Psychic research, both as a formal discipline within the activity of science and as an informal fascination and exploration in the larger culture, is profoundly affecting habitual modes of thinking and perceiving, and thence social institutions and the culture itself.
Until recently, little systematic research has been directed toward examining the role of subjective state of awareness factors in psychic func-tioning.
Two cases are described in which extraordinary phenomena appear to have been elicited within the context of altered states of consciousness (trance) in a laboratory setting.
This essay, chapter 25 of Psychic Exploration, explores the crisis of consciousness and its historical analogies and suggests that the mythic persona emerging from the crisis points toward a new image of man and a new possibility for humanity.
This essay, chapter 20 of Psychic Exploration, is an anecdotal account of a personal voyage to the Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad, Alma-Ata) to investigate Russian research in telepathy, skin vision, psychokinesis, acupuncture, Kirlian photography, and psychic healing.
Success in the formal scientific investigation of phenomena has always required that man learn to speak formally about the phenomena under investigation.
When we ask whether consciousness continues after death, we usually assume that a surviving self will exist in some kind of body and will include the personality familiar from waking experience.
This essay, chapter 15 of Psychic Exploration, studies out-of-the-body experiences (OOBE's), formerly called "e;astral projection"e; and "e;traveling clairvoyance,"e; are a universal human phenomenon in the sense of having been experienced in every time and culture, although only a very small fraction of people ever experience it.
Since 1861, more than two dozen persons in several countries have claimed to obtain on photographic plates and film a variety of types of images that could only have been produced paranormally.
This essay, chapter 9 of Psychic Exploration, concerns itself with the processing of psi information once it is within the organism, from a psychobiological perspective.
Clairvoyance is regarded as having occurred when an organism behaves as though it has extrasensory knowledge of some object or physical event unknown to any other organism.
Although the word parapsychology suggests a field of research that exists "e;beside psychology,"e; its studies are not only related to psychology but to religion, anthropology, physics, and other areas as well.
Since the advent of Spiritualism over a century ago in America, certain individuals with unusual psychic abilities have dominated the scene of psychic research.
In the Oneness of Time is an inspiring true story that draws the imagination into its own magical source, where things become possible, and possibilities become things.
From highly-acclaimed illustrator, graphic designer and author, Anita Mangan, comes The Chinese Zodiac, an ideal gift book for fans of astrology and lunar cycles.
Harrison Connections is a compelling and detailed account of multiple after death communications by Tom Harrison (son of Minnie Harrison, physical materialisation medium) - a must read for anyone hoping to further understand this fascinating topic.
In this book is a detailed exposition of arguably the single most significant development in practical magic since the first Elizabethan Age, namely, the synchronous employment of astrological principles in the structuring and timing of magical ceremonies.
