Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
    The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
    The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained

    Written by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal

    Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies

    4.5/5

    ()

    About this 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 30, 2017
    ISBN9781541473614
    The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
    Author

    Whitley Strieber

    Whitley Strieber was a successful horror writer before publishing Communion in 1987. The book became a major international bestseller. Strieber is the host of the online radio show 'Dreamland', which covers paranormal phenomena.

    More audiobooks from Whitley Strieber

    Related to The Super Natural

    Related audiobooks

    Occult & Paranormal For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      We Are Not Alone: ‘Close Encounters’ Turns 40

      Sep 1, 2017

      A new biography reveals how J. Allen Hynek’s life and legend exemplify a lost era. UFO sightings still make the news, but Hynek was something different: a public intellectual who told us to watch the skies. The post We Are Not Alone: ‘Close Enc

      4 min read

    • Article

      Dangling The Disclosure Carrot

      Jul 15, 2021

      The promise of apparent UFO disclosure by the US Government in the form of the Pentagon’s UAP report (see p2) has seen all manner of experts, sceptics and flying saucer fans crawl out of the woodwork. Robert Sheaffer, on his Bad UFOs blog, as usual p

      4 min read

    • Article

      THE CHICAGO MOTHMAN PART ONE RED-EYED CREATURES & GREEN-EYED MONSTERS

      Jan 26, 2023

      “Suddenly a figure stirred in the darkness behind the parked car… It rose up slowly from the ground. A big gray thing. Bigger than a man, with terrible glowing red eyes.” – John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies “O, beware, my lord of jealousy; it is the

      21 min read

    • Article

      Fresh Vistas Of Paranormal History

      Oct 8, 2020

      Our Secret Powers – Telepathy, Clairvoyance & Precognition Terje G Simonsen Watkins Books 2020 Pb, 530pp, £20, ISBN 9781786783578 This “travelogue from the twilight zone” is hyped as “the most in-depth paranormal survey ever made”. If so, the most in

      3 min read

    • Article

      UFOs BY NUMBERS

      Oct 28, 2021

      UFOs BY NUMBERS
      1 min read

    • Article

      Alien Worlds

      Dec 30, 2020

      Alien Worlds
      1 min read

    • Article

      Jamie Wheal Meaning 3.0

      Jul 17, 2022

      Jamie Wheal Meaning 3.0
      18 min read

    • Article

      The Dark Side of Awe

      Jan 29, 2024

      The Dark Side of Awe
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek

      Mar 17, 2021

      Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, is both a way of thinking about the abundance that characterizes our exterior and interior worlds, and a kind of alternative to traditional religion, a way of being “born aga

      13 min read

    • Article

      Soul

      Dec 28, 2018

      Soul
      8 min read

    • Article

      Tools to Wake Up and Grow Up

      Jan 22, 2019

      WHAT MADE THE NEWS YESTERDAY and today, what trended twenty minutes ago, tells of disarray and despair and destruction—of suffering and mindlessness heaped upon each other. That is part of the story of our time. But it is not the whole story of our t

      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘What Seek Ye?’

      Jul 31, 2020

      ‘What Seek Ye?’
      8 min read

    • Article

      Why 'The Guy' From The Office Wants A Spiritual Revolution

      Aug 13, 2023

      Rainn Wilson's book calls for a spiritual revolution in America. And even though he himself is a very funny guy, he is not joking about this at all.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Clearing His Head

      Feb 14, 2021

      Clearing His Head
      4 min read

    • Article

      This Essentially Meaningless Conflict

      Sep 22, 2017

      MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S accomplishments are impressive by any standard: she has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal, among other honors. But perhaps a better measure o

      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Super Natural

    4.5/5

    29 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      This is an odd rambling mess with no distinct purpose or direction and is using Whitley's name but primarily all written by a different author. Don't waste your time on this one.
    • 5/5
      Highly intelligent and articulate exploration of unexplained phenomena (focusing primarily on the contact experiences of Whitley Strieber) through the lens of cultural narrative, the distinctions between phenomena and noumena (what is apparent vs what really is) history, religious comparison, human evolution, and philosophy. A definite recommendation to anyone who would like to seriously explore what is often a highly contested and ridiculed subject; UFOlogy and the contactee experience.
    • 4/5
      **I received this book in a GoodReads giveaway in exchange for an honest review.**

      I wasn't entirely sure what to expect with this book, but it ended up being pretty good. Some parts were pretty long, but overall I enjoyed this book and I would probably read it again. I would recommend it to those interested in the supernatural. 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 3/5
      Whitley Streiber famed author and celebrity of contact with something teams up with Jeffrey Kripal a professor of comparative religion to delve into the vast and intriguing realm of the unknown, or unknowable. Take your pick on this but after reading the book you may feel as I did, you still don't. Whitley has taken a lot of ridicule and criticism over the years with his "revealing" books on contacts and otherworldly interactions. I am not sure what to make of him. Here is a writer of science fiction who also has throughout his life been selected or chosen if you will to experience something seemingly real that also seems like science fiction. The science fiction aspect to me always seemed a convenient fit. Also motivation in reaping financial recompense has never been far from my concern. In any event you have his experiences to draw on as a believer or unbeliever, as you would of any other seer or religion.Kripal adds to the mix in this book by taking a professorial view of his vast knowledge of religions and belief systems. Chapters are juxtaposed with Whitley's views and topics followed up by Professor Kripal's commentary on the same. It leads us down many paths and intrigues but the answers as always are left unanswerable at this stage, and maybe that is as it always will be.As is typical in these matters the believers will get there "aha" moments and the debunkers will get there "aha" moments in all of this exchange. In my case I was left with not much of either. Some of the ideas Whitley concludes with were thought provoking to me and somewhat congruent with my take. As such that our science and technology is still vastly primitive to the truth, if there is such a thing. Our Einstein based physics I have often felt will eventually be proven quite off the mark but is adequate for what we can grasp for now. So I did take away some positives in reading this book and am glad I did. It's just there remains so much left unexplained. And maybe that is as it should be because it leaves the door open for many more theories and books to be spawned.