A New Science of the Paranormal

A New Science of the Paranormal
Author: Lawrence LeShan
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0835630536

Mainline science rejects the paranormal because it cannot be proven by the classical methods of controlled experiments. But sciences such as geology, astronomy, and anthropology also don’t rely on laboratory testing for repeatable results. Moreover, psi concerns consciousness, which is by definition nonquantitative. "Psi researchers must stop acting like science’s poor relations," says author Lawrence LaShan, "limiting themselves to controlled experiments such as analyzing statistics of people guessing cards being flipped in the next room" This provocative book outlines the principles of making a real study of the large, exciting events — clairvoyance and precognition; mediumship and spirit controls; psychic healing — that would bring mainline science into and revitalize the whole field. "And the issue is not just academic," says LeShan. "The old, materialistic worldview has not worked. Psychic research," he argues, "can transform our sense of reality itself to offer a new and more hopeful picture of ourselves and of the world."

Science and the Paranormal

Science and the Paranormal
Author: George Ogden Abell
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1981
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Contains essays on the Bermuda Triangle, biorhythms, psychic healing, ESP, psychokinesis, etc.

Science in the New Age

Science in the New Age
Author: David J. Hess
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780299138240

Hess examines the arguments of people who accept the paranormal as part of a spiritual quest, parapsychologists who are seeking scientific explanations for a narrow range of paranormal phenomena, and skeptics who pooh-pooh the very notion. He finds that, despite their disagreements, they are forging a shared culture. Written for the nonspecialist. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Science Confronts the Paranormal

Science Confronts the Paranormal
Author: Kendrick Frazier
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1615926194

This collection of critical essays and investigative reports examines virtually every area of fringe science and the paranormal from a refreshingly scientific and clear-minded viewpoint. All bring to the task a determination to sift sense from nonsense and fact from fiction in an area notorious for misinformation, misperception, self-delusion, and wishful thinking.

Science and the Paranormal

Science and the Paranormal
Author: Arthur J. Ellison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN: 9780863153686

--Facts, not fiction: the case for the paranormal. Changing the way we look at the universe is not an easy accomplishment, and requires a true openness to exploration and experiment. Professor Ellison suggests that most of us are conditioned by our Western science-based education to think that the universe is much simpler and "material" than it really is. He argues that we should recognize the limits of the current scientific worldview which fails to account for genuine paranormal experiences, including phenomena such as out-of-body experiences (OBE), reliably reported by thousands of people. In honestly exploring these areas, rather than denying them, he argues we could look more deeply into the real nature of human existence.

The Paranormal Equation

The Paranormal Equation
Author: James Stein
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-12-26
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1601635893

Most of us think science is incapable of explaining supernatural phenomena. This would include everything from ghosts and communication with the dead to extrasensory perception (ESP), precognition, and telekinesis. Scientists are generally highly skeptical of the existence of such phenomena because of the lack of the rigorous documentation that science requires. Nevertheless, many great scientists have believed—and do believe—in the supernatural. The Paranormal Equation presents an argument for the existence of supernatural phenomena based on the mathematics and science discovered during the last century. It also explains why supernatural phenomena must exist if the universe satisfies certain conditions—conditions which are accepted by many working scientists. The Paranormal Equation explores such questions as: How can we distinguish between the truly unknown and the supernatural? How have scientists attempted to study the supernatural? What are the rational reasons for believing in the supernatural? Which hypotheses about the universe mandate the existence of supernatural phenomena? Anyone interested in how science is beginning to understand and even explain the seemingly unexplainable will want to read this fascinating new title.

Modern Science and the Paranormal

Modern Science and the Paranormal
Author: Marie D. Jones
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 143585179X

This book uses scientific theory to explain some of the extrascientific phenomena such as UFOs and poltergeists.

Future Science

Future Science
Author: John Warren White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1977
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Paranormal Borderlands of Science

Paranormal Borderlands of Science
Author: Kendrick Frazier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1633889637

Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic "miracles." Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to provide clues in baffling crimes. From every available information source, the public is bombarded with unsubstantiated claims of paranormal phenomena. How much of the evidence is reliable? What is the truth behind these claims? Paranormal Borderlands of Science is an exciting, well-informed examination of the most publicized and exotic claims of astrology, ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, UFOs, biorhythms, and other phenomena. Written by respected psychologists, astronomers and other scientists, philosophers, investigative journalists, and magicians, the 47 articles in this superb collection present a skeptical treatment of pseudoscientific claims - an aspect often sorely neglected in sensationalized media reports. This book is an effort to help readers sort fact from fiction and sense from nonsense among the astonishing variety of assertions labeled "paranormal." Never before published in book form, the essays in this anthology originally appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a leading magazine devoted to the critical investigation of pseudoscience from a scientific viewpoint. Among the contributors are: Isaac Asimov (distinguished science fiction author), Martin Gardner (Scientific American columnist), James Randi (The Amazing Randi), Philip Klass (noted UFO skeptic), Scot Morris (Omni), and James Oberg (NASA). An essential contribution to skeptical literature, this book will be of lasting value to all those wishing to balance the case for paranormal claims by reading the dissenting critics.