Authors of the impossible : the paranormal and the sacred /
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The book as séance: Frederic Myers and the London Society for Psychical Research
- After Life
- Myers and the founding of the S.P.R
- The subliminal gothic: the human as two
- The supernormal and evolution: the world as two
- Telepathy: the communications technology of the spirit
- The perfect insect of the imaginal
- The telepathic and the erotic: Myers's platonic speech
- Seeds of a super-story: Charles Fort and the fantastic narrative of western occulture
- The parable of the peaches: Fort's mischievous monistic life
- Collecting and classifying the data of the damned: Fort's comparative method
- The three eras or dominants: Fort's philosophy of history
- The philosophy of the hyphen: Fort's dialectical monism
- Galactic colonialism: Fort's science mysticism and dark mythology
- Evolution, wild talents, and the poltergeist girls: Fort's magical anthropology
- The future technology of folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO phenomenon
- Forbidden science (1957-69)
- Passport to Magonia: from folklore to flying saucers (1969)
- The invisible college (1975)
- The present technology of folklore: computer technology and remote viewing in the psychic underground
- The alien contact trilogy and the mature multiverse gnosis
- Sub rosa: the three secrets
- The hermeneutics of light : the cave became window
- Returning the human sciences to consciousness: Bertrand Méheust and the sociology of the impossible
- A double premise
- Méheust and the master
- Science fiction and flying saucers
- The challenge of the magnetic and the shock of the psychical
- "if only one of these facts-- ": the impossible case of Alexis Didier
- The collective mind: Bateson, De Martino, Vallee, and Jung
- Agent X: projection theory turned back on itself.