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Wrestling with Ghosts (Paperback)
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"Wrestling With Ghosts" summarizes and updates a growing literature
that includes traditional cultural accounts, scientific research,
and subjective reports about the uncanny sleep disorder referred to
as sleep paralysis (SP). The book serves as an important tool to
normalize the sleep paralysis experience by attempting to remove
its often-publicized mystical and supernatural aura. Specifically,
the book is a serious contribution to the psychological and social
scientific literature as an example of behavioral/social
methodology in clarifying psychological phenomena that can be
misinterpreted individually or by culture as "paranormal." However,
the book does not refute the very real phenomenology of the
experience and is intended as a practical guide for recognizing and
managing the disorder in creative and self-enhancing ways.
Moreover, this work reiterates the aesthetic and creative power of
uncanny dreaming regardless of its origin. This aesthetic dimension
of sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming is part of mythical,
shamanic, creative, personal and scientific multidisciplinary
approach to studying and describing dream phenomenology.
Additionally, this work provides a retrospective look at the
history of this uncanny disorder in human evolution, its recent
western medical history and its most recent empirical descriptions
as so-called alien abduction cases, including a presentation of
Jungian and Freudian mythical perspectives. The empirical data is
presented in balance with traditional cross-cultural and folklore
accounts of the disorder as well as in the context of numerous
recent cases researched in conjunction with the long-term study.
Part of the data presented includes a proposalabout
psycho-geographical and psycho-geomagnetic distributions of "ghost"
stories, dream attacks, and other SP related phenomena. These
geographical zones correlate with geodynamic areas such as the
Pacific "Ring of Fire" region where an increased number of cultural
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