The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

by Jeffrey J. Kripal
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

by Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Overview

“One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing.” —Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind

“Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He] continues to believe that spirituality and science should not contradict each other.” —New York Times Book Review

“Kripal prompts us to reflect on our personal assumptions, as well as the shared assumptions that create and maintain our institutions. . . . [His] work will likely become more and more relevant to more and more areas of inquiry as the century unfolds. It may even open up a new space for Americans to reevaluate the personal and cultural narratives they have inherited, and to imagine alternative futures.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an extreme, life-changing experience. The Flip is Kripal’s ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars. Combining accounts of rationalists’ spiritual awakenings and consciousness explorations by philosophers, neuroscientists, and mystics within a framework of the history of science and religion, Kripal compellingly signals a path to mending our fractured world.

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice Universityand is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has previously taught at Harvard Divinity School and Westminster College and is the author of eight books, including The Flip. He lives in Houston, Texas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781942658528
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Publication date: 03/12/2019
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 219,343
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice Universityand is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has previously taught at Harvard Divinity School and Westminster College and is the author of eight books, including The Flip. He lives in Houston, Texas.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Human Cosmos 11

1 Visions of the Impossible 19

2 Flipped Scientists 54

3 Consciousness and Cosmos 89

4 Symbols in Between 133

5 The Future (Politics) of Knowledge 166

Epilogue: The Cosmic Human 198

Acknowledgments 203

Endnotes 205

Index 229

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