Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He wrote the Foreword to Handbook for Human Potential, framing the book as the work of a new generation of authors, activists, bodyworkers, and healers articulating a fundamentally embodied human potential.
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Handbook for Human Potential
Who is Jeffrey J. Kripal?
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he convenes the Archives of the Impossible conference series and helps host the Center for the Impossible — the physical collections professionally curated and stored by Woodson Research Center.
He also co-directs the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
Jeff is the author of numerous books, most recently How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (University of Chicago Press, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction, collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies.
His full body of work can be seen at jeffreyjkripal.com.
He thinks he may be Spider-Man.
“May we hear and be changed by this new generation of authors, activists, doctors, bodyworkers, and healers.”
— Jeffrey J. Kripal
