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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Parapsychology"”.
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Parapsychology and Buddhism – to afford a comparison between descriptions of psychic experiences in Buddhist works and in parapsychological research
… knowledge to the academic disciplines of parapsychology and Buddhist studies, in which the theme of merit has not previously been linked to the possibility of psi, although there was some parallel understanding from both the fields to some extent. This research suggests the possibility of …
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Human levitation
… In order to persuade empirical sciences such as parapsychology that human levitation warrants further investigation, this qualitative study contains two components. Firstly, there is a thematic comparison of historical and modern levitation reports from the seven groups to see what physical, …
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Parapsychological investigation of the theory of Psychopraxia: experimental and theoretical researches into an alternative theory explaining normal and paranormal phenomena
… begins with an introduction to the field of parapsychology in the form of an argument against extreme skepticism (Chapter 1). It argues that skeptics have failed to produce cogent arguments to undermine the hypothesis that so-called paranormal phenomena exist. A review of the …
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The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
… was intricately interwoven with Theosophy and Parapsychology; for Jiménez, Vedanta was largely a confirmation of his own natural, spontaneous adventures into the realm of pure consciousness. The assessment of the individual experience, interpretation, and application of pure consciousness is …
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Problems in investigating psychokinesis in special subjects
An attempt is made to establish the authenticity of a number of 'Psychokinetic' (PK) effects claimed to have been obtained with Special Subjects and in the process to elucidate the question why in over a hundred years these phenomena remain controversial. Four cases are examined in detail. The …
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Wellbeing Impacts and Clinical Implications of Near-Death Experiences
… adds to the clinical literature as well as the parapsychology, thanatology, and health literature.
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An Empirical Exploration of the Relationship Between Spirituality and Psi, and Fasting and Vegetarianism
… the disciplines of transpersonal psychology and parapsychology, measurable statistical associations between dietary practices and spiritual and psi experiences similar to accounts reported in historical and other literature. <br/>The implications of this research include the potential for the use …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
The Salem witchcraft trials and Cotton Mather's role in them continue to engage the interests of historians and scholars, who have written about them from a number of perspectives, including those derived from most of the social sciences. However, Mather's own seventeenth-century, New England …