Recommended Reading

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A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to “decolonize reality itself.”

“What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the undercurrent of the fantastic within our humanistic disciplines, entirely new cultural worlds and meanings would become possible. That is Jeffrey J. Kripal’s vision for the future—to revive the suppressed dimension of the superhumanities, which consists of rare but real altered states of knowledge that have driven the creative processes of many of our most revered authors, artists, and activists. In Kripal’s telling, the history of the humanities is filled with precognitive dreams, evolving superhumans, and doubled selves. The basic idea of the superhuman, for Kripal, is at the core of who and what the human species has tried to become over millennia and around the planet.”

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In the world of psi, we stand upon the shoulders of giants.

In “The Gift of Instinct”, Award-Winning parapsychology researcher Morgan Knudsen (EntitySeeker Paranormal Research & Teachings, Supernatural Circumstances podcast, Haunted Hospitals) explores the practical, life-altering lessons the paranormal has to teach us about who we really are and the instinct that calls us to a greater connection with spirit. If you’ve ever felt that inkling, longing, or suspicion that there is “something more” to the world and your own existence, this book is for you.

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A guide to dream precognition and its implications. Outlines a set of clear principles to help guide dreamworkers,  illustrated through real precognitive dream experiences. Shows how to detect precognitive dreams through their characteristic features, explaining how dreams relate to memory and why dreams about future experiences are often symbolic or distorted. Explores the mind-blowing implications of precognition for our lives, including how our present thoughts actually shape–or shaped–our past. 

In this accessible exploration of precognition, precognitive dreamwork, and a radically new biographical sensibility, the Long Self, that precognition awakens us to, Eric Wargo shows how dreamworkers can play the role of citizen scientists, adding to our understanding of this fascinating, almost unexplored dimension of human life. Wargo outlines a set of clear principles to guide dreamworkers, each illustrated through real dreamers’ experiences.

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Rawlette explores a wide array of extraordinary human experiences–many of them seemingly supernatural–and uses both their commonalities and their contradictions to begin outlining an answer to these difficult questions. From statistics and laboratory research on psychokinesis to the content of near-death experiences, deathbed visions, apparitions, and even the occasional encounter with what appear to be angelic figures, Rawlette lays out a vast panorama of human experience that clearly points to a meaningful reality beyond the bounds of current science, and at the same time demonstrates both the promise and peril of interpreting synchronicities as unequivocal signs from above.

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Can awakened consciousness contribute to social change and, if so, how? David Nicol introduces the concept of “subtle activism” to describe the use of consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer to support collective transformation, such as global meditation directed toward peaceful resolution of a conflict. Subtle activism represents a bridge between the consciousness movement and the movements for peace, environmental sustainability, and social justice. It is not a substitute for physical action but rather a potentially crucial component of a more integrated approach to social change. Although ancient lore is rife with tales of shamans and adepts intervening on spiritual levels for the benefit of humanity, this book is the first comprehensive treatment of this topic. Nicol grounds his consideration in the available scientific research and in dialogue with a broad range of thinkers in the fields of consciousness studies, transpersonal theory, and New Paradigm thought.

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“During the 1930s a new approach to exploring human consciousness began at Duke University with Professor J. B. Rhine's experimental research on extra-sensory perception, or ESP. His findings on telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis challenged conventional disbelief. Rhine's findings and his first popular book, New Frontiers of the Mind, ignited excitement and controversy–among not only scientists but the public at large. Rhine's letters chronicle his efforts to find reliable evidence of psychic ability, from the seance room to psychic animals and finally to a university research laboratory. Covering the years 1923-1939, they reveal a gripping story of groundbreaking research, told in the words of the main player as he worked with his team, subjects, critics and supporters alike.”

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Essential Reading

If you are new to psi research and looking for a place to start, try these titles.

One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters by Larry Dossey M.D.

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“Dossey’s premise is that all individual minds are part of an infinite, collective dimension of consciousness he calls the One Mind. This state—which we can all access—explains phenomena as diverse as epiphanies, creative breakthroughs, premonitions of danger or disaster, near-death experiences, communication with other species and with the dead, reincarnation, the movement of herds, flocks, and schools, and remote healing.”

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An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life by Mark Gober 

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“Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down.”

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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife by Leslie Kean

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Leslie Kean’s impeccably researched, page-turning investigation, reveals stunning and wide-ranging evidence suggesting that consciousness survives death.

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Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities by Dean Radin PhD

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“Focusing on Patanjali's mysterious Yoga Sutras — 2,000 year-old meditation practices believed to release our extraordinary powers — Radin offers powerful evidence confirming that sometimes fact is much stranger, spookier, and more wonderful than the wildest fiction.”

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Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness by Dr. Imants Baruss PhD, Julia Mossbridge, PhD

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In this book, Barušs and Mossbridge utilize findings from quantum mechanics, special relativity, philosophy, and paranormal psychology to build a rigorous, scientific investigation into the origins and nature of human consciousness. Along the way, they examine the scientific literature on concepts such as mediumship, out-of-body and near-death experiences, telekinesis, “apparent” vs. “deep time,” and mind-to-mind communication, and introduce eye-opening ideas about our shared reality. The result is a revelatory tour of the “post-materialist” world—and a roadmap for consciousness research in the twenty-first century.

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Consciousness

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly

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Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of the human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publications. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false.

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The H.I.S.S. of the A.S.P: Understanding the Anomalously Sensitive Person by David Ritchey

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This persuasive work, on the leading edge in the field of transpersonal psychology, carries the reader to the frontiers of higher consciousness and human potential. It is a thought-provoking, life-changing book that has profound significance for the ultimate comprehension of the nature of the human spirit.

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“The Extended Mind suggests that the things and the space around us have a profound effect on how we think, feel, and develop. There are profound cultural implications and socioeconomic implications that are essential for us to understand. Here are a few of the lessons we all can learn to take better advantage of the world outside our brains to improve the way we think and help our brains reach their full potential.”

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Parapsychology

Dark Cognition: Evidence for Psi and its Implications for Consciousness by David Vernon

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“Outlining the scientific evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous phenomena clearly exist, highlighting that the prevailing view of consciousness, purely as a phenomenon of the brain, fails to account for the empirical findings.”

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Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century Edited by Etzel Cardeña, John Palmer, David Marcusson-Clavertz

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This book is the first in almost 40 years to provide a comprehensive scientific overview of research in the field of parapsychology, explaining what we know and don't know about so-called psi phenomena, such as “telepathy,” “precognition” or “psychokinesis.”

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The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition, How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life by Theresa Cheung, Julia Mossbridge, Loyd Auerbach (Preface), Dr. Dean Radin (Introduction)

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The authors reveal revolutionary new research showing that sensing the future is possible, they also provide practical tools and techniques you can use to develop your own powers of precognition.

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An Introduction to Parapsychology (5th Edition) by Harvey J. Irwin, Caroline A. Watt

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The objective of this book is to provide an introductory survey of parapsychologists' efforts to explore the authenticity and bases of anomalous, apparently paranormal phenomena. It outlines the origins of parapsychological research and critically reviews investigations of extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, poltergeist phenomena, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and the evaluation of parapsychology as a scientific enterprise.

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A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers Telepathy, Clairvoyance & Precognition by Terje G. Simonsen

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“This is the most entertaining and broad survey of the paranormal ever made, combining forgotten lore, evidence from parapsychological experiments, and the testament of scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, psychologists, physicists and philosophers, and also quite a few celebrities. Exploring the possibility that paranormal phenomena maybe and that some most likely are objectively real, this travelogue through the twilight zone of human consciousness is both scientifically rigorous and extremely entertaining.” 

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Other Items of Interest

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Revealing how the dynamics of change are learnable, Schwartz explains the 8 laws of individual and social behavior that can enable any person or small group to bend the arc of history and create successful lasting transformation.

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