Mutants and Mystics

Jeff Kripal is the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University and the author of the introduction to Whitley Strieber’s upcoming book "Solving the Communion Enigma." Here, he tells us about the new mythical figures of our age, the superheroes, supervillians and ‘dangerous strangers’ that populate our imaginations and–in the form of apparent aliens and ‘others’ of all kinds–our lives.read more