An Introduction to Parapsychology [5 ed.] 9780786430598, 0786430591
"Perhaps the best general introduction to scientific parapsychology, this textbook covers the entire field in some
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments v
List of Figures viii
1. Introduction 1
2. Origins of Parapsychological Research 11
3. The Phenomenology of Extrasensory Perception 29
4. Experimental Research on Extrasensory Perception 48
5. Extrasensory Perception and Time 83
6. Psychokinesis 94
7. Special Topics in PK Research 109
8. Theories of PSI 124
9. The Survival Hypothesis 138
10. Poltergeist Experiences 145
11. Near-Death Experiences 157
12. Out-of-Body Experiences 173
13. Apparitional Experiences 192
14. Reincarnation Experiences 208
15. Belief in the Paranormal 222
16. Matters of Relevance 237
17. Evaluation of Parapsychology as a Scientific Enterprise 247
References 263
Name Index 303
Subject Index 309
List of Figures
1. Daniel Dunglas Home 16
2. Leonora Piper 19
3. Charles Bailey 24
4. Louisa Rhine and her file of case reports 36
5. J. B. Rhine 51
6. The ESP symbols 52
7. A participant in a Maimonides stydy of ESP in dreams 56
8. Hubery Pearce being tested for ESP by Rhine 58
9. Charles Tart used his ten-choice trainer to study learning effects in ESP 69
10. Ganzfield stimulation 72
11. One of Rhine's dice-rolling machines 99
12. Helmut Schmidt demonstrating one of his REGs 100
13. Cockroaches in Schmidt's experiment 110
14. The agent in an EDA-DMILS study 116
15. A psychic photograph produced by Ted Serios
16. Property damage in the Miami poltergeist case 147
17. Julio, a poltergeist focus, performing a laboratory PK test 154
18. The passage through darkness 160
19. Gnanatilleka and her mother in 1966 211
