An introduction to Parapsycology in the context of Science Bok

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This is an introduction to parapsychology for students of science and for teachers of the humanities, and is a physicist's assessment of parapsychology offered for scrutiny by professional scientists.

Some Included Topics

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• How scientific theory relates to experimental reality.
• The best in parapsychological research.
• Parapsychologists who enjoy martyrdom.
• Two notorious cases of parapsychological fraud.
• Editorial correspondence with eight scientific journals explaining why they reject parapsychological papers.
• A parapsychological vision of the future.

New Ideas

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• For extrasensory perception to occur, there must be a disconnection or splitting off of part of the functioning brain, with a consequent impairment of consciousness.
• Re-examination of some classic experiments suggests that hypnosis involves psychokinetic control of the subject's brain.

New Discoveries

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• Rhytms of success in the psychokinetic control of dice.

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• THE PSYCHOSOCIAL SUBSTRATE
• Definitions and Questions
• Behind the Masquerade
• The Blind Eye of History
• Trance Mediumship
• The Spiritualist Movement
• D D Home
• Leonora Piper
• Gladys Osborne Leonard
• Mediums as People
• The Problem of Fraud
• The Occurence of Multiple Personality
• Identity Defined
• Our Two Half Brains
• Surgical Twinning
• Spontaneous Splitting
• Sally Beachamp
• Doris
• Faces of Eve
• Sybil
• An Interpretation of Multiple Personality
• How Psychology Responds
• Extent to Pathology
• Clues to Consciousness
• Handling Conflict
• Mechanisms of Reality Avoidance
• Consciousness and Society
• To Whom Does Our Thinking Belong
• Man's Conscious Grasp of Reality
• Multiplicity of Mind as a Revolutionary Concept
• Unconscious Traditions in History
• Altered States of Consciousness
• Normal Dissociation
• Hypnosis, Its Nature
• Unconscious Deception
• The Passive-Alert State
• Categories of Consciousness
• Factors Favoring Psi
• The Role of Dissociation
• Hypnosis and ESP
• Other Psi Elicting Techniques
• Who Can Be Psychic?
• Experimental Normal-State Psi
• Awareness of Psi
• Experimenter Influence
• Postmortem Survival
• Death as Taboo
• Revelations of the Dying
• Mediated Messages
• Our Biological and Cultural Dependence
• What Might Survive?
• As It Stands Now
• What Can We Hope To Learn?
• History of Parapsychology
• Outline
• United Kingdom
• United States of America
• Nineteenth-Century Research
• The Thirty-Year Transition
• Research Science
• Organizational Perspective
• Prescientific Parapsychology
• THE OBSERVATION OF PSI PHENOMENA
• Mechanized Methods
• Target Selecting Devices
• A Precognitive Matching Machine
• Binomal Theory
• Precognitive Matching Data
• Controlling a Random Walk
• Spontaneous Psychokinesis
• Classification of the Phenomena
• A Pittsburgh Poltergeist
• The Pearisburg Poltergeist
• Poltergeist Perspective
• Experimental Psychokinesis
• Into the Laboratory
• Placement Psychokinesis
• Systems in Equilibrium
• Movement of Objects
• Metal Bending
• Unconscious Characteristics of Psi
• Task-Structure Effects
• Scoring Patterns in Placement PK
• Target Missing
• Freudian Concepts in Parapsychology
• Progressive Organization and Ambivalence Principles in Psychikinetic Data
• Intrasession Score Decline in Dice-Face PK
• Evaluation and Challenge
• Frequency of Column Scores
• Score Frequency versus Score Decline
• The Organizing Principle
• The Ambivalence Principle
• Hypnosis as Psychokinesis
• Abstract
• The Work of L L Vasiliev
• Lead-Chamber Experiment
• Roulette-Wheel Experiment
• Interpretation
• Implications
• Hypnosis and Psychology
• Hypnosis and Parapsychology
• Hypnosis, Peer Reviewed
• In Search of Criticism
• E R Hilgard
• T X Barber
• Psychological Review
• Psychological Bulletin
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• American Psychologist
• Journal of Parapsychology
• Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
• THE SOCIOLOGY OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY
• Scientific Theory
• Scientists and Method
• What is Science?
• Systems and States
• Parapsychology as Science
• The Role of Logic
• Perception and Models
• Metaphysical Requirements
• Progress in Science
• Thomas Kuhn, Historian and Heretic
• Models and Taboos
• Belief Systems
• The Rhythm of Science
• Preparadigmatic Science
• Normal Science
• Crisis
• Revolution and Beyond
• The Role of Genius
• Fraud in Parapsychology
• The Case of S G Soal
• The W J Levy Case
• Comparsion of the Soal and Levy Cases
• Moral Responsability in a Multiple Person
• The Prevalence and Implications of Multiple Personality
• Soal, Levy, and the Reality of Psi
• With Friends Like These...
• Parapsychologist as Martyre
• Left-Wing Appeasement
• Of People And Prejudice
• Testimony For and Against Psi Phenomena
• Symbol and Reality
• Belief as a Treasure
• Getting Back to Physics
• Truth by Affirmation
• Extrasensory Anti-Humanism
• At the University of Pittsburgh
• The Author's Belief
• Guardians of Orthodoxy
• The Righteous Laymen
• The Journal, Science
• The American Journal of Physics
• The American Psychological Association
• The Closing Mind of Adolescence
• Foreword
• The Riddle of Consciousness
• Two Easy Answers to a Difficult Question
• When Indoctrination Fails
• Why Beliefs Are Sacred
• Why Hasn't Science Been Tried?
• A Modest Educational Proposal
• Recapitulation
• The Quest for Immortality
• Divided Consciousness
• History of the Research
• The Methodological Miliey
• Gross Psychokinesis
• Patterns in the Data
• Brain-to-Brain Psychokinesis
• Games Parapsychologists Play
• Philosophy as Prejudice
• Time Present
• Signs of Acceptance
• The Ascent of Man
• The Long Tomorrow
• Future Science
• Future Man
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