Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal
  • Home
  • About
    • Editorial Board
    • Past Contributors>
      • Contributors' Publications
    • Related Articles
  • Download
    • Free PDF
    • Buy Print Copies
  • Books
    • Anthology
    • Thinking About Experience
    • Why People Believe...
    • Reviews
  • Subscribe
  • Submit
    • Articles
    • News/Events
    • Reviews
  • Readings
  • Talks
  • Discussion Forum

Download the Journal

Click on the front covers below to download free .pdfs of the journal.

Latest Issue:

Picture
Vol. 4 No. 2 (April 2013)
Paranthropology Vol. 4 No. 2
File Size: 12086 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd
Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 4 No. 1 (January 2013)
Paranthropology Vol. 4 No. 1a
File Size: 55626 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd
Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 3 No. 4 (October 2012)
Paranthropology Vol. 3 No. 4
File Size: 27402 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd
Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 3 No. 3 (July 2012)
Paranthropology Vol. 3 No. 3
File Size: 18609 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd
Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 3 No. 2 (April 2012)
Paranthropology Vol. 3 No. 2
File Size: 5976 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd

Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 3 No. 1 (January 2012)
Paranthropology Vol. 3 No. 1
File Size: 4397 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd

Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 2 No. 4 (October 2011)
Paranthropology Vol 2. No. 4
File Size: 16003 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd

Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Previous Issues:

Vol. 2 No. 3 (July 2011)
Vol. 2, No. 3 (July 2011)
Paranthropology Vol. 2 No. 3
File Size: 20995 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Issuu
Click to Download for Free via Scribd

Or, Click Here to Buy a Print Copy

* Published before implementation of the peer-review board.

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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Vol. 2 No. 2 (April 2011) 'Psi and the Psychedelic Experience'
Vol. 2, No. 2 (April 2011) 'Psi and the Psychedelic Experience'
Paranthropology Vol. 2 No. 2
File Size: 18691 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Scribd

* 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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Picture
Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 2011) 'Mediumship & Spirit Possession'
Paranthropology Vol. 2 No. 1
File Size: 23035 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Scribd

* 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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 2010) 'Paranormal Encounters in the Field'
Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 2010) 'Paranormal Encounters in the Field'
Paranthropology Vol. 1 No. 2
File Size: 4102 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Scribd

* 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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2010) - 'Methodologies & Approaches'
Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2010) - 'Methodologies & Approaches'
Paranthropology Vol. 1 No. 1
File Size: 3789 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Click to Download for Free via Scribd

* 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

-------------------------------------------------------------

Help Support Paranthropology With a Donation:

Creative Commons License
Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.