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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > General
Among the most profound questions we confront are the nature of
what and who we are as conscious beings, and how the human mind
relates to the rest of what we consider reality. For millennia,
philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers have attempted
answers, perhaps none more meaningful today than those offered by
neuroscience and by Buddhism. The encounter between these two
worldviews has spurred ongoing conversations about what science and
Buddhism can teach each other about mind and reality. In Mind
Beyond Brain, the neuroscientist David E. Presti, with the
assistance of other distinguished researchers, explores how
evidence for anomalous phenomena-such as near-death experiences,
apparent memories of past lives, apparitions, experiences
associated with death, and other so-called psi or paranormal
phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition-can
influence the Buddhism-science conversation. Presti describes the
extensive but frequently unacknowledged history of scientific
investigation into these phenomena, demonstrating its relevance to
questions about consciousness and reality. The new perspectives
opened up, if we are willing to take evidence of such often
off-limits topics seriously, offer significant challenges to
dominant explanatory paradigms and raise the prospect that we may
be poised for truly revolutionary developments in the scientific
investigation of mind. Mind Beyond Brain represents the next level
in the science and Buddhism dialogue.
Lincolnshire has many well-known stories of the supernatural, among
the best known of which is that of the Lincoln Imp. In this book
author Daniel J. Codd explores the supernatural lore of
Lincolnshire. It includes all manner of phenomena, from forgotten
poltergeist incidents and village miracles to recent allegations of
werewolf and yeti-type creatures seen in the wilds of Lincolnshire.
There are many hitherto unpublished accounts such as reports of the
ghost of a small man who appeared to builders renovating a house in
Lincoln; a ghostly lady who approached a house in Skellingthorpe
(whereupon previously unnoticed footprints were found in concrete
outside the door); and a phantom Second World War soldier who
crossed a road leading to his old house in Lincoln. There are also
stories of UFOs, two tall humanoid figures seen crossing wasteland,
monkeys and panthers running wild, and a smoky cross that allegedly
appears outside Scunthorpe's hospital when someone is about to die.
Paranormal Lincolnshire takes the reader into the world of ghosts,
spirits and poltergeists in the county, following their footsteps
into the unknown. It captures the spectrum of ghosts, haunted
places, UFOs, strange creatures and weird phenomena reported across
the county, old and new. These tales will delight ghost hunters and
fascinate and intrigue everybody who knows Lincolnshire.
The dream state meets reality in this true life personal
adventure as Peter Moon reveals a peculiar and impact- ing dream
he experienced in 1989 long before his leg- endary involvement with
time travel and synchronicity. The dream, the details of which are
reviewed in this book, climaxed with a white bat manifesting at
Dracula's Citadel. Before his sixth journey to Romania, an annual
sojourn Peter Moon has made since 2008 in pursuit of the myster-
ies presented by Radu Cinamar in the Transylvania book series and
summarized again within these pages, Peter realizes that the dream
was somehow prophetic and had been pulling him to Romania long
before his involvement with time travel, Preston Nichols, Dr. David
Anderson or even before he began his public writing career.
Now, upon his arrival in Transylvania in 2013 and twenty- four
years after the dream, Peter is spontaneously informed that a white
bat had unexpectedly just appeared in a cave sacred to the blue
goddess Machandi, a tantric
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