Osto Paranormal States

Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56133-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of paranormal experiences reported by converts to Buddhism and their implications for both humanistic and scientific study of the paranormal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osto, D. E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Parapsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Paranormal in the Indian Buddhist Tradition
2. The Enchanted West: The Contemporary Scientific Study of the Paranormal
3. Tales of Psychic Phenomena
4. Tales of OBEs, NDEs, and Close Encounters
5. The Yogin
6. The Gift
7. Toward a Phenomenology of the Paranormal
8. Autobiographical Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

D. E. Osto is senior lecturer in philosophy at Massey University. They are the author of Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (Columbia, 2016) and An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Saivism (2020), among other books.