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Paranormal States
Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities
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D. E. Osto
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of paranormal experiences reported by converts to Buddhism and their implications for both humanistic and scientific study of the paranormal.
Author / Editor information
D. E. Osto is senior lecturer in philosophy at Massey University.
They are the author of Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic
Spirituality in America (Columbia, 2016) and An Indian Tantric
Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism
(2020), among other books.
Reviews
David E. Presti, author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A
Brain-Mind Odyssey:
This book makes an important contribution to what has been largely excluded territory in the evolving engagement between religious and spiritual traditions and an expanded contemporary science of mind.
This book makes an important contribution to what has been largely excluded territory in the evolving engagement between religious and spiritual traditions and an expanded contemporary science of mind.
Franz Metcalf, author of What Would Buddha Do? 101 Answers to
Life's Daily Dilemmas:
The brilliance of this book lies in valuing Buddhist experience,
whether or not it fits into external schemas. This centers actual Buddhists and
their lives. I prize this over anything else in Buddhist studies.
Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About Souls,
UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else:
Osto writes not to “prove” the existence of this or that anomalous
phenomenon, but to show us that these things happen and that they are often
definitive in the lives of Buddhist converts. Paranormal States, like its subject
and subjects, is a gift.
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
September 10, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780231561334
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780231561334
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
