Brief
Jeffrey Kripal
The claims the writer was given for Jeffrey Kripal, in the order they were given.
1
D. W. Pasulka convinced Jeffrey Kripal to accompany her to meet Tyler D. in Atlanta.
“I convinced one of my colleagues, Jeff Kripal, to accompany me to the meeting.”
American Cosmic 2019 ch1:39356-39426 administrative first hand
2
Jeffrey Kripal recounted that Whitley Strieber told an audience he was fully aware that his visionary experience of the visitors described in his novel Communion was deeply informed by the bad science-fiction B movies he had seen as a child in the cold-war 1950s in southern Texas.
“Reflecting on a talk by “alien abductee” Whitley Strieber about the experiences that informed his best-selling novel, Communion, Jeffrey Kripal notes the role played by popular culture: “One evening he [Whitley] explained to us that he was perfectly aware that his visionary experience of the visitors was deeply informed by the bad sci-fi B movies that he had seen in such numbers as a kid in the cold war 1950s in southern Texas.””
American Cosmic 2019 ch4:33641-34068 testimony second hand
3
Jeffrey Kripal suggests considering Sister Maria of Agreda's bilocation claims within a both/and framework rather than an either/or scenario that reduces them to pure imagination or purely political machinations.
“As Jeff Kripal suggests, instead of positing an either/or scenario that negates the inexplicable and anomalous and reduces Maria’s claims to purely imaginings and nothing more, why not consider the story within a framework of both/and?”
American Cosmic 2019 ch7:35510-35741 opinion first hand
4
Jeffrey Kripal wrote that some of the remembered effects of these fantastic states of mind have been taken up by elaborate social, political, and artistic processes and fashioned by communities into mythical, ritual, and institutional complexes that have fundamentally changed human history, which are called 'religions'.
“Kripal notes, "Some of the remembered effects of these fantastic states of mind have been taken up by extremely elaborate social, political, and artistic processes and have been fashioned by communities into mythical, ritual, and institutional complexes that have fundamentally changed human history. We call these 'religions.' "”
American Cosmic 2019 char:30327-30643 opinion second hand
5
Jeff Kripal experienced a sense of annihilation while sleeping in the same room as Whitley Strieber at a conference at the Esalen Institute in Northern California.
“my Super Natural co-author, Jeff Kripal, experienced it when sleeping in the same room with me at a conference at the Esalen Institute in Northern California.”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch18:13699-13846 testimony second hand
6
During a night at the Esalen Institute with Jeff Kripal sleeping in a second bed, Whitley Strieber and then Jeff Kripal each experienced a brief physical contact with a visitor.
“one night when Jeff was sleeping in the second bed, there was a brief physical contact, first with me, then a few minutes later with him.”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch18:14121-14254 testimony first hand
7
During the contact experience at the Esalen Institute, Jeff Kripal heard a great noise as if of glass breaking, followed by his own voice crying out from within himself, "Oh my God!"
“He heard a great noise as if of glass breaking and then his own voice crying out from deep within himself, “Oh my God!””
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch18:14355-14469 testimony second hand
8
Whitley Strieber identifies himself not as a believer in the supernatural, but as an adherent of Jeff Kripal's concept of the "super natural" - natural powers that transcend ordinary physical perception but remain part of nature.
“As must be clear by now, I am not a believer in the supernatural, but in Jeff Kripal’s concept of the “super” natural, that is to say, natural powers that transcend the physical as we perceive it, but are still very much part of nature.”
The Fourth Mind 2025-01-15 ch22:25844-26073 opinion first hand