Miracles: God, Science, and Psychology in the Paranormal, Volume 3, Parapsychological Perspectives (Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality)

Cover Page......Page 1
Recent Titles in Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 9780275997281 (vol. 3)......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Series Foreword......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
1 The Sensed Presence as a Coping Resource in Extreme Environments......Page 16
2 Mysticism and the Paranormal......Page 31
3 Multistate and Entheogenic Contributions to the Study of Miracles and Experimental Religious Studies......Page 53
4 The Miraculous and Mental Illness......Page 80
5 Miracles in the Frontal Lobes: A Neuropsychological Approach to the Way We Make Miracle Attributions......Page 109
6 An African Perspective on Miracles......Page 132
7 "Hallelujah! Thank You, Jesus!": Selling the Miraculous in the Preaching of Faith Healers......Page 154
8 Miracles in "A Course in Miracles"......Page 177
9 The Miracle of Psychotherapy......Page 202
10 Spiritualizing the Unknown......Page 209
11 Personal Experience, Self-Reporting, and Hyperbole......Page 225
12 Music and the Miraculous: The Neurophysiology of Music’s Emotive Meaning......Page 245
13 Revelation and the Practice of Prophecy: With Special Reference to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov......Page 268
Conclusion......Page 316
Index......Page 320
About the Editor and Advisers......Page 330
About the Contributors......Page 334