Authors of the impossible
Subtitle: the paranormal and the sacred
By: Jeffrey J. Kripal.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226453866
Subjects: Myers, Frederic William Henry, -- 1843-1901; Fort, Charles, -- 1874-1932; Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain); Parapsychology -- History; Religion -- Psychic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The book as séance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research After Life; title: Myers and the founding of the S.P.R; title: The subliminal gothic: the human as two; title: The supernormal and evolution: the world as two; title: Telepathy: the communications technology of the spirit; title: The perfect insect of the imaginal; title: The telepathic and the erotic: Myers's platonic speech; title: Seeds of a super-story: Charles Fort and the fantastic narrative of western occulture; title: The parable of the peaches: Fort's mischievous monistic life; title: Collecting and classifying the data of the damned: Fort's comparative method; title: The three eras or dominants: Fort's philosophy of history; title: The philosophy of the hyphen: Fort's dialectical monism; title: Galactic colonialism: Fort's science mysticism and dark mythology; title: Evolution, wild talents, and the poltergeist girls: Fort's magical anthropology; title: The future technology of folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO phenomenon; title: Forbidden science (1957-69); title: Passport to Magonia: from folklore to flying saucers; title: The invisible college; title: The present technology of folklore: computer technology and remote viewing; title: In the psychic underground; title: The alien contact trilogy and the mature multiverse gnosis; title: Sub rosa: the three secrets; title: The hermeneutics of light; title: Returning the human sciences to consciousness: Bertrand Méheust and the sociology of the impossible; title: A double premise; title: Méheust and the master; title: Science fiction and flying saucers; title: The challenge of the magnetic and the shock of the psychical; title: "if only one of these facts . . .": the impossible case of Alexis Didier; title: The collective mind: Bateson, De Martino, Vallee, and Jung; title: Agent X: projection theory turned back on itself.