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.
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.
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!
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 💜
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.
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.
Hah! "Luddite" seems about right. Consider me so, too.
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.
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.
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!
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 💜
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.
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.