Phenomenal World: Remote Viewing, Astral Travel, Apparitions, Extraterrestrials, Lucid Dreams and Other Forms of Intelligent Contact in (Paperback)

~ Joan D'Arc (Author)

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Remote Viewing, Astral Travel, Apparitions, Extraterrestrials, Lucid Dreams and Other forms of Intelligent Contact in the Magical Kingdom of Mind-At-Large, by Joan d’Arc. For centuries mankind has been exploring the nature of reality. The materialistic scientific worldview would have us believe that physically measurable phenomena are all that exist. Yet the answers to the key of reality go far beyond this mindset. This book explores the clues we have about the nature of reality, especially those aspects that cannot yet be proven. If we can understand the most baffling aspects of reality, then we will move closer toward understanding its ultimate cause and nature.

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• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Book Tree (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585091286
• ISBN-13: 978-1585091287
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #444,350 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's all about "mind control", September 13, 2001

By	Dr. Greg Little "greglittlememphis" (Memphis, TN United States) - See all my reviews

Joan d'Arc has been looking into the dark corners of ufology, conspiracies, mysticism, psychic phenomena, and things that go "bump-in-the-night" for two decades. This remarkable book seems to be a comparative overview of virtually everything that has a bearing on how reality is perceived. It covers every occult, Gnostic, psychic, drug-induced, and physics-related view of reality available. All of these areas, according to Joan, have a common denominator: they are forms of mind control.
Just as the present reviewer was, some years ago d'Arc was "warned" by mainstream ufologists to stay inside the accepted boundaries of the field: she should accept that UFOs are alien technology visiting earth and promote that view. But d'Arc found that the limits that the "extraterrestrial visitation theory" created excluded a lot of genuine evidence. Rather than ignore that evidence, as most investigators of such phenomena do, she decided to follow it to its source. She writes: "The phenomenal world is truly a remarkable place, and even more so if we attempt to see it without the prejudices and practicalities we have learned to impose upon it. ...What is our relationship with everything we see, as well as everything we don't see? Phenomenal World attempts to answer these questions from the point of view of strange `unexplainable' phenomena, and how these events may be explainable if we look at them from `over there.'"
This book encompasses the present reviewer's own geomagnetic and electromagnetic theories of phenomena, but goes oh-so-much further in examining the multitude of others' thought. This is the kind of book many writers would like to write because it encompasses such a broad range. And it does what she promises: it looks at the world from "over there."
Those who would most appreciate the range and depth of information presented in this book should have a working knowledge of "unexplainable" phenomena and an understanding that the vast majority of simplistic explanations are inadequate. Something manipulates human consciousness routinely, and that something is known only to a small group of souls. Thus, after reading this book, you will probably do one of three things. 1) You may decide to just accept the simplistic solutions offered up to us in simple-minded books only because the alternatives are too disturbing to contemplate. 2) You may decide that the view of reality imposed on us by others is wrong and seek to find your own way out of this "reality cover." 3) You may find the "Grail" of "true truth."

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars UFOs, Conspiracies and Husserl, July 7, 2002

By	Lleu Christopher "www.liminalworlds.com" (Hudson Valley, NY) - See all my reviews

This is an unusual and very ambitious book that attempts to connect many ideas, theories and phenomena. Though not very long (200 pages), it is packed with information and speculation about all things usually dubbed occult or paranormal. Joan D'arc covers UFOs, quantum physics, the CIA's (and other governmental agencies) involvement with psychedelics and mind control and phenomenology. The latter, a philosophical cousin to existentialism, is concerned with the problem of the subjective vs. the objective; is the world we perceive the "real" world, or merely our personal version of it? What makes Phenomenal World unique is the connecting of ivory tower philosophy (Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty in particular), fringe conspiracy theories and cutting-edge science (especially quantum physics). Another subject D'arc goes into at some length is Scientology, whose principles have apparently been appropriated by intelligence agencies. As you may gather from this review, this is not the easiest book to read --I was a philosophy major, but must confess that I understood very little of phenomenology. It could have been more tightly edited; in several places, for example, the same quotes are repeated twice in successive paragraphs. Despite these quibbles, however, I highly recommend this book, especially to those who have a basic familiarity with one or more of the topics it deals with. D'arc raises an extremely important issue --the way perception influences reality. While this in itself is not new --many new age and occult books have this theme-- Phenomenal World makes us look at many "paranormal" events from this perspective, putting everything into a new light. It's one thing to analyze things like UFOs and government cover-ups as external problems that need explaining; it's quite another to face the possiblity that we who ask these questions have ultimately created the whole scenario. The universe may be one interconnected hologram (another theory discussed by D'arc). The question then becomes, not whether this or that phenomenon is real, but how and why do we create the reality we inhabit?