Hi Valerie, I much appreciate this. You ARE seen and heard. The experiencers are keys to all of this. In terms of the books, it depends on what you are looking for. Check out my website at jeffreyjkripal.com, not to buy anything but to get quick summaries of all the books and vision. I always suggest people start with SECRET BODY, but it is quite long (but it is a full memoir/manifesto) or THE FLIP, my shortest and quickest book. The standard sites have them all. Thank you.
Dear Ms. Billie, thank you for your comments. I do ocassionally teach on-line. I am teaching in the near future for Morbid Anatomy. That would be a good place to interact, I would think.
Thank you, Jeff, for this courageous and insightful reflection on the "secret superhumans" among us. Your post beautifully captures what My Big TOE describes as the inherent capabilities of individuated units of consciousness operating within—and occasionally beyond—the physical matter reality's rule set. These "impossible" experiences (precognition, apparitions, out-of-body states, and synchronicities) are not anomalies but natural consequences of accessing the larger consciousness system, where information flows freely outside the constraints of this virtual reality's probabilistically rendered data stream.
I particularly appreciate your point about trauma as a catalyst: it often forces a dissociation from the avatar's fear-based identification, lowering entropy by cracking open the intellect's rigid beliefs and allowing direct experience of non-physical aspects of being. Yet, as you note, these potentials are not evenly distributed in this learning lab—some avatars are configured with looser boundaries or specific intents that make such glimpses more probable.
We are indeed more than our cultural, religious, or scientific stories allow. Embracing that "superhuman" nature requires moving beyond belief to knowing through personal exploration. Keep honouring these shared secrets; they point us toward the evolution of consciousness itself.
Thank you for posting about the subversive nature of talking about these experiences in a society that rejects them and those who dare talk. Your point about the traumatizing aspect of repeated impossible experiences is well-taken. I'm one of * those * people, and struggled for years to understand them. They inform both my personal world view and my fiction; eventually they inspired me to create a database of haunted places and perform a statistical analysis of NYC's supernatural experiences (a 7-year project). The patterns that emerge from the analysis are highly unlikely to have occurred by chance. I believe the findings would support your conclusions. As for the connection to trauma, I studied "haunted" places, not people, but places, too, seem to hold onto trauma, individual and collective ---and to replay it via an active---even literary--- nonhuman intelligence. Go figure. Planning to share the key findings in the year ahead; would love your thoughts.
I've restacked your mention of your "double" appearing in people's dreams or even their bedrooms at night. I've had similar experiences, both as the double and as the witness experiencing someone else's double. I posted about the phenomenon (My Life as a Vardoger). Creepy, as you said! Another of those impossible things!
Welcome to Substack, Jeff. It’s good to have your voice here. It feels like we’re having a cultural moment for speaking up about the reality of paranormal experiences.
Beautiful piece. I appreciate folks like you who are ready and willing to listen to those like me. 🙏🏻 Kelly Chase’s podcast and community helped me explore my experiences and a connect with others who had experiences too OR were interested in them and willing to listen. This led me to Darren King, who’s just the nicest guy, and a budding journalist, Greg Scaduto, who is documenting and sharing experiencer stories on his Substack. It’s really nice to have a soft place to land.
Good morning Jeff, I'm a Britlander who's followed your sharings on podcasts and the like, and really took to your views on humans as, well, "superhuman", while reading and contributing to to the discussions on Nick Cook's "The Light Beyond the Mountains" substack. Although a mid-50s systems integration consultant with an increasing ratio of grey to brown hair these days, I can recall episodes in this life, spanning back to childhood, where things just felt "weird". Curiously, my interest in all things odd really sparked post-December 2017, with that NYT article on UAP/UFOs. Since then, I've had other experiences that have helped retrieve, and revise, what I consider what is possible...as we are all, in our uniquely common ways, impossible beings. That said, I also wholeheartedly agree with you, that the "trauma secret" is definitely not egalitarian in nature...it's quite snobby and elitist. Anyway, time to crack on with the day ahead.
PS. Just purchased Secret Body, looking forward to delving into that.
Speaking about how trauma is the "X Agent" that often triggers these superpowers, I'm currently reading a book in Spanish titled "Raíz que desaparece" (Root that Disappears). It's about the horrible curent reality in my country (Mexico) in which thousands of mothers are desperately trying to find the whereabouts of their missing loved ones-- their children, siblings, spouses.
What can be more traumatic as the loved of a child for a mother? In a very real way, it's like losing a piece of their own self.
Anyway, the book is about how some of these 'searching mothers' started to received premonitory dreams that offered precise clues that helped locate the remains of the person they had been looking for years.
It is both a wonderful and terrible book, and I hope to write a review about it for The Daily Grail (since I doubt it will ever be translated into English)
Thank you so much for writing this thoughtful piece, I feel so seen and delighted in your approach. I really hope to hear more from you and will look for your books, is there a recommended site to purchase?
Hi Valerie. Forgive me if I replied to this twice. Still trying to figure the digital world out. In any case, you ARE heard and seen. Experiencers are keys. In terms of the books, I always suggest SECRET BODY, since it is a memoir and manifesto of everything. But it is long. THE FLIP is my shortest book and captures the vision well. For the whole vision and a summary of the individual books, see jeffreyjkripal.com. Some also prefer one of the co-written books, CHANGED IN A FLASH or THE SUPER NATURAL. You cannot buy anything on my personal website, but it does a fairly good and quick job of summarizing each book and also includes links to numerous media pieces. The usual sites have the books.
Thank you so much for your reply! My nickname is Luddite, I understand lol. I’m excited to explore! Sending you well wishes for a fruitful eclipse season 💜
No "what if" about it! The paranormal IS normal AND real! I have had so many, many psychic experiences that one of these days, I will probably have to write you a very long e-mail about SOME of them. Outstanding among them are: I dreamed that downtown Manhattan was in flames. 2 months later, 9/11 happened. Meeting my husband-to-be and dreaming I married him. Yep, 40+ and counting now. . .Writing a story about a plague and then (1) Ebola happened and (2) THEN COVID happened. I can sometimes look at a woman and know she is pregnant before anything shows. Seeing a shadow pass over my head and knowing someone I know has died. I could go on and on, but you get it. THANK YOU for sharing this. It's essential that people know that we are not weird or freaks, we just have an ability.
I would so much love to study one of your courses. I would love to do it online (I need captions). Do you have any courses like that? I've been writing a series of essays about breaking through old thought forms--example, binary thinking--to view things more paradoxically and holistically. My essays are more on the earthly plane but they are informed to some degree (I hope) by what you term the Consciousness. I'm an ex-Roman Catholic. I believe in reincarnation. Your view is so expansive.
Hi Valerie, I much appreciate this. You ARE seen and heard. The experiencers are keys to all of this. In terms of the books, it depends on what you are looking for. Check out my website at jeffreyjkripal.com, not to buy anything but to get quick summaries of all the books and vision. I always suggest people start with SECRET BODY, but it is quite long (but it is a full memoir/manifesto) or THE FLIP, my shortest and quickest book. The standard sites have them all. Thank you.
Dear Ms. Billie, thank you for your comments. I do ocassionally teach on-line. I am teaching in the near future for Morbid Anatomy. That would be a good place to interact, I would think.
Hah! "Luddite" seems about right. Consider me so, too.
Thank you, Jeff, for this courageous and insightful reflection on the "secret superhumans" among us. Your post beautifully captures what My Big TOE describes as the inherent capabilities of individuated units of consciousness operating within—and occasionally beyond—the physical matter reality's rule set. These "impossible" experiences (precognition, apparitions, out-of-body states, and synchronicities) are not anomalies but natural consequences of accessing the larger consciousness system, where information flows freely outside the constraints of this virtual reality's probabilistically rendered data stream.
I particularly appreciate your point about trauma as a catalyst: it often forces a dissociation from the avatar's fear-based identification, lowering entropy by cracking open the intellect's rigid beliefs and allowing direct experience of non-physical aspects of being. Yet, as you note, these potentials are not evenly distributed in this learning lab—some avatars are configured with looser boundaries or specific intents that make such glimpses more probable.
We are indeed more than our cultural, religious, or scientific stories allow. Embracing that "superhuman" nature requires moving beyond belief to knowing through personal exploration. Keep honouring these shared secrets; they point us toward the evolution of consciousness itself.
Thank you for posting about the subversive nature of talking about these experiences in a society that rejects them and those who dare talk. Your point about the traumatizing aspect of repeated impossible experiences is well-taken. I'm one of * those * people, and struggled for years to understand them. They inform both my personal world view and my fiction; eventually they inspired me to create a database of haunted places and perform a statistical analysis of NYC's supernatural experiences (a 7-year project). The patterns that emerge from the analysis are highly unlikely to have occurred by chance. I believe the findings would support your conclusions. As for the connection to trauma, I studied "haunted" places, not people, but places, too, seem to hold onto trauma, individual and collective ---and to replay it via an active---even literary--- nonhuman intelligence. Go figure. Planning to share the key findings in the year ahead; would love your thoughts.
I've restacked your mention of your "double" appearing in people's dreams or even their bedrooms at night. I've had similar experiences, both as the double and as the witness experiencing someone else's double. I posted about the phenomenon (My Life as a Vardoger). Creepy, as you said! Another of those impossible things!
Welcome to Substack, Jeff. It’s good to have your voice here. It feels like we’re having a cultural moment for speaking up about the reality of paranormal experiences.
Beautiful piece. I appreciate folks like you who are ready and willing to listen to those like me. 🙏🏻 Kelly Chase’s podcast and community helped me explore my experiences and a connect with others who had experiences too OR were interested in them and willing to listen. This led me to Darren King, who’s just the nicest guy, and a budding journalist, Greg Scaduto, who is documenting and sharing experiencer stories on his Substack. It’s really nice to have a soft place to land.
Good morning Jeff, I'm a Britlander who's followed your sharings on podcasts and the like, and really took to your views on humans as, well, "superhuman", while reading and contributing to to the discussions on Nick Cook's "The Light Beyond the Mountains" substack. Although a mid-50s systems integration consultant with an increasing ratio of grey to brown hair these days, I can recall episodes in this life, spanning back to childhood, where things just felt "weird". Curiously, my interest in all things odd really sparked post-December 2017, with that NYT article on UAP/UFOs. Since then, I've had other experiences that have helped retrieve, and revise, what I consider what is possible...as we are all, in our uniquely common ways, impossible beings. That said, I also wholeheartedly agree with you, that the "trauma secret" is definitely not egalitarian in nature...it's quite snobby and elitist. Anyway, time to crack on with the day ahead.
PS. Just purchased Secret Body, looking forward to delving into that.
HNY!
This is profound, Red Pill Junkie. I hope you review it.
I so appreciate your note, Peter. Just call me "Jeff."
Speaking about how trauma is the "X Agent" that often triggers these superpowers, I'm currently reading a book in Spanish titled "Raíz que desaparece" (Root that Disappears). It's about the horrible curent reality in my country (Mexico) in which thousands of mothers are desperately trying to find the whereabouts of their missing loved ones-- their children, siblings, spouses.
What can be more traumatic as the loved of a child for a mother? In a very real way, it's like losing a piece of their own self.
Anyway, the book is about how some of these 'searching mothers' started to received premonitory dreams that offered precise clues that helped locate the remains of the person they had been looking for years.
It is both a wonderful and terrible book, and I hope to write a review about it for The Daily Grail (since I doubt it will ever be translated into English)
Thank you so much for writing this thoughtful piece, I feel so seen and delighted in your approach. I really hope to hear more from you and will look for your books, is there a recommended site to purchase?
Hi Valerie. Forgive me if I replied to this twice. Still trying to figure the digital world out. In any case, you ARE heard and seen. Experiencers are keys. In terms of the books, I always suggest SECRET BODY, since it is a memoir and manifesto of everything. But it is long. THE FLIP is my shortest book and captures the vision well. For the whole vision and a summary of the individual books, see jeffreyjkripal.com. Some also prefer one of the co-written books, CHANGED IN A FLASH or THE SUPER NATURAL. You cannot buy anything on my personal website, but it does a fairly good and quick job of summarizing each book and also includes links to numerous media pieces. The usual sites have the books.
Thank you so much for your reply! My nickname is Luddite, I understand lol. I’m excited to explore! Sending you well wishes for a fruitful eclipse season 💜
No "what if" about it! The paranormal IS normal AND real! I have had so many, many psychic experiences that one of these days, I will probably have to write you a very long e-mail about SOME of them. Outstanding among them are: I dreamed that downtown Manhattan was in flames. 2 months later, 9/11 happened. Meeting my husband-to-be and dreaming I married him. Yep, 40+ and counting now. . .Writing a story about a plague and then (1) Ebola happened and (2) THEN COVID happened. I can sometimes look at a woman and know she is pregnant before anything shows. Seeing a shadow pass over my head and knowing someone I know has died. I could go on and on, but you get it. THANK YOU for sharing this. It's essential that people know that we are not weird or freaks, we just have an ability.
So true, no existing language can hold them without pathologizing or trivializing them.
I would so much love to study one of your courses. I would love to do it online (I need captions). Do you have any courses like that? I've been writing a series of essays about breaking through old thought forms--example, binary thinking--to view things more paradoxically and holistically. My essays are more on the earthly plane but they are informed to some degree (I hope) by what you term the Consciousness. I'm an ex-Roman Catholic. I believe in reincarnation. Your view is so expansive.
Ah, I’ve enjoyed your work immensely. Nice to see you here.