Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jinks, Tony (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Existential psychology.; Ontology.; Psychology.; Philosophy and science.; Psychology and religion.; Existential approach.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Philosophy of Science.; Religion and Psychology.

This book explores various explanatory frameworks for paranormal encounters. It opens with the story of an inexplicable human figure seen crossing a secluded hotel corridor, interpreted as a ghost by the sole witness. The subsequent chapters explore the three most important historical perspectives a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1: Paranormal experience
• Chapter 1: What is a ghost?
• Chapter 2: What is the paranormal?
• Chapter 3: What is experience?
• Part 2: The first-path
• Chapter 4: The 5W1H method
• Chapter 5: Low energy ghosts
• Chapter 6: High energy ghosts
• Chapter 7: Ghosts and the how?
• Chapter 8: Filters and Tuners
• Chapter 9: Multiple filters?
• Chapter 10: The receiver
• Part 3: The second-path
• Chapter 11: Defining reality
• Chapter 12: The observer and consciousness
• Chapter 13: The emergent mind
• Chapter 14: Scientific reality and errors in consciousness
• Chapter 15: No (ghostly) illusions
• Chapter 16: Hallucinations
• Chapter 17: Altered states of consciousness
• Chapter 18: The how and why of psychedelics
• Chapter 19: Global changes to the altered state
• Chapter 20: Dissociation
• Chapter 21: Component changes to the altered state
• Chapter 22: Mental imagery and the jigsaw
• Chapter 23: The enigma of unconscious imagery
• Chapter 24: Cultural Wiring
• Chapter 25: Forcing the boundaries of the second-path - a purposeful unconscious
• Chapter 26: The problem of the producer
• Chapter 27: The producer solved?
• Part 4: The third-path
• Chapter 28: A return to dualism
• Chapter 29: The prism
• Chapter 30: The Otherreal
• Chapter 31: Consciousness and dimensionality
• Chapter 32: A transpersonal alternative
• Chapter 33: Witnessed experience and the third-path
• Chapter 34: The three paths and Tom's ghost.