Beyond the Occult
Twenty Years' Research into the Paranormal
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- 9,49 €
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- 9,49 €
Publisher Description
Dive deeper into the mystical, the paranormal, and the occult—from ESP and clairvoyance to poltergeists and spirit possession—in this follow-up to the international bestseller, The Occult!
After writing his famous and critically acclaimed history of magic in The Occult, Colin Wilson now re-examines the whole spectrum of the mystical and paranormal, producing a general occult theory that remains as compelling as the evidence of atomic particles. Now with new material and evidence, this edition of Beyond the Occult combines scientific thinking on the nature of physical reality with a wide range of fascinating case studies of mystical experiences, spirit possession, poltergeists, and more. Discover the hidden powers of the human mind—and the more mysterious forces of good or evil—in chapters on:
• Extra-sensory Perception (ESP)
• Clairvoyance
• Psychometry
• Precognition
• Psychokinesis
• Dowsing
• Poltergeists
• Spirit Possession
• Reincarnation
In Beyond the Occult, Colin Wilson puts forward a convincing case that our so-called “normal” experience may, in fact, be subnormal, and that evolution may have brought us near the edge of a quantum leap into a hugely expanded human consciousness.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wilson ( The Occult ; The Misfits ) maintains that a belief in telepathy and precognition is compatible with science, arguing that mystical and paranormal experiences involve a widening of one's ordinary field of perception. A well-documented synthesis of research into the paranormal, this lively, succinct narrative hops from ESP to mediumship, out-of-body travel, spirit possession, poltergeists, near-death visions and reincarnation. Wilson weaves in the psychic or mystical experiences of Blake, Goethe, Jung, Maupassant, Arthur Koestler, Dylan Thomas, Philip K. Dick, others. He grounds his beliefs in the theory of an ``information universe,'' in which everything that ever happened is somehow on record, and in the view that so-called occult powers are latent in each of us as part of our unfulfilled evolutionary potential.
