Download or read book The Supernatural Science written by David Barreto and published by David Barreto. This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read book that explores mediumship, psychic abilities, witchcraft spells, and even ghosts through the lens of scientific thinking.
Download or read book Science and the Paranormal written by George Ogden Abell and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1983 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Magic in the Modern World written by Eugene V. Subbotsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excellent psychological look at the subconscious belief in magic in both popular culture and society, as well as experimental research that considers human consciousness as a derivative of belief in the supernatural, thus showing that our feelings, emotions, attitudes and other psychological processes follow the laws of magic. This book synthesises the science of ‘natural’ phenomena and the magic of the ‘supernatural’ to present an interesting look at the juxtaposition of the inner and outer selves. Fusing research into psychological disorders, subconscious feelings, as well as the rising presence of artificial intelligence, this book demonstrates how an engagement with magical thinking can enhance one’s creativity and cognitive skills. Science and Magic in the Modern World is an invaluable resource for those studying consciousness, as well as those looking at the effect of magical thinking on religion, politics, science and society.
Download or read book The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Supernatural Science written by Dave Rei Martins and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Supernatural Science - Theory and Magic, the reader finds many explanations for various themes given as mystical or supernatural. The explanations given by Dave Rei Martins go far beyond mere descriptions, also, they are a scientific analysis and detached of "mysteries" or reasons of religious nature. The explanations are based on experiments made by renowned universities and laboratories in various countries. The correlation shown between paranormal events is dissected and analyzed, encompassing quantum physics, astrophysics, neuropsychology, biology, and neurology to give us a greater understanding of what those facts are. For example, from time to time we hear about the law of attraction, communication with spirits, karma, and so on, but how does all this happen? How does this attraction occur from a scientific point of view? In communicating with spirits, how can a living person hear a dead person? Is it the case of a more powerful ear or is there a neutrino wave carrying sound from another dimension, which is accessed by the medium and their electromagnetic field? This book addresses the "hows" and not the "whys" such events happen. That the law of attraction exists, we all know, but when we dig deep, we find no answers to how it works. We just learn the same thing on different wording: "The law of attraction is all about you attract what you think", "The law of attraction works because thought has power", "The law of attraction is a universal law", "You attract what you think"... and The list goes on. In this book, the reader finds the answer he or she so much seeks. What power is that the brain has? And what is this power made of? Is it an electromagnetic wave? What is the vibration range of this wave? Can it be seen in Magnetic Resonance Imaging? Is it the case of the neuronal synapse that transforms electrical impulses into electromagnetic impulses that will give rise to extensive interaction with the Higgs field, and this will bring together the fermions and neutrinos needed to shape the initial impulse of thought into magnetic, making thoughts capable of attracting something physical? In The Supernatural Science - Theory and Magic, the reader has a chance to know the names and all the terminologies regarding the particles that make up the aura; to know the mechanisms of the tarot cards wavefield, and how a person can be identified as a medium under biological analysis and magnetic resonance. This book is an amalgamation of science and spirituality as it has never seen before. There are scientific explanations or simplifications for all the spiritual or magical events, and this book brings more objectivity to all the spiritual topics, having us closer to science and rationality while validating and making all mystical and paranormal events sound like a computer and software specifications. "Miracle or magic is what science cannot explain or understand until the phenomenon is understood or studied, then scientists call it a physical event."
Download or read book C S Lewis on the Final Frontier written by Sanford Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford Schwartz offers a penetrating new reading of Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy. Taken together, Schwartz's readings call into question Lewis's self-styled image as a "dinosaur" out of step with the main currents of modern thought. Far from a simple struggle between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled heresy, Lewis's Space Trilogy should be seen as the searching effort of a modern religious apologist to sustain and enrich the former through critical engagement with the latter.
Download or read book The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Prometheans written by Courtenay Raia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger cultural need. Victorians were on the hunt for self-understanding. Mesmerists, spiritualists, and other romantic seekers roamed sunken landscapes of entrancement, and when psychology was finally ready to confront these altered states, psychical research was adopted as an experimental vanguard. Far from a rejected science, it was a necessary heterodoxy, probing mysteries as diverse as telepathy, hypnosis, and even séance phenomena. Its investigators sought facts far afield of physical laws: evidence of a transcendent, irreducible mind. The New Prometheans traces the evolution of psychical research through the intertwining biographies of four men: chemist Sir William Crookes, depth psychologist Frederic Myers, ether physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and anthropologist Andrew Lang. All past presidents of the society, these men brought psychical research beyond academic circles and into the public square, making it part of a shared, far-reaching examination of science and society. By layering their papers, textbooks, and lectures with more intimate texts like diaries, letters, and literary compositions, Courtenay Raia returns us to a critical juncture in the history of secularization, the last great gesture of reconciliation between science and sacred truths.
Download or read book The Supernatural Science written by David Barreto and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demystifies supernatural phenomena, offering a unique perspective on spirituality, mediumship, psychic abilities, and witchcraft spells. This thought-provoking book will leave a lasting impression on readers.
Download or read book Investigating the Supernatural written by Sofie Lachapelle and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A convincing account of science’s flirtation with the marginal and the marvelous” from the author of Conjuring Science (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences). Séances were wildly popular in France between 1850 and 1930, when members of the general public and scholars alike turned to the wondrous as a means of understanding and explaining the world. Sofie Lachapelle explores how five distinct groups attempted to use and legitimize séances: spiritists, who tried to create a new “science” concerned with the spiritual realm and the afterlife; occultists, who hoped to connect ancient revelations with contemporary science; physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists, who developed a pathology of supernatural experiences; psychical researchers, who drew on the unexplained experiences of the public to create a new field of research; and metapsychists, who attempted to develop a new science of yet-to-be understood natural forces. An enlightening and entertaining narrative that includes colorful people like “Allan Kardec”—a pseudonymous former mathematics teacher from Lyon who wrote successful works on the science of the séance and what happened after death—Investigating the Supernatural reveals the rich and vibrant diversity of unorthodox beliefs and practices that existed at the borders of the French scientific culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “What is science? . . . In her engaging book, Sophie Lachapelle probes for an answer by looking at the liminal realm between science and superstition and the attempt to render the supernatural explicable in naturalistic terms.” —Isis “A welcome addition to the growing literature on spiritism, occultism and physical research in modern France.” —French History
Download or read book Leaps of Faith written by Nicholas Humphrey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elegant and literate" -THE TIMES OF LONDON "The kind of book that both skeptics and believers would do well to read"- SKEPTICAL INQUIRER "An urbane, original, convincing rebuttal of paranormal and supernatural notions" -NEW SCIENTIST "A lively, entertaining book... Humphrey has set himself a larger task than simply explaining why people believe in parapsychology: the task of explaining why it is irrational to believe in it."-NATURE
Download or read book Supernatural and Natural Selection written by Lyle B. Steadman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religion because they develop an approach that removes guesswork about beliefs in the supernatural, focusing instead on the behaviors of individuals. The result is a pioneering look at how and why natural selection has favored religious behaviors throughout history.
Download or read book Medjugorje and the Supernatural written by Daniel Maria Klimek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1981, six young Croatians in the village of Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Throughout history, people have reported encountering extraordinary religious experiences-apparitions of the Virgin Mary, visions of Jesus Christ, weeping statues and icons, the stigmata, physical healings and miracles, and experiences of the afterlife-and interpreted them as supernatural in origin. Scholars have often tried to reinterpret such experiences, including those described by the great mystics like Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila, into natural or psychopathological categories, such as hysteria, hallucination, delusion, epileptic seizures, psychosis, the workings of the unconscious mind, or fraud. Are such reductionist explanations valid? Over the past three decades the Medjugorje visionaries have been subjected to extensive medical, psychological, and scientific examination, even while undergoing their visionary experiences. Daniel Klimek argues that the case of Medjugorje affords a rare opportunity to understand a deeper dimension of extraordinary religious phenomena. Presenting and analyzing the scientific studies on the visionaries in juxtaposition with the major scholars and debates surrounding religious experience, Klimek concludes that a multidisciplinary approach grants a more holistic and deeper understanding of such extraordinary religious experiences.
Download or read book Science and the Supernatural written by John Gerald Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Geographic Guide to the World s Supernatural Places written by Sarah Bartlett and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches and demons, ghosts and vampires, aliens and voodoo spirits... from spooky to chilling to downright weird, signs of the supernatural have terrified -- and fascinated -- people for centuries. Dare to discover some of the world's most puzzling enigmas in this remarkable book, which reveals a dazzling array of haunted castles, forbidden hideaways and otherwise eerie landmarks. Packed with rich illustrations, National Geographic's first-ever guide to the world's supernatural places showcases more than 250 spooky destinations around the globe. Uncover the origins of the vampire, found not only in Romania, but also in Madagascar and the Philippines. Encounter the array of ghosts said to haunt deserted battlefields, abandoned mental asylums, cemeteries and other spine-tingling sites. Consider the possibility of extraterrestrials spotted everywhere from Sedona, Arizona to Flatwoods, West Virginia. And experience the mystical origins of such extraordinary places as Ayers Rock, Australia and Chich n Itz , Mexico. Vivid, dramatic, and chock full of inside information on when to visit, this spooky book will convince you that there might be more out there than meets the eye.
Download or read book The Victorian Supernatural written by Nicola Bown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book SuperSense written by Bruce M. Hood and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neuroscientist examines the science behind humanity’s beliefs in the supernatural. The majority of the world’s population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in God, and a recent Gallup poll found that about three out of four Americans believe in some form of telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, or past lives. Where does such supernatural thinking come from? Are we indoctrinated by our parents, churches, and media, or do such beliefs originate somewhere else? In SuperSense, award-winning cognitive scientist Bruce M. Hood reveals the science behind our beliefs in the supernatural. Superstitions are common. Many of us cross our fingers, knock on wood, step around black cats, and avoid walking under ladders. John McEnroe refused to step on the white lines of a tennis court between points. Wade Boggs insisted on eating a chicken dinner before every Boston Red Sox game. President Barack Obama played a game of basketball the morning of his victory in the Iowa primary and continued the tradition on every subsequent election day. Supernatural thinking includes loftier beliefs as well, such as the sentimental value we place on photos of loved ones, wedding rings, and teddy bears. It also includes spiritual beliefs and the hope for an afterlife. But in this modern, scientific age, why do we hold on to these behaviors and beliefs? It turns out that belief in things beyond what is rational or natural is common to humans and appears very early in childhood. In fact, according to Hood, this “super sense” is something we're born with to develop and is essential to the way we learn to understand the world. We couldn’t live without it! Our minds are designed from the very start to think there are unseen patterns, forces, and essences inhabiting the world, and it is unlikely that any effort to get rid of supernatural beliefs, or the superstitious behaviors that accompany them, will be successful. These common beliefs and sacred values are essential in binding us together as a society because they help us to see ourselves connected to each other at a deeper level.
