Adam J. Rock

The Survival Hypothesis

Essays on Mediumship

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780786472208
• ISBN-10: 0786472200
• Artikelnr.: 39562029

Autorenporträt

Adam J. Rock is a lecturer at the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. His primary research interests are in the area of altered states of consciousness, mainly focused on shamanism, the conceptual problem of consciousness, and mediumship.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword by Lance Storm
1 Preface
5 Introduction: The Medium and the Message
(Adam J. Rock)
7 Part 1: Explanation and Belief The Possibility of Mediumship: Philosophical Considerations
(Stephen E. Braude)
21 Is Postmortem Survival the Best Explanation of the Data of Mediumship? (Michael Sudduth)
40 Non-Parapsychological Explanations of Ostensible Mediumship (Chris A. Roe and Elizabeth C. Roxburgh)
65 A Skeptic's View of Mediumship (Krissy Wilson)
79 The Psychology of Belief in Discarnate Communication (Tony Jinks)
90 Part 2: Culture, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Cultural Aspects of Personality, Beliefs and Attentional Strategies in Mediumship (Joan H. Hageman and Stanley Krippner)
107 Shamanism and Mediumship: Confluence and Difference (Rafael G. Locke, Adam J. Rock and Roger N. Walsh)
122 Communication with Gods and Spirits in East and Southeast Asia (Christopher C. Cott)
135 Mediumship and Psychopathology (Jacob Kaminker)
146 Mediumship and Psychotherapy (Rafael G. Locke)
160 Part 3: Empirical Approaches Advances in Quantitative Mediumship Research (Julie Beischel)
177 A Review of Qualitative Mediumship Research
(Kylie Harris and Carlos S. Alvarado)
196 A Mixed Methods Approach to Mediumship Research (Elizabeth C. Roxburgh and Chris A. Roe)
220 A Systems Level Neuroscience Approach to Mediumship and the Source-of-Psi Problem (Graham A. Jamieson and Adam J. Rock)
235 Neuroscience of Trance and Mediumship (Julio F. P. Peres, Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Leonardo Caixeta)
254 Part 4: The Present and the Future Mediumship and Its Place Within Parapsychology (Julie Beischel, Mark Boccuzzi and Edwin C. May)
275 The Future of the Field of Mediumship (Carlos S. Alvarado; Julie Beischel, Mark Boccuzzi and Edwin C. May; Stephen E. Braude; Joan H. Hageman and Stanley Krippner; Kylie Harris; Tony Jinks; Jacob Kaminker; Rafael G. Locke; Julio F. P. Peres; Adam J. Rock and Graham A. Jamieson; Elizabeth C. Roxburgh and Chris A. Roe; Michael Sudduth; Krissy Wilson)
285 About the Contributors
303 Index
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