Did Moses turn rods into serpents? Does Uri Geller bend spoons? Did
Socrates and Joan of Arc have spirit guides? Did Daniel Home
levitate? The 1970's provided a striking revival of interest in the
paranormal which has continued unabated into the twenty first
century. Telepathy ESP, clairvoyance, premonitions, and
psychokinesis - the action of mind upon matter - it was not long
ago that orthodox opinion, both scientific and religious, rejected
the possibility of such things out of hand. Today, their reality
has been demonstrated and tested in laboratories all over the world
and the results are published in serious scientific journals.
Natural and Supernatural is the first full survey of the subject
for over a century. With scrupulous thoroughness and a wealth of
extraordinary detail, Brian Inglis presents his evidence, drawing
on anthropological studies of primitive tribes and records of
classical antiquity and taking his story to the outbreak of the
First World War, when the first phase of scientific psychical
research came to an end. He pays particular attention to the work
of the mesmerists and of the early psychical researchers in the
last century. He deals, too, with related aspects such as
hauntings, poltergeist outbreaks:, scrying and dowsing. Contrary to
popular belief, the evidence for psychic phenomena and
non-locality, and the mass of material available to researchers is
huge. Inglis meticulously sifted the genuine from the false.,
singling out such episodes as may reasonably be identified as
historical and allowing the reader to make up his own mind, on the
basis of the fullest and soundest knowledge, whether to accept
paranormal phenomena or not. If they are accepted - and informed
opinion is more and more moving that way- then a real revolution in
our way of thinking is due to follow. For if mind can communicate
with mind at distance, or move objects without contact, not merely
will there have to be extensive revision of science textbooks.
History, too, will need to be re-written, to allow for the
possibility that reports which have long been dismissed as myth or
illusion may have been accurate after all. The implications of the
subject are great, and Inglis does them full justice. Praise for
Natural and Supernatural. 'I believe it to be an extraordinarily
important and valuable work, sensational in what it contains and
even more so in its implications...he has piled up a mountain of
evidence, searchingly examined and scrupulously evaluated.' Bernard
Levin, The Times 'It has the two basic qualities which make books
on history endure: it is both scholarly and readable.' Arthur
Koestler, the Guardian 'A tour de force...one of those works, like
H. G. Wells Outline of History, that fires the imagination and
leaves the reader feeling stunned, but excited.' Colin Wilson,
Evening News 'Brian Inglis is eminently sensible and sane. In this
massive survey, the evidence is presented in a sober and scholarly
way...Natural and Supernatural is hard to fault.' the Economist
Inglis bring to this book the same thoroughness and care that he
shows in his other books...while I have not been converted, it has
intensified mental conflict, and I admire and respect him for
writing it.' Karl Sabbagh, New Scientist 'Cool, authoritative and
highly readable - a service to science and society.' Ray Brown,
Psychology Today
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