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Author(s):	Jeffrey J. Kripal

Date:	2024	Format:	azw3	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0226453871
Pages:	332	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion.

Kripal grounds his study in the work of four major figures in the history of paranormal research: psychical researcher Frederic Myers  writer and humorist Charles Fort  astronomer, computer scientist, and ufologist Jacques Vallee  and philosopher and sociologist Bertrand Mheust. Through incisive analyses of these thinkers, Kripal ushers the reader into a beguiling world somewhere between fact, fiction, and fraud. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs  a ghostly love story  the occult dimensions of science fiction  cold war psychic espionage  galactic colonialism  and the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture all come together in
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