Extraordinary, Mysterious, and Impossible Experiences, with Jeffrey Kriple

Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “impossible” experiences. This is a conversation I’ve been waiting a few years to have. Together we explore what you can or can’t talk about in the humanities — and what we risk when we break the rules. Along the way, we touch on paranormal phenomena, epistemological pluralism, conspiracy theories, Plato’s cave, and why no one dresses up as a humanities professor for Halloween. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then

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Extraordinary, Mysterious, and Impossible Experiences, with Jeffrey Kriple is an episode from New Books in Psychology by New Books Network.

This episode is 66:39 long.

This episode was published on May 8, 2026.

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