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.
Written in 1913 (CW 17) The Threshold of the Spiritual World contains sixteen brief chapters in which Rudolf Steiner provides aphoristic thoughts on trusting one's thinking, cognition of the spiritual world, karma and reincarnation, the astral body and luciferic beings, how to recognize suprasensory consciousness, the true nature of love, and ......
Examining the scriptural underpinnings of occult and supernaturalistic notions that survive in contemporary society, this book is based on the author's knowledge of the history of ancient Near-Eastern cultures and their mythology.
On 1 June 1914, Rudolf Steiner spoke in Basel for the last time before the outbreak of World War I, and for the last time ever in all his lectures and writings about the Nathan soul and its relationship with the Mystery of Golgotha. This internal lecture, given only for members of the Anthroposophical Society, concluded a series of profound ......
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.
The Hundredth Monkey takes its title from philosopher Ron Amundson's expose of the "Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," a claim about collective consciousness. Forty-three essays by thirty-nine authors, including Isaac Asimov, Martin Gardner, Carl Sagan, Ray Hyman, Paul Kurtz, and James Randi, examine aspects of paranormal and fringe-science beliefs ......
Contains forty-three essays by thirty-nine authors, including Isaac Asmov, Martin Gardner, Carl Sagan, Ray Hyman, Paul Kurtz, and James Randi, that examine aspects of paranormal and fringe-science beliefs from a scientific point of view.
