Religion scholar Jeffrey Kripal tells Jesse Michels that UFO disclosure works like a religious apocalypse (an unveiling), drawing on flying saints, abductee sexuality, precognition, Elizabeth Krohn's lightning near-death experience, and the Rice Archives of the Impossible.
Claims in this source
Each claim is graded on its own; this source is not graded.
| Claim | Verdict | At | Relation |
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| Krohn reported a near-death experience after the strike, a long conversation with a divine voice she felt was God | Unproven | 00:00:49 | reports |
| Krohn asked the voice who would win the Super Bowl and the next president, and the answers came true | Unproven | 00:01:02 | reports |
| Charles Chase of Skunk Works invited Kripal to lecture on flying saints at MIT around 2016 or 2017 | Unproven | 00:01:18 | asserts |
| Hal Puthoff suggested a medieval secret society may have known how to fly using metal capsules | Unproven | 00:01:31 | reports |
| David Huggins described sexual contact with a tall female entity named Crescent, who told him the baby was dying | Unproven | 00:02:02 | reports |
| The word disclosure translates the Greek apocalypse, meaning unveiling or revelation | Unproven | 00:02:43 | asserts |
| Kripal and Jacques Vallee created the Archives of the Impossible | Unproven | 00:04:11 | asserts |
| The Archives of the Impossible hold collections from astronaut Edgar Mitchell and from Whitley Strieber | Unproven | 00:04:15 | asserts |
| Barney Hill only reluctantly said sperm samples were taken from him during his abduction | Unproven | 00:15:47 | reports |
| Filmmaker Brad Abrahams visited Kripal at home for Love and Saucers, in which Kripal appears | Unproven | 00:17:19 | asserts |
| Steve Aspen's Out of Time describes an intergenerational alien-human breeding program | Unproven | 00:24:40 | reports |
| John Mack popularized the phrase ontological shock in the 1990s | Unproven | 00:32:47 | asserts |
| The phrase ontological shock originates with theologian Paul Tillich in the 1950s | Unproven | 00:32:52 | asserts |
| Michael Rockefeller was killed in a ritual ending in Aztec-like human sacrifice | Unproven | 00:37:41 | asserts |
| William James described George Fox as a psychopath of the deepest dye in The Varieties of Religious Experience | Documented | 00:44:05 | asserts |
| Ioan Culianu was shot dead in May 1991 in a restroom at the University of Chicago Divinity School | Documented | 00:57:53 | asserts |
| Culianu may have been killed for political reasons as a critic of Romanian politics | Unproven | 00:58:38 | reports |
| Culianu argued that paranormal experiences such as ghosts, telepathy and precognition make sense if a fourth dimension exists | Unproven | 00:59:22 | reports |
| Kripal says no American professor had been killed before Culianu | Unproven | 01:00:34 | asserts |
| Tim Taylor is a NASA mission controller who attended conferences held by Kripal and Diana Pasulka | Unproven | 01:16:08 | reports |
| Tim Taylor reports to and takes orders from an angel he calls the hammer | Unproven | 01:18:52 | reports |
| Tim Taylor said the next advancement in aerospace will come from religion | Unproven | 01:24:40 | reports |
| Carlos Eire argues in They Flew that flying saints actually levitated, as real history | Unproven | 01:28:43 | reports |
| Former Energy Department intelligence chief Rolf Mowatt-Larssen wrote A State of Mind: Faith and the CIA | Documented | 01:30:44 | asserts |
| The same former CIA officer says he time-traveled to 15th-century Mount Athos and lived as a monk later identified as Odios Maximus | Unproven | 01:31:00 | reports |
| Odios Maximus, a 15th-century Mount Athos monk, was a flying monk who levitated | Unproven | 01:31:52 | reports |
| Netflix's Surviving Death, based on Leslie Kean's book, covers children who remember previous lives | Documented | 01:32:52 | asserts |
| Plato traveled to Eleusis and experienced altered states there | Unproven | 01:40:50 | reports |
| Barney Hill's hypnosis session came about 12 days after The Outer Limits aired an alien resembling his description | Unproven | 01:42:15 | reports |
| Many of Jacques Vallee's best-known cases were fraudulent, and Vallee showed this himself | Unproven | 01:48:30 | asserts |
| Saint Francis saw a flaming torch-like object on Mount La Verna with Brother Leo present | Unproven | 01:55:56 | reports |
| John Mack was an anti-nuclear activist who was turned on to UFOs by Stanislav Grof at Esalen | Unproven | 02:04:20 | asserts |
| Stanislav Grof invented holotropic breathwork in the late 1960s and 1970s after LSD was made illegal | Unproven | 02:06:09 | asserts |
| Albert Hofmann and Carl Ruck explicitly wanted to recreate the Eleusinian mysteries in the modern day | Unproven | 02:06:17 | reports |
| The phrase human potential movement comes from Aldous Huxley | Unproven | 02:08:33 | asserts |
| The word telepathy was coined in 1882 by Frederic Myers, after the telegraph | Documented | 02:11:00 | asserts |
| Elizabeth Krohn was struck by lightning in September 1988 in the parking lot of her synagogue | Documented | 02:14:26 | asserts |
| Elizabeth Krohn and Jeffrey Kripal co-wrote the book Changed in a Flash, published in 2018 | Documented | 02:16:43 | asserts |
| Krohn had precognitive dreams after the strike, including plane crashes that played out in the next day's news | Unproven | 02:18:54 | reports |
| Krohn's near-death experience included a conviction that she would divorce and have a daughter, and both happened | Unproven | 02:22:01 | asserts |
| Krohn says electrical devices, light bulbs and appliances are affected around her | Unproven | 02:24:34 | asserts |
| Spielberg's Disclosure Day uses a Hansel and Gretel analogy for abduction echoing Maeterlinck's Bluebird | Unproven | 02:29:48 | asserts |
| Jacques Vallee was an astronomer who worked on the early ARPANET | Unproven | 02:34:48 | asserts |
| Corinne Austin reported a telepathic AI-infused mechanical bug that crawled under her skin while awake | Unproven | 02:37:50 | reports |
| Pasulka says Vallee showed her a 666-page book about the devil and called The Ninth Gate a favorite film | Unproven | 02:40:45 | reports |
| The quote about a sip of science making you an atheist and God at the bottom of the bottle is attributed to Heisenberg | Unproven | 02:44:48 | reports |
| Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena premiered October 1 on AMC+ and SundanceTV | Documented | 02:54:57 | asserts |
Links
Opinions stated (not graded)
- The brain exists in the future, and the human being is a four-dimensional tesseract spread out in time.
- The film Love and Saucers neither dismisses nor affirms David Huggins's sexual experiences with an entity; it reports them.
- John Mack's books are filled with penises, vaginas, sexual fluids, intercourse and hybrids.
- Precognition may be retrocausal, with information bleeding back from a future self that already exists in one's four-dimensional block.
- Eric Wargo's book Time Loops is the most important work in its literature since Passport to Magonia.
- The Ancient Aliens television series argues that all religious truth is misperceived astronauts.
- Ezekiel's wheel was a UFO, according to the Ancient Aliens view.
- Saint Francis's stigmata may have been electromagnetic radiation.
- Saint Francis was pierced by an object in the sky, and the bloody socks at Assisi show it.
- Huxley's novel Island, his last, predicted the counterculture that broke out after 1964.
- Reading some of the Epstein files suggests a systematic exploitation of young people.
- Rosicrucianism began as basically a joke, and there was nobody in it.
Gaps
- No record found of an Edgar Mitchell collection at the Rice archive.
- No record found of a Hansel and Gretel analogy in Disclosure Day.
- No record found of Charles Chase's MIT flying-saints invitation to Kripal.
- Rolf Mowatt-Larssen's Moscow station chief post was not confirmed; only DOE intelligence director and CIA Europe Division chief appear.
Coverage
- 108 claims extracted → 47 graded here. Dispositions: graded 47, below-threshold 38, opinion 12, merged 7, existing 4. Full per-claim log:
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