Jeffrey Kripal
February 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Oklahoma Center for Humanities welcomes Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal for a free event at 101 Archer on Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 pm.
Dr. Kripal’s talk advances the idea that the humanities as a set of disciplines are often generated or inspired by remarkable altered states of consciousness and embodiment, which can sometimes be re-experienced by a deep engagement with the texts and artworks themselves. Hence many a teaching or pedagogical moment. Hence some of the furthest reaches of the intellectual life. The humanities, in short, are often the superhumanities. Critical theory and altered states often go together and cannot be thought apart.
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. Magic City Books will be on site selling copies of his book, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities.
