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How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else de Jeffrey J. Kripal

How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

Autor Jeffrey J. Kripal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iul 2024

În cadrul programelor de studii avansate de metafizică și ontologie, How to Think Impossibly ocupă un loc distinct, propunând o reevaluare radicală a fenomenelor considerate „imposibile” de către paradigma materialistă dominantă. Subliniem modul în care Jeffrey J. Kripal nu se limitează la o simplă catalogare a paranormalului, ci folosește aceste experiențe de limită pentru a chestiona însăși structura realității. Descoperim aici o pledoarie pentru o viziune în care fantasticul nu este opusul realului, ci o componentă intrinsecă a acestuia, ce apare atunci când asumpțiile noastre culturale sunt provocate.

Remarcăm o structură riguroasă, organizată în două mari secțiuni care ghidează cititorul de la fenomenologie la teorie. Prima parte analizează experiențe concrete — de la teologia mistică la perspectivele oferite de spectrul autist — în timp ce a doua parte, „Making the Impossible Possible”, avansează ipoteze teoretice îndrăznețe despre „universul bloc” și natura duală a umanului. Comparabil cu Phenomena de Klaus Heinemann Ph. D. în dorința de a reconcilia experiența subiectivă cu rigoarea intelectuală, volumul de față este actualizat pentru provocările epistemologice contemporane, refuzând să ignore datele care nu se potrivesc în modelele clasice.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească a operei lui Kripal. Dacă în The Flip autorul analiza momentul de „răsturnare” a conștiinței, iar în The Superhumanities propunea o decolonizare a realității în mediul academic, How to Think Impossibly sintetizează aceste teme într-un manual de gândire critică aplicat miraculosului. Stilul este unul academic, dar marcat de o deschidere vulnerabilă și, pe alocuri, de un umor fin, facilitând o explorare profundă a ceea ce înseamnă să fii uman într-un univers mult mai vast decât cel măsurabil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226833682
ISBN-10: 0226833682
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 1 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii și studenții din filozofie și studiul religiilor care doresc să depășească limitele materialismului reducționist. Cititorul câștigă un cadru teoretic solid pentru a integra experiențele anormale în studiul umanioarelor. Este o invitație de a gândi dincolo de binarul minte-materie, oferind o perspectivă unificată asupra unor fenomene pe care știința convențională le categorizează adesea drept simple anomalii.

Despre autor

Jeffrey J. Kripal este un renumit istoric al religiilor și profesor la Rice University, cunoscut pentru abordările sale provocatoare asupra paranormalului și misticismului în contextul culturii occidentale. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Authors of the Impossible și Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, se concentrează constant pe intersecția dintre știință, religie și experiența umană extraordinară. Kripal este o voce de referință în efortul de a aduce fenomenele considerate oculte sau imposibile în centrul discursului academic legitim, propunând o viziune „super-umanistă” asupra cunoașterii.

Descriere scurtă

A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human.
 
From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. How to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both. Thinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to foster an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible.

Notă biografică

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

Prologue. Knowledge before Its Time

Introduction. The Fantastic Foundations of Reality

Part One. When the Impossible Happens
1. Words Are Experiences: Evolutionary Origins and the World of the Dead
2. Why They Don’t Land: Mantis, Mystical Theology, and Social Criticism
3. “That They Are Not Human”: Thinking on the Autistic Spectrum

Part Two. Making the Impossible Possible
4. The Timeswerve: Theorizing in a Block Universe
5. The World Is One, and the Human Is Two: Some Tentative Conclusions
6. We Are God (and the Devil): Further Thoughts and Moral Objections

Conclusion. How to Think Impossibly
Epilogue. The Three Bars

Acknowledgments. A Sociology of the Impossible
Notes
Index

Recenzii

"Kripal’s How to Think Impossibly boldly goes where most scholars fear to tread."

"I’ve been continuing to think about the philosopher of religion Jeffrey Kripal’s delightful and haunting book How to Think Impossibly, which aims to help us see how “the impossible is a function not of reality but of our ever-changing assumptions about what is real.”"

"Kripal bravely dives into fundamental questions, and he offers mind-stretching possibilities as a result."

"Kripal’s latest book is an intellectual route-map toward exploring authentic anomalous, paranormal and mystical experiences ostracized by orthodox science."

"A bold effort to grapple with the notion that people who experience the impossible might actually be telling the truth . . . It is also a set of proposals about how we could begin to understand reality once the impossible has been accepted into our understanding of the universe."

"To ‘think-with’ the ‘experiencers’ of such things [as UFO encounters] means treating them as enquirers who can change how history is written. . . . Whether our sources tell us our subjects spoke with Venusians, the Virgin Mary or Kali does not matter: their experiences were valid expressions of their neurology, not their beliefs. They were ‘ontological shocks’, which reveal that consciousness is or might become less bounded than we now suppose it to be. . . Kripal’s sensitive retellings of what his contactees endured show we cannot just write them off as mad or delirious."

"Kripal is indeed positioned to become, if he is not already, the transitional scholar in the humanities’ evolution from aping the materialist physics and assumptions of the “hard” sciences to a neo-Idealist, perennialism-flavored monism."

"Kripal has certainly provided us with an interesting and at times illuminating book and, in spite, of the reservations expressed here, I must commend his courage and enthusiasm in undertaking such a polarizing but fascinating topic."

"This work by historian of religion Jeffrey J. Kripal invites the reader to engage in some interesting philosophical reflection as it explores the impossible experiences that many people may have but usually keep to themselves because they are considered abnormal, taboo, and, as the title suggests, impossible. . . . The book has a very personal tone, both in the examples of others and in Kripal’s reflections. One conclusion is certain: the impossible can only be understood by accepting its possibility."

“This daring book offers a serious challenge to many of the dogmatic assumptions that govern the humanities, our understanding of religion, and—most significantly—our conceptions of reality. Kripal’s ideas call for nothing less than a quantum leap beyond the paradigms that shape our thinking about what is possible or impossible. His philosophy is as bold as it is compelling, and the cogency of his arguments is intensified by prose that packs a vigorous punch. Kripal has a gift for conveying very complex ideas succinctly, bringing abstractions out of their ether and connecting dots that have long needed connecting.”

"Read this book if you want to make sense of how apparently impossible events do sometimes occur and how uncanny connections can arise between quantum physics and religious mysticism."

"If I am to be provoked, I’d want it to be by a book like this one. How to Think Impossibly asks us to take seriously (but not solemnly) notions that reason would have us reject: to contemplate compassionately, humanely, and broadly the quiddities of human experience. Kripal’s book is the best kind: not an instruction manual on what to believe but an invitation to the imagination. Frankly, I don’t know what I think about it—but I want to think about it.”

"Kripal inspires and provokes us to rethink what we imagine can and cannot be. Winding his way through accounts of encounters with demons, flying saints, precognitive dreams, clairvoyant visions, near-death experiences, and alien intruders, he invites us to take seriously the fantastic and exotic. Alternately outrageous, whimsical, weird, and startling, How to Think Impossibly offers a breathtaking adventure into the world and meaning of wonders."