Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research; Volume 2
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research; Volume 2

Author: American Society for Psychical Research

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022468740

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This premier journal of parapsychology and paranormal research features original articles, book reviews, and reports on the latest scientific studies of psychic phenomena. With a rigorous editorial policy and a mission to promote objective investigation of the paranormal, this journal is a must-read for anyone interested in the frontiers of scientific inquiry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Learn To Live Volume -2
Learn To Live Volume -2

Author: Swami Jagadatmananda

Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math

Published: 2022-07-19

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Swami Jagadatmananda, the author of this two-volume book, was a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order who had worked with and guided youth in India. He first wrote it in Kannada. It became a bestseller and was therefore translated into English. The 400-page book is presented under short self-explanatory heads making it highly readable and interesting to the readers. The purpose of this volume of the book is to discuss the scope of science, the power of selfless love, the method of developing character, the root cause of joy and sorrow, the background of miracles and the secrets of prayer, worship and meditation. In addition, the book raises and resolves the doubts of modern people. The readers can have this book as a manual for right living

The Paranormal Surrounds Us
The Paranormal Surrounds Us

Author: Richard Reichbart

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-01-02

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1476633681

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Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized telepathy as an everyday phenomenon. Observations on parapsychological aspects of psychoanalysis also include the findings of the Mesmerists, Jung, Ferenczi and Eisenbud. Many academicians attribute such psychic discoveries to "poetic license" rather than to accurate understanding of our parapsychological capacities. The author--a practicing psychoanalyst and parapsychologist, and a lawyer familiar with Navajo culture--argues for a fresh appraisal of psi phenomena and their integration into psychoanalytic theory and clinical work, literary studies and anthropology.

The Nature of Mind
The Nature of Mind

Author: Douglas M. Stokes

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-10-18

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1476643059

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Western science teaches that our beings are governed by the laws of physics and our minds play no part. There are, however, flaws in this thinking, most prominently unexplained paranormal phenomena that defy explanation by modern theories of physics. Collected by parapsychologists, these data include extrasensory perception (ESP), poltergeist occurrences, and psychokinesis. Much of the current data in parapsychology and their implications for understanding the true nature of the self are examined here. Beginning with a consideration of several instances of spontaneous psi, the book examines the theoretical explanations of paranormal phenomena. It covers the hypothesis and evidence that minds contain the so-called hidden variables that determine the outcomes of the quantum process, thus interweaving parapsychology with modern physics. The reader is also forced to consider in detail the relationship between the conscious mind and the physical brain and the evidence that minds survive the death of bodies.

Spiritualism's Place
Spiritualism's Place

Author: Averill Earls

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1501777289

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In Spiritualism's Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the history of Lily Dale. Located in western New York State, the world's largest center for Spiritualism was founded in 1879. Lily Dale has been a home for Spiritualists attempting to make contact with the dead, as well as a gathering place for reformers, a refuge for seekers looking for alternatives to established paths of knowledge, and a target for skeptics. This intimate history of Lily Dale reveals the role that this fascinating place has played within the history of Spiritualism, as well as within the development of the women's suffrage and temperance movements, and the world of New Age religion. As an intentional community devoted to Spiritualist beliefs and practices, Lily Dale brings together multiple strands in the social and religious history of New York and the United States over the past 150 years: feminism, social reform, utopianism, new religious movements, and cultural appropriation. Podcasters and historians alike, Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, and Marissa C. Rhodes each identify one site in Lily Dale and one theme that its history illuminates. They use those sites and themes to approach Lily Dale not as debunkers but as inquisitive researchers and storytellers. At the same time, they also reflect on their own relationships contending that it's never quite possible to separate grief, hope, faith, and friendship from understandings of the past. Spiritualism's Place breaks myths, unveils unexpected stories, and finds new ways to contemplate Spiritualism's role in American history.

Science of the Seance
Science of the Seance

Author: Beth A. Robertson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0774833521

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In the 1920s and ’30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotion, or a desire to be entertained. Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a small transnational group and their quest for objective knowledge of the supernatural, casting new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in this era. Robertson draws back the curtain to reveal a world inhabited by researchers, spirits, and spiritual mediums. Representing themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body, psychical researchers in Canada, the UK, and the US believed that they could use machines and empirical methods to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. However, mediums and ghostly subjects could and did challenge their claims to scientific expertise and authority.