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Index
How This Book Came to be Written
Acknowledgments
What Is In the Book?
Perspective I: The World We Live In
I Put a Spell on You: Witchcraft, Voodoo, and Zombies
Seeing Through the Mind's Eye: Psychics, Remote Viewing, and Telepathy
Answered Prayers: Distant Healing and Therapeutic Touch
Auditory Hallucinations: The Voices that Knew What They Were Talking About
Animal House: Lycanthropy, or the Delusion of Being an Animal
Intimate Demons: Cacodemonomania, or Sex with the Devil; Ghost Possession
Dying Right on Time: Self-Predicted Death
Moving Toward the Light: Near-Death Experiences
I Remember It Well: The Collective Unconscious and the Nature of Memory
Partying with the Devil: Satanic Ritual Abuse
Chapter Twelve
Dream On: The Meaning of Dreaming
When I Snap My Fingers ... Hypnosis
Xenoglossy: Speaking in Tongues, Coherently
Deja Vu All Over Again: Children Who Remember Past Lives
One Person's Paranormal Is Another Person's Science: Acupuncture
Life as a Hologram
The Orthopedist and the Body Electric: Life's Electromagnetic Template
The God Helmet and the Temporal Lobes: The Work of Michael A. Persinger
Perspective II: Witches in the Waiting Room, and Everywhere
References
Index
Perhaps I should not have been surprised by the audience reaction, medical sophisticates that they w
In Great Britain, the situation is similar: In a 1997 survey, seven out of ten people believed in
A 2005 Gallup survey3
Then there's Einstein's relativity. You don't need to understand it; you just need to know that, so
he had experienced a variety of auditory hallucinations that were generally well controlled with med
Let's begin with a well-documented and detailed account, written by Georgia cardiologist Dr. Michael
a 2000 publication by the American Psychological Association,4
Logic tells us that what each human being "knows" comes from individual learning and life experience
ship's doctor in the tropics who preferred to stay on board rather than go exploring. Here he could
Freud also believed in "a collective mind, in which mental processes occur just as they do in the mi
In an earlier paper (1994), Leavitt screened SRA and sexually traumatized (without SRA) patients wit
All the stories have basic similarities. Here's an example.9
Here's another example.10
Another American case was that of a child in Idaho named Susan Eastland.'
As if the foregoing were not disquieting enough, there is another aspect of Stevenson's work that is
In both of these "luminous phenomena" events, the belief is that pressure along fault lines generate
Most patients with partial epilepsy, however, don't go into altered states. In a textbook -quoted 14
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