Quotes from Jeffrey J. Kripal

we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.

We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.

Why continue to tolerate a kind of armchair skepticism that has everything to do with scientistic propaganda and nothing at all to do with honest, rigorously open-minded collection, classification, and theory building, that is, with real science and real humanistic inquiry?

Indeed, Ehrenreich makes it crystal clear throughout the book that she despises monotheism as a form of "deicide" that insists on killing every other god and leads eventually to modern science, which kills everything else.

I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either,

My history has been that of a soul struggling into the conviction of its own existence. —FREDERIC MYERS, Fragments of Inner Life

The whole project of science," she explains, "is to crush any notion of powerful nonhuman Others," and the vocation of the scientist is "to keep all that was uncanny or unspeakable stuffed out of sight.

THAT'S WHAT SF IS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU WISH TO YIELD TO REALITY, GO READ PHILIP ROTH; READ THE NEW YORK LITERARY ESTABLISHMENT MAINSTREAM BESTSELLING WRITERS. . . . THIS IS WHY I LOVE SF. I LOVE TO READ IT; I LOVE TO WRITE IT. THE SF WRITER SEES NOT JUST POSSIBILITIES BUT WILD POSSIBILITIES. IT'S NOT JUST, "WHAT IF—." IT'S "MY GOD; WHAT IF—." IN FRENZY AND HYSTERIA. THE MARTIANS ARE ALWAYS COMING.