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The Survival Hypothesis: Essays on Mediumship

by Adam J. Rock

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

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Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and psychokinesis. In contrast, this cutting-edge anthology assembles an international team of experts from the fields of psychology, parapsychology, philosophy, anthropology and neuroscience to examine critically what is referred to as the survival hypothesis: the tentative statement or prediction that some aspect of our personhood (e.g., consciousness) persists subsequent to the death of the physical body. The appraisal of the survival hypothesis will be restricted to the phenomenon of mediumship; that is, humans who ostensibly communicate with the deceased. The book has been divided into four main sections: Explanation and Belief; Culture, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; Empirical Approaches; The Present and Future. The issue of postmortem survival is supremely relevant to us all because the human encounter with death is, of course, a certainty.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Parapsychology and psychical research, Psychokinesis and remote viewing, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “mediumship”. Retained metadata contains “mediumship” in the title, “mediumship” in the description, and “mediumship” in the edition title.

    • “mediumship”· via OpenAlex
    • “mediumship”· in title
    • “mediumship”· in description
    • “mediumship”· in edition title
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Retained metadata contains “esp” in the description and “Parapsychology” in the description.

    • “esp”· in description
    • “Parapsychology”· in description
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “clairvoyance” and “telepathy”. Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the description, “Precognition” in the description, and “Telepathy” in the description.

    • “clairvoyance”· via OpenAlex
    • “telepathy”· via OpenAlex
    • “Clairvoyance”· in description
    • “Precognition”· in description
    • “Telepathy”· in description
  • Psychokinesis and remote viewing

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “psychokinesis”. Retained metadata contains “Psychokinesis” in the description.

    • “psychokinesis”· via OpenAlex
    • “Psychokinesis”· in description
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the description.

    • “Consciousness”· in description

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2014-04-04RUNE (Research UNE)English—Unknown

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