Supernatural

Supernatural
Author: Clay Routledge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0190629428

Humans--even those who consider themselves secular or atheists--are utterly seduced by supernatural beliefs. Clay Routledge, an experimental social psychologist who grew up in a deeply religious environment, argues that belief or trust in forces beyond our understanding is natural and rooted in our fears of death. In Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, Routledge argues that supernatural thinking is adaptive, even healthy, and that it should unite and not divide us.

On the Day I Died

On the Day I Died
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375898638

"Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others ironically, but all due to supernatural causes. Readers will meet walking corpses and witness demonic posession, all against the backdrop of Chicago's rich history—the Great Depression, the World's Fair, Al Capone and his fellow gangsters.

The Dual Brain, Religion and the Unconscious

The Dual Brain, Religion and the Unconscious
Author: Sim C. Liddon
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1615928855

The findings of split-brain research and the mind's symbolic processes are combined to examine the implications for understanding subjective experience of the religious and the sacred.

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2
Author: Christina Pratt
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781404211414

Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.