Rather than merely document the anomalous, these authors, Whitley Strieber --one the man who popularized alien abduction and the guest, Jeffrey J. Kripal, a renowned scholar and "renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies", 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." Check it out.
and check this out. THIS WEBCAST IS UNCENSORED.