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Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience

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This book is an excellent reference book that includes almost every variety of unusual and extraordinary human experience. Leonard George's writing is clear and down-to-Earth as he describes such esoteric topics as ESP, telekinesis, lucid dreaming, meditation, and mystical experiences. I love the way each entry contains both an explanation and at least one example, so it's easy to quickly comprehend what is being discussed. Some definitions go even farther, and cover the history and background of the phenomena around the world. This book is a delightful encyclopedia to either read sequentially or simply as the need arises to look something up.

I pick this book up at least 3-4 times per week. I am a fiction writer and it is filled with ideas and interesting descriptions of paranormal experiences and the like. He takes a scientific point of view without diminishing the mystical aspects of certain phenomenon experienced by humans. I was surprised to see things that in the past "gave me the creeps" explained as perfectly normal in other people. A really cool book! You can't go wrong!