"Mutants and Mystics" by Jeffrey Kripal

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Superfanboy
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"Mutants and Mystics" by Jeffrey Kripal

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I was researching my favorite comic energy effect, the Kirby Krackle, and I came across a quotation from this book, has anyone read it? I've read several of the science/philosophy/mythology/religion + superhero books (Robert M. Price is great on that stuff), but this one is new to me.
For Kirby, the human body is a manifestation or crystallization of finally inexplicable energies—a superbody. [...] What Mesmer called animal magnetism, Reichenbach knew as the blue od, and Reich saw as a radiating blue cosmic orgone becomes in Jack Kirby a trademark energetics signaled by "burst lines" and a unique energy field of black, blobby dots that has come to be affectionately known as the "Kirby Krackle" [...]. The final result was a vision of the human being as a body of frozen energy that, like an atomic bomb, could be released with stunning effects, for good or for evil. These metaphysical energies, I want to suggest, constitute the secret Source of Kirby's art.
Mutants and Mystics by Jeffrey Kripal
https://www.amazon.com/Mutants-Mystics- ... 022627148X
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