The World of the Paranormal

A sudden squall surprises a man on an early morning sail and his lip is badly cut. Several miles away, in a house on the shore of a lake, his wife wakes from a sound sleep and believes her lip is bleeding. She tries to stop the flow of blood with a handkerchief only to be astonished that she isn't b [...]
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A sudden squall surprises a man on an early morning sail and his lip is badly cut. Several miles away, in a house on the shore of a lake, his wife wakes from a sound sleep and believes her lip is bleeding. She tries to stop the flow of blood with a handkerchief only to be astonished that she isn't bleeding at all. How do we explain such coincidences? How can we even decide what methodology to use to evaluate such phenomena? For most of the last century, psychical research has tried to explain so-called paranormal phenomena in what was deemed a scientific manner. The results so far have been inconclusive and confusing. The reason, Lawrence LeShan argues in this important and controversial book, is that parapsychology has failed to consider the real insights offered by twentieth-century science into the nature of reality. He demonstrates with elegance and clarity that we no longer live in a single-track universe, but in a multi-track one. What is impossible and 'paranormal' on one track is perfectly possible on another. Dr. LeShan presents a challenge to current Para psychological thinking and suggests new ways of studying telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychic healing, and o