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How to Think Impossibly
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June 28 @ 4:00 pm – July 1 @ 2:00 pm CEST
How to Think Impossibly:
A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human
June 28 – July 1, 2024
Speakers: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Curated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín
Location: Pari, Italy
Price: 725.00 euros, which includes:
- a 3-night stay in private accommodation;
- breakfast, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;
- water, wine, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;
- programmed activities and materials;
- refreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.
Event: The event starts on Friday June 28 at 16:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday July 1 after lunch.
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.
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About the Event
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 develop an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible.
Prof. Kripal’s new book, How to Think Impossibly, will be published on July 3rd, 2024.
As complimentary preparation material, participants will receive an exclusive digital copy of the Prologue and Introduction of the book before its publication, as well as a signed physical copy of the book while in Pari.
Participating in an event at the Pari Center means living for a week in a medieval village, mingling with the tiny local population, eating local dishes and drinking local wines, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.
Please contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com
SCHEDULE
Intro (Friday afternoon): Thinking-with experiencers…
Part 1 (Saturday morning): World of the dead and the nature of soul
Part 2 (Saturday afternoon): Praying mantises, flying sauces and professional comedians
Part 3 (Sunday morning): Neuro-diversity and multi-verses
Part 4 (Sunday afternoon): Time travel, quantum physics
Outro (Monday morning): How to pull it all together
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He also helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and sits on numerous advisory boards in the U.S. and Europe involving the nature of consciousness and the human, social, and natural sciences. Most recently, Jeff is the author of The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities (Chicago, 2022), where he intuits an emerging order of knowledge that can engage in robust moral criticism but also affirm the superhuman or nonhuman dimensions of our histories and futures. His forthcoming book is How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (Chicago, 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 http://jeffreyjkripal.com He thinks he may be Spider-Man.