Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (67 page)

Science-fiction et soucoupes volantes
or
Science Fiction and Flying Saucers
(Méheust),
206
,
214
,
215

science mysticism,
9
,
123–24
,
300n34

scrying,
12

Secret, The
(Rhonda Byrne),
223

Secret Life of a Superpower, The
(Kripal),
5–6

Secret Life of Puppets, The
(Nelson),
30

Secret of Doctor Honigberger, The
(Eliade),
18

Secret Teachings of All Ages, The
(Hall),
192

Sédir, Paul,
Histoire et Doctrines des Rose + Croix
,
192

Sells, Michael A.,
Mystical Languages of Unsaying
,
292n49

Septes Sermones ad Mortuos or Seven Sermons to the Dead
(Jung),
14

Serios, Ted,
6
,
193
,
285
,
308n35

Shakespeare, William,
98
;
As You Like It
,
98

Sherman, Jacob H., ed.,
The Participatory Turn
,
312n36

Sherrington, Charles,
262

Shklovskii, I. S.,
Intelligent Life in the Universe
,
302n27

Shweder, Richard,
Thinking Through Cultures
,
293n58

Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred,
56

Sidgwick, Henry: and Cambridge,
48–49
,
52
; elected president of S.P.R.,
54
; on ghosts,
48
; humanizing stories of,
49
; influenced by Crookes, William,
53
; and King, John,
296n58
; and losing faith,
48–49
; as mentor to Myers,
48
; and Sidgwick group,
49
,
56

sightings: Ann Arbor case,
301n8
; Basel,
153
; Brazilian Wave of 1977,
183–84
; European wave of 1954,
149
; Nuremburg,
153
; typology of,
154–55

Simon, Benjamin,
165–66

Simonton, Joe,
162

Sinclair, Upton,
Mental Radio
,
298n112

Slone, D. Jason,
Religion and Cognition
,
310n3

Smith, Jonathan Z.,
Imagining Religion
,
294n9

Smith, Paul H.,
Reading the Enemy's Mind
,
305n66

Snow, Rev. H.,
50

Society for Psychical Research.
See
S.P.R.

Socrates,
204

Solovyov, Vladimir,
104

Somnambulisme et médiumnite
(Méheust),
214
,
220
,
241
,
244

Spencer, Herbert,
99

Spielberg, Steven,
144
,
155
,
252
,
303n35

Spiritual Brain, The
(Beauregard),
261
,
311n26

Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena
(Fox),
287

Spiritual in Art, The
(Kandinsky),
16

S.P.R.,
10
; adoption of term
psychical
,
8
; and Barrett, William,
53
,
54
; and Blavatsky, Madame,
51
,
55
; founding of,
8
,
54
; Gurney, Edmund,
47
,
54–56
,
284
,
294n9
,
296n62
; Hodgson, Richard,
47
,
54
,
55–
57
,
89
,
237
;
Journal
,
47
,
54
,
70
,
94
; and Leuba's psychical research encyclopedia entry,
10
; and Moses, William Stainton,
54
,
56
,
70
; and Palladino, Eusapia,
49
,
51
,
52–53
,
296n53
; and Piper, Leonora,
13
,
56–57
; Podmore, Frank,
55–57
,
78
,
284
; and sexuality of Spiritualism movement,
50–51
; and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred,
56
; and Sidgwick group,
49
,
56
; and telepathy,
13
.
See also
Blum, Deborah; Gauld, Alan;
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
(Myers); James, William; Myers, Frederick W. H.;
Proceedings
; Sidgwick, Henry

SRI: and Augmentation of the Human Intellect project of,
175
; and Gellar, Uri,
178
; and mix of open and secret research,
175
,
178
; and Price, Pat,
177
,
304n61
; and remote viewing,
175–79
,
181
,
186
,
304n61
,
305n65
; and Swann, Ingo,
176–77
,
178
; Vallee's resignation from,
180

Stableford, Brian,
H. G. Wells
,
300n36

Stace, William,
311n26

Stanford University,
176
,
181
,
284

Stargate
Program,
178

Star Trek
,
137
,
154
,
303

Star Wars
,
281

Steiner, Rudolph,
16
,
192

Steinmeyer, Jim,
99–100
,
103
,
140
,
298n1
;
Charles Fort
,
299n4

Stekel, Wilhelm,
14

Stevenson, Ian,
Reincarnation and Biology
,
285

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
86

sticky thread,
4

Strassman, Rick,
Inner Paths to Outer Space
,
313n24

Sturrock, Peter,
181
,
284

subliminal, the,
58
,
66
; definition of,
62
; and evolution,
69–70
,
83
; and
Human Personality
,
46–47
,
61
; and magnetic sleep,
220–21
; and premonitions,
73
; and telepathy,
74–82
,
85
; and trauma,
59
; and unconscious,
63–64
,
220–21
; uprushes,
47
,
61
,
86–87
; and World as Two,
67–68

Sub-Space
(Vallee),
167

Superman,
73
,
83
,
214–15
.
See also
Kent, Clark

supernormal, the,
6
,
9
,
10
,
58
,
61
,
85
; coining of term,
66
; and dreams,
78
; and evolution,
66–75
; and filter thesis,
256
; and Fort's wild talents,
96
,
170
,
217
,
224
; and the mystical,
82
; powers,
69
,
72
,
83
,
170
,
217
; and superpower of pop culture,
224
; unconscious as window into,
265
; and Vallee's category of psychical capacities,
170
,
217

Super-Sargasso Sea,
96
,
109
,
125
,
127
.
See also
Sargasso Sea

Sutin, Lawrence,
32
;
Divine Invasions
,
293n64
;
In Pursuit of Valis
,
293n65

swamp gas,
152
,
301n8

Swann, Ingo,
51
,
176–78
,
304n57
,
304n61
,
304n64
;
Psychic Sexuality
,
295n50
;
To Kiss Earth Good-Bye
,
304n57

Swedenborg, Emanuel,
11
,
50
,
234

Swords, Michael D.,
149

Symposium
,
87–90
,
298n121

synchronicity: category forged by Jung,
14
; and comparative method,
75
; Dick's fascination with,
32
; as expression of
unus mundus,
110
; hermeneutical nature of,
200
; and meaning events,
25–26
; and Méheust,
200
,
212
,
245
; and Myers's
coincidental
,
74
; and reading the paranormal writing us,
74
; and Vallee,
189
,
245
,
306n94

Szilard, Leo,
148

Tallis, Frank,
Hidden Minds
,
312n31

Tandy, T. M., case of,
76

Tantra,
18
,
19
,
163
,
311

Tao of Physics, The
(Capra),
123
,
300n34

Targ, Russell,
52
,
176–79
,
296n52
,
304n57–64
;
Mind-Reach
,
178
,
290n15

Tarkington, Booth,
97
,
140

Taves, Ann,
290n2
;
What Matters?
manuscript,
310n5

Taylor, Jill Bolte,
259–61
,
265–67
;
My Stroke of Insight
,
311n11

technology: advanced as indistinguishable from magic,
143
; and altered states,
173
; and coining of telepathy,
79
; and colonization,
124
; and folklore,
147
,
163
,
173–74
; of future projected back,
173–74
; and inventors involved in psychical,
80
; and Michaud, A. G.,
302n20
; and Myers's artifices,
65
; psychic,
173
,
185
; and remote viewing,
175–81
; and the sacred,
307–8n20
; Soviet,
154
,
185–86
; stealth,
302n23
; transcending the physical,
173
,
182
; and UFO phenomenon as symbolic,
167
,
171
,
173

tectonic strain hypothesis,
280

telaesthesia,
86

telepathy,
237
; and author's category of Energy,
86–87
; as category of suspicion,
81
; as causal mechanism,
74–82
; and Darwin and Wallace,
295n45
; and Derrida, Jacques,
16
,
291n29
; and erotic,
85
,
90
; and evolution,
69
,
84
,
295n45
; and Fort,
104
; and Freud,
14–16
,
289n2
,
291n24
; history of term,
38
,
81
,
298n108
; and King, Stephen,
37–38
; and Leuba's “Psychical Research” entry,
10
; and mental control,
229
; and mental radio,
229
; and Myers's comparative method,
75
; and mystical humanism,
298n113
; as reduction to irreducible nature of human consciousness,
298n113
; and S. P. R.,
10
,
13
; and Targ, Russell,
52
; and telaesthesia,
86–87
; and Twain, Mark,
295n45
; and white crow argument,
234
; writing as,
37–38
.
See also
remote viewing

teleportation,
25
,
137
,
140
,
178
,
208
,
248

Teresa of Avila,
209

tertium quid
,
40
,
155
,
254
,
294n9

Tesla, Nikola,
80
,
112
,
145

Thompson,
General Edmund R.,
283–84

Thompson, Rosina,
89

Thompson, William Irwin,
159
;
Evil and the World Order
,
302n29

Thoreau, Henry David,
95

Thouless, Robert,
8

Thoulet, J.,
78–79

Thurston, Herbert,
208–9
;
The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
,
307n17

Todorov, Tzvetan,
293n69
; adoption of fantastic narrative from,
26
;
The Fantastic
,
299n27
; fantastic literature defined by,
34–35
,
104
; and filter thesis,
268
; and Fort,
104–5

Townshend, Chauncy Hare,
231
,
235–37
;
Facts in Mesmerism
,
231

transhuman,
260

translation thesis,
257
,
262
.
See also
filter thesis

transmediumization,
133

transmission thesis.
See
filter thesis

trauma-as-trigger: and Beauregard,
264
; and Crowley, Aleister,
51
; and the erotic subsuming the traumatic in
Human Personality
,
90
; and Fort,
101
; and Myers,
43
,
57–62
,
67
,
90
; and neuroscience,
259–60
,
264
,
310n5
; and S. P. R.,
43
; and telepathic dreams announcing death of loved one,
24
; and UFO abductions,
209

Tree of Gnosis, The
(Couliano),
20

Truman Show, The
,
31

Truzzi, Marcello,
The Blue Sense
,
309n47