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– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) In order to demonstrate his own point, Méheust invokes Alison Winter’s historical study of the effective use of magnetic anesthesia during surgical operations in…
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– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) In the light of such impossible potentialities and possible actualizations, human nature begins to be seen as fundamentally contextual and unconditioned, that is, as…
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Historians of psychology generally acknowledge Puységur’s role in “the discovery of the unconscious,” but they usually relegate this role to a subordinate one, to…
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Moreover, and more bizarrely still, they [UFOs. – P.] are mischievously omnipotent in their ability to show themselves to us in quite outrageous ways,…
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– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Aimé Michel also had a fascinating take on modern science. He eventually came to the conclusion that physics and science as a whole are…
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– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Vallee’s method here is quite interesting. He begins with the hypothesis that the absurd is meaningful, that the dilemma signals new thought, that we…
– Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau (2010) Several months later I shared another, far more momentous, meal. I was attending an initiation ritual for blacksmiths. Among Manjaco, as in much of…
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) But it is precisely that “though not absolutely” that haunts us here. For Fort also suggested that all of these quasi systems with their…
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– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Little wonder, then, that Darwin shied away from the word evolution, citing its common mystical connotations as inappropriate to his own purely naturalistic understandings.…
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– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-creator of the evolutionary thesis with Darwin, attended the first official meeting of the Society for Psychical Research on February…