Michael A. Thalbourne's glossary is the second edition of his unique work. Revised and expanded, the glossary contains terms covering psychic phenomena, research methods and theory in scientific parapsychology. The strength of this unique dictionary is that Thalbourne traces the words to their first uses, provides bibliographic reference for controversies over the concepts underlying many of the terms, and provides the etymological derivations for each term.
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Michael A. Thalbourne, PhD, is a distinguished psychologist who has devoted his life to innovative research into the psychological characteristics of individuals who report psychic phenomena. Erudite, learned in philosophy, psychology, Latin and Classical Greek, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Adelaide for more than twenty years. He is also the author/co-editor of three other important books in scientific parapsychology.
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a much-needed reference book about psi,
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Michael A. Thalbourne's "Glossary of Terms Used in Parapsychology" is a much-needed text for scholars studying parapsychology, or amateurs merely interested in finding the right definition for a paranormal word or term. Perhaps you've heard some unusual words or phrases on a television show like "Ghost Whisperer" or "Medium", or a movie like "The Gift" or "White Noise", and wondered what they meant. Now you can find out. Have you ever described someone as 'telekinetic' when you should have said 'telepathic'? Do you know someone who heard what they thought were paranormal voices, and thought it was 'clairvoyance' when, in fact, it was 'clairaudience'? Did you know that a 'Psychic Shuffle' is not a favourite dance of mediums, but a technique for paranormally sorting a deck of cards into a pre-determined order?
Thalbourne's "Glossary" is extremely useful when you need an exact meaning, but it is one of those texts that work well just browsing through for fun. It is a constant source of new material - even I found many unfamiliar terms like IPA ('Incorporeal Personal Agency') and PQ ('Psi Quotient'), and I have been a practicing parapsychologist for many years now! You'll find every parapsychological word and term and its definition that you are ever likely to need or use in this Glossary, and more, from 'Absent Healing' to 'Zener cards'. This text is a must for parapsychology students or anyone interested in the paranormal.
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I read Dr. Storm's review and I completely agree with him. I'm no doctor, but this book, for the lay person such as myself, was very helpful. While for me, many of these terms if not most, are over my head, there were quite a few in the book that I understood, with no problem. That doesn't deter me though! I have just read A Paranormal Casebook, by Loyd Auerbach and am in the process of reading An Introduction to Parapsychology, by Harvey J. Irwin and Caroline A. Watt. A Glossary of Terms used in Parapsychology has come in very handy for the above mentioned books.
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A psychological dimension defined by Tellegen and Atkinson (1974, p. 274) as "a 'total' attention, involving a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources to a unified representation of the attentional object;" according to Harvey Irwin (1985, p. 2), the "inherent correlates of a state of absorption are posited to be an imperviousness to normally distracting events and a heightened sense of the reality of the object of attention;" thought to be a feature of the state of hypnosis, absorption is also said to characterize persons who report various sorts of psi experience, such as ESP, ESP agency, out-of-the-body experience, apparitions, and reincarnation memories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederic Myers, Rex Stanford, Ian Stevenson, Journal of Parapsychology, Jule Eisenbud, Soviet Union, Vernon Neppe, Association Theory of Telepathy, Basic Limiting Principles, Charles Richet, Helmut Schmidt, Jan Ehrenwald, John Beloff, John Palmer, Kenneth Batcheldor, Qualitative Experiment, Ramakrishna Rao, Whately Carington, Analysis of Variance, Aura Reading, Gertrude Schmeidler, Hornell Hart, Maurice Marsh, Mean Variance, Michael Thalbourne New!
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A psychological dimension defined by Tellegen and Atkinson (1974, p. 274) as "a 'total' attention, involving a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources to a unified representation of the attentional object;" according to Harvey Irwin (1985, p. 2), the "inherent correlates of a state of absorption are posited to be an imperviousness to normally distracting events and a heightened sense of the reality of the object of attention;" thought to be a feature of the state of hypnosis, absorption is also said to characterize persons who report various sorts of psi experience, such as ESP, ESP agency, out-of-the-body experience, apparitions, and reincarnation memories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederic Myers, Rex Stanford, Ian Stevenson, Journal of Parapsychology, Jule Eisenbud, Soviet Union, Vernon Neppe, Association Theory of Telepathy, Basic Limiting Principles, Charles Richet, Helmut Schmidt, Jan Ehrenwald, John Beloff, John Palmer, Kenneth Batcheldor, Qualitative Experiment, Ramakrishna Rao, Whately Carington, Analysis of Variance, Aura Reading, Gertrude Schmeidler, Hornell Hart, Maurice Marsh, Mean Variance, Michael Thalbourne New!
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- Handbook of Parapsychology by Benjamin B. Wolman in Front Matter
- Transcendental Meditation by Mahesh Yogi on page 69
- Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality by Charles T. Tart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Parapsychology: The Science of Unusual Experience (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Ron Roberts in Back Matter
- Getting Started in Parapsychology by Carlos S. Alvarado in Back Matter
- Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences by Jane Henry on page 187
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