
Science and the Paranormal
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In facts, not fiction, this book presents the case for the paranormal. Changing the way we look at the universe is not easy, and requires a true openness to exploration and experiment. Professor Ellison suggests that most of us are conditioned by our Western science-based education to think that the universe is much simpler and 'material' than it really is. He argues that we should recognize the limits of the current scientific worldview that fails to account for genuine paranormal experiences, including phenomena such as out-of-body experiences (OBE), reliably reported by thousands of people.
Science and the Paranormal is part of The Paranormal, a seriesthat 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.
"A most valuable work and a lasting testimony to the author's remarkable contribution to the field." -Bernard Carr, Scientific and Medical Network Review
"Written for the lay person in down-to-earth language... this book is for those who want a broad-brush of matters like the evidence for telepathy, near death experiences, survival research etc. without having to plough through a century-high stack of scientific papers. A welcome introduction to human nature's further reaches." - Christian Parapsychologist
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Normal Western Science and Reality
- Scientific views of quantum physicists
- Are we all in a 'trance'?
- Defence reactions to evidence
- 2. The Near Death Experience (NDE)
- The five stages of a complete NDE
- Important experiences of NDEers
- A postscript
- 3. The Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)
- My own experiences
- The experiences of others
- Some experiments on the OBE
- How to have your own OBE
- Remote viewing
- 4. The Lucid Dreaming Experience (LDE)
- Normal dreaming
- Lucid dreaming
- Learning lucid dreaming
- Some normal symbolic dreams
- 5. Daylight or Near-Sleep Imagery
- Hypnagogic or hypnopompic states
- Guided imagery
- Shamanic journeying
- Learning to have hypnagogic imagery
- 6. The Hypnotic Trance State and the Role of Belief
- What is happening during the hypnotic trance?
- Is mesmerism different from hypnotism?
- Hypnosis and belief
- The importance of belief
- A little quantum physics
- Belief and our physical world
- 7. The Likelihood of Life after Death
- Other views of life after death
- Mistakes in the traditional views
- The 'controls' or 'guides' of mediums
- 8. The Seance
- The seance - mental phenomena
- The seance - physical phenomena with ectoplasm
- The Scole phenomena
- 9. The Psychic's Experience
- Experiences of famous psychics
- Physical mediumship
- Spirit voices and healing
- 10. The Mediumship of Mrs Eileen Garrett
- Early awareness
- Research with Ira Progoff
- 11. Difficulties in Paranormal Communication
- The communications of Frederick Myers
- Problems of communicators
- 12. Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and the Paranormal
- The case of John
- The doctor's wife
- Common and important features of MPD
- The need for a new paradigm
- 13. Paranormal Healing
- Psychic healing
- A different kind of healing
- Some experimental investigations
- Another experiment with a psychic healer
- Radionics
- 14. Reincarnation and Karma
- A brief note on reincarnation
- A brief note on karma
- 15. Parapsychology: the Controlled Laboratory Work
- Ganzfeld experiments
- Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research15
- So is 'normal science' obsolete?
- 16. Limited (Normal) Science and Pseudo-Science
- Normal science
- Pseudo-science
- Communications from 'discarnate scientists'
- 17. The Case for Idealism
- 18. A Different Model
- The Middle Unconscious
- The Lower Self ('George')
- The Higher Unconscious
- Beliefs of the Huna people
- Using 'George' as a model
- Implications for personal life
- Reading List
- FOOTNOTES
- Copyright
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