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AUTHORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
AUTHORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Subtitle:
The Paranormal and the Sacred
Book Category:
Philosophy > Metaphysics
Author:
Kripal, Jeffrey J.
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780226453866?
Price:
USD 37.50
Publication Year:
2010

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Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion.

 

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