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"Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and psychokinesis. In contrast, this cutting-edge anthology assembles an international team of experts to examine critically what is referred to as the survival hypothesis: the tentative statement or prediction that some aspect of our personhood persists subsequent to the death of the physical body"--
List of contents
Table of ContentsForeword by Lance Storm �BR>
Preface �BR>
Introduction: The Medium and the Message�(Adam J. Rock) �BR>
Part 1: Explanation and Belief
The Possibility of Mediumship: Philosophical Considerations�(Stephen E. Braude) �
Is Postmortem Survival the Best Explanation of the Data of Mediumship? (Michael Sudduth) �
Non-Parapsychological Explanations of Ostensible Mediumship (Chris A. Roe and Elizabeth C. Roxburgh) �
A Skeptic's View of Mediumship (Krissy Wilson) �
The Psychology of Belief in Discarnate Communication (Tony Jinks) �
Part 2: Culture, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Cultural Aspects of Personality, Beliefs and Attentional Strategies in Mediumship (Joan H. Hageman and Stanley Krippner) �7
Shamanism and Mediumship: Confluence and Difference (Rafael G. Locke, Adam J. Rock and Roger N. Walsh) �2
Communication with Gods and Spirits in East and 璖outheast Asia (Christopher C. Cott) �5
Mediumship and Psychopathology (Jacob Kaminker) �6
Mediumship and Psychotherapy (Rafael G. Locke) �0
Part 3: Empirical Approaches
Advances in Quantitative Mediumship Research (Julie Beischel) �7
A Review of Qualitative Mediumship Research�(Kylie Harris and Carlos S. Alvarado) �6
A ç’ixed Methods Approach to Mediumship Research (Elizabeth C. Roxburgh and Chris A. Roe) �0
A Systems Level Neuroscience Approach to Mediumship and the 璖ource-of-Psi Problem (Graham A. Jamieson and Adam J. Rock) �5
Neuroscience of Trance and Mediumship (Julio F. P. Peres, Alexander ç’oreira-Almeida and Leonardo Caixeta) �4
Part 4: The Present and the Future
Mediumship and Its Place Within Parapsychology (Julie Beischel, Mark Boccuzzi and Edwin C. May) �5
The Future of the Field of Mediumship (Carlos S. Alvarado; Julie Beischel, Mark Boccuzzi and Edwin C. May; Stephen E. Braude; Joan H. Hageman and Stanley Krippner; Kylie Harris; Tony Jinks; Jacob Kaminker; Rafael G. Locke; Julio F. P. Peres; Adam J. Rock and Graham A. Jamieson; Elizabeth C. Roxburgh and Chris A. Roe; Michael Sudduth; Krissy Wilson) �5
About the Contributors �3
Index �7
About the author
Adam J. Rock is a lecturer at the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. His primary research interests are in the area of altered states of consciousness, mainly focused on shamanism, the conceptual problem of consciousness, and mediumship.
