{"title":"Parapsychological studies Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-psychology-of-the-paranormal-9781138307889","title":"The Psychology of the Paranormal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan mediums communicate with the dead? Do people really believe they've been abducted by aliens? Why do some people make life decisions based on their horoscope?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of the Paranormal\u003c\/i\u003e explores some commonly held beliefs regarding experiences so strange they can defy an obvious scientific explanation. The book explains how psychologists have conducted experiments to provide insight into phenomena such as clairvoyance, astrology, and alien abduction, as well as teaching us fundamental truths about human belief systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom debunking myths about Extra Sensory Perception, to considering whether our lives can truly be fated by the stars, \u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of the Paranormal\u003c\/i\u003e shows us that however unlikely, belief in the paranormal will continue to be widespread. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Astrology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Extra-sensory perception \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Spirits and mediums\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Alien encounters and abductions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Religious beliefs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Explaining paranormal beliefs \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738407678295,"sku":"9781138307889","price":16.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138307889.jpg?v=1723812023"},{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-paranormal-our-secret-powers-telepathy-clairvoyance-precognition-9781786783578","title":"A Short History of (Nearly) Everything","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Superb survey of the paranormal ... I cannot recommend it highly enough.\" – New York Times bestselling author Herbie Brennan  This is the most entertaining and broad survey of the paranormal ever made, combining forgotten lore, evidence from parapsychological experiments and the testament of scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, psychologists, physicists and philosophers, and also quite a few celebrities. Exploring the possibility that paranormal phenomena may be – and that some most likely are – objectively real, this travelogue through the twilight zone of human consciousness is both scientifically rigorous and extremely entertaining.   Readers may be surprised to learn that reputable scientists, among them several Nobel laureates, have claimed that telepathy is a reality, that Cleopatra's lost palace and Richard III's burial place were recovered by means of clairvoyance, and that an espionage program using psychics was set up by the US military! The author proposes that all humans (perhaps all living beings) are linked together in a sort of \"mental internet\" that allows us to exchange \"telepathic emails\" and make clairvoyant downloads of information. Could it be that what we usually call \"supernatural\" is a natural but little understood communication via this mental internet? An engaging, entertaining and informative analysis of a controversial subject, in which these phenomena are approached as potential expressions of unexplained powers of the human mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As an encyclopedic introduction to the psychic side of the fascinating but puzzling domain knownas the paranormal, there is no better choice than A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal.\" - Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Author of the award-winning The Conscious Universe, Entangled Minds and Supernatural \"This is an outstanding book and it deserves all the attention it can get. Not only is Our Secret Powers a book for all seasons, it is a book for all reasons!\" - Stanley Krippner, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University, Co-editor, Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence   \"Our Secret Powers is a sprawling work, meticulously researched, in which the author deftly, and with engaging wit, pulls together the various strands of \"psi\"--telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, and healing--and presents them for our consideration.(...) If you are not convinced, well then, he hopes that you will be at least entertained. I was.\" - Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer-prize winner, and author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Without a Doubt   \"Superb survey of the paranormal (...) a veritable cornucopia of odd facts and fascinating information stitched into a much-needed survey of a vitally important subject. Although serious in content, it is written in a light, often humorous, style which is a delight to read. As someone who has myself made a lifelong study of the paranormal, I cannot recommend it highly enough.\" - Herbie Brennan, best-selling author New York Times book list, The Faerie Wars and other titles   \"Terje Simonsen is a remarkably balanced and insanely well-read guide into a literally impossible subject.\" - Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Rice University, Houston, Texas, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred   \"Engaging and informed.\" - Stephan A. Schwartz, PhD, Fellow, William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Sofia University, Palo Alto, California. Author of The 8 Laws of Change   \"Highly captivating, jovial and easy to read.\" - Adrian Parker, PhD, Clinical psychologist. Tenured professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden, researcher into lucid dream-states and exceptional experiences amongst twins   \"Simonsen casts his net both wide and deep, drawing on the history of paranormal research as well as on recent findings.\" - Christopher McIntosh, PhD, (prev.) Centre for the Study of Esotericism Exeter University, author of Beyond the North Wind: The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North   \"An international classic on a topic that affects us all to our core!\" - Annkathrin Puhle, PhD, author of Shakespeare's Ghosts Live: From Shakespeare's Ghosts to Psychical Research   \"Well-researched and comprehensive\" - Bruce Olav Solheim, Ph.D. author, Fulbright scolar, distinguished professor in History, Citrus college   \"The best book on the paranormal I have ever read.\" - Dr. Jerry Hirschfield, best selling author, Your Soul Is Calling: Healing Our Ego Addiction   \"I enthusiastically recommend \"A Short History of (Nearly) Everything paranormal\" as a wonderful gift for the person 'who has everything, ' since most certainly they will not already have this book, which just might positively transform their world.\" - Cynthia Sue Larson, bestselling author, life-coach   \"... a unique book\" - Henry Reed, PhD, author of The Intuitive Heart: How to Trust Your Intuition for Guidance and Healing   \"I found this book easy to read, interesting, even occasionally funny, but also quite insightful and informative.\" - Toby Johnson, author Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell   \"His passion for historic and multi-cultural research studies shine through his work in every chapter of the book\" - Aida Askry, PhD, author of Book of Present   \"Would recommend it to anyone who would like to better understand the scientific evidence proving the existence of psychic powers\" - Steven Richheimer, PhD, author of The Nonlocal Universe, Why Science Validates the Spiritual Worldview.   \"What Dr. Simonsen has done is provide one of the best-detailed paranormal reference books currently available.\" - Norman W. Wilson, PhD, author of Shamanism - What's its all about   \"... a comprehensive guided tour through the dense forest of the paranormal, a feat which he accomplishes with deft, open-minded ease.\" - Barry Cottrell, author of The Way Beyond the Shaman: Birthing a New Earth Consciousness","brand":"Watkins Media Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741470962007,"sku":"9781786783578","price":23.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786783578.jpg?v=1720057683"},{"product_id":"england-on-fire-a-visual-journey-through-albions-psychic-landscape-9781786784285","title":"England on Fire: A Visual Journey through","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about English art like no other.    Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the heart of England’s psychic landscapes to portray an Albion unhinged, where magic and rebellion and destruction are the horses to which the country is hitched. On these fabled shores we are all castaways, whether our family has lived here for four thousand years or for four.     Here you will find depictions of ancient trackways, chalk carvings and standing stones, of animal-masked community rituals, of streets set ablaze in protest, of occult dreams and psychedelic prophecies. There are over 200 images by artists ranging from William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash, Louis Wain, Bill Brandt, Derek Jarman and Ithell Colquhoun to present-day visionaries such as Paula Rego, Cathy de Monchaux, George Shaw, Jamie Reid, Matt Collishaw, Tacita Dean, Lina Iris Viktor, Yinka Shonibare, Nick Waplington, Dan Hillier, Nicola Tyson, Sutapa Biswas and Chila Kumari Burman.    The mind-blowing selection of images is accompanied by short texts by Mat Osman, exploring magic and mazes, ghosts and gardens, shipwrecks and cities. These poetic renderings of a spectral isle, together with Stephen Ellcock’s hallucinatory visual journey, reclaim Albion as an eternally inspiring and anarchic domain – an England on fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fascinating, vibrant, and overwhelmingly powerful, this is a unique look at England in its magical and rebellious glory ...\u003c\/b\u003e A LoveReading Star book, \u003ci\u003eEngland on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is truly beautiful, it’s astute, inclusive, and absolutely magical.\" - Liz Robinson, LoveReading.co.uk\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Ellcock resurfaces the work of a wide range of artists, from overlooked 19th century printmakers to female surrealists. In the place of sedentary lords and ladies, he offers saturnalia. 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Here, from Lynne McTaggart, groundbreaking author of The Field', comes riveting accounts of scientific investigations and real case histories with evidence that we are all connected and our intentions can be harnessed as a collective force for good.For the last 40 years renegade scientists, experimenting with the limits of quantum physics, have made seemingly impossible discoveries. 1966: a lie-detector expert accidentally discovers that plants can read thoughts. 1982: meditating Buddhist monks in the Himalayas turn their bodies into a human furnace. 1994: a psychologist''s experiments reveal a stream of light flowing from healers during healing.These events form part of an extraordinary scientific story and revolutionary discovery  that thought is a thing that affects other things.In The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart, author of the international bestseller The Field, joins forces w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrevious praise for The Field:\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\"This important book…makes a good case that we are on the verge of another revolution in our understanding of the universe-perhaps even greater than the one that heralded the Atomic Age.\" Arthur C. 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This title states that our consciousness does not always coincide with brain functions, and shows that consciousness can even be experienced separate from the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Pim van Lommel's Consciousness Beyond Life is an exciting, informative, and thorough overview of near-death experiences. As one of the foremost experts in the field, his work moves us closer to rational comprehension of human kind's deepest mystery- life after death.\" -- Raymond A. Moody MD,PhD, author of Life After Life \"In Consciousness Beyond Life, cardiologist Pim van Lommel constructs a model of consciousness that courageously builds on all we know. The resulting view is... bright and hopeful... and has the redeeming feature of being consistent with scientific data, which in our era makes all the difference.\" -- Dr. Larry Dossey \"Pim van Lommel shows that the symphony of human consciousness does continue... [even] at the portals of death. His evidence is robust, and can no longer be ignored either by the science community, or by society at large.\" -- Dr. Ervin Laszlo \"Most books on NDEs only touch on some of the ideas that are presented, but the distinctive contribution of this book is that it presents and defends a complete theory of consciousness... What a brilliant, erudite and magisterial book. A magnificent achievement, clearly a landmark book. \" -- Dr. Kenneth Ring, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Connecticut \"Consciousness Beyond Life confronts the apparent enigma of clear thinking, accurate perception, and enhanced memory in people who are clinically dead. This rigorous and provocative book may change our ideas about the mind and how we practice medicine.\" -- Bruce Greyson, M.D., Carlson Professor of Psychiatry \u0026amp; Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine \"I highly recommend Consciousness Beyond Life. Van Lommel is convinced that NDEs are real experiences, not just some sort of brain malfunction. He... has studied NDEs for more than 20 years and this is an authoritative look, with solid medical background. \" -- Dr. Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. \"There have been several books published which explore consciousness, the near-death experience, or the brain, but van Lommel's book is the most comprehensive... Human beings are something more than physical bodies. There is life after death. 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Time and time again the book moved me to tears and broke my soul open into a deeper understanding of just how perfect our animal companions are. \u003ci\u003eAnimal Wayshowers\u003c\/i\u003e is a road map into ascension, if you are ready, to living in a 5D world.” * Don Reed Simmons, sound therapist and shamanic practitioner and teacher *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnimal Wayshowers\u003c\/i\u003e is life changing! You will never see animals in the same way again. Billups takes us to a new level of understanding our complex relationship with animals that breaks through the old paradigm of the myth of human superiority as it invites us to recognize them as fifth-dimensional wayshowers for humanity. Through teachings, a stellar illustration of the dimensions, animal stories, and a subtle but profound shift in perspective, you will see with new eyes. Brilliant!” * Carley Mattimore, MS, LCPC, coauthor of Sacred Messengers of Shamanic Africa *\u003cbr\u003e“Tammy Billups helps us embark upon a journey to higher consciousness by learning from our beloved animal companions.\u003ci\u003e Animal Wayshowers\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with heartwarming stories that illustrate the power that animals have on our healing and personal growth. From cats and dogs to rabbits and turtles, we learn that animals are ambassadors of higher consciousness. Throughout the book Tammy demonstrates how the compassion, unconditional love, and pure presence of animals can change us inside and out, while providing practical techniques and approaches for partnering with our animal companions to bring greater healing to the world at large.” * Nicholas Pearson, author of Crystal Basics and Foundations of Reiki Ryoho *\u003cbr\u003e“Tammy Billups has done it again, giving us yet another wonderful book filled with profound wisdom, transformative exercises, and inspiring, heartopening stories. Just as the animals in this book hold a higher vibration for their human companions, the energy in these pages will shift you into a higher frequency way of being, and the words will guide and lovingly support you on your ascension path.” * Judith Corvin-Blackburn, LCSW, DMin, author of Activating Your 5D Frequency and Empowering the Spiri *\u003cbr\u003e“Tammy Billups has managed to effortlessly capture what we instinctively knew was already true and illustrates it through dozens of real-life stories from around the globe. As a lifelong empath and animal lover, I have experienced what Tammy highlights in her book, and I know the truth of it in my bones. Animals have consciousness, self-awareness, purpose, and soul. Her book gives heartwarming validation, yet also real-world, actionable advice and practices to engage with your companion more intimately and raise your personal frequency. If you want a deeper understanding of the role our animals play in our lives and how they help us heal and evolve, you must read this book!” * Rev. Stephanie Red Feather, Ph.D., author of The Evolutionary Empath *\u003cbr\u003e“In her third book, animal healer extraordinaire Tammy Billups once again raises our collective understanding of what underlies the extraordinary connections that many of us have with our animal companions. Billups reveals the biggest insight she’s gained through thousands of healing sessions with animals and people--our animal partners can be our ‘pathfinders,’ too. Packed with too many heartwarming examples to ignore, Billups makes the case that the animals with whom we are destined to share our lives are here for the highest of purposes--to help us heal and evolve.” * Paul Chen, Publisher of Natural Awakenings magazine Atlanta *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnimal Wayshowers\u003c\/i\u003e will nourish your soul, bring you joy, and subconsciously begin to transform you into an incredible guardian for your animal companion. Highly Recommended!” * Jesse Sternberg, author of Enlightened Dog Training *\u003cbr\u003e\"I suspect anyone reading this has shared an intensely close relationship with an animal.?Those of us who have wanted to delve more deeply into those relationships on spiritual and sacred levels will find the author, an internationally recognized soul healer, to be a warm and compassionate guide Readers who are skeptical about metaphysics and spirituality can read \u003ci\u003eAnimal Wayshowers\u003c\/i\u003e for the stories alone, but they might find themselves opening to a different world view.?Others already in tune with the principles Tammy expounds will find confirmation.?My advice to all readers, however, is to read this book with an open mind and an open heart.\" * Sally Rosenthal, Best Friends Animal Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword:\u003c\/b\u003e The Bodhisattva Hearts of Our Animal Kin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda Star Wolf, Ph.D. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Your Ascension Guides \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I \u003cbr\u003eTheir Sacred Purpose\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat Is an Animal Wayshower?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e5D Consciousness Is in the House (or Barn)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Light Warriors of the Animal Kingdom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Expression of Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWired to Serve\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaising Consciousness \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eDisaster Relief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II \u003cbr\u003eThe Sacred Partnership\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Divine Collaboration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Transformational Deep Dives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJumping Hurdles of the Heart: Stephanie \u0026amp; 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This important book complements recent studies on psychical research but also breaks new ground on topics such as gender, mental illness, empiricism, and race.\" -- Christopher White * Vassar College, author of \u003ci\u003eOther Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCommon Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful, entertaining look at America's haunted history and Americans' hunger to understand the invisible forces that shape their lives. Alicia Puglionesi's artful examination of psychic science—its investigators and experiments, its skeptics and true believers—provides a fascinating view of the empirical study of spiritual pursuits.\" -- Peter Manseau * Smithsonian Curator of American Religious History and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents and AbstractsIntroduction: At Home, with Ghosts chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eProvides an overview of the book's contents. Broadly, the book tracks the séances, deathbed communions, flashes of clairvoyance, and telepathic experiments that bound together the lives of ordinary Americans from the 1860s well into the twentieth century. Or rather, it follows Americans as they chased these strange phenomena across boundaries of gender, race, and mental illness. Psychical research, a field of study that emerged specifically to make sense of experiences that defied explanation, relied on a far-flung network of participants to collect its \"wild facts.\" Most were not trained scientists, but all believed that a scientific approach was the best way to discover the true nature of the mind and, perhaps, the soul. This book tells the story of their failure to produce an orthodox science and explores the often neglected relational phenomena that they did successfully generate.\u003c\/p\u003e 1The Weather Map at the Bottom of the Mind chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) looked to the iconic field sciences of the nineteenth century for both methods and metaphors, organizational strategies, and epistemological foundations. This chapter considers the influence of meteorology and astronomy on psychical research. All three sciences faced a similar challenge: how to identify and fix fleeting phenomena encountered only in their indirect emanations. They all grappled with the problem of the \"personal equation,\" a certain degree of inevitable perceptual variability among observers. By self-consciously adopting meteorology and astronomy as models, ASPR leaders not only asserted the feasibility of capturing the invisible, they also sought to counter the materialist orthodoxy of the lab. William James, especially, saw individual mental events as inextricable from the context in which they occurred—a context impossible to reproduce under artificially controlled conditions. It was no more realistic to study the mind in a laboratory than to study a tornado in a test tube.\u003c\/p\u003e 2Machines That Dream Together chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe scientific study of dreams offers a window into nineteenth-century views about the unconscious and the nature of the mind. Competing models of mind proposed by psychologists and psychical researchers had serious implications for human relations, politics, and commerce. New communication channels like the telegraph facilitated the spread of ideas and impressions with unprecedented speed. Psychical research suggested that ideas could spread of their own accord, along mysterious wavelengths that eluded human control. This would badly undermine the notion of intellectual property, not to mention the \"marketplace of ideas\" where rational consumers deliberate over their commitments. Radical utopians saw a path to progress and uplift, while conservatives saw a volatile threat to the social order. Though some dismissed thought-transference and telepathy as preposterous, the strength of the anecdotal tradition around such events led serious psychologists and philosophers to speculate on their meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e 3Drawings from the Other Side chapter abstract\u003cp\u003ePsychical researchers did not merely imitate the techniques of objectivity emerging in academic psychology, they helped to articulate new experimental practices for accessing the unconscious mind. This chapter explores the influence of psychical research on the development of drawing tasks as a psychometric and clinical tool. While psychical researchers used drawing to test the permeability of the mind, it was embraced in mainstream psychology as a way to bypass the patient's subjectivity and access the brain's inner workings. The widespread use of drawing in psychometrics, neuropsychology, and psychotherapy takes on a new significance when we understand its roots in psychical research: an experiment meant to join two minds in communion became a routine tool for examining solitary brains.\u003c\/p\u003e 4Psychic Domesticity chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter focuses on the role of intimacy in the psychical research career of Mary Craig Sinclair and her husband, the novelist Upton Sinclair. Mary Craig Sinclair's story encapsulates issues of gender, witnessing, and subjectivity. She began with studies of a stage medium, Count Ostoja, which reversed the Gothic script of Svengali-like psychic invasion by placing Sinclair in the position of superior mental power. After this scandalous episode, Sinclair retreated to the home and to the dyad of the married couple, where she began a long-running experiment as a recipient of her husband's telepathic messages. Returning to the normative gender dynamic that her initial research had disrupted, she was able to win the acceptance of leading psychical researchers and psychologists.\u003c\/p\u003e 5The Wilderness of Insanity chapter abstract\u003cp\u003ePsychical research was constantly negotiating the boundaries of sanity—sometimes in a communal and democratic way, sometimes in a clinical and authoritarian way. To pursue the real into a wilderness where perceptions could deceive, it had to standardize its sources within a certain range of reliability. The concept of neurasthenia allowed investigators to distinguish between subjects with compromised mental faculties and those with physiological troubles that did not negate their ability to testify. However, this differentiation had no fixed or clearly articulated criteria. Widespread anxiety over neurasthenia was chipping away at the very notion of mental normalcy, and radical experiments in Spiritualism, psychical research, and parapsychology further blurred the \"vague boundary\" between the well and the sick, scientists and subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e Conclusion: To Keep Alive and Heap Up Data chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eHistories of psychology have long framed psychical research as a necessary failure, a last gasp of magical thinking that had to be purified out in order for the mind sciences to become truly scientific. The book's conclusion reevaluates the failure narrative, arguing that psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to probe their experiences on their own terms. In its successes as well as its struggles for legitimacy, psychical research illustrates the contextual nature of science and the permeability of the self. James and his many correspondents tried to stabilize a normative understanding of what it means to be an experiencer, an observer, and a citizen. At the same time, their intimate exposures transgressed the boundaries of the individual and called into question the unity of reality itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409398178135,"sku":"9781503608375","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781503608375.jpg?v=1730506661"},{"product_id":"common-phantoms-an-american-history-of-psychic-science-9781503612778","title":"Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSéances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. 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This important book complements recent studies on psychical research but also breaks new ground on topics such as gender, mental illness, empiricism, and race.\" -- Christopher White * Vassar College, author of \u003ci\u003eOther Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCommon Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful, entertaining look at America's haunted history and Americans' hunger to understand the invisible forces that shape their lives. Alicia Puglionesi's artful examination of psychic science—its investigators and experiments, its skeptics and true believers—provides a fascinating view of the empirical study of spiritual pursuits.\" -- Peter Manseau * Smithsonian Curator of American Religious History and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents and AbstractsIntroduction: At Home, with Ghosts chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eProvides an overview of the book's contents. Broadly, the book tracks the séances, deathbed communions, flashes of clairvoyance, and telepathic experiments that bound together the lives of ordinary Americans from the 1860s well into the twentieth century. Or rather, it follows Americans as they chased these strange phenomena across boundaries of gender, race, and mental illness. Psychical research, a field of study that emerged specifically to make sense of experiences that defied explanation, relied on a far-flung network of participants to collect its \"wild facts.\" Most were not trained scientists, but all believed that a scientific approach was the best way to discover the true nature of the mind and, perhaps, the soul. This book tells the story of their failure to produce an orthodox science and explores the often neglected relational phenomena that they did successfully generate.\u003c\/p\u003e 1The Weather Map at the Bottom of the Mind chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) looked to the iconic field sciences of the nineteenth century for both methods and metaphors, organizational strategies, and epistemological foundations. This chapter considers the influence of meteorology and astronomy on psychical research. All three sciences faced a similar challenge: how to identify and fix fleeting phenomena encountered only in their indirect emanations. They all grappled with the problem of the \"personal equation,\" a certain degree of inevitable perceptual variability among observers. By self-consciously adopting meteorology and astronomy as models, ASPR leaders not only asserted the feasibility of capturing the invisible, they also sought to counter the materialist orthodoxy of the lab. William James, especially, saw individual mental events as inextricable from the context in which they occurred—a context impossible to reproduce under artificially controlled conditions. It was no more realistic to study the mind in a laboratory than to study a tornado in a test tube.\u003c\/p\u003e 2Machines That Dream Together chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe scientific study of dreams offers a window into nineteenth-century views about the unconscious and the nature of the mind. Competing models of mind proposed by psychologists and psychical researchers had serious implications for human relations, politics, and commerce. New communication channels like the telegraph facilitated the spread of ideas and impressions with unprecedented speed. Psychical research suggested that ideas could spread of their own accord, along mysterious wavelengths that eluded human control. This would badly undermine the notion of intellectual property, not to mention the \"marketplace of ideas\" where rational consumers deliberate over their commitments. Radical utopians saw a path to progress and uplift, while conservatives saw a volatile threat to the social order. Though some dismissed thought-transference and telepathy as preposterous, the strength of the anecdotal tradition around such events led serious psychologists and philosophers to speculate on their meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e 3Drawings from the Other Side chapter abstract\u003cp\u003ePsychical researchers did not merely imitate the techniques of objectivity emerging in academic psychology, they helped to articulate new experimental practices for accessing the unconscious mind. This chapter explores the influence of psychical research on the development of drawing tasks as a psychometric and clinical tool. While psychical researchers used drawing to test the permeability of the mind, it was embraced in mainstream psychology as a way to bypass the patient's subjectivity and access the brain's inner workings. The widespread use of drawing in psychometrics, neuropsychology, and psychotherapy takes on a new significance when we understand its roots in psychical research: an experiment meant to join two minds in communion became a routine tool for examining solitary brains.\u003c\/p\u003e 4Psychic Domesticity chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter focuses on the role of intimacy in the psychical research career of Mary Craig Sinclair and her husband, the novelist Upton Sinclair. Mary Craig Sinclair's story encapsulates issues of gender, witnessing, and subjectivity. She began with studies of a stage medium, Count Ostoja, which reversed the Gothic script of Svengali-like psychic invasion by placing Sinclair in the position of superior mental power. After this scandalous episode, Sinclair retreated to the home and to the dyad of the married couple, where she began a long-running experiment as a recipient of her husband's telepathic messages. 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