4 Quotes by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Why continue to tolerate a kind of armchair skepticism that has everything to do with scientistic propaganda and nothing at all to do with honest, rigorously open-minded collection, classification, and theory building, that is, with real science and real humanistic inquiry?

My history has been that of a soul struggling into the conviction of its own existence. – FREDERIC MYERS, Fragments of Inner Life.

Indeed, Ehrenreich makes it crystal clear throughout the book that she despises monotheism as a form of “deicide” that insists on killing every other god and leads eventually to modern science, which kills everything else.

The whole project of science,” she explains, “is to crush any notion of powerful nonhuman Others,” and the vocation of the scientist is “to keep all that was uncanny or unspeakable stuffed out of sight.