
- 384 pages
- English
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The Sixth Sense Reader
About this book
What is the sixth sense? Is it physical, mental or spiritual? Do we all possess it or is it unique to exceptional individuals? Might there be a seventh sense and an eighth sense as well? What role does culture play in determining the range of our perceptual abilities? The search for a supplementary sense has taken many directions and yielded numerous possibilities for an "additional faculty" of perception - from magnetism and movement to dreaming and clairvoyance. Stimulating reflection and debate, The Sixth Sense Reader explores the cultural contexts which give rise to such reports of "psychic" and other powers that exceed the ordinary bounds of sense. In this groundbreaking volume, leading scholars in history, anthropology and biology take the reader on a tour of the far borderlands of consciousness. From the world beneath to the world beyond the five senses, every potential avenue of sensation is opened up for investigation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Revolving Sensorium
- PART I: BEARINGS
- PART II: HISTORICAL INVESTIGATIONS
- PART III: UNCANNY SENSATIONS
- PART IV: CROSS-CULTURAL INVESTIGATIONS
- ABCDERIUM of Extra/Sensory Powers
- Notes on Contributors
- Copyright Acknowledgments
- Index