Fringe-Ology
by Volk, SteveEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2012-06-05
Publisher(s): Harperone
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Summary
Paranormal claims don't traditionally sit well with reporters, but journalist Steve Volk decided to focus his tenacity on a new beat: a NASA astronaut-turned-mystic, a world-famous psychologist who taught us about dying and decided death may not exist at all, and scientists attempting to verify what mystics have been reporting for millennia. From his journey into the bizarre, Volk discovers that the "fringe" story strikes at the core of what it means to be human.
Author Biography
Steve Volk is a longtime staff writer and regular contributor at Philadelphia magazine. His work has been published by Rolling Stone, VIBE, Men's Health, Men's Journal, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Weekly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and St. Petersburg Times. Volk has received dozens of journalism awards and lives in Philadelphia. Visit die author online
Table of Contents
| Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Paranormal | p. 1 |
| On Death and Not Dying | p. 21 |
| The Provocative Beginning of Near-Death-Experience Research | |
| Do You See What I See? | p. 53 |
| The Curious Conflict Between Telepathy Skeptics and Believers | |
| Out of Our Heads? Off with Their Heads! | p. 83 |
| Consciousness Outside the Brain | |
| Blazing Saddles | p. 113 |
| UPOs and the Strange Lights Over a Texas Town | |
| Was There a Ghost in My House? | p. 139 |
| The Unexplained Noises That Fueled a Childhood Mystery | |
| To Infinity and Beyond | p. 153 |
| What Science and Spirituality Look Like from Outer Space | |
| The Open Mind | p. 177 |
| How New Science Is Revealing the Power of Meditation and Prayer | |
| The Impossible Dream | p. 205 |
| Sleep as an Untapped Resource for an Awakened Life | |
| After-Death Communication? | p. 233 |
| How a New Therapy Uses the Dead to Help Patients Live | |
| You Can't Go Home Again | p. 251 |
| Has Anyone Else Encountered a Ghost in My Old House? | |
| Our Time in Hell | p. 255 |
| Lucid Dreaming and its Most Potent Lesson for Science and Spirituality | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 267 |
| Notes and Sources | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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