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Author : David Barreto
Publisher : David Barreto
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A must-read book that explores mediumship, psychic abilities, witchcraft spells, and even ghosts through the lens of scientific thinking.
Author : George Ogden Abell,Barry Singer
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Ciencia
ISBN : PSU:000014238314
Author : Eugene V. Subbotsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429954702
Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excellent psychological look at the subconscious belief in magic in both popular culture and society, as well as experimental research that considers human consciousness as a derivative of belief in the supernatural, thus showing that our feelings, emotions, attitudes and other psychological processes follow the laws of magic. This book synthesises the science of ‘natural’ phenomena and the magic of the ‘supernatural’ to present an interesting look at the juxtaposition of the inner and outer selves. Fusing research into psychological disorders, subconscious feelings, as well as the rising presence of artificial intelligence, this book demonstrates how an engagement with magical thinking can enhance one’s creativity and cognitive skills. Science and Magic in the Modern World is an invaluable resource for those studying consciousness, as well as those looking at the effect of magical thinking on religion, politics, science and society.
Author : John Gerald Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : UOM:39015034643612
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : BL:A0018283198
Author : Courtenay Raia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226635354
The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger cultural need. Victorians were on the hunt for self-understanding. Mesmerists, spiritualists, and other romantic seekers roamed sunken landscapes of entrancement, and when psychology was finally ready to confront these altered states, psychical research was adopted as an experimental vanguard. Far from a rejected science, it was a necessary heterodoxy, probing mysteries as diverse as telepathy, hypnosis, and even séance phenomena. Its investigators sought facts far afield of physical laws: evidence of a transcendent, irreducible mind. The New Prometheans traces the evolution of psychical research through the intertwining biographies of four men: chemist Sir William Crookes, depth psychologist Frederic Myers, ether physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and anthropologist Andrew Lang. All past presidents of the society, these men brought psychical research beyond academic circles and into the public square, making it part of a shared, far-reaching examination of science and society. By layering their papers, textbooks, and lectures with more intimate texts like diaries, letters, and literary compositions, Courtenay Raia returns us to a critical juncture in the history of secularization, the last great gesture of reconciliation between science and sacred truths.
Author : Eva Fogarasi Bálint
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783990643617
Faith, Science and the Supernatural takes a novel and refreshing stance on Christianity. In this fascinating overview of Eva F. Bálint's beliefs, she explains how religion, despite common belief, does have a place in the realm of science and that there is far more to religion and faith than blindly following the Bible. Once a clergy with the Church of Sweden, Eva F. Bálint was stripped of her status because of her forward ways of thinking. This book summarises her thoughts, her beliefs and her combination of science and religion - two things which in the past have been diametrically opposed! A must read for anyone with a spiritual yet practical mind.
Author : Augustus Jay Du Bois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : UOM:39015062241370
Author : Sofie Lachapelle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781421401171
“A convincing account of science’s flirtation with the marginal and the marvelous” from the author of Conjuring Science (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences). Séances were wildly popular in France between 1850 and 1930, when members of the general public and scholars alike turned to the wondrous as a means of understanding and explaining the world. Sofie Lachapelle explores how five distinct groups attempted to use and legitimize séances: spiritists, who tried to create a new “science” concerned with the spiritual realm and the afterlife; occultists, who hoped to connect ancient revelations with contemporary science; physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists, who developed a pathology of supernatural experiences; psychical researchers, who drew on the unexplained experiences of the public to create a new field of research; and metapsychists, who attempted to develop a new science of yet-to-be understood natural forces. An enlightening and entertaining narrative that includes colorful people like “Allan Kardec”—a pseudonymous former mathematics teacher from Lyon who wrote successful works on the science of the séance and what happened after death—Investigating the Supernatural reveals the rich and vibrant diversity of unorthodox beliefs and practices that existed at the borders of the French scientific culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “What is science? . . . In her engaging book, Sophie Lachapelle probes for an answer by looking at the liminal realm between science and superstition and the attempt to render the supernatural explicable in naturalistic terms.” —Isis “A welcome addition to the growing literature on spiritism, occultism and physical research in modern France.” —French History
Author : Lyle B. Steadman,Craig T. Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317251156
Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religion because they develop an approach that removes guesswork about beliefs in the supernatural, focusing instead on the behaviors of individuals. The result is a pioneering look at how and why natural selection has favored religious behaviors throughout history.
Author : Edward Bever,Randall Styers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271079875
This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism. Taking a two-track approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of the construction of the modern self and its relation to the modern preoccupation with magic. Essays examine how modern “rational” consciousness is generated and maintained and how proponents of both magical and scientific traditions rationalize evidence to fit accepted orthodoxy. This book also describes how people unsatisfied with the norms of modern subjectivity embrace various forms of magic—and the methods these modern practitioners use to legitimate magic in the modern world. A compelling assessment of magic from the early modern period to today, Magic in the Modern World shows how, despite the dominant culture’s emphatic denial of their validity, older forms of magic persist and develop while new forms of magic continue to emerge. In addition to the editors, contributors include Egil Asprem, Erik Davis, Megan Goodwin, Dan Harms, Adam Jortner, and Benedek Láng.
Author : Dorothy Scarborough
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359334070
Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0387987207
"Elegant and literate" -THE TIMES OF LONDON "The kind of book that both skeptics and believers would do well to read"- SKEPTICAL INQUIRER "An urbane, original, convincing rebuttal of paranormal and supernatural notions" -NEW SCIENTIST "A lively, entertaining book... Humphrey has set himself a larger task than simply explaining why people believe in parapsychology: the task of explaining why it is irrational to believe in it."-NATURE
Author : Homayun Sidky
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785271632
"Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal, and Pseudoscience" provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought associated with the current rise of irrationalism, antiintellectualism, and emboldened religious fundamentalism and violence. Drawing upon H. Sidky’s scientific anthropological background and ethnographic field research of supernatural and paranormal beliefs and practices in several cultures over three decades, the book answers several important questions: Why do humans have a proclivity for the supernatural and paranormal thinking? Why has humanity remained shackled to sets of ideas inherited from a violent past that have no basis in reality and which bestow an illusionary solace, promote bloodshed, endless cruelties and fervent hatreds, and have come at a high cost? Why have ancient superstitions been held as sacred, inviolate truths while other aspects of the archaic belief systems of which they were a part have long been discarded? Why have not humans outgrown religion and paranormal beliefs?
Author : Augustus Jay Du Bois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : OCLC:1026474387