Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal is one of our biggest heroes. When Tarek Al-Ubaidi, host of the Austrian podcast CROPfm interviewed us for a show about our approach to magic and suggested that we invite Dr. Kripal for that as well, we immediately jumped at the chance. The show aired on May 12th, 2017 on CROPfm and featured snippets from our inspiring talk with him; this here is the whole thing. We discuss how the paranormal is about reading, writing and meaning, the role language plays in affecting physical events and the paranormal as a signal from the collective mind for telling a better story – in a word, what we’d call magic. It’s about spirituality, sexuality and creativity and, ultimately, how to live in a better story.
0:00 Intro
0:54 The connection between UFOs, pop music and reading Conan comics
8:58 The Super Story as meta ritual and how stories shape reality
14:29 Paranormal experiences of comic book writers Doug Moench and Grant Morrison: precognition or reality creation?
20:37 Death, Eros and out-of-body-experiences – Jeffrey’s sleep paralysis in Calcutta
30:10 Wilhelm Reich, UFOs and libido as the secret of life
36:43 Rudolf’s awakening out-of-body-moment and the need to lose at least two world(view)s
42:42 Whitley Strieber on reflexivity: How we experience what we write and read about
48:30 Our collective responsibility concerning the numinous and future revelations CROPfm:
http://cropfm.at/ Our interview on CROPfm with excerpts from this talk with Dr. Kripal:
http://cropfm.at/cropfm/jsp/past_show... Dr. Kripal on CROPfm about Whitley Strieber and the Super Natural:
http://cropfm.at/cropfm/jsp/past_show... Mythomagie:
http://www.mythomagie.at/