Jeffrey Kripal, professor of religion at Rice University and dedicated explorer of the weird and sublime, puts Eagleman’s theory in broader historical context. “William James, Henri Bergson, and Aldous Huxley all argued the same long before Eagleman. Bergson even used the same radio analogy. This is where the historian of religions—this one, anyway—steps in. There are, after all, countless other clues in the history of religions that rule in the radio theory and that suggest, though hardly prove, that the human brain may function as a super-evolved neurological radio or television and, in rare
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