Five Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Wednesdays, January 20 - February 17, 2027
7 - 9pm ET (NYC Time)
$195 Paid Patreon Members / $210 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Over the course of over three decades, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This course brings these two halves together in surprising ways through a blend of memoir, manifesto, and anthology, revealing Kripal's body of work to be a dynamic whole with the potential to renew and reshape not only the study of religion itself but also you. This is the class of all classes for Jeff, based on the book of all his books, Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (2017).
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he convenes the Archives of the Impossible conference series and helps host the Center for the Impossible, the physical collections professionally curated and stored by Woodson Research Center. He also co-directs the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Jeff is the author of numerous books, most recently How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (Chicago, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com He thinks he may be Spider-Man.
Images:
Elohim Creating Adam, William Blake, 1795; Chakrasamvara with His Consort Vajravarahi, 1450-1500; The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne, William Blake, 1803-05;
Five Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Wednesdays, January 20 - February 17, 2027
7 - 9pm ET (NYC Time)
$195 Paid Patreon Members / $210 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Over the course of over three decades, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This course brings these two halves together in surprising ways through a blend of memoir, manifesto, and anthology, revealing Kripal's body of work to be a dynamic whole with the potential to renew and reshape not only the study of religion itself but also you. This is the class of all classes for Jeff, based on the book of all his books, Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (2017).
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he convenes the Archives of the Impossible conference series and helps host the Center for the Impossible, the physical collections professionally curated and stored by Woodson Research Center. He also co-directs the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Jeff is the author of numerous books, most recently How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (Chicago, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com He thinks he may be Spider-Man.
Images:
Elohim Creating Adam, William Blake, 1795; Chakrasamvara with His Consort Vajravarahi, 1450-1500; The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne, William Blake, 1803-05;
