Kevin Cann is a lifelong metaphysical explorer and the creator of Platonic Surrealism, which offers both a metaphysical language and a creative technology for those seeking grounded ways to explore the unknown. For more information see https://platonicsurrealism.com/

Kevin is the co-author of the third chapter, “‘That They Are Not Human: Thinking on the Autistic Spectrum,” of Jeff Kripal’s How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else. He is also a retired nuclear engineer for the US Navy. 

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he co-hosts the Archives of the Impossible collection and conference series. He also co-directs the Center for Theory and Research at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Jeff is the author of numerous books, most recently How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (Chicago, 2024). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences, modern esoteric literature, and the hidden history of science fiction collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com  He thinks he may be Spider-Man.

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