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Paranormality

Author : Richard Wiseman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230758902

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'People are emotionally drawn to the supernatural. They actively want weird, spooky things to be true . . . Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he deftly skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason.' Richard Dawkins Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and out-of-body experiences produces remarkable insights into our brains, behaviour and beliefs. Paranormality embarks on a wild ghost chase into this new science of the supernatural and is packed with activities that allow you to experience the impossible. So throw away your crystals, ditch your lucky charms and cancel your subscription to Reincarnation Weekly. It is time to discover the real secrets of the paranormal. Learn how to control your dreams -- and leave your body behind Convince complete strangers that you know all about them Unleash the power of your unconscious mind

Paranormality

Author : Richard Wiseman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : 1447273397

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Bestselling psychologist Richard Wiseman unravels the science behind our beliefs in telepathy, clairvoyants, mediums, ghosts, and more... "People are emotionally drawn to the supernatural. They actively want weird, spooky things to be true . . . Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he deftly skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason." --Richard Dawkins Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and out-of-body experiences produces remarkable insights into our brains, behaviour andbeliefs. Paranormality embarks on a wild ghost chase into this new science ofthe supernatural and is packed with activities that allow you to experience the impossible. So throw away your crystals, ditch your lucky charms and cancel your subscription to Reincarnation Weekly. It is time to discover the real secrets of the paranormal. Learn how to control your dreams -- and leave your body behind Convince complete strangers that you know all about them Unleash the power of your unconscious mind

Critical Reflections on the Paranormal

Author : Michael F. Stoeber,Hugo Anthony Meynell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0791430634

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Critical Reflections on the Paranormal by Michael F. Stoeber,Hugo Anthony Meynell Pdf

Collection of essays that clarifies and evaluates the various aspects of paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, psychokinesis, trance-mediumship, near-death experiences and past-life memories.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures

Author : Olu Jenzen,Sally R. Munt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317042198

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Despite the much vaunted ’end of religion’ and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own ’spiritualities of life’. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international scholars across the social sciences and humanities to question how and why people are seeking meaning in the realm of the paranormal, a heretofore subjugated knowledge. With contributions from the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Canada, this ground-breaking book attends to the paranormal as a position from which to critique dominant forms of knowledge production and spirituality. A rich exploration of everyday life practices, textual engagements and discourses relating to the paranormal, as well as the mediation, technology and art of paranormal activity, this book explores themes such as subcultures and mainstreaming, as well as epistemological, methodological, and phenomenological questions, and the role of the paranormal in social change. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures constitutes an essential resource for those interested in the academic study of cultural engagements with paranormality; it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, popular culture, sociology, cultural geography, literature, film and music.

Music and the Paranormal

Author : Melvyn J. Willin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476685984

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Music and the Paranormal by Melvyn J. Willin Pdf

Exploring the paranormal through musical phenomena, this encyclopedia covers a range of anomalies, from musical mediumship to locations throughout the world where music has been heard with no obvious source. Other manifestations, such as the abilities of musical savants and the anesthetic use of music during surgical procedures, are included with a focus on paraphysical aspects. Entries describe examples from earliest history up to the present--interpretation is left to the reader. Broader themes and concepts are discussed in appendices, with additional references provided for further study.

Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400

Author : Ármann Jakobsson,Miriam Mayburd
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513619

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Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 by Ármann Jakobsson,Miriam Mayburd Pdf

This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.

Science, Mind and Paranormal Experience

Author : Eric Lord
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781435747395

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Science, Mind and Paranormal Experience by Eric Lord Pdf

Speculations about paranormal phenomena and how they might be reconciled with modern scientific knowledge.

ESP and Psychokinesis

Author : Stephen E. Braude
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781581124071

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ESP and Psychokinesis by Stephen E. Braude Pdf

This work was the first sustained philosophical study of psychic phenomena to follow C.D. Broad's LECTURES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, written nearly twenty years earlier. The author clearly defines the categories of psychic phenomena, surveys the most compelling experimental data, and traces their implications for the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind. He considers carefully the abstract presuppositions underlying leading theories of psychic phenomena, and he offers bold criticisms of both mechanistic analyses of communication and psychophysical identity theories. In addition, he challenges the received view that experimental repeatability is the paramount criterion for evaluating parapsychological research, and he exposes the deep confusions underlying Jung's concept of synchronicity.

The Psychology of Paranormal Belief

Author : Harvey J. Irwin
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781907396380

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The Psychology of Paranormal Belief by Harvey J. Irwin Pdf

With a thorough and systematic review of investigations into the bases of belief in paranormal phenomena, this discussion explores the four main theoretical approaches relating to the nature of such beliefs. Objective and well-researched, this account addresses different points of view on the topic--while some commentators depict paranormal believers as foolish, others propose that paranormal beliefs must be understood as necessities that serve certain psychodynamic needs. The foundations and shortcomings of each approach are also documented, and a new comprehensive theory attempts to explain the development of scientifically unsubstantiated beliefs.

Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal

Author : Nick Totton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429917806

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This book demonstrates, in different ways, that paranormal phenomena are of direct relevance to psychoanalysis, and that they frequently impinge directly on its clinical practice—most obviously in the forms of telepathy and synchronicity.

The Psychology of Paranormal Belief

Author : Harvey J. Irwin
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 190280693X

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The Psychology of Paranormal Belief by Harvey J. Irwin Pdf

"This book, written by an internationally renowned researcher in the field, provides a thorough and systematic review of empirical investigations into the bases of belief in paranormal phenomena. Opening with a foreword by the highly respected researchers into paranormal belief Dr Caroline Watt and Professor Richard Wiseman, this book will be of particular interest to professional researchers and serious students of the subject, as well as to clinical psychologists and counsellors." --Book Jacket.

The Paranormal Equation

Author : James Stein
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781601635891

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The Paranormal Equation by James Stein Pdf

Most of us think science is incapable of explaining supernatural phenomena. This would include everything from ghosts and communication with the dead to extrasensory perception (ESP), precognition, and telekinesis. Scientists are generally highly skeptical of the existence of such phenomena because of the lack of the rigorous documentation that science requires. Nevertheless, many great scientists have believed—and do believe—in the supernatural. The Paranormal Equation presents an argument for the existence of supernatural phenomena based on the mathematics and science discovered during the last century. It also explains why supernatural phenomena must exist if the universe satisfies certain conditions—conditions which are accepted by many working scientists. The Paranormal Equation explores such questions as: How can we distinguish between the truly unknown and the supernatural? How have scientists attempted to study the supernatural? What are the rational reasons for believing in the supernatural? Which hypotheses about the universe mandate the existence of supernatural phenomena? Anyone interested in how science is beginning to understand and even explain the seemingly unexplainable will want to read this fascinating new title.

The End of Materialism

Author : Charles T. Tart
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781572246454

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Ideal for scientifically minded individuals curious about life's spiritual side as well as spiritually inclined people seeking to back up their beliefs, this book offers evidence for the existence of telepathy, precognition, and psychic healing.

Randi's Prize

Author : Robert McLuhan
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781848764941

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Randi's Prize by Robert McLuhan Pdf

James ‘The Amazing’ Randi is a stage magician who says he has a million dollars for anyone who can convince him they have psychic powers. No one has even come close to winning, proof, say sceptical scientists, that there is no such thing as ‘the paranormal’. But are they right? In this illuminating and often provocative analysis, Robert McLuhan examines the influence of Randi and other debunking sceptics in shaping scientific opinion about such things as telepathy, psychics, ghosts and near-death experiences. He points out that scientific researchers who investigate these things at first hand overwhelmingly consider them to be genuinely anomalous. But this has shocking implications, for science, for society and for even perhaps for ourselves as individuals. Hence the sceptics’ insistence that they should rather be attributed to fraud, imagination and wishful thinking. However, this extraordinary and little understood aspect of consciousness has much to tell us about the human situation, McLuhan suggests. And at a time when militants are polarising the debate about religion, its mystical, spiritual element offers an optimistic and enlightened way forward. Randi’s Prize is aimed at anyone interested in spirituality or those curious to know the truth about paranormal claims. It’s an intelligent and readable analysis of scientific research into the paranormal which, uniquely, also closely examines the arguments of well-known sceptics.

Scientifical Americans

Author : Sharon A. Hill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781476672472

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In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena. By 2010, roughly 2000 amateur research and investigation groups formed in the U.S.--ghost hunters, Bigfoot chasers and UFO researchers, using an array of (supposedly) scientific equipment and methods to prove the existence of the paranormal. American culture's honorific regard for science, coupled with the public's unfamiliarity with scientific methods, created a niche for self-styled paranormal experts to achieve national renown without scientific training or credentials. The author provides a comprehensive examination of the ideas, missions and methods promoted by these passionate amateurs.