Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD by Huston Smith and Kendra Smith

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Spiritual Seeking in a World That Thinks It's All Nonsense

CHAPTER 2 How Do We Know the Spiritual Is Real?

CHAPTER 3 Ways of Not Knowing: Distortions of Science and Intelligence

CHAPTER 4 Starting from the Natural World: A Psychic Coup d'Etat?

CHAPTER 5 Extended Aspects of Mind: The Big Five

CHAPTER 6 Telepathy

CHAPTER 7 Clairvoyance, or Remote Viewing

CHAPTER 8 Precognition

CHAPTER 9 Psychokinesis

CHAPTER 10 Psychic Healing: PK on Biological Systems

CHAPTER 11 Postcognition and Extended Aspects of Mind: The Many Maybes

CHAPTER 12 Out-of-Body Experiences

CHAPTER 13 Near-Death Experiences

CHAPTER 14 Postmortem Survival: After-Death Communications

CHAPTER 15 Mediumship: Experimental Approach to Postmortem Survival

CHAPTER 16 Reincarnation

CHAPTER 17 So What Have We Learned?

CHAPTER 18 If I Believed the Western Creed

CHAPTER 19 Bringing It All Back Home: Personal Reflections

CHAPTER 20 Returning to Mystical Experience

APPENDIX 1 Recommended Reading in Parapsychology

APPENDIX 2 Online Sources of Scientific Information About Parapsychology

APPENDIX 3 The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE

APPENDIX 4 Transpersonal Psychology

REFERENCES