The Origin, Nature, and Future of Paranormal Belief
Wings of Illusion offers a unique and disquieting perspective on paranormal belief, including religious belief. Schumaker points out that reality-defying beliefs represent one of the few truly universal elements of human culture. Even during the present period, when many traditional beliefs are being weakened, very few people live without some ......
Offers a picture of what hypnosis is and is not, what it can and cannot accomplish, and how it can be misused and abused. This book describes its potential for preventing or arresting pain and outlines directions for the role of suggestion in the clinic and the laboratory. It illuminates this aspect of creative human behaviour.
Critically examines theories of a transcendent reality in terms of what is known about matter at its most fundamental level. This book examines a number of paranormal claims and shows how they can be explained without resorting to supernatural or psychic hypotheses.
Is there more to our existence than modern science can measure? For more than a hundred years, parapsychology - the scientific study of paranormal phenomena - has tried to find the answer to this question. This work presents an evaluation of parapsychological research and reviews the status of the evidence.
For centuries both primitive and sophisticated societies have been spellbound by persons who claim to have 'psychic' power. In fact, much has been done over the years in an attempt to convince the scientific community that such phenomena are legitimate and credible. This book considers some of the major battlefields of this debate.
For centuries both primitive and sophisticated societies have been spellbound by persons who claim to have 'psychic' power. If extrasensory perception(ESP) is to be scientifically established there must be proof in the form of replicable experiments. This book recounts the scientific community's efforts to provide, test, and analyze such evidence.
Ever since the Society for Psychical Research was founded, parapsychologists have been attempting to prove the existence of paranormal phenomena - things like clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and remote viewing. This title reviews the history and methods of psychical research.
Discusses the New Age movement, criticizes its spiritual claims, and looks at spirit guides, reincarnation, quartz crystals, UFO abductions, and psychics.
A collection of essays and investigative reports that examines virtually various areas of fringe science and the paranormal from a scientific viewpoint. It brings to the task a determination to sift sense from nonsense and fact from fiction in an area notorious for misinformation, misperception, self-delusion, and wishful thinking.
