Yesterday, I had a great conversation with Jeffrey Kripal, a Professor at Rice University whose books include Authors of the Impossible, Secret Body, and How To Think Impossibly and Andrew Gallimore, a neuroscientist and investigator of Dimethyltripamine (DMT), author of Alien Information Theory and Death by Astonishment. We will release the interview soon. I thought I would explore some of our ideas and themes here, beforehand, as I am still mulling over them and they require some unpacking.
Kripal is one of those rare academics who is able to bring his scholarly attention to the realms of the psychic, paranormal, supernatural, transcendent – what he calls the “superhumanities.” As a result of his DMT explorations, Gallimore made a shift from hard-core materialism to open minded idealism, recognizing there’s far more going on in the universe than our limited scientific paradigm allows.
A major question in Gallimore’s Alien Information Theory is whether or not there’s an implicit Telos or teleology in the modern world’s discovery of DMT in its extracted and refined form.
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