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Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
William James on Psychical Research
Author: William JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A New Science of the Paranormal
Author: Lawrence LeShanPublisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 0835630536
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Mainline science rejects the paranormal because it cannot be proven by the classical methods of controlled experiments. But sciences such as geology, astronomy, and anthropology also don’t rely on laboratory testing for repeatable results. Moreover, psi concerns consciousness, which is by definition nonquantitative. "Psi researchers must stop acting like science’s poor relations," says author Lawrence LaShan, "limiting themselves to controlled experiments such as analyzing statistics of people guessing cards being flipped in the next room" This provocative book outlines the principles of making a real study of the large, exciting events — clairvoyance and precognition; mediumship and spirit controls; psychic healing — that would bring mainline science into and revitalize the whole field. "And the issue is not just academic," says LeShan. "The old, materialistic worldview has not worked. Psychic research," he argues, "can transform our sense of reality itself to offer a new and more hopeful picture of ourselves and of the world."
Essays in Psychical Research
Author: William JamesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674267084
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The more than 50 articles, essays, and reviews collected here for the first time were published by James over a span of some 25 years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-
William James
Author: Krister Dylan KnappPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, Knapp uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality. Knapp explains how and why James found in psychical research a way to rethink the well-trodden approaches to classic Euro-American religious thought, typified by the oppositional categories of natural vs. supernatural and normal vs. paranormal. He demonstrates how James eschewed these choices and instead developed a tertiary synthesis of them, an approach Knapp terms tertium quid, the third way. Situating James's psychical research in relation to the rise of experimental psychology and Protestantism's changing place in fin de siecle America, Knapp asserts that the third way illustrated a much broader trend in transatlantic thought as it struggled to navigate the uncertainties and religious adventurism of the modern age.
Psychical Research Review
Author: Psychical Research Review
Author: Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
Author: American Society for Psychical ResearchPublisher:
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.
Thirty Years of Psychical Research
Author: Charles RichetPublisher:
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Category : First philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research; Volume 2
Author: American Society for Psychical ResearchPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022468740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
