In this revised and updated edition of Varieties of Anomalous Experience, edited by Etzel Cardeña, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner, contributors present a wide range of research on anomalous experiences, from commonly documented sensations like synesthesia, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and auditory and visual hallucinations to rarer and more seemingly inexplicable experiences such as anomalous healing, past lives, near-death experiences, mystical experiences, and even alien abductions. The book makes a compelling case for the inclusion of these marginalized and under-recognized experiences as not merely incidental, but essential to our understanding of human psychology.
This book places the kinds of raw experiences that form the bedrock of parapsychology into a context of a broad spectrum of unusual experiences and demonstrates that they are all not only amenable to the methods of science, but essential for the development of a truly adequate science of human nature.
