The Social Implications of Psychic Research

The Social Implications of Psychic Research
Author: Willis W. Harman
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1944529349

Psychic research, both as a formal discipline within the activity of science and as an informal fascination and exploration in the larger culture, is profoundly affecting habitual modes of thinking and perceiving, and thence social institutions and the culture itself. The characteristics of this paradigm shift are examined in terms of the Perennial Philosophy and the New Freemasonry, and the significance of this view of man in the universe if it were to become dominant is suggested in this final chapter of Psychic Exploration. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

The Psychic Life of Power

The Psychic Life of Power
Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1997
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804728126

Judith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, and offers a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in her previous books.

Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research
Author: Jean Houston
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1944529314

This essay, chapter 25 of Psychic Exploration, explores the crisis of consciousness and its historical analogies and suggests that the mythic persona emerging from the crisis points toward a new image of man and a new possibility for humanity. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

The Psychobiology of Psi

The Psychobiology of Psi
Author: Robert L. Morris
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1944529152

This essay, chapter 9 of Psychic Exploration, concerns itself with the processing of psi information once it is within the organism, from a psychobiological perspective. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

Parapsychology and Religion

Parapsychology and Religion
Author: Everton de Oliveira Maraldi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9004467831

Everton Maraldi explores how research on alleged anomalous processes informs the study of religious/spiritual experiences and examines the theoretical and methodological possibilities and challenges of an interdisciplinary dialogue between parapsychology and psychology of religion.

Anthropology and Psychic Research

Anthropology and Psychic Research
Author: Robert L. Van De Castle
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1944529179

Very little cross-fertilization of ideas, concepts, or techniques has developed between the fields of anthropology and psychic research. This essay, chapter 11 of Psychic Exploration, reviews several firsthand reports of field observations that offer encouraging anecdotal support for the existence of psi. Also reviewed are the statistically-significant card testing experiments by Foster with American Indians, by the Roses with Australian aborigines, and by the author with Panamanian Indians. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

Psychic Research and the Healing Process

Psychic Research and the Healing Process
Author: Henry K. Puharich
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1944529209

The healing process is usually described within the framework of physics, chemistry, and cellular physiology. Just as the role of the observer is generally ignored in the formulations of science, so the role of the healer and the healed is ignored in modern medicine. This essay, chapter 14 of Psychic Exploration, examines the role of the healer-healed in 10 basic processes in healing: diagnosis, manual healing, self-healing, chemical agents, anesthesia, surgery, bacteriostasis, action-at-a-distance, the guide, and regeneration. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

The Reenchantment of Science

The Reenchantment of Science
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1988-05-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780887067853

This book describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science. David Ray Griffin gives voice to a revisionary postmodernism, based on the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne that contrasts with the relativistic, nihilistic postmodernism of Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein. The book brings together some of today’s most creative thinking about science. Griffin’s introductory essay summarizes the way in which the mechanistic view led to the disenchantment of science and the various reasons for the reversal of this process in our time. The essays on physics, cosmology, biology, ecology, psychosomatic medicine and parapsychology bring out the various dimensions of the reenchantment of science: the replacement of modern dualism and reductionism with an ecological, organismic paradigm; the priority of internal relations to external; the casal power of experience; the presence of experience, purpose, and intrinsic value throughout nature; influence at a distance; the laws of nature as habits; the presence of a divine whole in all the parts; and the history of the universe as a self-creative, meaningful story. This book gives a powerful voice to this emerging movement’s proposals for a postmodern science, spirituality, and world order.

Psychic Research and Modern Physics

Psychic Research and Modern Physics
Author: Harold Puthoff
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1944529284

This essay, chapter 22 of Psychic Exploration, describes the application of concepts of modern physics to the study of psychic functioning. Included are a discussion of an example of a theoretical model of precognition that is testable and is compatible with contemporary physics, and descriptions of recent experiments using instruments that have exceptional sensitivity. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.