Stanford Humanities Center
Jeffrey J. Kripal
J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy
and Religious Thought, Rice University
Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
Abstract: This talk will discuss my work with Elizabeth Krohn, who was stuck by lightning in the parking lot of her synagogue on September of 1988 on the Jahrzeit or first-year anniversary of her grandfather's death and came back from death to dream the future (of major plane crashes in particular), receive a phone call from the dead, and other marvels. I first met Elizabeth in the Texas Medical Center at an event on the near-death experience and modern medicine in about 2015. We co-wrote a book together on the topic called Changed in a Flash: One Woman's Near-Death Experience and
How a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All (North Atlantic Books, 2018). It does.
About the Speaker
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he is also the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. He is the author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, The Serpent’s Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism, and Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna.
The Medical Humanities Research Workshop Series is made possible through the support of Stanford School of Medicine; Stanford Humanities Center; Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; and Stanford’s Department of Anthropology.
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