*Jeffrey J. Kripal* # Progressive Summary # Definitions # Chapter Notes > I propose that we reimagine the humanities as the study of consciousness coded in culture. ## Chapter 2 - Flipped Scientists It's interesting how many famous people have had mystical experiences that they couldn't explain, such as: - Mark Twain: he had a precognitive dream about the death of his brother. - AJ Ayer: he had a near-death experience in which his thoughts became beings. - Hans Berger, who invented the EEG: he was almost killed in an accident and his sister, who lived very far away, had a felt sense of it happening. Telepathy “was coined in 1882 by the Cambridge classicist Frederic Myers (after studying and analyzing thousands of case studies) to name all of those highly charged traumatic or “emotional” (pathos) messages that are communicated from an otherwise-unexplainable “distance” (tele-).” --- > “Edward Kelly is a Harvard-trained neuroscientist who became fascinated with parapsychology after his sister became a medium and he encountered a man in J. B. Rhine’s Duke laboratory whose psychical capacities spiked off every chart. He spent the rest of his scientific career pursuing these subjects, until he became convinced that, in the last analysis, mind is irreducible and simply beyond the range of any strictly materialist interpretation. He also became the main force behind a fifteen-year symposia series at the Esalen Institute on the brain-mind relationship and the two major books that came out of it: Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism. Together, these volumes remain the single most substantial and provocative challenge to conventional materialist interpretations of science that we possess.” [Kelly 2010 - Irreducible mind: toward a psychology for the 21st century](zotero://select/items/1_2THPT7BY) [Kelly 2012 - Beyond Physicalism](zotero://select/items/1_9X4F8PT4) [Storm 2017 - The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences](zotero://select/items/1_X8DV3L5E) ## Chapter 3 - Cosmos and Consciousness Five developments in contemporary philosophy of mind: 1. panpsychism 2. dual-aspect monism 3. quantum mind 4. cosmopsychism 5. idealism (Bernardo Kastrup) ## Chapter 4 - [Struck 2009 - Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts](zotero://select/items/1_TTDIQFPH) [Kastrup 2016 - More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief](zotero://select/items/1_TJPLMKJQ) [Kastrup 2011 - Dreamed up reality: Diving into mind to uncover the astonishing hidden tale of nature](zotero://select/items/1_WXNIG6PW) # Quotes # References