Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Kevin Cann, an experiencer and retired IT professional who was prominently featured in Jeffrey Kripal’s latest book, “How to Think Impossibly.”
He even wrote a section of Chapter 3 to help ensure that Kripal accurately captured his approach.
Cann, who has been diagnosed with autism, describes his lifetime of experiences in this interview and explores how those experiences relate to his autism, his early and severe childhood trauma, and the need to survive and thrive despite those challenges.
He’s developed a philosophy, Platonic Surrealism, that he believes best captures the kind of universe that has to exist in order for him and others to have the types of experiences that have been reported throughout history.
Most visionaries, he believes, were likely somewhere on the spectrum. Those initial visionary experiences were then later co-opted by the neurotypical followers and acolytes of said prophets, who turned their transcendent episodes into a means of regimentation and control.
He explains that Asperger's Syndrome allows him to have continual access to the right hemisphere of his brain, the imaginal and intuitive half of mind, thereby enabling him to encounter and accommodate different modes of reality.
We also discuss his notion of ontological equivalence – how the anomalous visions and experiences of people throughout history were all equally relevant, providing different though equivalent demonstrations of how the universe works.
To learn more and interface with Kevin:
platonicsurrealism.com
To purchase “How to Think Impossibly,” by Jeffrey Kripal:
amazon.com/s?k=kripal+how+to+think+impossibly&crid=2M0BLSJYEMUYZ&sprefix=kripal+how+t%2Caps%2C175&ref=nb_sb_ss_pltr-mrr_1_12
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Music Credits:
Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd
Free download: filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04
Licensed under CC BY 4.0: filmmusic.io/standard-license
Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd
Free download: filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01
Licensed under CC BY 4.0: filmmusic.io/standard-license
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On X:
@jfrickingfaulk
#Kripal #autism #trauma #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens #magic #occult #manyworlds #multiverse #ufo #consciousness #phenomenon #ghosts #afterlife #NDE
On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Kevin Cann, an experiencer and retired IT professional who was prominently featured in Jeffrey Kripal’s latest book, “How to Think Impossibly.”
He even wrote a section of Chapter 3 to help ensure that Kripal accurately captured his approach.
Cann, who has been diagnosed with autism, describes his lifetime of experiences in this interview and explores how those experiences relate to his autism, his early and severe childhood trauma, and the need to survive and thrive despite those challenges.
He’s developed a philosophy, Platonic Surrealism, that he believes best captures the kind of universe that has to exist in order for him and others to have the types of experiences that have been reported throughout history.
Most visionaries, he believes, were likely somewhere on the spectrum. Those initial visionary experiences were then later co-opted by the neurotypical followers and acolytes of said prophets, who turned their transcendent episodes into a means of regimentation and control.
He explains that Asperger's Syndrome allows him to have continual access to the right hemisphere of his brain, the imaginal and intuitive half of mind, thereby enabling him to encounter and accommodate different modes of reality.
We also discuss his notion of ontological equivalence – how the anomalous visions and experiences of people throughout history were all equally relevant, providing different though equivalent demonstrations of how the universe works.
To learn more and interface with Kevin:
platonicsurrealism.com
To purchase “How to Think Impossibly,” by Jeffrey Kripal:
amazon.com/s?k=kripal+how+to+think+impossibly&crid=2M0BLSJYEMUYZ&sprefix=kripal+how+t%2Caps%2C175&ref=nb_sb_ss_pltr-mrr_1_12
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Music Credits:
Music: Cinematic Logo 04 by TaigaSoundProd
Free download: filmmusic.io/song/8221-cinematic-logo-04
Licensed under CC BY 4.0: filmmusic.io/standard-license
Music: Technology Calm Logo 01 by TaigaSoundProd
Free download: filmmusic.io/song/6660-technology-calm-logo-01
Licensed under CC BY 4.0: filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Neon Galactic is a production of PBS affiliate KEET-TV in Eureka, CA. Please don’t forget to like and subscribe. Public television can always use your support.
On X:
@jfrickingfaulk
#Kripal #autism #trauma #neongalactic #UAP #space #aliens #magic #occult #manyworlds #multiverse #ufo #consciousness #phenomenon #ghosts #afterlife #NDE
