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Psychology and the Paranormal

Exploring Anomalous Experience
  • ISBN-13: 9781526491060
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
  • By David F. Marks
  • Price: AUD $330.00
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  • Local release date: 08/06/2020
  • Format: Hardback (242.00mm X 170.00mm) 424 pages Weight: 830g
  • Categories: Parapsychological studies [JMX]
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The field of research on the paranormal has changed enormously in the last 20 years. Examining experiences of ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, ganzfeld, dissociative states, out-of-the-body experiences, alien abductions and near-death experiences, David Marks appraises the best available evidence to date on scientific claims of the paranormal. Each chapter also provides a description of the psychological processes that are likely to contribute to these experiences, and to the high prevalence of paranormal beliefs. Importantly, this book does not take a fixed sceptical or 'disbelieving' view of the phenomena but, as far as possible, offers a neutral gaze which will equip readers to make up their own minds, as well as providing them with the critical skills to defend their conclusions.
David F. Marks is a psychologist specializing in Health Psychology, Mental Imagery and Consciousness research.
Part I: Basic Principles and Processes Chapter 1: Science and Anomalous Experience Chapter 2: The Origins of Subjective Anomalous Experience Chapter 3: Psychological Processes and Anomalous Experience Part II: Subjective Anomalous Experience Claimed to be Paranormal Chapter 4: Synchronicity Chapter 5: Remote Viewing and Psychic Staring Chapter 6: The Ganzfeld, Subjective Validation, and the Newly Discovered Sixth Sense Chapter 7: Precognition and Dream ESP: Methodological Lessons in the Search For Deep Truth Chapter 8: Psychokinesis, Dice and Random Number Generators: 'Mind Over Matter' en route to Neverland Part III: Subjective Anomalous Experience Usually Not but Occasionally Claimed to be Paranormal Chapter 9: The Hypnotic Trance as an Altered State Of Consciousness Chapter 10: Out-of-Body and Near Death Experiences Chapter 11: Homeostasis: Letting The Genie Out Of The Bottle Part IV: Conclusions Chapter 12: Take Home Message: Psi is a Spontaneous Process that Cannot Be Summoned at Will
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