of physics, neurophysiology, and psychology. He postulates a channel of information from either actual or possible futures to the present. This is a physics problem that could be addressed in the context [...]

In this interview, rebooted from 2016, he proposes a simple definition for consciousness – an awareness of self and other. Essentially, all consciousness, then, involves a sense of relationship. He notes that this recognition of relationship can be observed even among molecules, atoms, and particles. This is a viewpoint akin to panpsychism. He acknowledges the [...]