Summary of Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip

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#1 Mark Twain was a famous writer who was obsessed with coincidence. In 1858, he had a dream in which his brother was lying in a metal burial case, which was exactly how his brother died. He could not bring himself to publish the story, as he was afraid the public would treat it as a joke.

#2 The mental telegraphy metaphor points to the cutting-edge technology of the day. It also points to Twain’s belief that whatever processes this mental telegraphy named had some profound relationship to his literary success.

#3 The word paranormal was coined by the French researcher Joseph Maxwell in 1903. It was used to describe mind-over-matter phenomena that were well documented, but poorly understood. The word was not used to describe supernatural phenomena.

#4 The supernormal and the paranormal did not mean the supernatural, which was used from the thirteenth century on as a clear marker for an act or event from God. The supernormal meant all of those strange signs and anomalies of human experience that hint at a fundamental reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822528703

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Mark Twain was a famous writer who was obsessed with coincidence. In 1858, he had a dream in which his brother was lying in a metal burial case, which was exactly how his brother died. He could not bring himself to publish the story, as he was afraid the public would treat it as a joke.

#2

The mental telegraphy metaphor points to the cutting-edge technology of the day. It also points to Twain’s belief that whatever processes this mental telegraphy named had some profound relationship to his literary success.

#3

The word paranormal was coined by the French researcher Joseph Maxwell in 1903. It was used to describe mind-over-matter phenomena that were well documented, but poorly understood. The word was not used to describe supernatural phenomena.

#4

The supernormal and the paranormal did not mean the supernatural, which was used from the thirteenth century on as a clear marker for an act or event from God. The supernormal meant all of those strange signs and anomalies of human experience that hint at a fundamental reality.

#5

The standard historical narrative of scientific progress, in which scientific knowledge eliminates one pre-modern notion after another, is simply not true.

#6

The paranormal is a perfect example of the third way of the flip, both radically critical and deeply