Sublime

As stated by Jim Peebles, professor

“Dr.” Vitale. Homeless just thirty years ago, Vitale had earned his PhD in “metaphysics” through a correspondence course from the University of Sedona.

Some may be puzzled why I chose the trickster as a vehicle to explore psychic phenomena. I started this book as an effort to understand why the paranormal is so frequently associated with fraud and deception. Many trickster figures are linked with supernatural powers and with deception, so that is an obvious connection. But as I began reading the s

“untapped portions of our brains,” or “God,”

For Carhart-Harris, the pinnacle of human development is the achievement of this differentiated self, or ego, and its imposition of order on the anarchy of a primitive mind buffeted by fears and wishes and given to various forms of magical thinking. While he holds with Aldous Huxley that psychedelics throw open the doors of perception, he does not

Backster achieved his notoriety from a series of experiments that purported to demonstrate that living organisms read and respond to a person’s thoughts.

My education, as well as the influence of the media, caused me to be skeptical about all claims involving the paranormal, psychics, and other unconventional phenomena. The media had presented all these topics as being due to hoaxes and hallucinations. But as I investigated more deeply, I was amazed at how many top-quality researchers, M.D.s and Ph.

The focus of our awareness becomes the reality of our world.