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Advances in Parapsychological Research 7

STANLEY KRIPPNER

1995

Saybrook Institute

MANAGING EDITORS
Mary Lou Carlson, Steven Hart, and Elizabeth Schneck

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Montague Ullman and Robert O. Becker

EDITORIAL BOARD

Theodore X. Barber Robert L. Van de Castle
Thomas H. Budzynsky Evan Harris Walker
J. B. Hasted James Wheatley
Elizabeth A. Rauscher Rhea A. White
Marcello Truzzi  



























The support of Richard Adams and the Rollo May Center

for Humanistic Studies at Saybrook Institute is gratefully

acknowledged in facilitating the preparation of this volume.

























This volume is dedicated to Gertrude R. Schmeidler,
who in many ways has been parapsychology's midwife,
and who has also helped many neophytes in the field
to give birth to their theses and dissertations.

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  • Contents
  • 1. Gertrude Schmeidler: Fifty Years in the Field of Parapsychology
  • Bibliography
  • 2. Introduction
  • Bibliography
  • 3. The Phenomenology of Parapsychological Experiences
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Extrasensory Experiences
    • 3.3 Nonrecurrent PK Experiences
    • 3.4 Recurrent Spontaneous PK (RSPK) or Poltergeist Experiences
    • 3.5 Psychic Healing Experiences
    • 3.6 Near-Death Experiences
    • 3.7 Out-of-Body Experiences
    • 3.8 Apparitional Experiences
    • 3.9 Reincarnation Experiences
    • 3.10 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 4. Making the Most of Spontaneous Casestypeset@protect @@footnote SF@gobble@opt This chapter Lr an expanded and updated version of a paper published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research in October 1990.
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 A Conceptual Framework
    • 4.3 Top-Down Approaches: From Hypothesis to Observation/Description
    • 4.4 Bottom-Up Approaches: From Observation/Description to Hypothesis
    • 5. The Integrated Approach
    • 6. Concluding Comments
  • Bibliography
  • 5. ESP Experiments 1978-1992: The Glass Is Half Full
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Background of Experiments
    • 3. A Special Condition (Altered State) of the Subject
    • 4. Changes in the Subject's Normal Range of States
    • 5. Psychological Differences Among Subjects
    • 6. Brain Changes
    • 7. Biological Variables
    • 8. Patterns within the ESP Responses
    • 9. Categories of ESP
    • 10. Methodological Variations
    • 11. Targets
    • 12. ESP Response Measures
    • 13. Methods of Scoring
    • 14. Overview
  • Bibliography
  • 6. PK: Recent Research Reports and a Comparison with ESP
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Full Reports of Earlier Research
    • 3. Reviews of Earlier Research
    • 4. Micro-PK: Research on Physical Targets
    • 5. Micro-PK: Research on Microorganisms and Organic Material
    • 6. Micro-PK: Research with Intact Humans
    • 7. Macro-PK: Claims with Readily Available Normal Explanations
    • 8. Macro-PK: Three Extraordinary Individuals
    • 9. Macro-PK: Poltergeists
    • 10. Macro-PK: Haunted Houses
    • 11. Macro-PK: Plant Growth
    • 12. Macro-PK: Human Healing
    • 14. Overview
  • Bibliography
  • 7. A Select Bibliography of Books on Parapsychology, 1988-1991
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Altered States of Consciousness and Psi
    • 3. Alternative Medicine and Healing
    • 4. Anthropology and Psi
    • 5. Applications and Implications of Psi
    • 6. Biographies and Autobiographies
    • 7. Children and Psi
    • 8. Criticism of Parapsychology
    • 9. Experimental Parapsychology
    • 10. General Parapsychology
    • 11. History of Parapsychology
    • 12. Mediumship, Channeling, and Survival
    • 13. Near-Death Experiences
    • 14. Parapsychology Conference Proceedings
    • 15. Philosophy and Psi
    • 16. Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psi
    • 17. Reference Works
    • 18. Reincarnation
    • 19. Religion and Psi
    • 20. Reprinted Works
    • 21. Speculative Science
    • 22. Spontaneous Psi Phenomena
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