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Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience
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360 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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May 6, 2014
My edition of this encyclopedia of the paranormal etc. is twenty years old, so some of the research may be a bit out of date. It was still a fun cover-to-cover read, though I skipped most of the Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim mysticism and a good bit of the psychology as well. That left plenty of weird and wonderful things to read about and use for fictional and poetic fodder. My husband and I agreed that both the thinking and the style were a little sloppy, but we enjoyed it anyway.
Here are a few of my favorite bits:
“While sailing alone, [Joshua] Slocum became ill, and his boat was overtaken by an ocean storm. He saw the pilot of Columbus’ ship Pinta steer his boat into calmer waters. On several occasions during Slocum’s journey, the pilot reappeared to offer assistance, and Slocum held conversations with him.” P. 136
“A partial list of reported triggers of mystical moments includes drugs, sex, fever, religious worship, natural beauty, music, the death of others, the prospect of one’s own death, suicidal feelings, the sight of a garbage dump, slime, excrement, derelict buildings, a dead chicken, fog, and hearing a whistle wailing in the dark.” P. 188
“It is noteworthy that anxiety about interlife sex change partially motivated orthodox Christianity to suppress the reincarnation doctrine. St. Jerome wrote that the worst part of Origen’s teaching was ‘that we may have to fear that we who are now men may afterwards be born women.’” P. 243
Here are a few of my favorite bits:
“While sailing alone, [Joshua] Slocum became ill, and his boat was overtaken by an ocean storm. He saw the pilot of Columbus’ ship Pinta steer his boat into calmer waters. On several occasions during Slocum’s journey, the pilot reappeared to offer assistance, and Slocum held conversations with him.” P. 136
“A partial list of reported triggers of mystical moments includes drugs, sex, fever, religious worship, natural beauty, music, the death of others, the prospect of one’s own death, suicidal feelings, the sight of a garbage dump, slime, excrement, derelict buildings, a dead chicken, fog, and hearing a whistle wailing in the dark.” P. 188
“It is noteworthy that anxiety about interlife sex change partially motivated orthodox Christianity to suppress the reincarnation doctrine. St. Jerome wrote that the worst part of Origen’s teaching was ‘that we may have to fear that we who are now men may afterwards be born women.’” P. 243
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