And there were several others — an old woman who told stories more beautifully than anyone else, an elderly man who had amazing knowledge of animal behavior and ecology, and another man near eighty who…
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Совершенно секретно, передъ прочтеніемъ сжечь
Сейчасъ я склоняюсь къ опредѣленію оккультнаго какъ относящагося къ области суггестіи, управленія сознаніемъ, групповыхъ и индивидуальныхъ психологическихъ техникъ, политологіи, включая параполитологію, и прочаго властвованія надъ собой и окружающими. Если кажется, будто это вынимаетъ остріе изъ…
Jeffrey Kripal on neuroscience
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) The ways in which the neuroscientist turns to hermeneutical and semiotic terms is quite remarkable here. Not only is this a “translation hypothesis,” but…
Jeffrey Kripal (& Bertrand Méheust) on actual historical data
– 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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Jeffrey Kripal (& Bertrand Méheust) on the guardians of the threshold, concepts butoirs, cultural shock zones, etc.
– 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…
Jeffrey Kripal (& Aimé Michel) on the uncanniness of science
– 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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Tanya Luhrmann on laboratary psychiatry & grants
– Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (2001) In the summer of 1994, I called Randy Gollub because a senior psychiatrist had described her to me as a star. (Unless otherwise indicated,…
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Земная жизнь кругомъ объята снами: пролегомены къ потустороннему и нарраціи
Какъ правило, люди спятъ съ закрытыми глазами, не видя окружающей обстановки; при этомъ въ фазу быстраго движенія глазъ они видятъ сны. Любопытно, въ какой мѣрѣ отнологическіе статусы, приписываемые взаимодѣйствіямъ съ невидимымъ міромъ, гомологичны культурнымъ преобразованіямъ…
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Jeffrey Kripal on the science of religion
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) The psychical rose into prominence at a particular moment in Western intellectual history, a moment when Darwinism, materialism, and agnosticism (a word newly coined…
Jeffrey Kripal (& Frederic Myers) on consciousness as light
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Perhaps all of this is clarified somewhat when Myers takes up his methodological metaphor of the spectrum and transforms it into an ontological suggestion.…
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