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Unruly Spirits

Author : M. Brady Brower
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025203564X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Unruly Spirits written by M. Brady Brower and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unruly Spirits connects the study of séances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfully navigating experiments conducted by nineteenth-century French psychical researchers and the wide-ranging debates that surrounded their work, M. Brady Brower situates the institutional development of psychical research at the intersection of popular faith and the emergent discipline of psychology. Brower shows how spiritualist mediums were ignored by French academic scientists for nearly three decades. Only after the ideologues of the Third Republic turned to science to address what they took to be the excess of popular democracy would the marvels of mediumism begin to emerge as legitimate objects of scientific inquiry. Taken up by the most prominent physicists, physiologists, and psychologists of the last decades of the nineteenth century, psychical research would eventually stall in the 1920s as researchers struggled to come to terms with interpersonal phenomena (such as trust and good faith) that could not be measured within the framework of their experimental methods. In characterizing psychical research as something other than a mere echo of popular spirituality or an anomaly among the sciences, Brower argues that the questions surrounding mediums served to sustain the scientific project by forestalling the establishment of a closed and complete system of knowledge. By acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.

The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena

Author : Ron Rhodes
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736936653
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena written by Ron Rhodes and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychics, mediums, and ghosts have become a sensation in our culture today. As a result, there are many confusing and deceptive beliefs presented. Ron Rhodes, respected and popular biblical scholar, tackles the truth about ghosts and those who say they communicate with them and answers the questions: Do ghosts in any shape or form exist? Why is there a rise in psychic phenomena today? What do psychics believe about God, Jesus, and salvation? What is Satan's role with the paranormal? How can parents protect their family from the psychic trend? This reader-friendly presentation of intriguing facts and biblical insights will help Christians know how to respond to this fascination with the ultimate truth.

Spiritual Science

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786781921
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Science written by Steve Taylor and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mindfulness expert whose work has been hailed by Eckhart Tolle as “an important contribution to the shift in consciousness” offers a new vision of reality—one that is compatible with modern science and ancient spirituality. “With elegance and lucidity, Steve Taylor explains why spiritual science is the only hope for humanity.” —Deepak Chopra It is often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. Mindfulness expert, Steve Taylor, shows that there is a third possibility—a spiritual, or “panspiritist”, view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, recognizes spirit or consciousness as fundamental, and answers many of the riddles that neither can explain. Here, Taylor puts forward the evidence for a spiritual view of reality and examines the development and consequences of the materialist model. Drawing on the insights of philosophers, physicists, mystics, as well as spiritual traditions and indigenous cultures, he also systematically shows how a ‘panspiritist’ view can explain many puzzling aspects of science and the world such as: • human consciousness • altruism • near-death experiences • telepathy and pre-cognition • quantum physics • the placebo effect • neuroplasticity A compelling argument for a new vision of reality, Spiritual Science offers a bright vision of the world as sacred and interconnected, and of human life as meaningful and purposeful.

Common Phantoms

Author : Alicia Puglionesi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612783
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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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.

The Afterlife Experiments

Author : Gary E. Schwartz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074344258X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Afterlife Experiments written by Gary E. Schwartz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An esteemed scientist's personal journey from skepticism to wonder and awe provides astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death? Are love and life eternal? This exciting account presents provocative evidence that could upset everything that science has ever taught. Daring to risk his worldwide academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, along with his research partner Dr. Linda Russek, asked some of the most prominent mediums in America -- including John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson -- to become part of a series of extraordinary experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS This riveting narrative, with its electrifying transcripts, puts the reader on the scene of a breakthrough scientific achievement: contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions. In stringently monitored experiments, leading mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues. The messages that came through stunned sitters and researchers alike. Here, as they unfolded in the laboratory setting, are uncanny revelations about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Dr. Schwartz was forced by the overwhelmingly positive data to abandon his skepticism, reaching some startling conclusions. Compelling from the first page to the last, The Afterlife Experiments is the amazing documentation of groundbreaking experiments you will never forget.

Psychic Phenomena - A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed - In Psychical Research

Author : Edward Bennett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981132669
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Psychic Phenomena - A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed - In Psychical Research written by Edward Bennett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward T. Bennett's accounts of communication with supernatural spirits draw on decades of research and practice. This edition includes his original illustrations adapted from the sketches of mediums and psychics. The author was fascinated by the spiritualist movement and the popular phenomena of seances, wherein a talented medium attempts to communicate with spirits in the presence of others. This book contains select accounts of the most famous incidents involving mediums and apparent manifestations of spiritual forces - these supernatural events were numerous, and Bennett aims to recap the best of them. The ability to encourage spirits to move objects, produce noise, or manifest as visual apparitions was considered a profound gift - the most talented spiritual mediums would frequently offer their services to the public in the late 19th century. Other related phenomena, such as the growth in spirit photography, and the ability of mediums to sketch drawings or messages from spirits while in the midst of a clairvoyant trance, are discussed. Professionally, Bennett worked as a botanist. Active in the spiritualist movement, he was one of the foremost researchers of the British National Association of Spiritualists. Whether readers interested in receiving messages from the spiritual realms beyond our own, or simply want to gain an impression of the history of these occurrences, Bennett's Psychic Phenomena is a fine resource.

The Invisibles

Author : M. J. Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Invisibles written by M. J. Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics

Author : Matt Cardin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics written by Matt Cardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating work provides a complete overview of paranormal phenomena, including the beliefs, attitudes, and notable figures who have attempted to explain, defend, or debunk the mysteries behind the unknown. Recent interest in the paranormal as pop culture fodder belies its historical status as an important subject of cultural, philosophical, and scientific significance. This book traces the trajectory of paranormal studies from its early role as a serious academic and scientific topic studied by mainstream scientists and eminent scholars to its current popularity in books, film, and TV. This compelling reference work details the experiences, encounters, and ideas that make up this controversial field of study. The contributed entries examine the broad phenomena of the paranormal, addressing the history of scientific investigations along with its contemporary media depictions to illustrate the evolution of cultural attitudes about the paranormal. A selection of primary documents provides real-life accounts and contributions from noted experts that explore the full scope of themes from spiritualism to poltergeists to astrology. Accompanying images, timelines, quotations, and sidebars make the content come to life and encourage alternative explanations of these events.

Spiritual Phenomenon

Author : M. Muzamal Naveed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781699797105
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Phenomenon written by M. Muzamal Naveed and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction"Psychologists" are involved in all psychic phenomena. If there are no psychics, the "spiritual phenomenon" will not occur. If the leading role on the spirit side of the spiritual phenomenon production is spirits, the leading role on the ground side is the psychic. The existence of psychics has been well known for a long time, but much of the reality is wrapped in a mysterious veil. Humans with "spiritual abilities" are "spiriters", but until now there has been no discussion of spiritual abilities and psychics from the perspective of spiritual facts, and no clarification of their truth. Of course, there have been explanations of spiritual abilities and psychics from the standpoint of religion, spirituality, and mysticism, but they are only a part of the whole, and the content is spiritual. It was just a big departure from the facts. In the light of the "spiritual truth" revealed by spiritualism, the conventional perception of humankind regarding spiritual abilities and psychics is too poor.There has never been anything in the earth that preached the truth about "spiritual ability", so people regard "spiriters" as being superhuman beings who are close to God and different from ordinary people, and specialize more than necessary. It was decided. Priests have a certain charisma and sometimes have reigned power and ruled people as religious guru.Priests have often committed injustices that trick the public into "spiritual ignorance" of the general public. Originally, spiritual abilities are sacred by God, and psychics have special missions and responsibilities. But unfortunately many psychics have been fraudulent. Such "fake psychics" fraud and scams exist not only in the past, but also today.Now, if you go to a bookstore, there is always a psychic book corner where books by psychics and channelers are lined up. A psychic book that is frivolous for publishers is a great way to earn copies. While the entire publishing industry is in recession, psychics have become an integral part of publishers. The situation is the same for TV stations, and each station competes to plan a spiritual program and make a false psychic appear in order to quickly gain viewership. The "goldenism" of such publishers and television stations and the "fame greed" of psychics match, and a vulgar spiritual boom that should not occur will be triggered.Spiritualism has taken a tough stance against criminals' injustices and vulgar spirits. They have accused and alerted fake psychics who deceive people as "enemy of mankind". Spiritualism not only reveals the mechanism of psychic phenomena, but also shows unprecedented knowledge about spiritual abilities and psychics. It has brought "spiritual knowledge" to mankind that could never be known by traditional religion, mysticism and philosophy. That spiritual knowledge has made it possible for everyone on Earth to have a correct understanding of "spiriters" and at the same time have the right judgment.In this 5th part, spiritual phenomenology of spiritualism "spiritual abilities and psychics", we introduce spiritual knowledge about psychic abilities and psychics first revealed by spiritualism. It exposes the reality of the false wickedness's wrongdoing to the sun and exiles the false psychic from the ground.

Astrology and Psychic Phenomena

Author : Andre Kole
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780310489214
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Astrology and Psychic Phenomena written by Andre Kole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one in a series of brief books on contemporary religious movements, comparing what they believe with Christian doctrine and explaining effective ways of witnessing to their adherents.

Proof of Spiritual Phenomena

Author : Mona Sobhani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164411500X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Proof of Spiritual Phenomena written by Mona Sobhani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Shares data and meta-analysis from a large volume of extremely sophisticated experiments that provide proof for the existence of psi phenomena • Explores evidence of past lives, intuitive knowing, and other spiritual phenomena • Reveals the author’s own inexplicable experiences as well as her conversations with scientific colleagues, high-level experts, and government officials Fully indoctrinated into the cult of science, neuroscientist Mona Sobhani, Ph.D., aggressively defended the dogma of scientific beliefs--until a series of life-altering events caused her to reconsider spirituality and psi concepts and launched her into a two-year investigation into the ineffable mysteries of our world. Sharing the extensive research she discovered on past lives, karma, and the complex interactions of mind and matter, the author details her transformation from diehard materialist to open-minded spiritual seeker. She reveals her conversations about spirituality and anomalous occurrences with scientific colleagues as well as high-level experts and government officials who shared data on extremely sophisticated experiments that provided proof for the existence of psi phenomena. She discovered that psi research has been conducted on a grand scale for more than a century--by hundreds of scientists with hundreds of thousands of participants--and that there exists substantial evidence for the reality of psi. She examines meta-analysis of these experiments, such as that of the Ganzfield tests, which showed odds against chance of 12 billion to 1--throwing our current scientific materialist paradigm into question. Providing a deep dive into the literature of psychology, quantum physics, neuroscience, philosophy, and esoteric texts, Sobhani also explores the relationship between psi phenomena, the transcendence of space and time, and spirituality. Culminating with the author’s serious reckoning with one of the foundational principles of neuroscience--scientific materialism--this illuminating book shows that the mysteries of human experience go far beyond what the present scientific paradigm can comprehend.

The Law of Psychic Phenomena

Author : Thomson Jay Hudson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Psychic Phenomena written by Thomson Jay Hudson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to help integrate psychology into the field of exact sciences. Its investigative methods are purely scientific and meticulous, and its field covers all spiritual phenomena. It has accumulated and verified a large number of facts with the most transcendent interest and importance.

Connected by the Light

Author : John Elgaaen
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452570728
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Connected by the Light written by John Elgaaen and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN ELGAAENS CAPTIVATING LIGHT CONNECTION psychic experiences that need to be told John Elgaaen (pronounced Elgone) has a wonderful and extraordinary message to share with you. A psychic since birth, he has experienced perceptions that go far beyond our normal five senses. His lifelong experiences have shown him that we are not only physical people inhabiting Earth, but we are also spiritual, multidimensional beings, capable of raising our consciousness and connecting to energies of very high realms. These high realms of light that exist beyond Earth are filled with great purity and goodness, having energies that vibrate of unconditional caring and perfect harmony. You will read about angels and loved ones on The Other Side that act as guardians over us, the brilliantly magnificent energies of light that shine there, a little ghost girl that needed help in crossing over, and many other fascinating and amazing life experiences. He will also explain many aspects of psychic perception, why it occurs, and how you can also increase your own sixth sense awareness and light connection. It is our birthright to have this uplifting spiritual bond in our lives. We owe it to ourselves to be the best that we can be. Further expand your consciousness and enlighten your spirit, then enjoy the fulfilling splendor of being connected by The Light.

Psychic and Spirit Phenomena

Author : John H. Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575150086
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Psychic and Spirit Phenomena written by John H. Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stay Centered Psychic Warrior

Author : Kevin Hunter
Publisher : Warrior of Light Press
ISBN 13 : 0578481693
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Stay Centered Psychic Warrior written by Kevin Hunter and published by Warrior of Light Press. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stay Centered Psychic Warrior, metaphysical teacher, psychic, medium, and author, Kevin Hunter talks about what it's like battling between mental health issues and the deeply potent psychic input that continuously falls into his soul's consciousness throughout each day. He offers plenty of examples and discussions of his brushes with spirit, seeing and hearing the dead, the power of the Darkness and the Light in both the physical and spirit worlds, along with sharing his numerous personal psychic and mediumship essays, glimpses of the Other Side, near death experiences, past lives, soul contracts, traveling to and from the Spirit Worlds, spirit guides and angels, recognizing your own psychic gifts, and much more! Kevin grew up in a volatile and toxic home full of massive ongoing traumatic child abuse that led his soul to permanently break apart. This ignited an array of anxiety disorders and addictions to overcome. On the opposite extreme end was his infinite profound psychic related visions and foresight. Having battled both since childhood, Kevin describes his psychic gifts as being both a gift and a curse. The gift is that it helped effectively guide him through many soul transformations, life lessons, and challenges while recognizing blessings and opportunities to seize with grand confidence. The curse being due to how potently overpowering the psychic input can be at times while aggravated by the human mental health complexities placed on an exceptionally sensitive soul. Absorbing every incoming psychic nuance and vibration from both the physical and spirit worlds can be a challenging one, but through the power of the Light, he is sanctioned to know that his Divine role as a warrior soul means you are trained to withstand any storm. This unique autobiography focuses on psychic and mediumship related content coupled with the soul's journey and purpose. Stay Centered Psychic Warrior is an intensely forceful and revealing read that doesn't shy away from the uncomfortable, the Darkness, abuse, mental health issues, while uplifting it with the many blessings of the Light and intriguing day to day psychic phenomena all in one. Allow it to inspire you to recognize your own psychic gifts knowing there is much more to this Earthly life than can be seen or comprehended. Be empowered to break through the rubble and stand strong and centered under the powerful Light that shines through any Darkness.

The Law Of Psychic Phenomena

Author : Thomas Jay Hudson
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 384967472X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Law Of Psychic Phenomena written by Thomas Jay Hudson and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1910 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary object of this book is to assist in bringing Psychology within the domain of the exact sciences. It has long been felt by the ablest thinkers of our time that all psychic manifestations of the human intellect, normal or abnormal, whether designated by the name of mesmerism, hypnotism, somnambulism, trance, spiritism, demonology, miracle, mental therapeutics, genius, or insanity, are in some way related ; and consequently, that they are to be referred to some general principle or law, which, once understood, will simplify and correlate the whole subject-matter, and possibly remove it from the domain of the supernatural.

Phenomenon

Author : Sylvia Browne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218940
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenon written by Sylvia Browne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 50 years, New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne has been giving millions of readers and listeners spiritual advice, psychic predictions, inspiration, and emotional connections to a world on "the other side." Now, in this fascinating A-Z compendium, Browne delivers to her fans a complete guide to all things paranormal, including: Atlantis -Where did it go and when will it return? Clairvoyance -How does one know if they have the gift? Déjà vu -Are past lives the answer to this strange phenomenon? Ghosts -Who are they? Miracles -Can they happen every day? Numerology -What effect does it really have? Reincarnation -Is there a new life for everyone? Sorcery -Is this something we should fear? Zombies -Are they only in horror movies? ...and much more, in this easy-to-use reference that helps readers to understand the phenomenon of the other side.