Thus, I reached out to a colleague, Jeffrey Kripal, an expert in the history of religion, to enlighten us on the connection between science and spirituality, mind and matter, and humanities and the ...

Materialism has been waning in influence in the scientific community, but what has replaced it is not clear. Are we in the midst of a Kuhnian paradigm shift? Possibly. The decline of materialist ...

Contributors include Jacques Vallée, John Mack, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Daniel Sheehan, and others. Foreword by Robert Davis. ALBUQUERQUE, NM, UNITED ...

Kripal, a professor of religious studies at Rice University in Houston, is the author of “Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion.” The 575-page book details the cultural and spiritual history ...