14 Best science books like The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal

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The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

By: Jeffrey J. Kripal

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an …

"The materialist interpretation of the world and of science itself is protected not by the facts or by the data of our honest experiences, but by what is essentially social and professional peer pressure, something more akin to the grade-school playground or high school prom. The world is preserved through eyes rolling back, snide remarks, arrogant smirks and subtle, or not so subtle, social cues, and a kind of professional (or conjugal) shaming."

-Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

"The materialist interpretation of the world and of science itself is protected not by the facts or by the data of our honest experiences, but by what is essentially social and professional peer pressure, something more akin to the grade-school playground or high school prom. The world is preserved through eyes rolling back, snide remarks, arrogant smirks and subtle, or not so subtle, social cues, and a kind of professional (or conjugal) shaming."

-Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

If you liked the science plot in The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

By: Riane Eisler

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The legacy of the sacred feminine. The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural … read more

Similar categories in Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue) book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"[If we pursue] a positive economic future...this will entail facing up to the fact that our 'masculine' militarism is the most energy-intensive entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored e…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"Both the mythical and archaeological evidence indicate that perhaps the most notable quality of the pre-dominator mind was its recognition of our oneness with all of nature,which lies at the heart of…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"When we look closely, not only at what Jesus taught but at how he went about disseminating his message, time and again we find that what he was preaching was the gospel of a partnership society. He r…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the domestication of plants and animals. In fact…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

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2. Communion: A True Story

By: Whitley Strieber

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more

Similar categories in Whitley Strieber's Communion: A True Story book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • nonfiction
  • paranormal
"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

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3. Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

By: Colm A. Kelleher , None

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The author of the controversial bestseller Brain Trust brings his scientific expertise to the chill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • paranormal
  • science
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4. The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

By: Jeremy Narby

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribunesaid might herald "a Copernican… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
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5. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

By: Bernardo Kastrup

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more

Similar categories in Bernardo Kastrup's Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
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6. The Holographic Universe

By: Michael Talbot

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space wit… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science

7. The Mothman Prophecies

By: John A. Keel

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life night… read more

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8. The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained

By: Whitley Strieber , Jeffrey J. Kripal

4.05

Format: 224 pages,

Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellect… read more

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9. Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds

By: Jacques F. Vallée

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings,… read more

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10. More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

By: Bernardo Kastrup

4.54

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
  • science
"Only nothing is true."

-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

"Past and future are myths: stories in the mind."

-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

"The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective."

-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

"It is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head."

-Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

11. The Invisible College

By: Jacques F. Vallée

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Here at last is a sensible book about Unidentified Flying Objects that neither sensationalizes the … read more

Similar categories in Jacques F. Vallée's The Invisible College book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • nonfiction
  • paranormal
  • psychology
  • science
"It is becoming technically feasible for sounds and images to be projected into people’s minds at a distance. Is this part of the technology that creates the UFO phenomenon? Could the required equipme…"

-Jacques F. Vallée, The Invisible College

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12. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

By: D.W. Pasulka

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • paranormal
  • science
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13. In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

By: Ross Coulthart

4.33

Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition

An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right ther… read more

Similar categories in Ross Coulthart's In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023 book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • nonfiction
  • paranormal
  • science
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14. UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe

By: Chris Bledsoe

4.40

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

* * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * *Are the biblical stories of angels in the Old Testament be… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • paranormal
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15. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences

By: D.W. Pasulka

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • paranormal
  • science
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16. Them

By: Whitley Strieber

4.04

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

"Them," is a new, mystery-busting vision of the close encounter experience--which is VERY different… read more

Similar categories in Whitley Strieber's Them book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • nonfiction
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17. The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

By: Stephen W. Porges

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bridging the gap between research, science, and the therapy room. When The Polyvagal Theory was pub… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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18. Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self (Mit Press)

By: Marc Wittmann

3.76

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us abo… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
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19. Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe

By: Bernardo Kastrup

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articul… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
  • science
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20. The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

By: Jeffrey J. Kripal

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an … read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge book and Jeffrey J. Kripal's The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
  • paranormal
  • science
"The materialist interpretation of the world and of science itself is protected not by the facts or by the data of our honest experiences, but by what is essentially social and professional peer press…"

-Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

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21. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • paranormal
  • science

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