The Flip Quotes

“Indeed, Ehrenreich makes it crystal clear throughout the book that she despises monotheism as a form of “deicide” that insists on killing every other god and leads eventually to modern science, which kills everything else.”
― Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

“The materialist interpretation of the world and of science itself is protected not by the facts or by the data of our honest experiences, but by what is essentially social and professional peer pressure, something more akin to the grade-school playground or high school prom. The world is preserved through eyes rolling back, snide remarks, arrogant smirks and subtle, or not so subtle, social cues, and a kind of professional (or conjugal) shaming.”
― Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge

“The whole project of science,” she explains, “is to crush any notion of powerful nonhuman Others,” and the vocation of the scientist is “to keep all that was uncanny or unspeakable stuffed out of sight.”
― Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge