Jeffrey Kripal
November 11, 2026
The Flip
Jeffrey Kripal, acclaimed author of The Flip and How to Think Impossibly, explores consciousness, paranormal experiences, UFO encounters, mysticism, and the nature of reality. Drawing on decades of research, Kripal challenges conventional thinking about science, religion, and the human mind, asking whether the impossible may be far more natural than we imagine.
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023), chaired the Department of Religion for eight years, and also 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. He presently helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he served as Chair of Board from 2015 to 2020. He is also the founder of the Center for the Impossible at Rice University.
Jeff is the author or co-author of thirteen books, nine of which are with The University of Chicago Press.
Websites: https://jeffreyjkripal.com/