Author: Aaron Gulyas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144225114X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book explores a genre of American science fiction television which emerged in the 1990s—that of conspiratorial science fiction.
Author: Aaron Gulyas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144225114X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book explores a genre of American science fiction television which emerged in the 1990s—that of conspiratorial science fiction.
Author: Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781442251137
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This book explores a genre of American science fiction television which emerged in the 1990s—that of conspiratorial science fiction.
Author: George P. Hansen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781462812899
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Paranormal and supernatural events have been reported for millennia. They have fostered history’s most important cultural transformations (e.g., via the miracles of Moses, Jesus, Mohammed). Paranormal phenomena are frequently portrayed in the world’s greatest art and literature, as well as in popular TV shows and movies. Most adults in the U.S. believe in them. Yet they have a marginal place in modern culture. No university departments are devoted to studying psychic phenomena. In fact, a panoply of scientists now aggressively denounces them. These facts present a deeply puzzling situation. But they become coherent after pondering the trickster figure, an archaic being found worldwide in mythology and folklore. The trickster governs paradox and the irrational, but his messages are concealed. This book draws upon theories of the trickster from anthropology, folklore, sociology, semiotics, and literary criticism. It examines psychic phenomena and UFOs and explains why they are so problematical for science.
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 1780286961
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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A major work... An extraordinary tour de force...' - New Scientist Colin Wilson came to realize, through his own cathartic experiences, that all of us are in fact manifold personalities, that we each consist of a ladder or hierarchy of selves, and that the upper members may be called upon at will. He explains how these discoveries led him to the view that our integral multiple personalities are the explanation for a wide diversity of paranormal phenomena, from dowsing and demonic possession to precognition and spoon-bending. "Man's being is like a vast mansion, yet he seems to live in a single room in the basement."
Author: Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 0991697588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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In "The Chaos Conundrum," historian Aaron John Gulyas examines how the paranormal has intersected and influenced our culture in myriad ways, from the conspiracy beliefs of William Cooper and Exopolitics to the challenge that the stories of Gray Barker presented to our concept of self and time. He looks at the maelstrom of personalities, agendas, impressions, data, confusion, and contradictions that can be found in the world of the weird, and demonstrates how they have become an integral part of our lives, whether in the form of flying saucers, hauntings, religious revelations, psychic abilities, or dozens of other guises. Gulyas delves into the stories of the people who have attempted to create order out of the chaos. Along the way he recounts his own journey from enthusiastic believer in the "shadow government" and their underground bases to jaded academic skeptic, and then finally to someone who thinks there might just be something to the paranormal after all... but not what we have been led to expect or believe!
Author: Homayun Sidky
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1785271644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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"Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal, and Pseudoscience" provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought associated with the current rise of irrationalism, antiintellectualism, and emboldened religious fundamentalism and violence. Drawing upon H. Sidky’s scientific anthropological background and ethnographic field research of supernatural and paranormal beliefs and practices in several cultures over three decades, the book answers several important questions: Why do humans have a proclivity for the supernatural and paranormal thinking? Why has humanity remained shackled to sets of ideas inherited from a violent past that have no basis in reality and which bestow an illusionary solace, promote bloodshed, endless cruelties and fervent hatreds, and have come at a high cost? Why have ancient superstitions been held as sacred, inviolate truths while other aspects of the archaic belief systems of which they were a part have long been discarded? Why have not humans outgrown religion and paranormal beliefs?
Author: Jonathan C. Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111902935X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Rev. ed. of: Pseudoscience and extraordinary claims of the paranormal: a critical thinker's toolkit. 2010.
Author: Marc E. Fitch
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0313382077
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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This thought-provoking study of paranormal phenomena traces the impact of supernatural beliefs on popular culture and, conversely, examines the influence of new communication technologies on research being conducted in the field.
Author: Maximillien De Lafayette
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304301028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Erin McCarthy
Publisher: Erin McCarthy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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When the bitterly cold days of January descend on Cleveland, Bailey Burke finds her “Put It Where?” home staging business is as frozen as her toes. The only bright spot is the return of her friend Ryan after his, ahem, eviction from heaven. Especially since no other dead people seem to be harassing her in recent weeks. Yet when her grandmother’s bingo buddy turns up frozen solid in a stranger’s back yard, Bailey is the only one who finds the death suspicious. Only Bailey knows fashion and she knows Shirley, a one-time film star, would not be caught dead, literally, in a stained nightgown. Determined it prove it is homicide and not dementia, she enlists Ryan’s help to investigate, despite his ghostly limitations. This time Bailey is ready to play it smart, solve the crime, have the bad guy do the time… only all is fair game in bingo and eccentric backstabbing biddies with gobs of cash.
