| Description |
xxiv, 859 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Alchemy -- Altered states of consciousness -- "Alternative" health practices and quackery -- The Amityville horror -- Ancient astronauts -- Archaeology and the paranormal -- Astrology -- The Bermuda triangle -- Bigfoot -- Biorhythms -- Black magic -- Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan -- Cattle mutilations -- Edgar Cayce -- Channelling -- Coincidences -- Committee for the Scientific Investifation ofclaims of the Paranormao (CSICOP) -- Crop circles -- Cryptomnesia -- Cryptozoology -- Diejoa Vu -- Dowsing -- Evil eye -- Extrasensory perception -- Eyeless vision -- Fairies -- Fire immunity -- Charles Fort -- Fortunetelling -- Ganzfeld phenomena -- Ghosts and haunted houses -- Graphology |
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Daniel Dunglas Home -- Harry Houdini and the paranormal -- Hypnosis -- Jung and athe paranormal -- Karma -- Levitation -- Magic and Psi -- The Media and the paranormal -- The Medium Margery (Mina Stinson Crandon) -- Carlos Mirabelli -- Miracles -- "Miraculous" phenomena -- Near- death experiences -- The "Need to believe" -- New Age thinking -- Nostradamus -- Oahspe -- Out-of-body experiences -- Eusapia Palladino -- Palmistry -- Parapsychology -- The Philadelphia experiment -- Photography (as it aplies to the paranormal) -- Phrenology -- Mrs. Leonora Piper -- Poltergeists -- Possession and exorcism -- Prophetic dreams -- Pseudoscience -- Psychical research -- Psychic detectives |
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Psychic healing -- Psychokinesis -- Psychokinetic metal bending -- Reincarnation -- Sai Baba -- Satan and Satanism -- Scientific creationism -- The Shroud of Turin -- Skepticism and the paranormal -- "Dr." Henry Slade -- Society for psychical research -- Spsiritualism -- Spontaneous human combustion -- statistics and the paranormal -- Survival of death -- Talking apes -- tarot -- Theosophy -- Unidentified flying objects -- Vampires -- Velikovsky -- Visions and hallucinations -- Vodoun (Voodoo) -- Werewolves -- Witchcraft/Witches -- Witnesses to the paranormal (how reliable?) -- Xenoglossy -- Zombies |
| Summary |
As the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the paranormal written from a scientific perspective, this valuable reference resource contains over 90 articles contributed by scientists, theologians, philosophers, magicians, historians, and other noted scholars. The topics covered include the strictly paranormal (channeling, levitation, astrology, palmistry, phrenology, psychokinesis); the historical (mediums, psychic research, Houdini, alchemy); the philosophical (reincarnation, survival of death, miracles); and work on investigatory photography, the media, statistics, and the Bermuda Triangle |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Parapsychology -- Encyclopedias.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Author |
Stein, Gordon.
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| LC no. |
95042648 |
| ISBN |
1573920215 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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