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Intrusions - Society and the paranormal (Hardcover)
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Intrusions - Society and the paranormal (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1982, Intrusions examines a wide range of cases
down through history, showing how ordinary people have regarded the
paranormal in contrast with 'official' attitudes, and how society
as a whole has attempted to deal with happenings that are
inexplicable in terms of current scientific or religious theory. He
discusses questions such as What did Shakespeare's audience feel
about Hamlet's father's ghost? Why did a renewed interest in magic
follow 'the age of enlightenment?' How did Victorian science
respond to spiritualism, and why has scientific psychical research,
when it finally came, encountered continued opposition? Drawing on
reports and accounts of very kind, Mr. Evans gives an authentic
account of prevailing attitudes, focussing for the first time
directly on the experiences and points of view of ordinary people.
He demonstrates that society has been, and still is, badly served
by the intellectual establishment in matters relating to the
paranormal. Although there are signs that the situation is
improving, there is still a dismaying degree of reluctance even to
investigate, let alone accept, these phenomena, yet they continue
to occur, and people continue to seek explanations for them. This
book will be of interest to anyone interested in the mysteries of
the paranormal as well as to students of parapsychology, history
and literature.
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