A New Science of the Paranormal – The Promise of Psychical Research
By Lawrence LeShan Ph.D.
133 Pages | First Quest Edition 2009 | Softcover | Quest Books, U.S.A. | ISBN: 9780835608770.
ESP, hauntings, death-bed apparitions - science refuses to acknowledge the existence of such phenomena, because controlled experiments can't prove them. But, says Lawrence LeShan, the paranormal is as real as the power of electricity, another force that we once did not understand. Citing documented cases, he offers the only current view for making a serious study of important subjects like clairvoyance, mediumship, and psychic healing. And the issue is not just academic, he says. If we are able to stop killing each other and the planet, we desperately need to replace our materialistic worldview. Psi research promises a new concept of reality that holds great hope for the future.
From Chapter 7 - 'What Dare I hope'? (p. 99):
" All the human search for understanding and meaning, wrote the philosopher Immanuel Kant, is contained in four questions:
What can I know?
What ought I to do?
What dare I hope?
What is a human being?
As the study of psi becomes a mature science and its existence becomes a part of our cultural world-picture, becomes 'common sense', what can we legitimately expect to happen? What I dare hope for is a time when psi becomes as widely accepted as was the unconscious after Freud or global warming after enough scientific research had been done on the subject. "
A New Science of the Paranormal – The Promise of Psychical Research
By Lawrence LeShan Ph.D.
133 Pages | First Quest Edition 2009 | Softcover | Quest Books, U.S.A. | ISBN: 9780835608770.
ESP, hauntings, death-bed apparitions – science refuses to acknowledge the existence of such phenomena, because controlled experiments can’t prove them. But, says Lawrence LeShan, the paranormal is as real as the power of electricity, another force that we once did not understand. Citing documented cases, he offers the only current view for making a serious study of important subjects like clairvoyance, mediumship, and psychic healing. And the issue is not just academic, he says. If we are able to stop killing each other and the planet, we desperately need to replace our materialistic worldview. Psi research promises a new concept of reality that holds great hope for the future.
From Chapter 7 – ‘What Dare I hope’? (p. 99):
” All the human search for understanding and meaning, wrote the philosopher Immanuel Kant, is contained in four questions:
What can I know?
What ought I to do?
What dare I hope?
What is a human being?
As the study of psi becomes a mature science and its existence becomes a part of our cultural world-picture, becomes ‘common sense’, what can we legitimately expect to happen? What I dare hope for is a time when psi becomes as widely accepted as was the unconscious after Freud or global warming after enough scientific research had been done on the subject. “