boom py, | 0090001-4 roved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R00040 ARPS er Abstracts International Vol. 7, No. 1 June 1989 characterizes these as the reconstitutionist method, the musicians, artists, and Visionaries), "Eurekal" (examples o- “astral body" method, and the “platonic criticism" approach, invention, scientific creativity, and prodigies), "The Super which he first developed in an essay reprinted in Wheatley conscious Self” (ESP, precognition, retrocognition, anc and Edge [615]. These philosophical views are discussed clairvoyance), "Hallucinations" (visions, doubles, apparitions further in Chapters 2-6, Personal identity is the subject of voices, olfactory and tactile experiences), “Mind Over Mat. Chapters 7 and 8. He discusses the mind-body problem in ter" (levitation, weightlessness, and Spontaneous forms of Chapter 9, and in the final chapter, "The Significance of PK), “Synchronicity,” and “The Oceanic Feeling.” In the Parapsychology," he poses the following problem: "The next to last chapter, the Possibility of tapping the super- very concepts of psi are just as much involved with the conscious self without harming the conscious self is dis- human body as are those of all other distinctively human. cussed, touching on dreams, OBEs, meditation, drugs, and - concepts” (p, 183). - R.A.W. divination. In the last chapter, “The Act of Creation," an evolutionary view is taken of the nature of the “unknown piae. Gardner, Martin (Ed.). The Wreck of the Titani¢ guest.” The citations in the bibliography omit mention of rstgid? Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986, 1S7p. 9 il-., the publishers’ names, - RAW, Hus oe : : ao Skeptic Martin Gardner has reprinted Morgan 03532. Jahn, Robert G., and Dunne, Brenda J. Margins Robertson’s novel, The Wreck of the T itan, which Ian of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical Stevenson and others have cited as an example of precog- - World. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1987. nition of the Sinking of the Titanic. He also reprints 415p. Chap notes: 369-368; 99 illus: Ind: 401-415, Sugg rdgs: other selections (part of a novel, a short Story, several 377-398; 4 tables poems) that also seemed to foretell the fate of the Titanic. This work provides both an overview of the parapsy- In his general introduction, he argues that chance can ac- chological research conducted by the Princeton Engineering count for any coincidence, no matter how improbable, and Anomalies Research Laboratory (PEAR) and an attempt to criticizes Stevenson's two surveys of cases foretelling the understand the role consciousness may play in the estab. wreck of the Titanic. In individual introductions to all lishment of reality. Much of the material presented has the pieces anthologized, he argues further that they could already been published in the Laboratory’s research reports explained by normal Means and that Precognition was and summarized in Papers given at conferences by various not involved. - RAW. members of PEAR's staff, but this is the first time an overall survey has been made of their research methodol- 03530. Grey, Margot. Return from Death: An Exploration ogy, experimental findings, and theoretical approaches, of the Near-Death Experience. Boston, MA: Arkana, 1985. drawing them together in a unitary approach. The first 206p. Bibl: 200-202; Ind: 203-206; 1 questionnaire; 7 tables Section provides the historical conceptual backgrounds of Having had a near-death experience (NDE) while in the question and draws on both physics and parapsychol- India, Margot Grey, upon her return to England, deter- ogy. Section 2 describes the research conducted at PEAR mined to learn more about such experiences, She began with emphasis on human-machine interaction. The third by conducting the first British NDE Survey, the results of section reports on research into Precognitive remote. percep- which are Teported in Part 1 of this book together with a tion. The fourth presents a theoretical approach to con- summary of what has been learned thus far about the sciousness that would make sense of their experimental NDE. In the second part, she explores the after-effects of results using a quantum mechanical approach, In the last NDEs and their larger meaning, According to Kenneth Section they assess the Progress made, the problems en- Ring’s Foreword, the findings reported in Grey’s Part 2 in- countered, and the implications and Possibilities of their dependently duplicate the findings reported in his book research and their theoretical approach. - RLA.W. eading Toward Omega {02029}--findings that had not been revealed when she wrote her book. After a general 03533. Klimo, Jon. Channeling: Investigations on Receiy- chapter on after-effects, there are four chapters on the ing Information Jrom Paranormal Sources. Los Angeles, development of Paranormal! abilities following NDEs, heal- CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1987, 384p. Bibl: 365-369, Chap ing manifestations, evolutionary aspects, explanations and notes: 351-364; Glos: 344-350; Ind: 370-384 interpretations, and reflections on some possible implica- Psychologist/educator Jon Klimo claims he wrote this tions. There are two appendices, the first being her inter- book for three Teasons: (1) to present a balanced and ob- view questions and the second Providing information about jective view of channeling, which he defines as “the com- the British Branch of the International Association for munication of information to or through a physically em- Near-Death Studies, which she founded. - R.A.W 03531, Inglis, Brian, with West, Ruth and the Koestler as we know it, and that is not from the normal mind (or Foundation. The Unknown Guest: T he Mystery of Intui- self) of the channel" (Pp. 2); (2) to address the needs of tion. London, England: Chatto & Windus, 1987, 224p. Bibl: the increasingly Jarge number of persons who are ex- 205-209; Ind: 217-224; Refs: 210-216 periencing some form of channeling; and (3) to expand the The authors report on the results of a Survey they reader's view of reality and to awaken him or her "to the conducted of €xperiences of the “unknown guest," or greater possibilities of being human" (p. 3). He Writes: episodes that appear to transcend everyday realities and “This book will attempt to demonstrate that the realms of that “suggest design: as if some Prompter in the Wings is the psyche and Spirit may be more real and run more operating through our Subconscious minds" (p. ix). Inglis deeply than most of us believe” (p. 4). Chapter 1, concentrated his efforts on uncovering historic cases, "Channeling as a Modern Phenomenon,” describes some whereas Ruth West handled the cases that were sent to modern channels such as Jane Roberts, Meredith Lady the Koestler Foundation, which She directs. These ex- Young, Helen Cohn Schucman of A Course in Miracles, Periences’ take many forms, and some of the major ones and Eileen Caddy and others of Findhorn. Chapter 2, are covered by chapters in the book: "Daemon" (primarily “Channeling as a Historical! Phenomenon," B0es back to the experiences of guidance in well-known people beginning prehistoric roots of channeling through the centuries up to with Socrates), "The Muses" (experiences of authors, pocts, the modern era. The third chapter is on the psychology of 47 0090001-4 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R00040