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Title: In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist by Susan Blackmore ISBN: 1-57392-061-4 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This book changed my view of the world forever
Comment: I have not read this second edition, but I read the first edition in college back in 1991 or so. It changed my outlook on psychic abilities completely. It's pretty engagingly written, and profound too. I'd heard so much about the existance of psychic abilities but had never seen any scientific studies of it. This book is not only a great introduction to psychic phenomena, but a great introduction to the power of the scientific method. This book may be part of the reason I'm a scientist today. Thanks, Susan!
Rating: 4
Summary: One More Reason why Psi doesn't Fly
Comment: Blackmore's autobiography provides a great deal of insight into the motivations of psi researchers. Inspired by a drug induced OBE at Oxford, and encouraged by the occult interpretations given to such phenomenon by an earlier generation of parapsychologists and spiritualists, it becomes understandable that she began a search for the Holy Grail of psi, even earning a doctorate on the subject. Personal experience, however explicable by reference to the material world, still carries a strong emotive weight, engendering hopes for transcendent explanations. Despite a continuing stream of negative results, using a wide variety of methods, Blackmore continued for several years to research psi, until the dishonesty of some researchers, and the flaws in psi's definition caused her faith to erode. Thankfully, she takes with her an insider's understanding of the parapsychology movement that helps explain how a pseudo-science can perpetuate itself after a hundred or more years with undetectable progress.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating, but suffers from being a "second edition"
Comment: This is an intriguing book, and I was impressed by the sincerity of the author. She began her academic career determined to scientifically prove the paranormal, but over time became disenchanted when her experiments repeatedly failed to find "psi", and she found flaws in the experimental methods used by researchers who reported success. The book was originally published in 1986 or so, and has been updated with a few chapters added to the end. The book is valuable because the author is not a traditional debunker. I get the feeling she thinks there is something valuable to be discovered in studying "altered states", but she believes they are a construct of your mind, and doesn't think that psi is involved in them. I would have greatly appreciated a chapter trying to summarize all her ideas--There are a number of intriguing thoughts scattered through the book.
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Title: Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-Of-The-Body Experiences by Susan J. Blackmore ISBN: 0897333446 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan J. Blackmore ISBN: 019515343X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences by Susan Blackmore ISBN: 0879758708 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins ISBN: 019286212X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett ISBN: 0670031860 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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