Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (62 page)

Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward,
16
,
37
,
291n27

Butler, Josephine,
45

Caillois, Roger,
293n69

Calcutta University,
18

Cambridge University: and fakery,
50
; and More, Henry,
82
; Myers's education at,
44
; and Sidgwick,
48–49
; and S.P.R.,
8
,
41

Capra, Fritjof,
The Tao of Physics
,
123
,
300n34

Cardan, Facius,
163

Carpenter, Edward,
84
,
298n117

Carrington, Hereward,
Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena
,
296n53

Carroll, Lewis,
16

Carter, John,
Sex and Rockets
,
303n42

Casseres, Benjamin De,
94

Center for UFO Studies (CUFO),
155

Challenge to Science
(Vallee),
152
,
155–56
,
194
,
302

Charet, F. X.,
Spiritualism and the Foundations of C. G. Jung's Psychology
,
291n19

Child, Lydia Maria,
230

choc des sciences psychiques, Le,
or
The Shock of the Psychical Sciences
(Méheust),
216

Christian, David,
Maps of Time
,
299n23

City College of New York,
176

Clarke, Arthur C.,
1
,
16
,
143
,
158
;
The Fountain of Paradise,
1

Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
144
,
155

cognition,
60
,
83
,
255
,
266
,
310n3

coincidental, the,
74

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
71

comparativism: and Darwin,
74–75
; esotericism as category of,
19
; and Fort,
104
,
106–11
; and interrelation of culture and consciousness,
202–3
; Lehrich, Christopher,
297n105
; and Méheust,
200
; and Myers,
74–75
; in the mystical,
297n105
; occultism as category of,
19
; and the psychical,
254
; and Smith, Jonathan Z.,
297n105
; and synchronicity,
75
; and telepathy,
75
; and Vallee,
144
,
158

Comte de Gabalis, Le
,
161

Condon Committee,
149
,
192

Confrontations
(Vallee),
181
,
183

Conscious Universe, The
(Radin),
283
,
286–87

Corbin, Henri,
19
,
82

cosmic consciousness: and Beauregard,
265
; and coining of phrasing,
297n82
; and Dick, Philip,
32
,
267
; and Michel,
204
; and Vallee,
169

Couliano, Ioan,
20–22
,
24
,
171
;
Out of This World
,
292n43
;
The Tree of Gnosis
,
20

Course in Miracles
,
223

Cox, Serjeant,
7

Crabtree, Adam,
221
;
From Mesmer to Freud
,
308n32
;
Irreducible Mind
,
293–94n7

Creighton, Gordon,
166
,
303n36

Crichton, Michael,
16

Crookes, William,
7–8
,
53
,
60
,
80
;
Researches into the Phenomena of Spiritualism
,
53

Crowley, Aleister,
51
,
163
,
295n48

CSICOPS,
308n29

Dale E. Graff,
Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness
,
305n70

D'Armada, Fina,
280–82
,
286
,
312n1
;
Fátima Revisited
,
286
;
Heavenly Lights
,
286

Darwin, Charles,
102
; and comparative method,
74–75
; and Fort, Charles,
132
,
136
; and Huxley, Thomas,
40
,
45
,
124
; influence on Myers of,
39
,
45–46
; and the mystical,
71–72
; and natural selection,
68–69
,
75
;
The Origin of Species
,
113
; and sin,
46
; and telepathy,
295n45
; and Wallace, Alfred,
70
,
295n45
; and Wells, H. G.,
124
.
See also
evolution

Darwinism.
See
evolution

Dasgupta, S. N.,
18

Davis, Erik,
TechGnosis
,
304n63

Dawn of Magic, The.
See
Morning of the Magicians, The
(Pauwels and Bergier)

Dearborn Observatory,
150

deconstruction,
16
,
111

défi
du magnetisme, Le,
or
The Challenge of Magnetism
(Meheust),
199
,
216

De Grandine et Tonitruis
,
160–61

democracy: linked to psychical phenomena,
230
; and mysticism,
231
; and other worlds communicating,
130
; right mind as source of,
260–61
; of the spirit,
51

Dennett, Daniel,
The Mind's Eye,
258
,
311n8

Denzler, Brenda,
The Lure of the Edge
,
304n50

Derrida, Jacques,
220
; and différance,
108
; on discourse,
217
; on ghosts,
17
;
Specters of Marx
,
291n29
; “Telepathy,”
16
,
291n29

Descartes, René,
23
,
119
,
204

Devereux, George,
Psycho-analysis and the Occult
,
284

Dick, Philip K.,
16
,
258
; autobiographical description of Valis,
71–72
; and cosmic consciousness,
32
,
267
; and epilepsy, insufficiency of diagnosis,
34
,
293n66
; and the fantastic,
33
; and neuroscience,
258
,
267–68
; resynthesized by Valis,
31–32
; and science fiction,
31–32
;
The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
,
293n62
; and Vallee,
187
,
303n46
,
306n94
; and writing from hesitation between real and unreal,
34
.
See also
Valis

Dickens, Charles,
86
,
235

Didier, Alexis,
203
,
227
,
233–42

Dimensions
(Vallee),
181–84

Dingwall, Eric J.,
51

Disch, Thomas M.,
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
,
293n66

DNA,
260
,
266

Dodds, E. R.,
10–11

Doniger, Wendy O'Flaherty,
20
;
Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities,
292n41

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
16
,
222
,
239
,
242

Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
(Kant),
11

Dream Telepathy
(Ullman, Krippner, Vaughn),
4

Dreiser, Theodor,
97–100
,
124
,
140
;
The Dream
,
299n13

Duke University,
8
,
24

Dumas, Alexander,
239
,
241
;
Joseph Balsamo
,
241

Durand, Gilbert,
214

Durkheim, Emile,
9
,
222
,
308n33

Eckhart, Meister,
202
,
292n49

ectoplasm,
8
,
51
,
133
; coining of term,
53

Edge of Reality, The
(Hynek and Vallee),
152

Edwards, Jason,
289n1

Einstein, Albert,
21
,
60
,
150
; and atomic bomb,
148
; and historiography,
20
,
292
; and magic,
117
; on space-time,
5
,
11
,
20
,
163
,
188
; and telepathy,
80
,
298

Eisenbud, Jules,
6
,
193
,
285
,
308n35
;
The World of Ted Serios
,
285

élan vital
,
85
,
232
,
245
.
See also
Bergson, Henri

Eleusis,
11

Eliade, Mircea,
5
,
222
;
Autobiography
,
291n35
; and Couliano,
20
;
Encyclopedia of Religion
,
9
; on esotericism and occultism,
17–19
,
292n40
; and Freud,
19–20
;
A History of Religious Ideas
,
310n2
; intellectual lineage of,
20
; and light and sperm,
292n40
; and literature of the fantastic,
5
,
19
;
Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions
,
291n33
;
Ordeal by Labyrinth
,
291n34
; paranormal experiences of,
18–19
; on the paranormal in folklore,
17–19
,
216
; and the sacred,
9
,
255
;
The Secret of Doctor Honigberger
,
18
;
Two Strange Tales
,
291n37

Ellenberger, Henri F.,
The Discovery of the Unconscious
,
308n31

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
294n14

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
(Hastings),
9–10

Encyclopedia of Religion
(Eliade),
9

En soucoupes volantes
or
On Flying Saucers
(Méheust),
25

Entangled Minds
(Radin),
286
,
290n8

erotic, the: and abduction,
163–66
; and Butler, Josephine,
45
; and the mystical,
88
,
179
,
222
,
267
,
295n48
,
310n5
; and the occult,
50–51
; and the paranormal,
23
,
51
,
236
; and sexual magic,
163–64
,
295n48
,
303n42
; and Spiritualism movement,
50–51
; and telepathy,
85
; and UFO phenomenon,
301n23
; and Vallee,
163–64
.
See also
Myers, Frederick W. H.: and the erotic

Esalen
(Kripal),
200
,
300
,
305
,
306
,
310

Esalen Institute,
179
,
185
,
200
,
296
,
306

Essays: Classical
(Myers),
47

Essays: Modern
(Myers),
47

Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse
(Renan),
48

European wave of 1954,
149

Evans, Hilary,
208
;
Intrusions
,
307n16

Evans-Wentz, Walter,
161–62
,
303n34

evolution:
and altered states,
83
; and Bergson,
85
,
217
,
231–33
,
245
; biological driven by unconscious,
212
; and book as séance,
38
; and control thesis,
182
; cosmic,
103
; creative,
85
,
217
; extraterrene,
68–69
,
82–84
,
124
,
308n21
; and filter thesis,
256
; and Fort,
99
,
103
,
116–19
,
133–36
,
140
; and Freud,
212
; and Heard, Gerald,
306n91
; and Human as Two,
256
; of human consciousness,
38
,
245
,
263–65
; of human culture,
116
,
134
,
263
; and Huxley, Julian,
307n19
; imaginal,
134
; and insect,
298n114
; and involution,
69
,
71
; and the mystical,
46
,
71–72
,
263
,
298n117
; and neuroscience,
253
,
256
,
261–63
; and the psychical,
40
,
135–36
,
231–32
; spiritual,
70
,
99
,
132–33
,
294–95n33
; and superpowers,
140
,
231–32
; and telepathy,
69
,
84
,
295n45
; and UFO phenomenon,
150
,
157–58
,
182
,
298n114
; and Vallee,
150
,
182
; and Wallace, Alfred Russell,
70
,
72
,
84
,
231
,
295n45
; and wild talents,
132–34
.
See also
Darwin, Charles; evolution; evolutionary biology; Myers, Frederick W. H.

evolutionary biology,
70
,
117
,
118
,
260

Exegesis
(Dick),
32–33