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Latest Issue:
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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Previous Issues:
 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'
* Published before implementation of the peer-review board. |
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'
* Published before implementation of the peer-review board. |
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'
* Published before implementation of the peer-review board. |
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'
* Published before implementation of the peer-review board. |
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 |
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