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To Overthrow the World reviewed in the Literary Review

Added on 01/09/2024

There was a time, as Sean McMeekin reminds us, when public commentators were in near total-consensus. Communism had been tossed aside in eastern Europe in 1989. Two years later it met the same fate in the Soviet Union. In China the communist leadership was by then pursuing the benefits of capitalist economics. Governments actually committed to communism remained in only a few countries, such as Cuba and North Korea, and it seemed that the wheel of global history had turned irreversibly against it.

Jeffrey J Kripal interview in the Observer

Added on 01/09/2024

Jeffrey J Kripal is a professor of philosophy and religious thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the author of 10 books on the history of mysticism, psychology and the paranormal. His latest, How to Think Impossibly, draws on a range of sources including gnosticism, quantum physics and English romantic philosophy, to attempt a new theory of mind and the imagination.