| Description |
xiii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287) and index. |
| Contents |
The book as séance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research After Life -- Myers and the founding of the S.P.R -- The subliminal gothic: the human as two -- The supernormal and evolution: the world as two -- Telepathy: the communications technology of the spirit -- The perfect insect of the imaginal -- The telepathic and the erotic: Myers's platonic speech -- Seeds of a super-story: Charles Fort and the fantastic narrative of western occulture -- The parable of the peaches: Fort's mischievous monistic life -- Collecting and classifying the data of the damned: Fort's comparative method -- The three eras or dominants: Fort's philosophy of history -- The philosophy of the hyphen: Fort's dialectical monism -- Galactic colonialism: Fort's science mysticism and dark mythology -- Evolution, wild talents, and the poltergeist girls: Fort's magical anthropology -- The future technology of folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO phenomenon -- Forbidden science (1957-69) -- Passport to Magonia: from folklore to flying saucers -- The invisible college -- The present technology of folklore: computer technology and remote viewing -- In the psychic underground -- The alien contact trilogy and the mature multiverse gnosis -- Sub rosa: the three secrets -- The hermeneutics of light -- Returning the human sciences to consciousness: Bertrand Méheust and the sociology of the impossible -- A double premise -- Méheust and the master -- Science fiction and flying saucers -- The challenge of the magnetic and the shock of the psychical -- "if only one of these facts . . .": the impossible case of Alexis Didier -- The collective mind: Bateson, De Martino, Vallee, and Jung -- Agent X: projection theory turned back on itself. |
| Summary |
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. --Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry), 1843-1901.
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Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
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Fort, Charles, 1874-1932.
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Fort, Charles, 1874-1932. (OCoLC)fst00008364
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Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry), 1843-1901. (OCoLC)fst01758639
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Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) (OCoLC)fst00519851
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Parapsychology -- History.
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Parapsychology -- Religious aspects.
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Parapsychology. (OCoLC)fst01053079
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Parapsychology -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01053090
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Paranormale verschijnselen. (NL-LeOCL)078622492
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780226453866 (hardcover) |
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0226453863 (hardcover) |
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9780226453873 (paperback) |
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0226453871 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40017920744 |
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