Survival Hypothesis
«An excellent book destined to become a standard reference in mediumship studies. It covers the subject from many angles and will appeal to students and scholars at all levels and in several disciplines, no small achievement." - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Jan 2015. »
Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and psychokinesis. In contrast, this cutting-edge anthology assembles an international team of experts from the fields of psychology, parapsychology, philosophy, anthropology and neuroscience to examine critically what is referred to as the survival hypothesis: the tentative statement or prediction that some aspect of our personhood (e. Les mer
The appraisal of the survival hypothesis will be restricted to the phenomenon of mediumship; that is, humans who ostensibly communicate with the deceased. The book has been divided into four main sections: Explanation and Belief; Culture, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; Empirical Approaches, and The Present and Future. The issue of postmortem survival is supremely relevant to us all because in our consensual space-time reality the human encounter with death is, of course, a certainty.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780786472208
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 25 x 18 cm
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«An excellent book destined to become a standard reference in mediumship studies. It covers the subject from many angles and will appeal to students and scholars at all levels and in several disciplines, no small achievement." - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Jan 2015. »