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b
f°
k
f°r
,
i"dividuals and groups on how
to develop
psi
abilities and how
to
test
or
investigate them
in
others
It has annotated
bibliographies-one aimed
at beginners and
one
at more
advanced
students
(only
books
are
cited).
It
provides
a
directory
of
organizations,
including
research
the
IIni;f.H
0U
Sf
df
,0nS
’
!lbraries
>
journals, and
bookstores
in
the
United
States
and
the
United
Kingdom.
It
has
a
biographical
dictionary
of
some
of
the
major
figures
of
parapsychology
past
and
present.
Because
it
attempts
so
much,
the
Guidebook
is
necessarily
limited
to
only
the
most
important
(and
the
best
of
the
popular)
information
bU
K
.
lt
's
a
useful
Suide
for
beginners,
and
it
is
! ke,
.y to whet
the appetite
for more.
It
is handicapped by
the
lack of an
index.
Tribbe
has done an
excellent
job of
updating and enlarging this
edition.
- R.A.W.
^
03523. Bardens, Dennis. Psychic Animals: A Fascinating
Investigation of Paranormal Behavior.
New
York
NY-
Henry
Holt,
1987. 203p.
Bibl:
195-196;
illus; Ind: 197-203
iwaSl. 2"
a>
urnalist a»d member of the Society
for
Psychical
Research.
Here
he
explores
the
part ESP may
play m
the animal
world.
The book opens
with
a
general
‘br
r
tbat
ls followed by two chapters each on
ca
ts and
dogs
and
one
chapter each
on
elephants,
lions,
bears, and
anTlT” r
mateS '
ThCre
3,SO
are
cbapters
on
horn big,
Hccnre
anlmals
as
gods’
and
animal
intel-
ligence.
Although some
scientific
experiments
are
briefly
summarized,
this
book
is
primarily
a
collection
of
anec-
dotes, most
of them
not
investigated.
Nonetheless, Bardens
has
performed
a
useful
service
in
locating
this
material
and
pulling
it
together.
The
book
is
a
useful
starting
kZw
wb°
lntcr““d
r
'”,rch on p* “
George.
Titanic: Psychic Forewarnings of a
Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire,
England
^trick..S cphcns,
1988.
176p.
Bibl:
163-170; Further rdgl
173-'
ISO
illus; Ind: 174-176
.
’
SocietI
he
h,.
aUt
^?^
member
of
the
Titanic
Historical
Society, has culled newspaper and other accounts and
inter-
viewed survivors
to compile
this record
of experiences
that
may have been precognitions of the Titanic
disaster.
Behe
classifies
and
discusses
the
reports
as
follows:
curious
coincidences,
mistaken
accounts
and
deliberate
hoaxes
phenomena
associated
with
W.T.
Stead
(a
well-known
spiritualist
who
died
in
the
disaster),
possible
£ychic
phenomena
(accounts
that
lack some
vital
pieces oMnfor-
psychic)
and
W
n^
d
hl
Warrant
.
, classifying
‘hern
as
probably
psychm),
and
probable
psychic phenomena
(cases
that
can-
not
be
explained
by
normal
means
and
that
may
be
categoTv
^
I""* ^
35 cases
in
^
g
y.
^ The
total
number
of
cases
examined
is
153
Each
case
is described and then
is followed by
Behe’s com-
mentary.
In
a
final summary chapter, he discusses the pos
s SLg
of
a
he
X
T>
nat
- 0nS
f
,°r SCCmi"8 Prec°gmti°ns
of
the
kmg
of
the
Titanic
and
concludes
that
the
better
ar-
counts
are numerous enough, and
contain enough
data
to
the
7b7
Pte
-d
!?• probable Psych'c foreshadowings
of’ (p
162)
Gardner
H°.WCver’
sce
the
b<>ok
by
Martin
Gardner
[03529]
that
criticizes
possible
literary
precogni-
tions of the sinking of the Titanic.
- R.A.W.
t|M525. Brown,
Rustle.
The Titanic, the Psychic and'the
left miw’ch*'
Bi
,
Ue
?f
rb?
r
Press’
1981 '
163P-
Bib* and
rets.
154-159, Chap
notes; 53
illus; Ind: 160-163
years inTacLr
pri*C 'winning
journalist
who
spent
ten
y
hnt
,
tracking down
as many
survivors
of
the
Titanic
that she
could.
She
also has
tried
to
collect
the many ap
parently psychic happenings surrounding
the
sinking
of
life
Vol.
7, No.
I
June 1989
J//awc--"thc
premonitions,
the
superstitions,
and
the
so-
sto
C
v
of °T
C
CeS ”’
u
hC
firSt
eight
chapters
toll
the
story
of
a
survivor
whom
she
interviewed
extensivelv
counts
for
a^
CnZ1C
In
*hC
rcraainin8
six chapters
she
aC j
counts
for
as many
survivors
as
possible.
An
appendix
lists
the
survivors
who
were
deceased
by
the
timT
the
book was
written.
There are 53 illustrations. -.RAW
Yorf Sv
he
i
nV Da
?i
el - ESP: The NeW Technology. New
WWM1M16 ^
a”
MeSSner '
1986’
116P-
illus:
Selected
This
excellent
up-to-date
introduction
to
parapsychol-
ogy
for
young
people
begins
with
a
visit
to
a
modern
Research
/
escarcb
facility,
the
Psychophysical
h
• Lab0rat0rleS'
There
are
*n f°rmative
chapters
on
remote
viewing,
psi games,
magicians and
psi, animals and
psi,
poltergeists, and survival of death.
- R.A.W.
03527. Crabtree, Adam. Animal Magnetism, Early Hyn-
nn°u m’ and Psychical Research, 1766-1925: An Annotated
ca£T
aml So" o
inS’ N
-Y: KraUS International
Publi-
’
, 1988-
522p
Glos:
xxm-xxvn;
Name
ind:
437-453-
Refs: xxix-xxxm; Subject
ind: 517-522;
Title
ind: 455-516
histnrvV/
' Hlst
?
rical
Introd“ction," Crabtree examines
the
history of animal
magnetism, and
points out
its impact on
histori^?’ of
SyCh0l°?y’
and
ParaPsychol°gy-
He
adds:
’The
histories
of
animal
magnetism,
hypnotism,
and
psychical
from
ri
a
i 905
neXtnC
,
a^
intertwined -
As
will
be^evident
from
the
1905
annotated
entries
in
the
bibliography,
the
literature of any one of these
areas cannot but
include
the
lanhv
°f ‘5® °tber tW0” (p‘ xvi )'
Although
the
bibliog-
raphy
is aimed
at including
"the
literature
of animal mal
r'flowiW
i^ ]
st7
ams
°f fought
that can be
identified
vast
to
ii.
h
fTm U
(P
’
xvii )>
‘he
literature
is
too
most
*
f
dc
a11
.of
Thus k
is
limited
to
only
the
3 ,3
n
,
Ca
"c
Wntlngs
arisin8
from
animal
magnetism
5h anima
y
those
t
works
that
a":
immediately
connected
£om
itw
magnctls™
and
‘be
themes
that
arise
directly
from
it
p.
xvii)
The
list
of
areas
omitted
"are
works
that
deal
exclusively
with
occultism,
possession
or
rthe?
C
s
a^
:
-t
th?°
S<
JP
l
ly’
anthroposophy,
Christian
Science
or
and
O
P
-ln Ual
ph, osoPbics;
theology
or
religious
thought-
and
conjuring
or
stage
magic.
While
spiritualist wdtings
have
true importance
for
the
history
of animal magnetism
nd
its offshoots, only those works have been included
that Sv
‘ a
1*
.derf
e
.lopment
from
mesmeric
influences' or
that
play
a
significant
role
in
the
rise
of
psvchical
dud
a
e
rC
storie?
1S
atout
nS “f ^
biblio8rapby
does
not
in-
boo,,
:r .7^5, ’iTooSo”! .sSdJfrfcr
third of the items
listed
(those
considered
to be the most
imports
works).
The
bibliography
is
arranged
by
year
p‘ b
°rks hsted
. alphabetically by author under each year
hvnnotkT
fS
>
,
ntmnS v
f
UCr
desi8na*mg
that
it
is
about
hypnotism
[H],
psychical
research
[P],
or
both
JH &
PI
Ther
usefu)
g,ossary
that
‘
g
ontains ‘bJH &
PJ
psychological
terms
used
in
the
literature
of
+•
period covered by the
book.
- RA.W
° f
the
tlme
03528
Flcw
Antuny. The Logic of Mortality. New York
187-200
B ackwe11 ’
1987 ‘
20°P-
Bibl:
187-195; Name
ind:
.
,Jbis volume
is based on the author’s Gifford Lectures
tepnn
ao
Ca
y?
ar 1986'87 > but
his
interest
in
the took
,Cgan
f
.40
years
earber.
In
the
first
chapter he
points out
that
there
are
three
possible
means
of
survival
He
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"astral tody"
InTthe^-Tf
1‘tuti°nist
method,
the
which he
first developed
in an
P 3 °nlC
criticism " approach,
and
Edge
[6151 K
nhiln, T
y
f
CpritUcd
in
Wheatley
further in Chapters 26
pJJ
?
./
VICWS
arc
discussed
Chapters 7 and 8
He d£.
is the object
of
Chapter
9,
and
in
the
final’ cL J m
'£k'body Probkm
in
Parapsychology,"
he
poses
the
/if0
• The
Slgnificance
of
very
concepts
of
psi ZT iust
nf
ol,ow
?ng
Problem:
"The
human body
as
are
those
of
all
8 ™uch
lnvolved
with
the
•
. concepts"
(p. 183),
- R.A.W
M
distinctively human.
mtion
of
the
sinking
of
the
Titanic
eX
fT
mple
. of Prccog~
other
selections
(part
of
a
novel
u /
C
a so
rePrin ts
poems)
that
also seemed
to
foretell
th
s/
ory-
several
In
his general infraction
he
of the Ti^nic.
count
for any coincidence
no m^t^V^-
ChanCe
can
ac ‘
criticizes
Stevenson’s
two’survJs If
h°W
,™probable
. and
wreck
of
the
Titanic
In
indlid
f
i
C3SCS
foretel,ing
the
the
pieces
anthologized
he
„
divid ual
introductions
to
all
be
explained
by
normal means^nd Tha/
tha ‘
*hey
could
not involved.
- R.A.W
nd
tbat
Precognition
was
206p.
Bibl: 200-202; Ind^203-206- ^
ton
’. MA: Arkana,
1985.
Having had
;
near de»^’
qUestlonnaire
;
tables
India,
Margot
Grey
(NDE)
while
in
mined
to
learn
more
atout
sf.eh
tUr"
t0
England
>
deter-
by conducting the
firs
British
Stle
began
which
are reported
in
Part
of thk
the
results of
summary
of
what
has
heen
f
book
togcther
with
a
NDE.
fn
the second J? sbe
th !“
far
about
the
NDEs
and
their
larger meaninf^ A*
f
aftcr'cffects
of
Ring’s Foreword, the/indings
re/ort
t0
Kenneth
dependently
duplicate
the
find-^
* d
Grey
’s
Part 2
in-
Heading Toward Omega [oS?
j
his
b°ok
been
revealed when she
wrote” her
k
f
8*
that
had
not
chapter
on
after-effects,
there
are Jour J
ter
general
development
of paranormal
abilitief
f u
Claptcrs
on
the
mg
manifestations, evoZ^
NDEs
’
heal -
mterpretations,
and
reflections^
P
ts’
cxPla nations
and
tions.
There ^e two
t^
ible
implica -
view questions and
the sJond
f ?
clrlg hcr
mter-
the
British
Branch
of
the
Inf
0Vld
.lng information
about
Near-Death S„dIa,
&S;
and Hie K.est.er
don.
London, England- Chatto * w-
d
Mystery °f Intui-
205-209; Ind: 217-224; Rcfs:21°0-2&
WindUS’ ^ 224p‘
Bibk
conducted
a
Qf
h
l-xpcff/!ls
On
0 f
thC
th?
S/
l\
0f
a
survey
‘bey
episodes
that
appear
to
tra
c
Unknown
guest,"
or
that
"suggest
design:
as
if som/"/
everyday
realities
and
operating
through
our subcor/ous
mfnds" V"
thc
,
wings
is
concentrated
his
efforts
„„
nds
(P-
'*)
Inglis
whereas
Ruth Wesf handled
thf
nC°Veri"?
historic
the
Koestler
Foundationf ^hich
shTdir^f
WC" “nt
t0
pcriences- take many
forms
and
h
d,rf
cts '
These
ex-
are
covered
by
chapters
in’ the
tbe
raaj° r
ones
experiences
of
in
" lit
" D“™"" (prim.rlly
w”h
^
ffTSJSiS
Vol.
7, No.
June 1989
musicians,
artists,
and
vision-, Hm.’,
.
invention,
scientific
creativity
and
“s ^*amples
conscious
Self"
fESP
Pr°d I8'cs),
The
Supei
clairvoyance),
"Hallucinations"
(visions
touM/
8" 11 *0"’
an
voices,
olfactory and
tactile
evJr1
’
\
“,b
]?
s ’
aPPantion:
ter"
(levitation,
weigh SjL^a' d
'S) ’
Mi"d °VCr Mat
PK),
"Synchronicity"
and "Thl
sP°naneous
forms
o
next
to
last
chanter
J?CCamC
Feeling."
In
the
conscious
self
without
harm'll '/,/
°f
taPPing
the
super
cussed,
touching on dreams
OBFs
is
*«’
divination.
In Ihe
last chapte^
^The’/St rfCr^80
»and
evolutionary view
is
taken
nf
iu
Act
of
Creation," an
guest."
The
citations
in
the JhH
natU
[
C °f
thc "unknown
the
publishers’ names
- RAW
ograpby om, t
mention
of
World.
San
Diego, CA HatT T'" !”
the
Physical
»trr
sr^sara Z
chological IreardlloJdjS
by" tlTp^
°*
the
parapsy-
Anomalies Research Laboratory/PEA
Engineering
understand
the
role conwim./ (PEAR) and an attempt
to
Hshment
of
reality
Much
of^ m3y
P ‘ay
in
the
es‘ab-
already been published
in 5he
I It T'V*'
preSented
has
and summarized
in
papers given at™
°r
/
S research
reports
members
of Pear/ staff
8hJ
th
°.nfe
[
ences by
various
overall
survey
has
made
of
the,V
fi
[
St
time
a"
°gy,
experimental
findings
and
res
.earch
mcthodol-
drawing them
together
i"
a unitarv^^
60^
aPproaches,
section
provides
the
Hk^p.
i
^
a Pproach.
The
first
the
question
and
draws on ^th
0"^- 1131
backgrounds
of
ogy.
Section
2 deSs
thc
P r‘“
and
paraI«ychol-
with
emphasis
on hutn-machW w
conducted
at PEAR
section
reports on research /Jo
mteraction.
The
third
tion.
The
fourth
presents
*
Prec°gmtive remote percep-
sciousness
that
would
make
sen™
il
th
approach
to co"-
results
using
a auantnm
u
C?SC
,
of
their
expenmental
section
they LeJ the ^“nical approach -
I"
the
last
countered,
and
the imo/Jr™** ma
,dc’
the
Problems
en-
research and their
theoretical approach.
°f
their
CA:
Jeremy
P.
Tarcher
1987
n l?'
Los
AngeJc!
notes: 351-364; Glos: 344-350;
Ind: ^384
365'369=
Cha
'
k»k
!ffts
iZ”r (,5z“
n,° r‘r >»
.hi
jectiye
view
of channeling
which
he
^^“Ced
and ob
mumcation
of
information
’ to
nr
th
d
? flncs
as
"the com
bodied human
being from a snlJ/kZ^
3 Physical'y
era-
some other
level of dimension of Jaf
'Ik
3^ 5°
exist on
as we know
it, and
that
is
not
fr M
!!.y
tha"
the
Physical
self)
of
the
channel"
(p
2V
12T
ha
n°rmal mind
(or
the
increasingly
large
numlvr
address
the
needs
of
periencing some fomf of channeling
who
are
ox-
reader’s view of
realitv and
U18
’i
a”d ^
t0 exPai|d
the
r
ibi,
'
uS 5 i"»«“S-V'v ”/
",o
This book
will attemm
fr, d„„
.
(p'
3/-
He
writes:
the
psyche
and
spfrT/mav ^°"
3tC
‘h3t
‘hc
realms
of
.deeply
than
most
of
us
fiie/eWn™
3^
3"d /k
Un m°rC
Channeling
as
a
Modern
PhnnJ
^P'
,. 4 ^
-
Chapter
1,
modern
channels
such
as
Jane
R J°"’
describes
some
Young,
Helen Cohn SchJman
0f A
Me
- Cd
.
ith
Lady
and
Eileen
Caddy
and
others
of
au
S€ m Miracles,
Channeling
as a
Historical
Phr nr,
Flndborn -
Chapter
2,
prehistoric
roots oflEi^Z^ 80CS
back
to ^c
•h=* cra *
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