The Garden Next Door: How One Woman Was Struck by Lightning, Talked to God, and Came Back to Dream the Future

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The Garden Next Door: How One Woman Was Struck by Lightning, Talked to God, and Came Back to Dream the Future." In this lecture, Prof. Kripal will discuss his co-writing with Elizabeth Krohn. On September 2, 1988, Elizabeth was struck by lightning in the parking lot of her Houston synagogue while attending the first anniversary of her grandfather's death. An elaborate near-death experience and numerous precognitive nightmares and paranormal phenomena followed. Prof. Kripal will describe some of Elizabeth's most striking experiences and reflect on their possible meanings in the light of his work on the historical, semiotic and technological dimensions of the paranormal and a particular philosophy of mind sometimes called the "filter" or "transmission" thesis.

Related Seminars: The Rise of the Paranormal

Thursday, October 20

3-5PM

Friday, October 21

4-6pm

The seminars will focus on a chapter from Kripal's new book/memoir/manifesto entitled Secret Body, which engages Frances Ford Coppola's 2007 film Youth Without Youth, based on the novel by Mircea Eliade.

To obtain readings in advance, please register by October 13.

Presented by the Humanities Futures initiative @ the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Paranormal Working Group