Mysticism comes in many guises. Only a taster is provided here. As for the unseen world of ESP, faith healing, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, even ghosts, and the rest! True, it is passing strange that ‘so many’ people see it? If there is nothing to be seen, how come? Is it a collective delusion? It is often said that the trouble with so-called ‘civilised’ man is that he has lost touch with the truth of Nature that indigenous or ‘primitive’ peoples know. The moment however a Maori talks of ‘Dreamland’ or a South American Shaman says that one jungle plant out of tens of thousands enables one to commune with a guardian spirit, Western Man tends to switch off. What would Mark Zuckerberg have to say about THAT! Thousands of positive read-outs about their efficacy may be on record but there is not one shred of proof that M’Lud in his court can accept as definite forensic evidence or a geometrician conclude Quod erat demonstrandum (That which was to be demonstrated). As for the animal world, what does a cat in an Old Age Home know when it goes to sleep at the door of any patient about to die! Or how does a dog instinctively know an exact if unscheduled time its master will come home? Old Curiosity tales for Old Wives’s firesides, the whole blinking lot, every last one of them, are they? Basta! As Dr Lynda Shaw remarks: ‘The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence?!’
Eminent people like Conan Doyle took seriously a possible communication with the Departed; yet so sane and logical in other respects the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Was he completely bonkers in this one regard?
The eminent journalist and author with a distinguished war record, Dennis Bardens, delved painstakingly into the possibilities of precognition in ‘Ahead of Time‘. His was a common sense research into many documented accounts – from people ranging from Abraham Lincoln to toddlers foretelling their deaths to parents.
Several are the reported instances of people recovering from illness after being treated with Faith Healing; Harry Edwards being but one among many notables in this sphere; are all the reports twaddle or to be palmed off as the placebo effect? The work of the psychic and faith healer, Allon Bacon, seems to show that it takes a goodly dose of the most hidebound prejudice to deny there is anything at all that exists in the unseen world.
What of all the talk about reincarnation? A recent example has been of a young Scots boy who seems to have ‘memories’ of someone else. How is this possible?
What of near-death experiences or arguably after-death experiences? There have been innumerable accounts from before the time of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. One example is the record made by Patrice Van Aersel who has delved into many case histories.
If nothing else, it is the sheer volume of the accounts about psychic experiences, renewed generation after generation, should give the sceptics pause for thought. Can they ALL just be a form of delusion, individual and collective? Serious minded people in their droves contribute to the material available in the Society for Psychic Research. In ‘A Geography of Ghosts: the spectral landscapes of Mary Butts‘, there is a tour d’horizon of such phenomena. What of the preoccupations of the late best-selling authoress, Hilary Mandel, who writes of ‘invisible presences and the echoes of strangers’ voices . . . morbid visions, like visitations, premonitions of dissolution.’ and who sees ‘the ghost of my stepfather coming down’ the staircase and other things that ‘aren’t there.’
The millennia over which astronomers worked on the movements in the heavens and which enabled them to build monuments with cosmic exactness such as the Pyramids; were they all so wrong about the significance of what their astrologers divined in the heavens?
Do the sceptics deserve a dose of their own medicine?
The hope of certainty in this world may be the real will-o’-the-wisp statement that ‘There is nothing in the Afterlife; this world is all we have!’ can be countered by ‘How do you know?’
Maybe the sceptics are right.
It is a brave or a myopic man who can be 100% certain of that….
Or of anything.
Please note that books or websites etc suggested are not an espousal of all their contents. Selection centres on whether there are relevant points of interest
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Center for Quantum Activism
Amit Goswami develops a theory of survival after death and reincarnation. In The Quantum Doctor, he seeks to integrate both conventional and alternative medicine. In Creative Evolution, Goswami presents a resolution between Darwinism and the intelligent design of life. In God is Not Dead, Goswami demonstrates that not only are science and religion compatible but that quantum physics proves the existence of God. In Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative, Goswami explains all facets of creativity – its definition, the quantum thinking it entails, and what is required to be creative. Goswami says, “Every human being has creative potential, and grasping the quantum process will help everyone to explore his or her creative potential.” In Quantum Economics: Unleashing the Power of an Economics of Consciousness. Goswami focuses on critical issues for a new paradigm in economics and business for the twenty-first century, touching upon the stability and sustainability of the economy and leadership, as well as creativity and ethics in business.
Chopra Foundation, The
Robert Thurman of shows that many Buddhist concepts go hand in hand with understandings from physics, biology, and psychology. No theory about reality is ‘ultimate’. Quantum theory demonstrates that matter is not primary. We are in a non-dual world. The ordinary person does not perceive the world objectively. One cannot say that ‘reality’ fundamentally is either consciousness or matter. This has a bearing on beliefs about an immortal self. The Self is not a fixed point. Blind faith is not a reliable thing; except perhaps for the idea of causation. The question is posed: ‘How can there be one truth?’
College of Psychic Studies, The
The College of Psychic Studies works with trusted experts who specialize in psychic and mediumship, healing and palmistry, shamanism and more
Gaia
Gaia has a large library of films discussions relating to all manner of topics that might broadly be described as relating to the Unseen World. Many witnesses and researchers speak of their experiences and experiments to test where possible what might be the truth of such phenomena as life after death. To take only example out of thousands of case studies: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell is an American contemporary artist and investigative filmmaker who documents extraordinary individuals and their belief systems. The research takes in nanotechnology, aerospace exploration, exotic propulsion systems and more.
Global Consciousness Project, The
The Global Consciousness Project uses electronic devices located around the globe that respond to fluctuations in mass attention during significant world events. Based on this and other experiments, Dr Dean Radin concludes that mind and matter are interwoven in fundamental ways as in Noetic studies. Statistical grounds to test the validity of viz Extrasensory Perception and related concepts is clear. The abstract on Measuring extraordinary experiences and beliefs gives further detail. Studies by Dr Shafica Karagulla and Dr Viola Neal about how the caudate nucleus in the brain could be a kind of antenna for clairvoyance tend to the same conclusions
Lynne McTaggart – The Power of Eight
Lynne McTaggart in The Power of Eight makes the claim that when individuals in a group focus their intention together on a single target, a powerful collective dynamic emerges. She draws on the science behind this phenomenon, and includes examples from religious practices.
Mereology – the study of parts and wholes
This looks inter alia at whether everything must be something, and at metaphysical questions such as ‘Everything and Nothing’. Heidegger talks about ‘nothing’ or ‘all’ in his philosophy. Nothing is contradictory, ineffable and the ground of everything. Husserl also had this way of looking at things. Anything can be a thing (anything) and it can be a quantifier or a substantive, or it can be both. Parts overlap. Some objects do not exist but are postulated. The mereological sum of a bunch of objects is you get when you put those things together
Nine Powers of Dreaming by Robert Moss
In ‘The Nine Powers of Dreaming’, Robert Moss contends that we solve problems in our sleep and gives nine main ways in which this happens. He writes: ‘While we often dismiss dreams, or fail to make room for them in the hurry of our daily lives, dreams can be a fabulous source of guidance, healing and juice for any day.
Physics of Consciousness, The
Ivan Antic discusses ‘The Physics of Consciousness: In the Quantum Field, Minerals, Plants, Animals and Human Souls. There is no multitude of consciousnesses; the consciousness is only one and the same in everything, it merely divides and utilizes itself in all of the aspects of existence. Consciousness and existence are one and the same, and together they comprise our essence, or the soul.
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeons Journey into the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander.
This is particularly interesting because at the back of the book Eben Alexander explains why mainstream neuroscience is wrong in dismissing so-called unscientific theories of near death experiences.
PSYCHOPHYSICS: An Answer from the Unconscious
E Green – Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine Journal Archives – journals.sfu.ca
Biopsychology, and more specifically psychophysics are explored in relationship to information obtained from the unconscious with a meditative practice. Problem-solving methods and related principles of living in harmony with the cosmos without trying to manipulate the future for physical, emotional, or mental gain are presented through the experiences of one meditator
The theory proposes the existence of a ‘world mind’ or the ‘Planetary Field of Mind’ called by Carl Jung the collective unconscious. The way. Fechner – a founding father of Psychophysics, thought of it is that our conscious mind is unaware of the general world mind.
Secret by Rhonda Byrne, The
The Law of Attraction is about Putative Universal Laws that can be tied to quantum physics, also known as Cosmic Laws, Cosmic Principles, or Natural Laws. They are an antidote to conditioning to disregard anything that is beyond the perception of the five senses. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is among the books that have popularised the concept.
University of Edinburgh Parapsychology
A university with a strong department researching parapsychology is the University of Edinburgh.
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