E361 - The Lobotomy of History: Reclaiming Our Extraordinary States (w/ Jeffrey Kripal)

Can we decolonize reality itself?

Rushkoff is joined by Jeffrey Kripal, Associate Dean and Professor at Rice University, to discuss his book The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities Kripal argues that by stripping away the impossible parts of our history - visions, precognition, and altered states - we have essentially lobotomized the humanities, leaving us with a depressing, purely political version of ourselves.

Together, they explore:

The Secular Flatland: Moving beyond a strictly materialist worldview that reduces human beings to data points.The Vertical Dimension: Why extraordinary experiences are more common than...