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by Jeffrey J. Kripal


  Science and a Future Life (Myers), 47, 83

  science fiction, 144; and abduction, 166–68, 209–12, 273; and alien hermeneutic, 153; and alien invasion theme, 124, 128, 153, 158, 162, 248; and altered states, 6; American and British versions of as originating in French genre of le merveilleux scientifique, 307n20; as back door for gnosis to enter culture, 31; and Buddhism, 247; and Christian mysticism, 208–9; and coincidences with UFO experiences (1947 to present), 207–8; and dialectic of culture and consciousness, 210; and Dick, Philip, 31–32; and the fantastic, 5, 31; and flying saucers, 206–15, 240, 249; and folklore, 173–74, 243–44; and Fort, 97, 100, 122–24, 140; and gnosis of the future, 187–88, 194; and hagiography, 209; and the mystical, 31, 209, 300n34; and NASA, 303n42; and Nelson, Victoria, 31; and neuroscience, 267; and the occult, 167; and quantum mystical movement, 304n34; and teleportation, 137; as thought experiment, 252; and the UFO phenomenon, 6, 166–67, 207–10, 214, 249; and Vallee, 144–45, 153, 166–68, 187, 243–44

  Science-fiction et soucoupes volantes or Science Fiction and Flying Saucers (Méheust), 206, 214, 215

  science mysticism, 9, 123–24, 300n34

  scrying, 12

  Secret, The (Rhonda Byrne), 223

  Secret Life of a Superpower, The (Kripal), 5–6

  Secret Life of Puppets, The (Nelson), 30

  Secret of Doctor Honigberger, The (Eliade), 18

  Secret Teachings of All Ages, The (Hall), 192

  Sédir, Paul, Histoire et Doctrines des Rose + Croix, 192

  Sells, Michael A., Mystical Languages of Unsaying, 292n49

  Septes Sermones ad Mortuos or Seven Sermons to the Dead (Jung), 14

  Serios, Ted, 6, 193, 285, 308n35

  Shakespeare, William, 98; As You Like It, 98

  Sherman, Jacob H., ed., The Participatory Turn, 312n36

  Sherrington, Charles, 262

  Shklovskii, I. S., Intelligent Life in the Universe, 302n27

  Shweder, Richard, Thinking Through Cultures, 293n58

  Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred, 56

  Sidgwick, Henry: and Cambridge, 48–49, 52; elected president of S.P.R., 54; on ghosts, 48; humanizing stories of, 49; influenced by Crookes, William, 53; and King, John, 296n58; and losing faith, 48–49; as mentor to Myers, 48; and Sidgwick group, 49, 56

  sightings: Ann Arbor case, 301n8; Basel, 153; Brazilian Wave of 1977, 183–84; European wave of 1954, 149; Nuremburg, 153; typology of, 154–55

  Simon, Benjamin, 165–66

  Simonton, Joe, 162

  Sinclair, Upton, Mental Radio, 298n112

  Slone, D. Jason, Religion and Cognition, 310n3

  Smith, Jonathan Z., Imagining Religion, 294n9

  Smith, Paul H., Reading the Enemy’s Mind, 305n66

  Snow, Rev. H., 50

  Society for Psychical Research. See S.P.R.

  Socrates, 204

  Solovyov, Vladimir, 104

  Somnambulisme et médiumnite (Méheust), 214, 220, 241, 244

  Spencer, Herbert, 99

  Spielberg, Steven, 144, 155, 252, 303n35

  Spiritual Brain, The (Beauregard), 261, 311n26

  Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena (Fox), 287

  Spiritual in Art, The (Kandinsky), 16

  S.P.R., 10; adoption of term psychical, 8; and Barrett, William, 53, 54; and Blavatsky, Madame, 51, 55; founding of, 8, 54; Gurney, Edmund, 47, 54–56, 284, 294n9, 296n62; Hodgson, Richard, 47, 54, 55–57, 89, 237; Journal, 47, 54, 70, 94; and Leuba’s psychical research encyclopedia entry, 10; and Moses, William Stainton, 54, 56, 70; and Palladino, Eusapia, 49, 51, 52–53, 296n53; and Piper, Leonora, 13, 56–57; Podmore, Frank, 55–57, 78, 284; and sexuality of Spiritualism movement, 50–51; and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred, 56; and Sidgwick group, 49, 56; and telepathy, 13. See also Blum, Deborah; Gauld, Alan; Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers); James, William; Myers, Frederick W. H.; Proceedings; Sidgwick, Henry

  SRI: and Augmentation of the Human Intellect project of, 175; and Gellar, Uri, 178; and mix of open and secret research, 175, 178; and Price, Pat, 177, 304n61; and remote viewing, 175–79, 181, 186, 304n61, 305n65; and Swann, Ingo, 176–77, 178; Vallee’s resignation from, 180

  Stableford, Brian, H. G. Wells, 300n36

  Stace, William, 311n26

  Stanford University, 176, 181, 284

  Stargate Program, 178

  Star Trek, 137, 154, 303

  Star Wars, 281

  Steiner, Rudolph, 16, 192

  Steinmeyer, Jim, 99–100, 103, 140, 298n1; Charles Fort, 299n4

  Stekel, Wilhelm, 14

  Stevenson, Ian, Reincarnation and Biology, 285

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 86

  sticky thread, 4

  Strassman, Rick, Inner Paths to Outer Space, 313n24

  Sturrock, Peter, 181, 284

  subliminal, the, 58, 66; definition of, 62; and evolution, 69–70, 83; and Human Personality, 46–47, 61; and magnetic sleep, 220–21; and premonitions, 73; and telepathy, 74–82, 85; and trauma, 59; and unconscious, 63–64, 220–21; uprushes, 47, 61, 86–87; and World as Two, 67–68

  Sub-Space (Vallee), 167

  Superman, 73, 83, 214–15. See also Kent, Clark

  supernormal, the, 6, 9, 10, 58, 61, 85; coining of term, 66; and dreams, 78; and evolution, 66–75; and filter thesis, 256; and Fort’s wild talents, 96, 170, 217, 224; and the mystical, 82; powers, 69, 72, 83, 170, 217; and superpower of pop culture, 224; unconscious as window into, 265; and Vallee’s category of psychical capacities, 170, 217

  Super-Sargasso Sea, 96, 109, 125, 127. See also Sargasso Sea

  Sutin, Lawrence, 32; Divine Invasions, 293n64; In Pursuit of Valis, 293n65

  swamp gas, 152, 301n8

  Swann, Ingo, 51, 176–78, 304n57, 304n61, 304n64; Psychic Sexuality, 295n50; To Kiss Earth Good-Bye, 304n57

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 11, 50, 234

  Swords, Michael D., 149

  Symposium, 87–90, 298n121

  synchronicity: category forged by Jung, 14; and comparative method, 75; Dick’s fascination with, 32; as expression of unus mundus, 110; hermeneutical nature of, 200; and meaning events, 25–26; and Méheust, 200, 212, 245; and Myers’s coincidental, 74; and reading the paranormal writing us, 74; and Vallee, 189, 245, 306n94

  Szilard, Leo, 148

  Tallis, Frank, Hidden Minds, 312n31

  Tandy, T. M., case of, 76

  Tantra, 18, 19, 163, 311

  Tao of Physics, The (Capra), 123, 300n34

  Targ, Russell, 52, 176–79, 296n52, 304n57–64; Mind-Reach, 178, 290n15

  Tarkington, Booth, 97, 140

  Taves, Ann, 290n2; What Matters? manuscript, 310n5

  Taylor, Jill Bolte, 259–61, 265–67; My Stroke of Insight, 311n11

  technology: advanced as indistinguishable from magic, 143; and altered states, 173; and coining of telepathy, 79; and colonization, 124; and folklore, 147, 163, 173–74; of future projected back, 173–74; and inventors involved in psychical, 80; and Michaud, A. G., 302n20; and Myers’s artifices, 65; psychic, 173, 185; and remote viewing, 175–81; and the sacred, 307–8n20; Soviet, 154, 185–86; stealth, 302n23; transcending the physical, 173, 182; and UFO phenomenon as symbolic, 167, 171, 173

  tectonic strain hypothesis, 280

  telaesthesia, 86

  telepathy, 237; and author’s category of Energy, 86–87; as category of suspicion, 81; as causal mechanism, 74–82; and Darwin and Wallace, 295n45; and Derrida, Jacques, 16, 291n29; and erotic, 85, 90; and evolution, 69, 84, 295n45; and Fort, 104; and Freud, 14–16, 289n2, 291n24; history of term, 38, 81, 298n108; and King, Stephen, 37–38; and Leuba’s “Psychical Research” entry, 10; and mental control, 229; and mental radio, 229; and Myers’s comparative method, 75; and mystical humanism, 298n113; as reduction to irreducible nature of human consciousness, 298n113; and S. P. R., 10, 13; and Targ, Russell, 52; and telaesthesia, 86–87; and Twain, Mark, 295n45; and white crow argument, 234; writing as, 37–38. See also remote viewing

  tele
portation, 25, 137, 140, 178, 208, 248

  Teresa of Avila, 209

  tertium quid, 40, 155, 254, 294n9

  Tesla, Nikola, 80, 112, 145

  Thompson, General Edmund R., 283–84

  Thompson, Rosina, 89

  Thompson, William Irwin, 159; Evil and the World Order, 302n29

  Thoreau, Henry David, 95

  Thouless, Robert, 8

  Thoulet, J., 78–79

  Thurston, Herbert, 208–9; The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism, 307n17

  Todorov, Tzvetan, 293n69; adoption of fantastic narrative from, 26; The Fantastic, 299n27; fantastic literature defined by, 34–35, 104; and filter thesis, 268; and Fort, 104–5

  Townshend, Chauncy Hare, 231, 235–37; Facts in Mesmerism, 231

  transhuman, 260

  translation thesis, 257, 262. See also filter thesis

  transmediumization, 133

  transmission thesis. See filter thesis

  trauma-as-trigger: and Beauregard, 264; and Crowley, Aleister, 51; and the erotic subsuming the traumatic in Human Personality, 90; and Fort, 101; and Myers, 43, 57–62, 67, 90; and neuroscience, 259–60, 264, 310n5; and S. P. R., 43; and telepathic dreams announcing death of loved one, 24; and UFO abductions, 209

  Tree of Gnosis, The (Couliano), 20

  Truman Show, The, 31

  Truzzi, Marcello, The Blue Sense, 309n47

  Turner, Edith, 13, 17; Anthropology of Consciousness, 290n15

  Twain, Mark, 16, 50, 295n45

  Twining, Lieutenant General Nathan F., 152

  2001: A Space Odyssey, 5

  Tylor, Edward, 13

  UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (Vallee), 181, 184

  UFO Experience, The (Hynek), 152, 155

  UFO phenomenon, 6; and absurdity, 213; and aliens as signs, 214; and Ann Arbor case, 301n8; Brazilian Wave of 1977, 183–84; and Christian mysticism, 208–9; classification system of, 302n25; and coincidences with science fiction stories of 1880 to 1945, 207–8; as collective psyche balancing itself, 246; and colonization, 124; as coming from the future, 170; as control system, 167–69, 185, 187, 282, 303n45; European wave of 1954, 149; Fátima events as, 150, 153, 173, 182, 190, 275–82, 286; and folklore, 156–64, 195, 197, 208; and hagiography, 209; as hermeneutical realities, 183, 209–12; and insect, 298n114; as interdimensional, 182–83, 186–87; and Keel, John, 300n40, 313n26; Méheust’s interest in X that lies behind, 249; psychotropic reading of, 313n24; as real, 301n11; and religious studies, 191; and science fiction, 6, 166–67, 207–10, 214, 249; and science not up to task of explaining, 166; and sex, 301n23; and signal in the noise, 155–56, 194, 216, 243; and Super-Story, 122; and technology, 167, 173, 212; as unnameable thing, 210. See also abduction; flying saucers; sightings; technology

  Ullman, Montague, Dream Telepathy, 4

  Underhill, Evelyn, 311n26

  University of California at Los Angeles, 181

  University of Chicago, 9, 20, 181

  University of Colorado, 149

  University of Texas at Austin, 150

  Ursule Mirouet (Balzac), 240

  Valis: author’s experience of something similar, 34; Dick, Philip’s autobiographical description of, 71–72; Dick, Philip’s encounter with, 32; and fantastic as hermeneutical key to the paranormal, 33; and neuroscience, 258, 267; and Platonic realm, 34; and Vallee, 187, 189, 303n46, 306n94. See also Dick, Philip K.

  Vallee, Jacques: and Agobar, 160–61, 196, 303n31; Anatomy of a Phenomenon, 152, 155, 156; and Bergier, Jacques, 186; and beyond reason, 144–45, 301n3; and Bullard, Thomas, 157–58, 302n28; and Cardan, Facius, 163; and classification system of sightings, 154–55, 302n25; and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 144, 155; comparative method of, 144, 158; and Condon Committee, 149; Confrontations, 181; and contribution of parallel between folklore and UFO phenomena, 157; and demiurge, 190; and Dick, Philip, 187, 303n46, 306n94; Dimensions, 181–83; early life of, 147–48; The Edge of Reality, 152; and esotericism, 145–46, 168–70, 191–92; Evans-Wentz, 161–62, 03n34;exile of, 180–81; and Ezekiel, 15 3, 190–91; and the fantastic, 163; and fantasy, 144; and Fátima, 173, 182; Forbidden Science, 181, 184, 186, 306n95; and gnosis of multidimensionality, 188, 194; and gnosis of the future, 187–88, 194; and gnosis of the rosy cross, 192–94; and Hall, Manly, 192–93, 306n98; and Hynek, J., 150–52, 155, 168–70, 180–81, 192–94; as inspiration for Claude Lacombe, 144; and Jung, 153, 172, 174, 243, 245; and Kazantsev, Alexander, 185; The Magonia Collection, 300n1; Martin, John, 153; and Méheust, 242–45, 309n49; Messengers of Deception, 181; and metalogic of encounter stories, 170–71; and Michel, Aimé, 148, 150, 159, 243; and Muller, Paul, 148; and multiverse, 144, 181–82, 186, 188; and the mystical, 145–46, 189, 196; personal experiences of, 189–90, 196; and physics of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 173; Prodigies, 309n50; and Project Blue Book, 146, 151–52, 301n8; and Project Grudge, 151–52; and Project Sign, 151–52, 154; and psychical component, 157, 217; psychic defined by, 171; Revelations, 181; Rosicrucian tradition, 161, 192–94; and science fiction, 166–68; as seldom read, 7; and the sexual, 163–66; and signal in the noise, 155–56, 194, 216, 243; social-control thesis of, 167–69, 185, 187, 282; and Soviet Union, 184–86; Sub-Space, 167; support of academics for, 181; and synchronicity, 189, 245, 306n94; and Thompson, William Irwin, 159; UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union, 181; as underground legend, 185; and Valis, 187, 189, 303n46, 306n94. See also Fastwalker (Vallee); Invisible College, The (Vallee); Magonia; Passport to Magonia (Vallee); SRI

  Vallee, Janine, 150, 164, 169; Challenge to Science, 152, 302

  Vaughan, Alan, 4; Dream Telepathy, 4

  Verne, Jules, 16, 124, 207–8; Robur le conquérant, 207

  Versluis, Arthur, The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance, 308n36

  Vilars, Abbé Montfaucon de, 161

  Villas-Boas, Antonio, 164–66, 303n36

  Virgil, 45, 47, 48

  Virgin Mary. See Mary, the Virgin

  Visionaries, Mystics and Contactees (Freixedo), 286

  Viswanathan, Gauri, 28

  Von Neumann, John, 211

  voyant prodigieux, Un, or A Seer Extraordinaire (Méheust), 233

  Wach, Joachim, 9

  Wallace, Alfred Russell, 70, 72, 84, 231, 295n45

  War of the Worlds (Wells), 124

  Watson, Ian, Miracle Visitors, 308n22

  Weber, Max, 21

  Wells, H. G., 124, 128, 300n37

  Wheeler, John, 307n19

  Whitman, Walt, 230, 294n14

  Wild Talents (Fort), vi, 98; and evolution, 132–34; and Fort’s experiments with own wild talents, 137–40; and God, 136; and parable of peaches, 102; as science mysticism, 123, 300n34

  Williams, Dwight, The Way of the Explorer, 305n67

  Will in Nature, The (Schopenhauer), 11

  Winkelman, Michael, 13

  Winter, Alision, 238–39; Mesmerized, 309n45

  Wizard of Oz, 147

  Wojtowicz, Slawek, Inner Paths to Outer Space, 313n24

  Wolff, Robert Lee, Strange Stories, 291n27

  Wolfson, Elliot R., Language, Eros, Being, 292n47

  Wonder Woman, 163

  Wordsworth, William, 47, 86, 294n18

  World as Will and Representation, The (Schopenhauer), 11

  X, not here

  X-Files, The, 264

  X-Men, The, 135, 137, 306n91

  Yale University, 20

  Yeats, William Butler, 16

  Yoga, 18, 19

  Zukav, Gary, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, 300n34

 

 

 
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