{"product_id":"seriously-strange-thinking-anew-about-psychical-experiences","title":"Seriously Strange - Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Sudhir Kakar\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey J Kripal\/Several Contributors\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\/Viking\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2012\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 310\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9780670084654\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccessibly written essays on a baffling subject by the most eminent scholars in the field. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite being sullied by frauds and dismissed by sceptics, the paranormal has exerted a strange fascination over humankind for centuries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Seriously Strange, the second volume in the Boundaries of Consciousness series edited by Sudhir Kakar and Jeffrey D. Kripal, a group of nine intellectuals come together to shed light on some of the most baffling experiences on record  psychical experiences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough these illuminating essays, they tell us how such extraordinary events can be decoded and interpreted to become the object of rigorous scientific study. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe range is wide: from essays that reveal how Freud and Jung engaged with the notion of the paranormal to a provocative and humorous memoir of a physicist who spent over a decade running a secret psychic spying programme for the US government during the Cold War; from heartfelt accounts by practising psychiatrists who recount the dramatic effects of the anomalous in their healing practice to a learned call for the renewal of professional parapsychology in the light of Patanjalis Yoga-sutras. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy telling their own stories and exploring some of the implications of their work, these men and women map the mind-bending geography of the human psyche and the spectrum of experiences love and death, desire and sex, hurt and healing, myth and magic that influence it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword to the Series “Boundaries of Consciousness”\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction : Thinking anew about psychical experiences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.\tAnomalous Phenomena, Synchronicity and the Re-Sacralization of the Modern World by Roderick Main \u003cbr\u003e2.\tPsychoanalysis, Resistance and Telepathy : The case of Ted Stories by Mikita Brottman \u003cbr\u003e3.\tFrom Physicalism to Realist Idealism : My Engagement with psychical research by Edward F. Kelly \u003cbr\u003e4.\tPsiSpy : Recollections from a Psychic spying programme by Edwin C. May \u003cbr\u003e5.\tPsi and Psychiatry : The Quest for a New Scientific Paradigm by Diane Hennacy Powell \u003cbr\u003e6.\tAnomalous Moments in Psychotherapy : Three Clinical Stories by James W. Lomax \u003cbr\u003e7.\tParapsychology and Yoga, Theory and Practice by K. Ramakrishna Rao \u003cbr\u003e8.\tSeeing and Not Seeing Eternity by Dean Radin \u003cbr\u003e9.\tThe Paranormality of Everyday Life : Childhood, Mysticism, Madness by Jeremy Biles \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Sudhir Kakar \/ Penguin\/Viking \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153558532464,"sku":"32287","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/32287.jpg?v=1793911131","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/seriously-strange-thinking-anew-about-psychical-experiences","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}