LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Jung Center of Houston presents The Sacred and the Paranormal. Religious historian Jeffrey Kripal expands our understanding of the sacred in this lecture. Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 - 9 pm.

How does research into the paranormal bridge the scientific and the sacred? Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. But the history of psychical phenomena is an untapped resource of insight into the sacred.

In this lecture, we will trace the history of the paranormal through the past two centuries of Western thought and discover how it can illuminate our understanding of religion.

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the author of five books, including Authors of the Impossible.