Jeff Kripal's 2022 manifesto arguing that the humanities need to take seriously the anomalous experiences that have always been their primary subject — and that doing so requires expanding the humanities into what Kripal calls the 'superhumanities' where consciousness, paranormal experience, and academic rigor converge.
Argues that the humanities' commitment to historicist and constructivist explanations (all experience is socially constructed) has made them incapable of engaging seriously with the one class of human experiences that most insistently points beyond social construction — mystical and anomalous experiences — and that recovering seriousness about these experiences requires a new methodology.
Discussing
Ask anything about The Superhumanities — their ideas, influences, contradictions, legacy.
Sign in to start a conversation.