Authors of the impossible: the paranormal and the sacred
The book as séance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research After Life -- Myers and the founding of the S.P.R -- The subliminal gothic: the human as two -- The supernormal and evolution: the world as two -- Telepathy: the communications technology of the spirit -- The perfect in...
| Résumé: | The book as séance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research After Life -- Myers and the founding of the S.P.R -- The subliminal gothic: the human as two -- The supernormal and evolution: the world as two -- Telepathy: the communications technology of the spirit -- The perfect insect of the imaginal -- The telepathic and the erotic: Myers's platonic speech -- Seeds of a super-story: Charles Fort and the fantastic narrative of western occulture -- The parable of the peaches: Fort's mischievous monistic life -- Collecting and classifying the data of the damned: Fort's comparative method -- The three eras or dominants: Fort's philosophy of history -- The philosophy of the hyphen: Fort's dialectical monism -- Galactic colonialism: Fort's science mysticism and dark mythology -- Evolution, wild talents, and the poltergeist girls: Fort's magical anthropology -- The future technology of folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO phenomenon -- Forbidden science (1957-69) -- Passport to Magonia: from folklore to flying saucers -- The invisible college -- The present technology of folklore: computer technology and remote viewing -- In the psychic underground -- The alien contact trilogy and the mature multiverse gnosis -- Sub rosa: the three secrets -- The hermeneutics of light -- Returning the human sciences to consciousness: Bertrand Méheust and the sociology of the impossible -- A double premise -- Méheust and the master -- Science fiction and flying saucers -- The challenge of the magnetic and the shock of the psychical -- "if only one of these facts . . .": the impossible case of Alexis Didier -- The collective mind: Bateson, De Martino, Vallee, and Jung -- Agent X: projection theory turned back on itself |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | XIII, 332 S., Ill., 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226453863 |