Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (63 page)

Extrasensory Perception (ESP),
3
,
11
,
17
,
290n12
.
See also
remote viewing

Ezekiel,
153
,
190–91
,
301–2n18

Facts in Mesmerism
(Townshend),
231

Faivre, Antoine,
19

fantastic, the: and Eliade,
5
,
19
; as hermeneutical key to the paranormal,
33
; as the impossible,
256
; and the mystical,
259
; and the occult,
268
; reader's hesitation between natural and supernatural readings as constituting condition of,
34–35
; as reading,
35
; and science fiction,
5
,
31

Fantastic Four, The,
154

fantastic narrative,
27
,
35
,
106
,
122

fantastic realism,
203
,
205–6

Fastwalker
(Vallee),
146
,
167
,
301n5
,
304n53
; privileging Jung,
174

Fate
magazine,
150–51

Fátima,
150
,
153
,
173
,
182
,
190
,
192
,
275–82

Fátima Revisited
(Fernandes and D'Armada),
286

FBI Bulletin
,
168

Ferenczi, Sandor,
14
,
15

Fernandes, Joaquim,
280–82
,
286
,
312n1
;
Fátima Revisited
,
286
;
Heavenly Lights
,
286

Ferrer, Jorge N., ed.,
The Participatory Turn
,
312n36

filter thesis: and altered states,
256
; and dialectic of culture and consciousness,
268–69
; and evolution,
256
; history of,
256
; and Huxley, Aldous,
73
; and James, William,
73
,
256–57
,
264
; and Kelly, Edward,
67
,
73
,
257
,
268
; as misleading in its dualism,
256
; and neuroscience,
73
,
252–58
,
267–68
; and permission metaphor,
257
; and translation metaphor,
257
; or transmission,
257

fin du secret, Le,
or
The End of the Secret
(Binet-Sanglé),
229

Flammarion, Camille,
299n15

Flatland
(Abbot),
21
,
187
.
See also
Flatland

Flatland,
188
,
213
,
252
,
258
,
262
; invoked by Couliano,
21–24
,
171
. See also
Flatland
(Abbot)

Fleming, Alice,
48

Flournoy, Theodore,
54

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
(Dick),
32

Flying Saucer Review
,
164
,
245

flying saucers: appearance in 1908 novel,
207
; folklore to,
156
,
159
,
161
,
163
; and Jung,
245–47
,
249
,
281
,
309n56
; Méheust's and Vallee's approaches to compared,
243
; Méheust's books on,
203
,
215
,
239
; Méheust's interest less in than in X behind them,
249
; modern coining of term,
151
,
153
; as mythological construction,
249
; and science fiction,
206–15
,
240
,
249
; and superheroes,
215

Flying Saucers
(Jung),
153
,
245
,
246
,
309n53

Fodor, Nandor,
Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science
,
290n3

folklore: and abduction narratives,
215
,
285
; from folklore to flying saucers,
156–64
; future technology of,
147
,
173–74
; and the imaginal,
82
; and origins of religion in psychical experiences,
12–13
,
17–19
,
216
; and the paranormal,
146
; as pointing to paradox of culturally conditioned nature,
13
,
244–45
; and psychofolklore,
42–43
,
232
,
241
,
249
; and science fiction,
173–74
,
243–44
; similarity between Méheust's and Vallee's readings of,
243
;
and
UFO phenomenon,
156–64
,
195
,
197
,
208

Forbidden Science
(Vallee),
181
,
184
,
186
,
306n95

Ford, Gerald R.,
149
,
301n8

Fort, Charles: and the Bible,
95–96
,
101–2
,
118
,
129–31
; as collector of anomalies,
95–97
; comparative method of,
104
,
106–11
; and Dreiser, Theodore,
97–100
,
124
,
140
,
299n13
; early life of,
101–3
; and Fuller, Buckminster,
97
; and Hecht, Ben,
140
; importance of imagination to,
98
; and James,
132–33
; and
Lo!
98
,
132
,
137
; Martian hypothesis of,
99–100
; and Méheust,
242
,
247–49
; mythology of as science fiction,
122–23
;
New Lands
,
93
,
98
,
127
,
129
,
300
;
The Outcast Manufacturers
,
98
; paranormal postmodernism of,
112
,
122
; as presciently postmodern,
104
,
111
; science mysticism of,
123–24
; as seldom read,
7
; and Tarkington, Booth,
97
,
140
; and teleportation,
137
; and trans-mediumization,
133
; and wild talents,
137–40
,
170
,
217
. See also
Book of the Damned, The
(Fort);
Wild Talents
(Fort)

Foucauldianism,
22
,
254
.
See also
, Foucault, Michel

Foucault, Michel,
108
,
217
,
220
,
223
.
See also,
Foucauldianism

Fountain of Paradise, The
,
1

fourth kind, the,
155

Fox, Mark,
Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena
,
287

Fragments of Inner Life
(Myers),
37

Franklin, Benjamin,
80

Freixedo, Salvador,
Visionaries, Mystics and Contactees
,
286

Frescka, Ede,
Inner Paths to Outer Space
,
313n24

Freud, Sigmund: and dream symbolism as overdetermined,
189
,
306n97
; and Eliade,
19–20
; on evolution driven by unconscious,
212
; and Fort's parapsychology of everyday life,
95
; and Huxley, Aldous,
59
; influence of Janet on,
13
; influence on Breton of,
58
,
206
; and Jung,
14
; and magnetic sleep,
220–21
; and Méheust,
217
,
220–21
; and Myers,
63–64
,
86
,
297n80
,
298n121
; and the mystical,
14–16
; and the occult,
14
,
284
; as opening the psyche while forgetting the psychical,
221
; and
Proceedings
,
54
; and subliminal,
63
,
220
; and telepathy,
14–16
,
289n2
,
291n24
; and Vallee,
148
,
189

From Mesmer to Freud
(Crabtree),
308n32

Fuller, Buckminster,
97

Fuller, John G.,
The Interrupted Journey
,
165

Fuller, Margaret,
16

Gamow, George,
14

Gardner, Murphy,
William James on Psychical Research
,
291n18

Gauld, Alan,
293n7
; and the erotic,
45
;
The Founders of Psychical Research
,
293n7
; on Myers loving ghost of Annie Marshall,
44
,
89–91
; on Myers's influences,
64
; on Myers's personal psychical experiences,
53–54
; on Palladino,
49
,
296n53
; and the paranormal,
76
; on Piper,
56–57
; and Sidgwick group,
49
,
56
; and spirit messages,
50
,
80

Geist
,
11
,
71
,
72

Geller, Uri,
178
,
305n67

Gilligan, Carol,
15

Good, Timothy,
Need to Know
,
301n13

Graf, Fritz,
11
,
290n7

Griffin, David Ray,
112
,
310n5
;
Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality
,
299n30
,
310n5

Gurdjieff, G. I.,
206

Gurney, Edmund,
47
,
54–56
,
284
,
294n9
,
296n62
;
Phantasms of the Living
,
47
,
284
;
Tertium Quid
,
294n9

Haeckel, Ernst,
99

Hall, Manley P.,
192–93
,
306n98
;
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
,
192–93

hallucination, veridical,
75–76

Hanegraaff, Wouter J.,
Hidden Intercourse
,
295n48

Hanger
18
,
184

Hansen, George,
17
,
308n29
;
The Trickster and the Paranormal
,
291n31

Harding, D. E.,
265
;
On Having No Head
,
258
,
311n8

Harris, Sam,
310n7

Harris, Thomas Lake,
51

Harvard University,
8
,
23
,
54
,
259

Hastings, James,
Encylopaedia of Religion and Ethics
,
9

Heard,
Gerald,
306n91

Heavenly Lights
(Fernandes and D'Armada),
286

Hecht, Ben,
140

Hegel, G. W. F.,
11
,
71–72
,
290n9
;
The Phenomenology of the Spirit
,
71–72

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
(Magee),
290n9
,
297n101

Heindel, Max,
192

Henderson, Major Paul W.,
166

Hennessey, R. A. S.,
Worlds Without End
,
299n15

hermetic, the: as art of interpretation,
24
,
201
; and Hegel,
11
,
71–72
,
290n9
, and Méheust,
201
,
212
,
214
,
307–8n20
; and science fiction,
31
; soul of Western culture,
30
,
145
; and Vallee,
145–46
,
161
,
192–93

Hess, David J.,
Science in the New Age
,
290n15

Hesse, Hermann,
Journey to the East
,
5

Hidden Intercourse
(Hanegraaff and Kripal),
295

Hildegaard of Bingen,
196

Hill, Barney and Betty, case of,
165–66
,
207

Hinduism, epistemologies of,
254

Hire, Jean de la,
Roue fulgurante
,
207

Histoire et Doctrines des Rose + Croix
(Sédir),
192

Hodgson, Richard,
47
,
54
,
55–57
,
89
,
237

Hofmann, Albert,
256

Hofstadter, Douglas,
The Mind's I,
258
,
311n8

Holmes, Sherlock,
242

Home, Daniel Dunglas,
7–8
,
53
,
94

homo duplex
,
61–62
,
232
,
252
,
311n24
.
See also
Human as Two

Hufford, David,
308n27

Hugo, Victor,
16
,
47
,
222

Human as Two,
58–66
,
256
; and brain, left vs. right,
259
,
310n5
; in dialogue with filter thesis,
252
,
256
; and evolution,
256
; and Hegel's
Phenomenology
as,
72
; and Michel,
204
; and Myers's imaginary/imaginal,
83
; and neuroscience,
259–67
; and One,
39
,
270
; and Stevenson's dream of a double personality,
86
; and Talyor, Jill,
259–61
; and telepathy,
81
; as universal neuroanatomical fact,
266
. See also
homo duplex
; psychology: bimodal

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
(Myers),
284
; altered word-states defined in,
58
,
62
,
67
,
72
,
80
,
83
; beginning insight of,
66
; content reproduced by structure of,
61
; dream cases in,
78
; the erotic erased from,
91
; the erotic subsuming the tragic in,
90
; methods used for,
55
; as posthumously published,
46
; as seldom read,
7
; source texts of,
47
; structured as textual erotic séance,
88–91
; and
Symposium
,
88–89
; the telepathic and the erotic linked in,
85