Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (66 page)

Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality
(Griffin),
310n5

Partridge, Christopher,
27–30
,
304n50
;
The Re-enchantment of the West
,
28
;
UFO Religions
,
292n48

Passport to Magonia
(Vallee),
143
,
156–68
; contrasted with
The Invisible College,
171
; Méheust's disscussion of,
309n49
; and multidimensional universe,
181–82
; and beyond reason,
301n3
; thesis of,
170
; and Vallee as underground legend,
185
; and Vallee's exile,
180

Paul, Saint,
50

Pauli, Wolfgang,
14
,
23
,
291n20

Paul Marshall,
Mystical Encounters with the Natural World
,
298n117

Pauwels, Louis,
205–6
,
307n10
;
The Morning of the Magicians
,
205

Peale, Vincent Norman,
The Power of Positive Thinking
,
223

Penley, C.,
NASA/Trek
,
303n42

permission thesis,
257
.
See also
filter thesis

Persinger,
Michael,
280–81
,
313

Phaedo
(Plato),
38

phantasmogenetic center,
76

Phenomenology of the Spirit, The
,
71–72

Picard, Michel,
Aimé Michel
,
307n6

Pigeaire, Léonide,
219–20

Pinker, Steven,
How the Mind Works
,
310n7

Piper, Leonora,
13
,
56–57

Plato: and Aristotelianism,
30–31
,
266
; and epistemology,
65
; history of Western philosophy as footnotes to,
125
; and parable of the cave,
195
,
257–58
;
Phaedo
,
38
;
Symposium
,
87–90
.
See also
Myers, Frederick W. H., and Plato

Plotinus,
34
,
46
,
69

Podmore, Frank,
55–57
,
78
,
284
;
Phantasms of the Living
,
47
,
284

Poe, Edgar Allen,
16
,
230

Politics of the Imagination
(Bennett),
111

Popper, Karl,
261

postcolonial theory,
22

postmodernism: and Fort,
104
,
111–12
,
122
; as lacking metaphysical base,
111
; and Méheust,
217–18
,
233
; and modernism,
225
; as not last word,
225
; and psychical,
217–18
; revisionary,
112

poststructuralism,
217–18

Power of Positive Thinking
,
The
(Peale),
223

Price, Pat,
177
,
304n61

Price-Williams, Douglas,
181

Prince of Darkness,
280
.
See also
Satan

Principles of Psychology
(James),
64

Proceedings
,
55
,
56
; and famous contributors,
54
; and Myers,
47
,
58
,
77

Project Blue Book,
146
,
151–52
,
301n8

Project Grudge,
151–52

Project Sign,
151–52
,
154

psi: as exceeding objective and subjective approaches of study,
24
; fear of,
228
,
308n35
; history of term,
8
; and meaning,
286–87
; and promissory materialism,
261
; as real,
13
; as specialization of larger shape-shifting power,
133
,
265

psychical, the: and altered states,
271
; apolitics of,
229–30
; and comparativism,
254
; component of UFO phenomenon,
157
,
171
; definition of,
9
; description-construction of,
215–17
,
222–24
; in dialogue with neuroscience, history of religions, and literary theory,
256
; and Eliade,
18
; and the erotic,
50–51
,
236
; espionage of U.S. military,
13
,
168–75
,
229
; and evolution,
40
,
46
,
72
; as experiential core of comparative folklore, mysticism, and mythology,
254
; and filter thesis,
268
; and folklore,
157
; forgetting of,
215–20
; and Fort,
120
; as hermeneutical reality,
257
; history of term,
7–8
; and the humanities,
201
; linked to democratic values,
230
; metaphysical challenge of,
224–33
; mixing with fakery of,
52
; and the mystical,
41–42
,
209
; and the occult,
41–42
; and the paranormal,
8–9
,
19
,
24
,
26
,
41–42
,
116
,
257
,
270–71
; and postmodernism,
217–18
; and psi,
8
; and psychoanalysis,
220–22
; as real,
309n40
; and religious studies,
17–23
,
26
,
253–54
,
283–84
; rise of,
40
; and the sacred,
9
,
40
,
116
; and science fiction,
6
; shock of,
215–17
,
220–22
; and trauma,
58–61
; and Vallee,
157
.
See also
mystical, the; occult, the; paranormal, the; psi; sacred, the

psychic spies.
See
remote viewing

psychoanalysis: and the mystical,
267
; and the occult,
27
,
284
; and od instead of id,
296n59
; as secular mysticism,
222
; as stop zone for psychical,
16
,
221–22
; and surrealism,
58
; and telepathy,
14–16
,
289n2
,
291n24
; used to explain denial of psychical,
285
.
See also
Freud, Sigmund; Jung, Carl

Psycho-analysis and the Occult
(Devereux),
284

psychofolklore,
42–43
,
232
,
241
,
249

psychology: and behaviorism,
194
,
255
; bimodal,
67
,
256
,
268
(see also
homo duplex
; Human as Two); and functionalism,
255
; and Puységur in history of,
220

psychometry,
241

pulp fiction,
104
,
140
,
208
,
214
,
247
.
See also
science fiction

Puthoff, Harold,
176–78
,
186–87
,
290n15
,
304n57
,
305n74

Puységur, Armand Marie Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de: and apolitics of the psychical,
229–30
; coining of magnetic sleep by,
219
; and Crabtree, Adam,
221
; credited as discovering the unconscious,
220
; discovery-production of somnambulism in Victor Race by,
216
,
218
; magnets deemed unnecessary by,
231
;
and
materialism,
230
;
Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire et a l'établissement du magnétisme animal
,
308n28
; and psychoanalysis,
221–22
; and thought transference,
226
,
228
.
See also
Méheust, Bertrand

quantum mystical movement.
See
science mysticism

quantum physics,
15
,
32
,
94
,
117–18
,
176
,
263

Race, Victor,
216
,
218
,
225
,
230
.
See also
Puységur, Armand Marie Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de

Radin, Dean,
283
,
286
,
290n8
,
307n20
;
The Conscious Universe,
283
,
286–87
;
Entangled Minds
,
286
,
290n8

Raleigh, Lord,
53
,
80

Re-Enchantment of the West, The
(Partridge),
28

Reichenbach, Karl von,
54
;
The Odic Force
,
296n59

Reincarnation and Biology
(Stevenson),
285

remote viewing,
15
,
195
; Coordinate Remote Viewing (or CRV),
304n61
,
305nn65–66
; first book on,
290n15
; and manipulation of other dimensions,
186
; and Méheust,
226
,
242
; and military espionage,
13
,
15
,
140
,
175–81
,
235
,
283–84
.
See also
Geller, Uri; May, Edwin; McCoy, Harold; McMoneagle, Joseph; Price, Pat; Puthoff, Harold; Swann, Ingo; Targ, Russell

Renan, Ernest,
47
,
48
;
Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse
,
48

Rennie, Bryan,
Mircea Eliade
, editor of,
291n32

Researches into the Phenomena of Spiritualism
(Crookes),
53

retrocognition,
73

Revelations
(Vallee),
181
,
184

Rhine, J. B.,
8
,
24

Richet, Charles,
52–53
,
78–79

Ricoeur, Paul,
220

Ring, Kenneth,
The Omega Project
,
304n51

Robertson, Michael,
Worshipping Walt
,
294n14

Robur le conquérant
(Verne),
207

Roquet, Claude-Henri,
18–19

rosary,
279
,
282

Rosicrucian tradition,
161
,
192–94

Roswell,
152

Roszak, Theodore,
The Making of a Counter Culture
,
306n3

Rouefulgurante
(Hire),
207

Royle, Nicholas,
Telepathy and Literature
,
291n29

Rozenzweig, Franz,
251

Rumor of Angels, A
(Berger),
238

Ruskin, John,
40
,
48

sacred, the: and brain,
256
; definition of,
9
; dimension of secularization,
29
; eclipse of,
253–55
; as encoding positive and negative,
252
; and Fort,
95
,
114
,
133
; as inherently tricky,
52
; and the mystical,
9
; and Otto, Rudolf,
9
,
17
; and the paranormal,
9
,
116
,
254
; and the psychical,
9
,
40
,
116
; and religious studies,
252–55
,
266
; as sacred,
254
; and the secular,
29–30
,
222
; and science fiction,
308n20
; and symbolization,
214
; technologization of,
301n18
,
308n20
; as tied to psyche,
255–56
; and UFO phenomenon,
214

Sagan, Carl,
157–58
;
Intelligent Life in the Universe
,
302n27

Sand, George,
47
,
86

Sargasso Sea,
46
,
109
,
295
; super-,
96
,
109
,
125
,
127

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
220

Satan,
240
.
See also
Prince of Darkness

Sawyer, Dana,
Aldous Huxley
,
297n102

Schelling, Friedrick Wilhelm Joseph,
71

Schiaparelli, Giovanni,
299n15

Schirmer, Herbert,
273

Schmidt, Leigh Eric,
Restless Souls
,
294n14

Schnabel, Jim
Remote Viewers
,
304n64

Scholem, Gershom,
19
,
191
,
251–52
;
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,
191

Schopenhauer, Arthur,
12
,
222
,
290n10
;
The Will in Nature
,
11
;
The World as Will and Representation
,
11

Science and a Future Life
(Myers),
47
,
83

science fiction,
144
; and abduction,
166–68
,
209–12
,
273
; and alien hermeneutic,
153
; and alien invasion theme,
124
,
128
,
153
,
158
,
162
,
248
; and altered states,
6
; American and British versions of as originating in French genre of
le merveilleux scientifique
,
307n20
; as back door for gnosis to enter culture,
31
; and Buddhism,
247
; and Christian mysticism,
208–9
; and coincidences with UFO experiences (1947 to present),
207–8
; and dialectic
of
culture and consciousness,
210
; and Dick, Philip,
31–32
; and the fantastic,
5
,
31
; and flying saucers,
206–15
,
240
,
249
; and folklore,
173–74
,
243–44
; and Fort,
97
,
100
,
122–24
,
140
; and gnosis of the future,
187–88
,
194
; and hagiography,
209
; and the mystical,
31
,
209
,
300n34
; and NASA,
303n42
; and Nelson, Victoria,
31
; and neuroscience,
267
; and the occult,
167
; and quantum mystical movement,
304n34
; and teleportation,
137
; as thought experiment,
252
; and the UFO phenomenon,
6
,
166–67
,
207–10
,
214
,
249
; and Vallee,
144–45
,
153
,
166–68
,
187
,
243–44