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Anthropology And Psychic Research
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Author : Robert L. Van De Castle
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-05-01
Anthropology And Psychic Research written by Robert L. Van De Castle and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Very little cross-fertilization of ideas, concepts, or techniques has developed between the fields of anthropology and psychic research. This essay, chapter 11 of Psychic Exploration, reviews several firsthand reports of field observations that offer encouraging anecdotal support for the existence of psi. Also reviewed are the statistically-significant card testing experiments by Foster with American Indians, by the Roses with Australian aborigines, and by the author with Panamanian Indians. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.
Paranthropology Anthropological Approaches To The Paranormal
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Author : Edited by Jack Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-06-30
Paranthropology Anthropological Approaches To The Paranormal written by Edited by Jack Hunter and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-30 with Religion categories.
We are living in a complicated period in relation to our understanding of 'extraordinary' phenomena. Naive materialist approaches are more assertive than ever, in anthropology and in the world more generally. At the same time, the taboos against admitting to the reality of the paranormal are weakening. There is a growing body of writing which takes the paranormal and extraordinary seriously, while bringing to it the same academic standards that any other subject matter would require. This is a valuable and important development, and it helps open the way to new modes of understanding in the sciences and social sciences that will not reject scientific rationality, but expand that rationality so as to include more of the world of human experience. The articles in this Paranthropology reader provide important clues and suggestions, along with rigorous argument, to help us in exploring what is likely to be a major area of anthropological engagement in coming years. Dr.Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University.
Manifesting Spirits
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Author : Jack Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Aeon Books
Release Date : 2020-12-12
Manifesting Spirits written by Jack Hunter and has been published by Aeon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-12 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
An exploration of contemporary trance and physical mediumship at a private spiritualist home-circle called the Bristol Spirit Lodge. Located in a garden on the outskirts of Bristol, the Lodge is a wooden shed specially constructed for the purposes of mediumship development and spirit communication. Through a combination of ethnographic observations in séances – including his own experiences of mediumship development – and interviews with spirits and their mediums, Hunter delves into a sub-urban world of trance states, ectoplasm, spirit lights and discarnate entities. Issues relating to altered states of consciousness, personhood, performance and the efficacy of ritual are examined in order to make sense of the processes by which spirits become manifest in social reality. A large part of Manifesting Spirits is given over to a broader discussion of anthropology's evolving attitudes toward the 'paranormal' as a component of the 'life-worlds' of many people across the globe, and argues for the development of a non-reductive anthropological approach to the paranormal, and mediumship in particular. This emerging framework – referred to as 'ontological flooding' does not attempt to explain away the existence of spirits in terms of functional, cognitive or pathological theories (as most mainstream theorists tend to do), but rather embraces a processual perspective that emphasises complexity and multiple interconnected processes underlying spirit possession performances and experiences.
Parapsychology And Anthropology
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Author : Allan Angoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Parapsychology And Anthropology written by Allan Angoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Each year, the Parapsychology Foundation hosts an international conference, during which a different topic relating to parapsychology is discussed. The conference was begun by Eileen J. Garret and Frances P. Bolton, shortly after they founded the Parapsychology Foundation. They brought together from all over the world some of the men and women working in isolation in a field regarded by many as too remote for respectable research. Eileen Garret inaugurated these conference to encourage those early parpsychologists to advance beyond an easy orthodoxy of thought and technique into the broader aspect of physics, chemistry, and biology and to relate these fields of research to the human personality and the largely unknown extrasensory capacities it contains.
Psychic Investigators
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Author : Efram Sera-Shriar
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Psychic Investigators written by Efram Sera-Shriar and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Science categories.
Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major themes, such as the historical relationship between science and religion, the history of scientific observation, and the emergence of the subfield of anthropology of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century. For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of “primitive cultures” that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms. What becomes clear through this nuanced examination of Victorian anthropology is that arguments involving spirits or psychic forces usually revolved around issues of evidence, or lack of it, rather than faith or beliefs or disbeliefs.
Engaging The Anomalous
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Author : Jack Hunter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-30
Engaging The Anomalous written by Jack Hunter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with categories.
Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-reductive, participatory and experiential anthropology of the paranormal. Over the course of the book, Hunter surveys: - Trends in anthropology's engagement with the paranormal - The anthropology and neuroscience of spirit possession - The history of Spiritualism and the phenomena of physical mediumship - The overlaps between mediumistic practices and other mind-body phenomena Hunter also poses serious questions about consciousness, experience, spirits, mediumship, psi, the nature of reality, and how best to investigate and understand them. In addition, the book features a selection of illuminating interviews with the author, as well as an original Foreword by leading parapsychologist and trickster theorist George P. Hansen. Engaging the Anomalousis a bold contribution to Anomalistic literature.
Adolf Bastian And The Psychic Unity Of Mankind
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Author : Klaus Peter Köpping
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 1983
Adolf Bastian And The Psychic Unity Of Mankind written by Klaus Peter Köpping and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Ethnology categories.
Adolf Bastian mapped a programme for anthropological research in the nineteenth century which is still accepted in the international scholarly community today, without the figure of its founder being known. This is the first time that seminal pieces of the work of this much-neglected scholar have been translated into English. Bastian had an impact, directly and indirectly, on geography, psychology, comparative religious studies, and ethnology in the twentieth century.
Psychic Investigators
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Author : Efram Sera-Shriar
language : en
Publisher: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Psychic Investigators written by Efram Sera-Shriar and has been published by Sci & Culture in the Nineteent this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with History categories.
Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology's engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major themes, such as the historical relationship between science and religion, the history of scientific observation, and the emergence of the subfield of anthropology of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century. For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of "primitive cultures" that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms. What becomes clear through this nuanced examination of Victorian anthropology is that arguments involving spirits or psychic forces usually revolved around issues of evidence, or lack of it, rather than faith or beliefs or disbeliefs.
Mattering The Invisible
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Author : Diana Espírito Santo
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-05-14
Mattering The Invisible written by Diana Espírito Santo and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-14 with Social Science categories.
Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.
Greening The Paranormal
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Author : Jack Hunter
language : en
Publisher: August Night Press
Release Date : 2019-08-07
Greening The Paranormal written by Jack Hunter and has been published by August Night Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-07 with categories.
"Greening the Paranormal" explores parallels between anomalistics and ecology not just for the sake of exploring interesting intersections (of which there are many), but for the essential task of contributing towards a much broader - necessary - change of perspective concerning our relationship to the living planet.