Parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, as in telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, a.k.a. telekinesis, and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. It is considered to be pseudoscience by a vast majority of mainstream scientists, in part because, in addition to a lack of replicable empirical evidence, parapsychological claims simply cannot be true "unless the rest of science isn't."Parapsychology research almost never appears in mainstream science journals. Most papers about parapsychology are published in a small number of niche journals. Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation despite …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
| LCSH: Ghosts in popular culture. | LCSH: Parapsychology in mass media. | LCSH: Mass media and culture … culture. | LCSH: Spirit photography. | LCSH: Parapsychology. Classification: LCC P96.G56 C43 2024 | DDC …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 20 October 2023 English
The Art of Ectoplasm reflects on the history and legacy of T.G. and Lillian Hamilton's extraordinary collection of paranormal photographs, which have inspired and perplexed academics, historians, and artists since …
found Dr. Hamilton’s photographs in every parapsychology archive that I have visited, including Senate …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English
As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different …
further stimulated by the 1951 inception of the Parapsychology Foundation at 11 East 44th Street. The foundation …
CLD: Centre for Law and Democracy · 31 October 2022 English
i Analysis of the 2022 Azerbaijan Law on Media Executive Summary This Analysis of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On Media” (Media Law) by the Centre for Law …
lack of impartiality (Article 14.1.11), on parapsychology (Article 14.1.12), and on protecting children …
ANN: Annick Press · 10 September 2019 English
Ghosts aren't meant to stick around forever . . . Ghosts are everywhere in Shelly's life. Recently passed people, pets, and a boy who lives in the local graveyard and …
to her idea either. “We have a few books on parapsychology,” she says. “And some on spiritualism and … downtown today?” Shelly looks up from the book on parapsychology she got out of the library—it’s useless, full … clear she means her. Shelly looks down at the parapsychology book she’s been trying to read all evening …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 3 August 2019 English
How Peak Spiritual Experiences Transform Lives Today Dr. Yvonne Kason’s life was touched by five Near-Death experiences (NDEs), the most recent in 2003. Her dramatic Near-Death Experience in a 1979 …
| ISBN 9781459745537 (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Parapsychology—Case studies. | LCGFT: Case studies. Classification: …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 16 November 2018 English
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested …
like one aspect of a theory, I like the whole. parapsychology and somatotyping At the turn of the twentieth … potential crook” (11 April 1958). The reach from parapsychology to mysticism was effortless for Huxley. He … instrument for har- monizing these threads. Parapsychology was only one such foray off the beaten path; …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 9 June 2018 English
Recounting research on hallucinogenic drug treatments during the 1950s and 60s, Psychedelic Revolutionaries shows how public fears, stoked by partisan politics, can hold back scientific advancements.
architectural design, perceptual studies, and parapsychology. By the mid-1950s, many researchers around …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 August 2017 English
A wave of UFO sightings struck southern Manitoba in 1975, with possible connections to U.S. missile defense operations. In 1975, Manitobans reported UFOs over their province almost nightly. The string …
My only related activity was the field of parapsychology, Map of southern Manitoba. Charlie_InDesign_Book …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 2015 English
Toronto has hosts of ghosts that go as far back as the War of 1812…and others as recent as the Nineties. From the spirit of the Keeper of the Gibraltar …
understand more fully as more and more research into parapsychology continues to be done. Robin Skelton and Jean … tomes about ghostbusting, psychical research, parapsychology, channelling, etc. Readers will find everything …