Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the Future of Psychical Research

Michael A. Thalbourne, Lance Storm

McFarland, Sep 24, 2014 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 396 pages

By now, parapsychology should have become an accepted scientific field of research. However, there is great resistance to parapsychological research despite the strength of evidence in favor of conducting it.

This collection of essays focuses on the future of the psychical research field. One essay speculates about a kind of future when psychic phenomena are studied in every university. Another identifies 10 areas of potential difficulty facing parapsychology. Other essays indicate areas where conclusions may need re-examination and refinement and presents possibilities for innovative approaches to future study. Some of the areas of study covered include altered states of consciousness, ESP, Meta-Analysis, the theory of psychopraxia, and sociological and phenomenological issues.

Contents

• Foreword by Brian D Josephson 1: 1
• Morris: 21
• Future Choices: 38
• Psi and Altered States of ConsciousnessAdrian Parker: 65
• Psi From Untrodden Ground: 90
• Their Past and Their: 124
• Recommendations in Retrospect: 167
• A Paradigm for the Future?: 189
• A Critique of the Theory of PsychopraxiaLance Storm: 205
• Tackling the MindMatter Problem from a Consciousness: 220
• Perspectives for the Future: 242
• A Socioempirical Perspective on Skepticism about: 275
• Language and the Study of Parapsychological Phenomena: 305
• Hypotheses for Psychical: 337
• Unveiling Psi Through: 361
• About the Contributors: 377
• Index: 383

Popular passages

Page 11 - I say it is a scandal that the dispute as to the reality of these phenomena should still be going on, that so many competent witnesses should have declared their belief in them, that so many others should be profoundly interested in having the question determined, and yet that the educated world, as a body, should still be simply in the attitude of incredulity.‎

Page 12 - We must drive the objector into the position of being forced either to admit the phenomena as inexplicable, at least by him, or to accuse the investigators either of lying or cheating or of a blindness or forgetfulness incompatible with any intellectual condition except absolute idiocy.‎

About the author

The late Michael A. Thalbourne worked in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Lance Storm works in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the Future of Psychical Research
• Editors: Michael A. Thalbourne, Lance Storm
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McFarland, 2014
• ISBN: 0786484462, 9780786484461
• Length: 396 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / General