Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience

By Tony Jinks

Book Overview

Part 1: Paranormal experience.- Chapter 1: What is a ghost?.- Chapter 2: What is the paranormal?.- Chapter 3: What is experience?.- Part 2: The first-path.- Chapter 4: The 5W1H method.- Chapter 5: Low energy ghosts.- Chapter 6: High energy ghosts.- Chapter 7: Ghosts and the how?.- Chapter 8: Filters and Tuners.- Chapter 9: Multiple filters?.- Chapter 10: The receiver.- Part 3: The second-path.- Chapter 11: Defining reality.- Chapter 12: The observer and consciousness.- Chapter 13: The emergent mind.- Chapter 14: Scientific reality and errors in consciousness.- Chapter 15: No (ghostly) illusions.- Chapter 16: Hallucinations.- Chapter 17: Altered states of consciousness.- Chapter 18: The how and why of psychedelics.- Chapter 19: Global changes to the altered state.- Chapter 20: Dissociation .- Chapter 21: Component changes to the altered state.- Chapter 22: Mental imagery and the jigsaw.- Chapter 23: The enigma of unconscious imagery.- Chapter 24: Cultural Wiring.- Chapter 25: Forcing the boundaries of the second-path - a purposeful unconscious.- Chapter 26: The problem of the producer.- Chapter 27: The producer solved?.- Part 4: The third-path.- Chapter 28: A return to dualism.- Chapter 29: The prism.- Chapter 30: The Otherreal.- Chapter 31: Consciousness and dimensionality.- Chapter 32: A transpersonal alternative.- Chapter 33: Witnessed experience and the third-path.- Chapter 34: The three paths and Tom's ghost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030289044
• ISBN13: 9783030289041
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"