Download or read book Studies in Psychical Research written by Frank Podmore and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Psychic Science written by Hereward Carrington and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychic Science written by Emile Boirac and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Phantoms written by Alicia Puglionesi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. Common Phantoms brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. Drawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported data, Alicia Puglionesi recounts how an eclectic group of investigators tried to capture the most elusive dimensions of human consciousness. A vast though flawed experiment in democratic science, psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to study their experiences on their own terms. Academic psychology would ultimately disown this effort as both a scientific failure and a remnant of magical thinking, but its challenge to the limits of science, the mind, and the soul still reverberates today.
Download or read book Psychic Exploration A Challenge for Science written by Edgar D. Mitchell and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Psychic Exploration, A Challenge for Science* is a primer on psychic research, life’s purpose, and the meaning of the universe. Originally published in 1974, this landmark anthology of nearly thirty chapters on every area of psychic research is finally available again. Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and moonwalker, as well as a distinguished researcher of the study of human consciousness, brought together eminent scientists to write about issues once considered too controversial to discuss. This book includes fascinating chapters on the history of parapsychology, telepathy, hauntings, psychic phenomena, and consciousness, along with an extensive glossary and index. This timeless anthology continues to be appealing as a reference work for those curious about the history of parapsychology, fans of the world of psi, and readers interested in the meaning of the universe. Contributors include: Willis W. Harman, Jean Houston, Stanley Krippner, Robert Masters, William G. Roll, Russell Targ, Charles T. Tart, Montague Ullman, and many more. “ […] perhaps the most important change [since the initial publication of *Psychic Exploration*] has been due to advancements in quantum physics […] If this trend continues, then the age-old puzzle at the core of religious epiphanies, mystical insight, and creative genius will finally yield to scientific explanations: What is the true nature of consciousness?” —From the New Foreword by Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Dean Radin, PhD
Download or read book Best Evidence written by Michael Schmicker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " a dazzling journey into one of the most important areas of science that has ever existed" - Dr. Larry Dossey MD, New York Times best-selling author of Reinventing Medicine. "Best Evidence is indeed one - if not the best itself - of the major books explaining and offering proof that psi phenomena are here to stay whether we like it or not " - Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D, physicist and National Book Award winning author of Mind Into Matter, Taking the Quantum Leap. "My highest recommendation not just one but a half-dozen astounding stories, any one of which can change the way we think about the nature of reality" - Dean Radin, Ph.D, author of The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. " an important book " - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and author of Way of the Explorer: Psychic Exploration "For skeptics and cautious believers alike, a splendid introduction to 'impossible phenomena that refuse to disappear'" - Stanley Krippner, Ph.D, Co-Editor, Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence. "Hard line skeptics won't be pleased, but Schmicker has done his homework an excellent survey of the strongest evidence" - Marcello Truzzi, Ph.D, Center for Scientific Anomalies Research
Download or read book The Stepchildren of Science written by Heather Wolffram and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading the reader through the darkened séance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany, The Stepchildren of Science casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines. In contrast to other recent studies in which occultism is seen as a means of dealing with or creating “the modern”, this book considers the epistemological, cultural and social issues that arose from psychical researchers’ and parapsychologists’ claims to scientific legitimacy. Focusing on the boundary disputes between these researchers and the spiritualists, occultists, psychologists and scientists with whom they competed for authority over the paranormal, The Stepchildren of Science demonstrates that in the German context both proponents and opponents alike understood psychical research and parapsychology as border sciences.
Download or read book Apollonius written by Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Psychical Phenomena written by G. N. M. Tyrrell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1938, Science and Psychical Phenomena presents a comprehensive overview of diverse field of phenomena which is included under the heading of psychical research. Psychical research does not deal in Spiritualism or ‘Spooks’. It is the scientific investigation of the hidden faculties of Man, and it constitutes the main pathway to the understanding of the Human Individual. Since second half of nineteenth century, unknown to the general public, careful work with new methods has been going on, and the results when properly understood, are as startling as they are important. The present volume summarizes the work and discusses the far-reaching conclusion to which it points. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of religion, psychology, philosophy of mind and psychic studies.
Download or read book Fifty Years of Psychical Research written by Harry Price and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of psychical research and spiritualism, accompanied by period illustrations. Is spiritualism a religion or a racket? How does it differ from psychical research? What went on in the world of séances, mediums, and the scientists who investigated them in the early decades of the twentieth century? This fascinating account, first published in the 1930s, brings to life an era when spiritualists gripped the public imagination and researchers fought to determine what was and wasn’t real. Fifty Years of Psychical Research is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.
Download or read book The Founders of Psychical Research written by Alan Gauld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968 The Founders of Psychical Research is centred upon the lives and work of Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers – prominent in the Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R) - during its early years: it is not a history of the Society. It passes over important aspects of the S.P.R.’s story and deals at some length with matters quite outside it. The book frequently gives accounts of ‘paranormal’ phenomena which if indeed they occurred, would not be explainable through any recognisable hypothesis, but are treated throughout as unexplained.
Download or read book The Problems of Psychical Research written by Hereward Carrington and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Problems of Psychical Research: Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal" by Hereward Carrington Hereward Carrington was a well-known British-born American investigator of psychic phenomena and author. In this book, he delves into experiments on the topic. Starting with addressing if research into the topic can be considered a true science before moving onto tests of telepathy, witchcraft, and more.
Download or read book Essays in Psychical Research written by William James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than 50 articles, essays, and reviews collected here for the first time were published by James over a span of some 25 years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern.
Download or read book A New Science of the Paranormal written by Lawrence LeShan and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents case studies of paranormal research failures while explaining why and how mainstream science rejects the paranormal, in a provocative report that outlines the principles for revitalizing research in the areas of clairvoyance, mediumship, and psychic healing. Original.
Download or read book The Annals of Psychical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty Years of Psychical Research written by Charles Richet and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1923.
Download or read book Borderland of Psychical Research Classic Reprint written by James H. Hyslop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Borderland of Psychical Research The reason for this is very simple. The views which had separated them from ordinary interest were due to a reaction against the more ancient con ception of dreams. We are wont to suppose that men naturally distinguish between their dreams and normal experiences. This, however, is not altogether true. The ancients gave an external or objective meaning to dreams, and savages still do so, -a meaning that associates them very closely with normal experience. The causes of this may be the untu tored neglect of ordinary for supposedly significant dreams, and then the consideration of only the latter, as there is some evidence that this was the case. It matters not what the reason for it was. The fact is indisputable that to many ancient people dreams were as much testimony to external influences or meaning as were normal sensory experiences. Illu sions and hallucinations did not altogether escape the same interpretation. It is possible that the more intelligent views of these phenomena among the an cients were not recorded as were those of the igno rant and superstitious. But this does not alter the impression that we get of the natural man's ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
