The Basement: Jeffrey Kripal | Inside the Archives of the Impossible

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Jeff Kripal grew up in Tornado Alley, tried to fast his way to sainthood as a teenager, and then one night in Calcutta in 1989, something happened that he's spent almost forty years writing about. Now he's the man behind the Archives of the Impossible: Jacques Vallée's files, John Mack's abduction research, thousands of letters strangers sent Whitley Strieber. Not believing. Not debunking. Just listening. And he told me a story he's never written down.

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0:00 Introduction to Jeffrey Kripal
1:14 Philosophy and the third space
58:01 Personal history and the pivot
1:02:08 The 1989 Kolkata experience
1:11:51 The Archive of the Impossible
1:25:59 The trauma and transformation
1:34:05 Science fiction as mythology
1:44:08 Kirby, Dick, and communication
1:57:24 Communion and the alien icon
2:02:08 Experiencer case studies
2:14:24 Archive X and the final trilogy
2:41:46 Reflections on death and purpose