What are the long-term effects of near-death experiences? Why do some people see sounds and taste smells? What happens during an out-of-body experience? These extraordinary and unusual phenomena have often been ignored or ridiculed by mainstream psychology. In this fascinating volume, leading scholars explore these areas as well as experiences of hallucinations, lucid dreams, alien abductions, mysticism, anomalous healings, psi events, and past lives in an effort to explain the totality of human experience.
Language
English
Pages
476
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Release
January 01, 2000
ISBN
1557986258
ISBN 13
9781557986252
Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence
What are the long-term effects of near-death experiences? Why do some people see sounds and taste smells? What happens during an out-of-body experience? These extraordinary and unusual phenomena have often been ignored or ridiculed by mainstream psychology. In this fascinating volume, leading scholars explore these areas as well as experiences of hallucinations, lucid dreams, alien abductions, mysticism, anomalous healings, psi events, and past lives in an effort to explain the totality of human experience.