Overturning assumptions
The Flip
Who You Really Are And Why It Matters
Jeffrey J Kripal
Penguin 2020
Pb, 239pp, £8.99, ISBN 9780141992563
The significance of anomalous experience is increasingly a matter for serious study in the humanities, and the author of this book has been one of the most prolific contributors. A professor of philosophy and religious thought at Rice University, Houston, Jeffrey Kripal has devoted much of his career to the fair-minded study of the esoteric aspects of modern American culture, from the writings of Charles Fort to the spiritual implications of comic-book superheroes.
In , Kripal returns again to the worlds of the strange, but less to research than to justify
