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seeing them
clearly
as
such, then we can
discover a
fresh
perception
of
this
world
purified
of
preconception
and
narrow
belief. We may, them, perceive ordinary magic
-- a
world
which
is
vast and
unconditioned,
yet
full
of power,
value, and
natural order.
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02034. Hunt, Stoker. Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game.
New York: Barnes &
Noble,
1985.
156p.
fig;
Index:
153-
156; 31
refs
This
is
an
overview
of
information about
the
ouija
board. Hunt
reports that
in a
recent survey he conducted,
30%
use
the
ouija
board
to communicate
with
the
dead,
the same
percentage
to communicate
with
the
living, and
the remainder
to develop psychic ability or as a means
of
guidance.
He
gives
some
case
histories
illustrating
that
using
the
ouija
board
can
be
both
helpful
and
dangerous.
Well-known
cases discussed are Jane Robert's Seth and
the
Toronto
''Philip”
group
experiment.
He
discusses
auto-
matisms as the inducers of psychosis and as
a
cure. An
in-
terview with Barbara Honegger
is the
subject
of one
chap-
ter.
The
last
chapter
is
entitled "How
to
Get
the
Best
Results from Your Ouija Experiments."
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02035. Jackson, Edgar N. The Role of Faith
in
the
Process
of
Healing.
Minneapolis,
MN:
Winston
Press,
1981.
203p.
Bibliographic
notes by
chapter:
197-201;
Biblio-
graphy: 195-196
The emphasis
here
is on the
role
faith
plays
in
heal-
ing and
that
we
are
personally
responsible
for our
state
of
health.
There
arc
several
chapters on
faith.
Jackson
examines
the
nature
of
faith, unconscious
factors
in
faith,
conscious processes
in
faith, and super-conscious expressions
of
faith.
There
is
a
chapter on
innate
faith
and
one
on
faith that
is
achieved.
Most
relevant
to parapsychology
is
Chapter
10,
"Mystical
Illumination
and
the
Super-healthy
Person.” Here he
discusses
the
level
of
faith
that employs
"the
higher
levels
of
consciousness
for
its
purposes."
He
classifies
the
phenomena
related
to
the
superconsciousness
in
three
categories:
the
psychological,
the
psychic, and
the
parapsychic.
It
closes
with
a
section on
the
cultivation
of
revealed
truth. The
final
chapters
deal
with
cultivation
of
a
life-affirming
attitude.
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02036. Katz, Richard. Boiling Energy: Community
Heal-
ing Among the Kalahari Kung. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University
Press,
1982.
329p.
Bibliography:
317-323;
Glos-
sary:
314-316; 2
figs;
illus;
Index: 324-329
Katz
reports
on
his
field
investigation
of
the
ritual
healing
dance
of
the IKung. The
rituals
arc
described
in
detail,
and
he
shows how
they
are
perceived
at
the
ex-
periential
level
through
interviews
with
participants;
he
traces the
role of healing in the
healers’
lives
and
in
the
community
as
a
whole, and
he
presents a
sociological ana-
lysis
of how
the form and
function
of
healing
are shaped
by the character of
the IKung social
order.
The
book grew
out
of
a
request from
the IKung
to
"tell
our
story
of
healing
to
your
people."
The
talks
of
four
IKung
healers
are
the
heart
of
the
book. Of
special
interest
arc
four
chapters, "At
a
Healing Dance," "Educa-
tion
for
Healing,"
"Career
of
the
Healer,"
and
"Psycho-
logical
and
Spiritual
Growth."
Biographies
arc
give
of
some important IKung
healers.
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02037.
Loye,
David.
The
Sphinx and
the
Rainbow:
Brain, Mind and Future Vision. Foreword by Willis Har-
man.
Boulder,
CO: Shambhala/New
Science
Library,
1983.
236p.
Bibliographic
notes by
chapter:
205 215,
Bibliography:
216-225; Index: 227-236;
figs;
1 questionnaire;
table
Loye
attempts
to
synthesize
neurophysiology, psychol-
ogy,
parapsychology,
and
theoretical
physics
at
a
popular
level
in
order
to show
how
all
parts
of
the
brain
can
Wia2EQQa4aQ(Kzoqaait&on, including
precop
tion. He takes
a
holographic approach
to
precognition,
also
attempts
to show how
to develop
forecasting
abil
There
arc
appendices.
The
first
offers
suggestions
improving
individual
and
group
forecasting.
The
scc<
presents
some
of
the
tenets
of
the
new
psychophys
The
third
is
a
response
to
critics
of
precognition
(|
marily
C.E.M.
Hansel). The
last
is
a guide
to educatio
possibilities
concerned
with
the
forecasting
mind:
wc
shops, seminars, discussion
guides;
a sample
college
cou:
field trip
possibilities; and
tests.
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02038.
Sheikh, Anecs
A.,
Ed.
International
Review
Mental
Imagery. Volume
1. New
York: Human
Scien
Press,
1984. 220p. Chap.
Bibliography; 2
figs; Author
Inc
203-215; Subject Index: 217-220; 6 tables
Volume
I
of
the
International
Review of Mei
Imagery
is
primarily
an
anthology
of
literature
revi;
Such
topics as mental imagery
in problem solving and
ti
estimation,
imagination,
and
hypnosis
are
covered,
chapter
on
hypnagogic
imagery
touches
on
the
possibi
of
a
relationship
between
psi
and
hypnagogic
imag
There
arc
chapters
on
right
hemispheric
processing
imagery
in
psychosomatic
illness. A
chapter
that
might
useful
to
parapsychologists
is one
entitled
"Bizarreness
fects
in
Mental
Imagery."
Each chapter
has
a
lengthy
’
liography.
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Q20j9. Walker.
D.P.
Unclean
Spirits:
Possession
^Exorcism
in France arid England
in the Late
Sixt ee
'*
"
'
Seventeenth Centuries.
Philadelphia,
PA:
l
ve.rsity
of
Pennsylvania
Press,
1981.
116p.
Bibliogra;
notes, by
chapter: 89-110;
Name
Index:
111-116
Case
histories of
possession
in France and England
the
late
sixteenth
and
early
seventeenth
century
presented.
Sources drawn
on
consist
of contemporary
p
lished
accounts, which arc mostly eyewitnesses, or compi
from
the
evidence
of
eyewitnesses. The
printed
account
cases
were
sometimes
supplemented
by
manuscript
sou:
and,
when
the
possession
involved
accusations
of
wit
craft,
legal
records
of
the
witch’s
trial.
For
the
(th-
theory
of
possession and exorcism he
relied on
the deba
arising
out
of
the
cases and on
authorities
cited
in
the
ranging
from
the
Bible,
its commentators, and
the Chu
Fathers,
to
fifteenth-
and
sixteenth-century
treatises
magic and
witchcraft.
This book
is
of
interest
to
parapsychologists
beca
claims
of
psi phenomena
were
associated
with
possess:
the
ability
to speak
and
understand
languages
not kno
to
the
patient;
clairvoyance; and
bodily
strength
exceed:
the person’s normal
capacity.
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02040.
Wilber, Ken. Eye
to
Eye: The Quest
for
t
New Paradigm. Garden
City,
NY:
Anchor
Press/Doufc
day,
1983.
326p. Bibliography:
311-317;
figs; Index:
319-3
In
the Preface
Wilber
says
'This
is
a book about
overall
or
’comprehensive’ knowledge
quest —
not
with
view toward any
sort
of
finality
in
knowledge,
but w
a
view toward some
sort
of balance
in
the
quest
itsc
It
is
about
empirical
science,
philosophy,
psychology,
a
transcendental
religion;
about
sensory
knowledge, symbo
knowledge,
and
spiritual
knowledge;
and
about how
th
might
all
fit
together.
It
discusses what
a
"comprehensiv
paradigm might eventually
look
like, and —
just
as
imp'
tant
or
perhaps
more
important
--
it
attempts
to
expc
and
unravel some
of
the
major
obstacles to the emergei
of
such
a
paradigm."
Nine
of
the
chapters
wc
originally
published
(in
the same or
variant format)
in
r
Journal of Altered States of Consciousness
(1),
Jourr.
of Transpersonal Psychology
(3), and
Revision
(5).
chapter
titles
are
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to
Eye;
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Problem
of
Proof;
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of
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Committee
for
the
Scientific
Investigation
of
the
Paranor-
mal.
In
the
final
chapter,
he examines
the
collective
fu-
ture
of humankind, which he
considers
to be
quite
bleak,
but
he
closes
with
the
hope
that
parapsychology
might
save civilization as we know
it.
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02918. Moody, Raymond
A., Jr.
Elvis After Life: Un-
usual Experiences Surrounding the Death of a Superstar.
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd,
1987. 158p.
This
is not
strictly
a book on
parapsychology
but
in
part
it
deals
with
experiences
traditionally
labeled
para-
psychological.
It could be called a kind of folklore
in
the
making.
It
is
included
here
because
it
illustrates an
ap-
_
proach
to
the
study
of
human
experiences
that
para-.''"
psychologists
might
well
emulate.
It does
not
attempt
to
prove
anything,
although
the
author
did
interview
all
of
the persons whose experiences are included at firsthand.
It
is valuable because he does not
rule out
the
possibility of
some experiences because of their improbability.
By study-
ing the
full range of experiences of an unusual nature
fol-
lowing
a
single
focal
point-the
death
of
Elvis
Presley-it
becomes
possible
to view
the
experiences
as
aspects
of
a
continuum-which
is
needed
in
parapsychology.
Rather
than attempting to "prove" whether the experiences
"really"
happened
as
reported,
psychiatrist Moody
is
interested
in
them
"for
what
they
reveal
about
the human
mind
and
spirit"
(p. 2 of
Introduction).
Some of
the experiences
re-
lated
are premonitory
of
Elvis’
death.
There
are
appari-
tions and
inexplicable
physical
effects.
Many
of
the
per-
sons interviewed are convinced
that Elvis has been
in
con-
tact with them since
his death.
Moody adds a new dimen-
sion
to the study of psychic experiences associated with the
death of
a person by
his sensitivity
to the "emotional
con-
text of human
grief and bereavement in which they occur”
(p.
154).
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02919. Myers,
Arthur.
The Ghostly Register: Haunted
Dwellings-Active
Spirits:
A
Journey
to
America’s
Strangest Landmarks. Chicago: Contemporary Books,
1986.
378p. 95
illus; Ind: 369-378
One
of
the
newest
and one
of
the
bgst
journalistic
accounts
of
haunts
one
can
visit.
Descriptions
of
haunted
places
are
included,
with
specific
locations
given.
In each
case, Myers provides
the
location,
a
description
of
the
place,
the
ghostly
manifestations
that
occur
there,
a
history
of
the
place,
the
identity
of
the
presumed
ghost,
his
or
her
personality,
witnesses,
best
time
to
witness,
whether or not
it
is haunted today, investigations that have
been made, and the names
of
persons
submitting
the
data.
Illustrations are also included.
The
last chapter
is a direc-
tory
of
parapsychologists,
psychics,
and
organizations
the
reader can contact for assistance and information.
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02920. Perry, Michael (Ed.). Deliverance: Psychic Distur-
bances and Occult Involvement. London,
Eng:
Society
for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1987.
143p.
Ind: 141-143
This book
is
an
outgrowth
of
the
experience
of
the
Christian
Exorcism
Study Group
that
has
helped
to
train
those who
advise
Anglican
bishops
in
regard
to
exorcism.
Although developed
for
the Church
of England,
the
tech-
niques employed
can
be
applied
by
any
Christian.
The
"deliverance"
of
the
title
is used
intentionally
to denote
a
wider
area
of concern
than
simple
exorcism.
"Deliverance
is
about
freeing
people
from
the
bondage
of
Satan.
It
may
occasionally
involve
exorcism,
but
generally
it
does
not”
(p.
2).
The book
is aimed
at
"Christian
ministers
in
pastoral
situations"
to aid
those
in need of deliverance.
It
begins by setting forth
12 general guidelines.
There follow
chapters on
poltergeist phenomena,
"ghosts"
and
memories
of
place;
apparitions and
haunts;
occultism,
Satanism,
and
witchcraft;
possession
syndrome;
possession;
and
exorcism.
There
are appendixes
that
set
forth
the demonic and exor-
cism
in
the
Bible,
the
Christian
exorcism
tradition,
team
work and networking within the
diocese, and
liturgical and
prayer material.
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02921. Pilkington, Rosemarie
(Ed.). Men and Women of
Parapsychology:
Personal
Reflections.
Jefferson,
NC:
McFarland,
1987.
173p.
Bibl:
161-167; Chap
bibls;
Ind:
169-
173
The
author
interviewed
persons
over
65 who had
devoted
most
of
their
careers
to
psychical
research
(parapsychology).
Her aim was
to present "personal
reflec-
tions
by
the
’elder
statespersons’
of
the
field".
.
.
[as]
a
means
of
sharing
at
least
a
little
of
their
wisdom
with
those
not
fortunate enough
to know
them”
(p.
vii).
Each
of
the
persons
interviewed
was
asked
to
address
areas:
how
they became
interested
in
parapsychology,
what
they
felt
were
their
most
important
contributions,
what
they
might
have
done
differently
or
how
their
beliefs
might
have
changed
as
a
result
of
being
in
the
field
of
para-
psychology, what
unusual experiences they might have had
that exceeded
their previous expectations, and what
advice
they would give to newcomers to the
field. The persons
in-
terviewed were 4
psychiatrists (Jan Ehrenwald,
Jule
Eisen-
bud,
Emilio
Scrvadio,
Montague
Ullman),
a
psychologist
(Gertrude
Schmeidler),
a
biologist
(Bernard
Grad),-
a
physicist
(Joseph
H.
Rush),
two
with
literary
careers
(Ren6e
Haynes
and
George
Zorab),
and
three
full-time
parapsychologists
(Hans
Bender,
Eileen
Coly,
and
Karlis
Osis).
Bibliographies
are
included
for
each
author
and
there
is
a general bibliography
at
the end
of
the
book.
In
an
interesting Foreword, Stanley Krippner
describes
a
pat-
tern he discerned
while
reading
these
essays.
This
pattern
was
evident
in
the
factors
that
predisposed
the
person
to
enter
the
field,
the
precipitating
factors
that
led
each
to
become
identified
with
parapsychology,
and
the
main-
tenance
factors
that made
possible
their continued
involve-
ment.
He
uses examples from
the
book
to
illustrate
his
points.
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02922. Randi, James.
The Faith Healers.
Foreword by
Carl Sagan.
Buffalo, NY:
Prometheus Books,
1987.
313p.
Bibl: 307; 3
figs;
1 graph; 37
illus
Magician
James
Randi
herein
exposes
the
deception
and
exploitation
practices
of
the
major
televangelists,
in-
cluding Peter
Popoff, W.V. Grant,
Pat Robertson, and Oral
Roberts.
He
also
investigated A.A.
Allen,
Leroy
Jenkins,
Willard
Fuller
(the
"psychic
dentist"),
and
Ralph
DiOrio.
Chapter
14,
‘The
Lesser
Lights,"
includes
Danny
Davis,
Kathryn
Kuhlman,
Daniel
Atwood,
David
Epley,
A1
Warick
(Brother
Al),
David
Paul
Ernest
Angley,
Frances
and
Charles
Hunter
("The Happy
Hunters").
Randi
ex-
poses the
tricks used by some of the
healers, supported by
evidence
he
and
some
colleagues
gathered
over
a
4-year
period.
He
also
emphasizes
the
gullibility and
misplaced
faith of
the
victims, which
plays a part
in
their
victimiza-
tion and
exploitation.
Randi demands
that
legal
action be
taken
against
the
exploiters.
There
is
a
chapter
on
"Practical
Limitations
of
Medical
Science,"
in
which
he
points
out
that
people
expect
too
much
of
traditional
medicine, and when
disappointed,
they
turn
to
unorthodox
methods of healing. A chapter
is devoted
to his
unsuccess-
ful
efforts
to
obtain
evidence
of
successful
cures.
This
lack
of evidence
leads him
to question
whether any
cures
actually
took
place.
A
brief
chapter
reviews
legal
issues
involved
in aspects of unorthodox healing.
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