Leader Biography

Jeffrey Kripal

Jeffrey Kripal is chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He has written four books focusing on the comparative erotics and ethics of mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religious traditions, and the history of Western esotericism.

Mind and Matter, Spirit and Sex: Speaking Frankly,-Weekend of May 21-23 2010, Jeffrey Kripal. Ever wonder why most of the moral debates involving religion in the news (same-sex marriage, "family values," gay rights, gay...

Sex of the Spirit,-Month of July 4-August 1 2010, Jeffrey Kripal. We tend to think of sex and the spirit as separate, but they are not. Hence most of the cultural...