Renowned parapsychologist W. E. Butler outlines simple procedures to develop, perfect, and control the four basic psychic powers that we all possess.

Outlines techniques and tools, using the strength of intuition, for self-transformation on a deep level

Opens the path toward a lifetime of psychic exploration and discovery

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In clear-cut language, renowned parapsychologist W. E. Butler outlines simple procedures by which anyone can develop, perfect, and control the four basic psychic powers that we all possess. Using the strength of your intuition you can:

- Read the Aura--Perceive and understand the meaning of the glowing field of vital energy that surrounds all living beings.

- Understand Psychometry--Read the emanations of all objects to learn their historical and emotional significance.

- Awaken Your Telepathic Powers--Transmit and receive thoughts solely through your mind's Power.

- Experience Clairvoyance--See the past, the future, and the boundless present in vivid clarity.

Research continues to confirm the existence of paranormal powers. With these techniques you can develop your higher faculties, enriching your own life and that of others, and enabling self-transformation on a new and deeply satisfying level. These tools open the path toward a lifetime of exploration and discovery.

Since the early nineteenth century, mesmerists, mediums and psychics have exhibited extraordinary phenomena. These have been demonstrated, reported and disputed by every modern generation. We continue to wonder why people believe in such things, while others wonder why they are dismissed so easily. Extraordinary Beliefs takes a historical approach to an ongoing psychological problem: why do people believe in extraordinary phenomena? It considers the phenomena that have been associated with mesmerism, spiritualism, psychical research and parapsychology. By drawing upon conjuring theory, frame analysis and discourse analysis, it examines how such phenomena have been made convincing in demonstration and report, and then disputed endlessly. It argues that we cannot understand extraordinary beliefs unless we properly consider the events in which people believe, and what people believe about them. And it shows how, in constructing and maintaining particular beliefs about particular phenomena, we have been in the business of constructing ourselves.

Why do so many people believe in an Invisible World behind this one? Scientists a parallel universe? Religions an afterlife? Others 'just something'? Perhaps for observations we cannot explain? Some are psychological, e.g. the nature, storage, and conveyance of the information implicit in 'ghosts', hunches, premonitions and hypnosis; and some are material - the behaviour of particles on a very small scale in physics laboratories. Each hints at spatial or temporal derangement. Space and Time are the indivisible foundations of physics. Everything that exists has a location and duration; physics concerns nothing without both. We can suppose the universe bound not by a physical framework of space-time but as containing within itself all Space and all Time - with a little more besides. Another world is not a baseless idea.