Contains over 90 articles on topics including the strictly paranormal; the historical; the philosophical; and work on investigatory photography, statistics, the media and the Bermuda Triangle.
This work provides an encyclopedic overview of the field of parapsychology, including prominent researchers, seminal studies, topics, figures, and more. It also includes a chapter on the intersection of parapsychology and pop culture to highlight the many, nuanced ways that the psychical is intertwined into our culture.
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.
Teresa Moorehouse's "narrative sculptures" tell deep, often timeless stories in cold cast bronze, with patinas of copper, silver, or gold. Some draw on traditional myths or legends. Others discover new voices for contemporary experience of spiritual mysteries. Her images weave a language of symbols that surpasses logic and speaks directly to ......
Italian investigator, Massimo Polidoro has examined dozens of paranormal events, some of them famous historical incidents, others contemporary claims of psychics, mediums, healers, and the like. This book brings together the results of his investigations, presenting discussions of the evidence and the claims for each individual case.
For more than thirty years, Skeptical Inquirer has steadfastly championed science and reason, and has been the leading voice for reliable scientific examination of the paranormal and other questionable claims popularized by the media and mass culture. In this collection of outstanding articles, editor Kendrick Frazier has selected some of the best ......
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.
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.
If the widely held belief were true--that matter is the basis of all we know as reality--then life would make no sense. The world would essentially be dead--an absurd notion! What we know as life would be an unexplainable phenomenon, an astounding but accidental miracle.
