Varieties of Anomalous Experience

by Cardena, Etzel; Lynn, Steven Jay; Krippner, Stanley C.

• ISBN13: 9781557986252
• ISBN10: 1557986258
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

Explores anomalous experiences, such as hallucinations, lucid dreams, alien abductions, mysticism, anomalous healings, psi events and past lives. Discusses current research and theories, individual and cultural differences, methodological issues, related psychopathology, aftereffects, and clinical implications. For basic and clinical psychologists.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Anomalous Experiences in Perspective	3	(20)
Etzel Cardena
Steven Jay Lynn
Stanley Krippner
I. CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS	23	(60)
Anomalous Experiences, Peculiarity, and Psychopathology	25	(22)
Howard Berenbaum
John Kerns
Chitra Raghavan
Methodological Issues in the Study of Altered States of Consciousness and Anomalous Experiences	47	(36)
Ronald J. Pekala
Etzel Cardena
II. ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES	83	(358)
Hallucinatory Experiences	85	(36)
Richard P. Bentall
Synesthesia	121	(30)
Lawrence E. Marks
Lucid Dreaming	151	(32)
Stephen LaBerge
Jayne Gackenbach
Out-of-Body Experiences	183	(36)
Carlos S. Alvarado
Psi-Related Experiences	219	(34)
Elisabeth Targ
Marilyn Schlitz
Harvey J. Irwin
Alien Abduction Experiences	253	(30)
Stuart Appelle
Steven Jay Lynn
Leonard Newman
Past-Life Experiences	283	(32)
Antonia Mills
Steven Jay Lynn
Near-Death Experiences	315	(38)
Bruce Greyson
Anomalous Healing Experiences	353	(44)
Stanley Krippner
Jeanne Achterberg
Mystical Experience	397	(44)
David M. Wulff
Author Index	441	(18)
Subject Index	459	(16)
About the Editors	475