'Alternate Theories Of UFO Origin'.

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Here is good book review today in ARC:

Has Jeffrey Kripal Gone Mad, or Normal?

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Paranormal phenomena happen in the material world, says Kripal, because Consciousness creates them. Events like UFO encounters and pre-cognition involve both “revelation and radar”—consciousness and materiality, imagination and science. There is contact (“revelation”) with something ineffably Other, which the experiencer’s mind interprets according to its own cosmology and beliefs—and that creates the physical phenomenon, e.g., the blips on the radar.

But there’s one last kicker: all of this is happening not in your separate, individual mind, but in one common Consciousness (I’ve long wondered if the recourse to capitalization is itself a sign of madness). The experience “is not about a mind. It is about Mind.”

“There is something cosmic or superhuman smoldering in the human.”

Here is where Kripal arrives, toward the end of How to Think, at a metaphysical conclusion: specifically, “dual-aspect monism,” the view that the entire universe and also consciousness is One—your consciousness reading these words is the same as mine writing them—but that human beings experience it as Two: as mind and matter, spirit and stuff, and so on.

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https://arcmag.org/has-jeffrey-kripal-go...-or-normal

Da book:

How To Think Impossibly
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo...49049.html

From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. How to Think Impossibly invites us to think about these fantastic (yet commonplace) experiences as an essential part of being human, expressive of a deeply shared reality that is neither mental nor material but gives rise to both. Thinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways, Kripal interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to foster an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible.

Huh mebbe worth a read. Review is funny and woo-erudite too.