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Editor’s Introduction: Revisiting Cultural Evolution and Technological Evolution in Consciousness Studies - Mark A. Schroll
A Quest for a Temple to Sleep In - Sarah Janes The Big Dream and Archaeo-Geo-Neuro-Pharmaco-Parapsychological Theories - David Luke Odin: Wandering Shaman Seeking Truth - Mark A. Schroll Commentary: Dreams, Drugs and the Engines of Creativity - Ryan Hurd Nature Awareness and Psychedelics: Report and Commentary on a Presentation by Ralph Metzner and Kathleen Harrison - Heather Walker REVIEW: Dr. Strange: A Cinematic Journey into the Multiverse and Otherworldly Realities - Mark A. Schroll REVIEW: Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practices by Natalie Tobert - Teresa McLaren Revisiting the Meaning of Chief Seattle’s Speech - Mark A. Schroll The Meaning of the Cover Design: Envisioning a Cosmic Archetypal Model of Personality - Mark A. Schroll The Meaning of the Hourglass Symbol - Regina U. Hess The Archetypal Cauldron: A Clinical Application of the Anti-Hero in Transpersonal Art Therapy and the Hebraic Lore of the Golem - Claire Polansky Catalysts that Initiate Embodied Knowing: Reflection on Individuation, Synchronicity and Ritual Space - Tanya Hurst Reply to Tanya Hurst & Wendy E. Cousins - Claire Polansky Commentary: Reflections on the Supernatural and its Relation to Spiritual Emergency/Emergence - Claire Polansky Escaping the Night of the Living Dead: Toward a Transpersonal Ecosophy - Mark A. Schroll | ||
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Paranormal Experience, Belief in the Paranormal and Anomalous Beliefs - Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater, Andrew Parker & Peter Clough
Religious Flows and Ritual Performance: East Asian Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy - Matt Coward Shamanic Initiation by the Trickster - Juan J. Rios A Quantitative Investigation into the Paranormal Beliefs of the Contemporary Vampire Subculture - Emyr Williams Edith Turner and the Anthropology of Collective Joy - Paul Stoller Hearing the Dead: Supernatural Presence in the World of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) in Reference to the Balikligöl Statue - Alistair Coombs The Uncanny and the Future of British Quakerism - Benjamin J. Wood On Mental Travel, Remote Viewing and Clairvoyance - John R. DeLorez Intermediatism and the Study of Religion - Jack Hunter REVIEW: “Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond” by Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Clancy Cavnar - Gerhard Mayer REVIEW: Do we need the paranormal to explain the UFO phenomenon? A Review of Illuminations: The UFO Experience as Parapsychological Event by Eric Ouellet - Jean-Michel Abrassart REVIEW: First International Colin Wilson Conference, University of Nottingham, July 1st 2016 - Colin Stanley | ||
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A Qualitative Investigation of United States Mediums’ Impressions of Spirits and the Afterlife - Jennifer Lyke
Taking Soul Birds Seriously: A Post-Secular Animist Perspective on Extra-Ordinary Communications - Brian Taylor Paranormal Beliefs in College Culture: “In my house we have a ghost named Isaiah.” - Brooke Hansen, Luke St. Clair & Jessica Mancuso Experiential Skepticism and an Exploration of Mediumship and Life After Death - Elliot Benjamin Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: A Review of Breaking Convention - Jules Evans REVIEW: N.J. UFO/Paranormal Spring Conference April 11th, at the Hamilton Garden Hilton - T. Peter Park ABSTRACTS: ‘The Emerging Field of Paranthropology’: Panel at 58th Annual Parapsychological Association/39th Annual Society for Psychical Research Conference, University of Greenwich, 18th July 2015 - Serena Roney-Dougal, Stanley Krippner, David Luke & Jack Hunter | ||
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Contents:The Dragon and Me:
Anthropology and the Paranormal
- Susan Greenwood
A Framework of Belief in Paranormal Experiences and its Relation to Positive/Negative Schizotypy - Alejandro Parra Research Perspectives in Parapsychology and Shamanism - Stanley Krippner Capturing Spirituality: A Photo-Elicitation Study With Two British Neo-Pagans - Matt Coward On the "Types" and Dynamics of Apparitional Hallucinations - S. Alexander Hardison INTERVIEW: W. Paul Reeve & Michael Scott Van Wagenen on the Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore - John W. Morehead |
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ContentsDifferentiating Experiences from Events, and Validity from Authenticity in the Anthropology of Consciousness - Stanley Krippner & Mark A. Schroll
Reflections on Methodological Concerns in the Anthropology of Consciousness: A Response to Krippner & Schroll - Hillary S. Webb Interplay of Perspectives in the Anthropology of Consciousness: A Commentary on Krippner & Schroll - Susan Greenwood Experiencing Dream Telepathy (Or Non-Local Memory): A Fifty Year Retrospective Autobiographical Analysis - Mark A. Schroll Psychic Dreams: Evidence, Transformational Process and Magical Thinking - David Luke Whose Dream Is It Anyway? A Commentary on Experiencing Dream Telepathy (or Non-local Memory): A 50 Year Retrospective Autobiographical Analysis - Zelda Hall Sacred Places and Home Dream Reports: Methodological Reassessments and Reflections on Paul Devereux’s Experiment in Wales and England - Stanley Krippner & Mark A. Schroll Geomantic Earthmind: Practicing Earth Yoga: A Response to Krippner & Schroll - Bethe Hagens Commentary: Barometers for the Anomalous? Dreams and Transpersonal Archaeology - Ryan Hurd Bohm’s Influence on Ullman’s Theory of the Origin of Dreams: Reflections and Insights from Montague Ullman’s Last Interview - Mark A. Schroll Dreaming, Ullman, and Bohm: A Commentary - Daniel Deslauries Epilogue: Toward a New Paradigm of the Varieties of Transformative Experience - Mark A. Schroll & Darlene Viggiano. Review: ‘Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times’ by Marjorie T. Johnson - James McClenon | ||
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ContentsThe Spectrum of Specters:
Making Sense of Ghostly Encounters - Michael Hirsch, Jammie Price, Meghan McDonald & Mahogany Berry
The Witch from “His-Story” to “Her-Stories”: Changing Contexts - Matt Coward The Complexities of Evaluating Evidence for “Psychic” Effects: Spontaneous Case Research in Parapsychology and Some Considerations for Progression - S. Alexander Hardison Ritual as Therapy: Steps Towards an Ethnography of the Invisible - Peter Mark Adams ABSTRACTS: ‘Research Among Spirits, Ghosts and Deities: How to Study Non-Ordinary Realities’ - Panel at BASR Annual Conference, The Open University, September 2014 COMMENTARY: Progressivism, Materialism, Anthropology, Politics, and the Paranormal: Reflections on a Talk on William James' "Excision" - T. Peter Park REVIEW: ‘Talking With the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds’ Edited by Jack Hunter & David Luke - William Rowlandson | ||
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ContentsExploring the Extraordinary - Hannah Gilbert
Profane Illuminations: Machines, Indian Ghosts, and Boundless Flights through Nature at Contemporary Paranormal Gatherings in America - Darryl Caterine Magic or Science: A Look at Reiki in American Medicine - Joshua Graham Hidden Apprenticeships, Hidden Loves: Transmission of Enhanced Awareness in Mediumistic and Shamanic Traditions - David Gordon Wilson Communication Across the Chasm: Experiences With the Deceased - John A. Napora Book Hauntings - Mark Valentine Orbs, some definitive evidence that they are not paranormal - Steven T. Parsons Interview: Andy Sharp (English Heretic) - Hannah Gilbert Playback Hex : William Burroughs and the Magical Objectivity of the Tape Recorder - James Riley REVIEW: Exploring the Extraordinary Conference (Gettysburg College, March 21 to 23) - T. Peter Park REVIEW: ‘Folie et Paranormal’ by Renaud Evrard - Jean-Michel Abrassart REVIEW: ‘Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England’ by J.S. La Fontaine - Michael J. Rush | ||
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Contents"Is the Anomalist on a Fool’s Errand?" - Thomas E. Bullard
"A Phenomenological Evolution of Parapsychology’s Philosophy of Science" - Jacob W. Glazier "Commentary: Contemplating Parapsychology's Evolving Philosophy of Science" - Mark A. Schroll "Experiences of Synchronicity and Anthropological Endeavours (Part 2): ‘Beyond a Psychology of Projection into a Cosmology of Synchronicity’ "- Christel Mattheeuws "The Mystical Brain: The Primordial Roots of Religion" - Charles D. Laughlin "The Paranormal Body: Reflections on Indian Perspectives Towards the Paranormal" - Loriliai Biernacki "A Case of Xenoglossy Occurring Under Hypnosis" - Ohkado Masayuko & Okamoto Satoshi "Navigating to the Inside: First Person Science Perspectives on Consciousness and Psi " - Rafael G. Locke | ||
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Contents"Harry Potter and All That: Children’s Understanding of Magic" - Simon Dein
"Divination Systems Within Archaic Shamanic Traditions of Central and Eastern Europe" - Henry Dosedla "Art and Transpersonal Experience: Anthropology of Spiritual Symbolism and Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Visualization Practice" - Charles D. Laughlin "Experiences of Synchronicity and Anthropological Endeavours: An Anthropologist Goes Weird" - Christel Mattheeuws "Invoking the Rational in Acknowledging the Irrational: A Haunting in Malta" - John Micallef "Anthropology and the Paranormal: Report on a Symposium at the Esalen Institute" - Fiona Bowie | ||
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Contents'Introduction: Taking Experience Seriously' - Jack Hunter
'Experience and Studying the Paranormal' - Charles F. Emmons & Penelope Emmons 'Lord of the Flies: The Phenomenology of a Possession' - Peter Mark Adams 'Recognising the Voice of God' - Tanya M. Luhrmann 'From Sleep Paralysis to Spiritual Experience: An Interview With David Hufford' - John W. Morehead 'The Experiencing Brain' - Charles D. Laughlin 'UFOs and Other Anomalous Phenomena: Connections, Beliefs and Perspectives' - Jose Banuelos 'The Culture of War, “Afterlife Conscious Minds,” & Morphogenetic Fields: The Past Soundscapes of an American Civil War Battlefield' - John G. Sabol 'Processes of Experience' - Donnalee Dox 'The Brain and Spiritual Experiences: Towards a Neuroscientific Hermeneutic' - Andrew B. Newberg 'Ultra-Terrestrials and the UFO Phenomenon: A Response to Steven Mizrach' - Jason Colavito 'Musings on Good, Evil and the Conquest of Mexico: An Interview With Graham Hancock' - William Rowlandson [REVIEW] 'Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams & Prophecy in Ancient Egypt' - Callum E. Cooper | ||
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Vol. 4 No. 2 (April 2013)
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Contents'The Para-Anthropology of UFO
Abductions: The Case for the UTH' - Steven Mizrach
'Review/Commentary: Rupert Sheldrake’s "Science Set Free"' - John R. DeLorez 'Scientific Controversies Shaping the Worldview of the 21st Century: Sheldrake's Theory of Non-local Memory Revisited' - Mark A. Schroll 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Morphic Resonance and the Birthing of a New Paradigm' - Zelda Hall ' Science Betrayed?: Rupert Sheldrake and The Science Delusion' - Margaret Gouin 'Critical Analysis of Culturally Intrusive Interpretations of Phenomenological and Parapsychological Scientific Studies' - Kaitlyn Kane 'Rehabilitating The Neglected "Similar": Confronting The Issue Of Cross-Cultural Similarities In The Study Of Religions' - Gregory Shushan 'The Kardecian Spiritualist Movement in Argentina' - Juan Corbetta & Fabiana Savall REVIEW: 'The Voice of Rolling Thunder: A Medicine Man's Wisdom for Walking the Red Road' - Mark A. Schroll | ||
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Vol. 4 No. 1 (January 2013)
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CONTENTS'"Life is Not About Chasing the Wind": Investigating the Connection Between Bodily Experience, Beliefs and Transcendence Amongst Christian Surfers' - Emma Ford
'Epistemological, Methodological and Ethical Aspects of Conducting Interviews About Anomalous Experiences' - Leonardo Breno Martins 'A Visit to Point Pleasant: Home of the Mothman' - Simon J. Sherwood 'Steve Abrams: Psychedelic Trickster' - David Luke 'Turning to the Affective in Direct Experiences: An Interdisciplinary, Investigative Quest' - Christopher Laursen 'Fireflies and Shooting Stars: Visual Narratives of Daimonic Intelligence' - Angela Voss 'A Study of Several Reported Cases of Crisis Apparitions During the American Civil War' - Simon Alexander Hardison 'Herbal Lore in Central and Eastern European Shamanic Traditions' - Henry Dosedla 'Out of the Body and Into the Lab: Defining Dr. Alex Tanous' Abilities' - Callum E. Cooper 'Recognition for Paranthropology and ARC' - Fiona Bowie | ||
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Vol. 3 No. 4 (October 2012)
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Contents"Clock System or Cloud System?: Applying Popper’s Metaphor to the Study of Human Consciousness" - Hillary S. Webb
"Commentary: Cultural Evolution and Technological Evolution in Consciousness Studies" - Mark A. Schroll "In Search of Higher Intelligence: The Daemonic Muse(s) of Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson" - Matt Cardin "Magic, Science and Religion: A Conversation With Eugene Burger (Part 1)" - Jack Hunter "‘Get thee enhurued!’: Magic Mushrooms, Time and the End of the World" - Andy Letcher "A Letter to Anthropologists" - John R. Swanton REVIEW: "An Historical Review of a Notable Physical Medium in the Tropics: ‘Anna Prado: a Mulher que Falava com os Mortos’" - Ademir Xavier | ||
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Vol. 3 No. 3 (July 2012)
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Contents"A Paradigm Breaking Hypothesis for Solving the Mind-Body Problem" - Bernardo Kastrup
"Psychic Surgery as a "Breaking Frame": Ethnographic Observations of a London Based Psychic Surgeon" - Lara Bauer "Tylor and Neo-Tylorian Approaches to the Study of Religion: Re-Evaluating an Important Lineage in the Theorisation of Religion" - Liam Sutherland "Child Witches: From Imaginary Cannibalism to Ritual Abuse in London" - Leo Ruickbie "The Shamanic Flight of the Soul: Visiting Other Worlds" - Erwin Rooijakkers "Entheogenic Spirituality and Gender in Australia" - Joseph Gelfer REVIEW: Raymond Tallis: "Aping Mankind" at the Watershed, Bristol - Jack Hunter REVIEW: "Perspective on Clinical Parapsychology: An Introductory Reader" - Callum E. Cooper | ||
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Vol. 3 No. 2 (April 2012)
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Contents"Experiential Reclamation and First-Person Parapsychology" - David Luke
"Souls and Spirit-Deities" - Bob Trubshaw "Soundscape and the Culture of War on an American Civil War Battlefield: An Ethnography of Communication with Past Presences" - John G. Sabol "The Effect of Meditation Attainment on Psychic Awareness: Research With Yogis and Tibetan Buddhists" - Serena Roney-Dougal "Shamanism, Transpersonal Ecosophy, and John E. Mack's Investigations of Encounters with Extraterrestrial Consciousness" - John E. Mack & Mark A. Schroll REVIEW: "Words Matter: Hermeneutics in the Study of Religion" by Rene Gothóni - Margaret Gouin REVIEW: "The Forbidden Book" by Guido di Sospiro and Joscelyn Godwin - Robert M. Schoch | ||
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (January 2012)
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Contents"The Sublime and the Profane: A Thealogical Account of Psychometric Experiences Within a Sacred Space" - Patricia 'Iolana
"Money God Cults in Taiwan: A Paranthropological Approach" - Fabian Graham "Proceeding With Caution: What Went Wrong? The Death and Rebirth of Essential Science" - Charles T. Tart "Transpersonal Anthropology: What is it, and What are the Problems we Face Doing it?" - Charles D. Laughlin "Contemporary Physical Mediumship: Is it Part of a Continuous Tradition" - Jack Hunter "Charles Richet at the Villa Carmen" - Robert McLuhan "Nourished by Dreams, Visions and William James: The Radical Philosophies of Borges and Terence McKenna" - William Rowlandson "An Inner Curriculum Vitae" - Paul Devereux "Communing With the Gods - An Overview" - Charles D. Laughlin "Brazil: Where Cows Might Fly" - Guy Lyon Playfair | ||
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Vol. 2 No. 4 (October 2011)
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Contents"The Anthropology of the Possible: The Anthropologist at Sceptical Enquirer" - Lee Wilson
"Dreams and Telepathic Communication" - David E. Young "Believing the Malagasy: Towards a Methodology for Studying the Paranormal Among Other Normal Things" - Christel Mattheeuws "Neo-Shamanism, Psi, and Their Relationship With Transpersonal Psychology" - Mark A. Schroll "Mushroom (and Masalai) Madness in Melanesia: Drug Traditions and Cultural Change in Highland Societies in Papua New Guinea" - Henry Dosedla "Crop Circles as Psychoid Manifestation: Borrowing Jung's Analysis of UFOs to Approach the Phenomenon of the Crop Circle" - William Rowlandson "Eileen Garrett's Haitian Diary" - Eileen J. Garrett "What's Wrong With Parapharmanthropology (Apart from the Name)?" - David Luke | ||
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 Vol. 2, No. 3 (July 2011)
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Contents"The Esoteric Experience: Positive or Negative?" - Mike Rush
"Supernatural Abductions: UFO and Folklore Narratives" - Franco Bejarano "Application of an Ethnographic Methodology for the Study of Spirit Possession" - Terence J. Palmer "Capturing Intetion?: PIP Photography and Shamanic Intervention" - Zoe Bran "Evidence Unseen: The Ethnographic and Personal Unknown" - Paul. D. Biscop "The Ka in Ancient Egypt" - Callum E. Cooper "Anthropology, Evolution and Anomalous Experience" - James McClenon "A Matter of Spirit: An Imaginal Perspective on the Paranormal" - Angela Voss "Psychedelics, Spirits and the Sacred Feminine: Communion as Cultural Critique" - Cameron Adams "Reflecting on Paranthropology: Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal" - Jack Hunter, Mark A. Schroll & Fabian Graham | ||
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 Vol. 2, No. 2 (April 2011) 'Psi and the Psychedelic Experience'
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Contents"Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" - Andy Roberts
"Connecting, Diverging and Reconnecting: Putting the Psi Back in Psychedelic Research" - David Luke "Mushroom Dream Ceremony: A Sorceror's Apprentice Guided to the Unknown" - Alysa Braceau "The Pineal Gland: Psychic and Psychedelic Powerhouse" - Serena Roney-Dougal "Psi and Psychedelics: One Episode of Many" - Jean Millay "Out-of-Body Experience: The Dentist & Nitrous Oxide" - Mark A. Schroll "Psychedelics and Spirituality" - Peter Barrett "In Memory of Stan Gooch (1932-2010) - Robert M. Schoch & Oana R. Ghiocel | ||
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 Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 2011) 'Mediumship & Spirit Possession'
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Contents"Clairvoyance, Class and Convention" - Sophie Louise Drennan
"In Possession of My Senses? Reflections from Social Science on Engaging With the Otherworldly" - Sara Mackian "The Science and Struggle of Psi Research" - Callum E. Cooper "The Autonomy and Morphology of the Felix Experimental Group's Ectoplasm" - Jochen Soederling "The History of Survival Research" - Michael Tymn "Towards a Social History of Spiritualism in Bristol" - Jack Hunter "Candomble, Umbanda and Kardecismo in Recife, Brazil" - Stanley Krippner "Pragmatics and Intuition in the Automatic Writing Compositions of Chico Xavier" - Ademir Xavier "A Trance Mediumship Performance in Singapore" - Fabian Graham "The Disparity of "Standards of Care" for Spirit Mediumship as a Permissible Health Care Profession" - August Goforth "The Importance of Mediumship Research" - Various | ||
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 Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 2010) 'Paranormal Encounters in the Field'
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Contents"The Anomalous Anthropologist: Field Experience as an Insider Medium/Anthropologist" - Paul D. Biscop
"An Experiential Paradigm for the Anthropology of Consciousness" - Kim McCaul "Castaneda's Controversy and Methodological Influence" - Mark A. Schroll "Ghostly Experiences: More Than Imagination, More Than Just a Good Story" - Rosalyn Dyne "When Researchers Become Eyewitnesses to the Anomalous: Should Seeing be Believing?"- Callum E. Cooper "Maria Lionza and the Induction of Spirit Possession in Others: A First Hand Account" - Allan Marsden | ||
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 Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2010) - 'Methodologies & Approaches'
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Contents"The Anthropology of Consciouness: Investigating the Frontiers of Unexplainable Personal and Cultural Phenomena" - Mark A. Schroll
"Methods for Studying the Paranormal: Who Says What is Normal Anyway?" - Fiona Bowie "A Rose by Any Name is Still a Rose: The Nomenclature of the Paranormal" - Yves Marton "Parasociology: Integrating the Concept of Psi into Sociology" - Eric Ouellet "The Therapeutic, Ethical and Relational Dynamics of Mediumship and Psychic Consultations" - Sarah Metcalfe "Anthropology and the Paranormal, What's the Point?" - Jack Hunter | ||