Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475700X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Book Synopsis Seriously Strange by : Sudhir Kakar
Download or read book Seriously Strange written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being sullied by frauds and dismissed by sceptics, the paranormal has exerted a strange fascination over humankind for centuries. In Seriously strange, a group of nine intellectuals come together to shed light on some of the most baffling experiences on record - psychical experiences. Through these illuminating essays, they tell us how such extraordinary events can be decoded nad interpreted to become the object of rigorous scientific study. the range is wide, from essays that reveal how Freud and Jung engaged with the notion of the paranormal to a provacative and humorous memoir of a physicist who spent over a decade running a secret psychic spying programme for the US government druing the Cold Wa; from hearfelt accounts by practising psychiatrists of the anomalies in their healing practice to a learned call for the renewal of professional parapsychology in the light of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. By telling their own stories and exploring some of the implications of their work, these men and women map the mind-bending geography of the human psyche and the spectum of experiences - love and death, desire and sex, hurt and healing, myth and magic - that influence it.