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Kripal, Jeffrey – How to Think Impossibly
The book written by Jeffrey J. Kripal, “How to think impossibly. About souls, UFOs, time, belief, and everything else” (2024) has a simple structure. In the “Introduction”, the phenomenon of “impossibility” is defined. Then, in the first three chapters, this phenomenon is described with the help of examples: NDE (near-death experiences) – in chapter 1,…
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Symington, Neville – A Pattern of Madness
sanity/ madness. This book presents two world-views (Weltanschauung): either sanity or madness. Besides the fact that there is not a third option, I believe there is a problem labeling a world-view as “sanity”, for sanity could be considered an axis (along with ontology, gnoseology, ethic, aesthetic, etc) for any world-view. The same critic applies also…