The medium, the mystic, and the physicist
by Lawrence L. LeShan · first published 1974
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I appreciate the links and have archived them. Here's one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan Of Dr LeShan's works, The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist I highly recommend, specifically the unabridged version. He worked a bit with Eileen J Garrett[1], the tales of which are quite intriguing. This guy was (and still is @96) 100% sincere. No quackery, no…
on “Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world?” ↗Please also see and consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan A particularly excellent work by Dr LeShan is: The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (1974) - The appendix is excellent, if the unabridged version.
on “Daryl Bem and the Replication Crisis” ↗…the chance to follow up, and unfortunately he died not too long after. From everything I have seen on the general subject of PSI, his work seemed the best of all, specifically the appendix work in The Medium, The Mystic, And The Physicist from the unabridged edition. But your description reminds me more of the Arhcons[*] from gnosticism, which is astonishingly wild for ancient historical text. Edit: If you consider some of the soldiers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan [1] See: 1. The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (1974) and much less intriguingly: 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem
on “Ask HN: Where to start learning more about Parapsychology?” ↗