Impossible Talk Podcast Examining the paranormal and its relationship to consciousness, psychology, spirituality and religion. Hosted by historian of religions Jeffrey J. Kripal and filmmaker Scott Hulan Jones.
Episode 1 56 min.
Co-host Scott H. Jones talks with Jeff about his work and what led to his interest in, and study of, psychical phenomena.
Episode 2 92 min.
Jeff Kripal talks with parapsychologist Dean Radin, Laboratory Director of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, about his work and what it reveals about the nature of consciousness. Radin is the author of Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, and The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.
Episode 3 94 min.
Jeff Kripal talks with Stephen E. Braude, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, about his career as an analytic philosopher who writes about psychical and paranormal phenomena, including one particularly mind-boggling coffee table that "floats" through all of his books. Prof. Braude is the author of five books, including his latest, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations (Chicago, 2008).
Episode 4 77 min.
On April 8th, 2010, Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal gave a lecture at Southern Methodist University entitled, Beyond Reason, Beyond Belief: The Paranormal and the Sacred. The lecture was preceded by the first public screening of a rough cut of the first 8 minutes of the Authors of the Impossible film. The lecture is followed by a question and answer session.
Episode 5 73 min.
In this stimulating conversation, Jeff and Scott talk with Eric G. Wilson about his work, including his unique use of Romanticism and Gnosticism as an interpretive lens through which to view visionary film.
Eric is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of five books: Emerson's Sublime Science, The Spiritual History of Ice; Romanticism, Science and the Imagination, Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film, The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Drive, and Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy.
