Divided into three major sections--sociocultural, physical and physiological, and psychological perspectives--this work provides an overview of each perspective and also addresses the general psychology of belief in the paranormal and how ...
I visited Chakara C. , in Thailand , and various Okinawan practitioners only once . ... Many of the healers I interviewed described ideologies and methodologies coinciding with those portrayed by Ahern ( 1973 ) , Covell ( 1983 ) ...
The trickster governs paradox and the irrational, but his messages are concealed. This book draws upon theories of the trickster from anthropology, folklore, sociology, semiotics, and literary criticism.
... SORRAT and their meetings and experimental sessions were held at Neihardt's farm in Missouri. In 1966, SORRAT instituted one of the longest and most exhaustively documented ongoing series of experiments in the history of psychic ...
... familiarity with both juvenile and criminal justice. Avoiding. an. Adversarial. Tone. The principle guiding the evaluator against becoming ... criminal system. Determining whether Notification is Understood The expectations for understanding ...
This difference between the groups was tested with a Mann-Whit» ney U test and proved significant (p [corrected for ties, l tail] : 0.032). Thus, in Experiment Two, goats watch» ing the pseudo-ESP demonstrations may have been less ...
... the Columbia Paranormal Society, Beth Meyer and Paranormal Adventures USA, the Springfield Paranormal Research Group, the State Historical Society of Missouri, Ellis Library at the University of Missouri and the Jefferson City ...
Beyond Normal Cognition: An Evaluative and Methodological Study of the Mental Content of Certain Trance Phenomena. Boston: Humphries, ¡937. ... Thouless, R.H.From Anecdote to Experiment in Psychical Research. London: Routledge & Paul ...
Covering and analyzing a wide global selection of reported poltergeist phenomena through history, literature and society.
... ( SORRAT ) . " The original SORRAT group consisted of Neihardt and students from the University of Missouri at Columbia , " James McClenon wrote in Hauntings and Poltergeists : Multidisciplinary Perspectives , edited by James Houran and ...