The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained Audiobook

Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal team up on this unprecedented and intellectually vibrant new framing of inexplicable events and experiences. Rather than merely document the anomalous, these authors—one the man who popularized alien abduction and the other a renowned scholar—deliver a fast-paced and exhilarating study of why the supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction but a vital and authentic aspect of life. Their suggestion? That all kinds of “impossible” things, from extra-dimensional beings to bilocation to bumps in the night, are not impossible at all: rather, they are a part of our natural world. But this natural world is immeasurably more weird, more wonderful, and probably more populated than we have so far imagined with our current categories and cultures, which are what really make these things seem “impossible.” The Super Natural considers that the natural world is actually a “super natural world”—and all we have to do to see this is to change the lenses through which we are looking at it and the languages through which we are presently limiting it. In short: The extraordinary exists if we know how to look at and think about it.

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"Kripal and Strieber have collaborated on a brilliant, vital and contemporary approach to unexplained phenomena that will both enthrall, enlighten and at times confuse even a sophisticated reader, but showing why we must look at the unexplained through a new lens that retains all the best of science, skepticism and an acknowledgement of our need for humility for what we don't (and maybe cannot) "know," but do experience. The narration is so-so. I would have picked a narrator with more gravitas. Some mispronunciations of proper names and places is a bit annoying."

— tcoop (5 out of 5 stars)