Abstract
The hefty content presented in the last few chapters provides a sensible, second-path explanation for how people see ghosts and perhaps other weird things. Hard science passed much of this how question to cognitive psychology to work out, such as how mental imagery is distorted by top-down processes, or how consciousness is disrupted and re-patterned in an altered state. Anthropology and sociology were also able to provide some input into why the imagery might take the form it does, through the psychosocial hypothesis.
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Notes
- 1.
Poller (2015).
- 2.
Ibid., p. 251.
- 3.
Hall (1959).
- 4.
Solms and Turnbull (2002).
- 5.
Goetzmann et al. (2018).
- 6.
Preller and Vollenweider (2018).
- 7.
Kosman and Silbersweig (2018).
- 8.
Relative to the individual.
- 9.
Preller and Vollenweider (2018).
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Ibid., p. 231.
- 12.
Ibid.
- 13.
Wahbeh et al. (2018, p. 19).
- 14.
Preller and Vollenweider (2018, p. 241).
- 15.
Prince (1994, p. 17) quoted in Bartocci (2004).
- 16.
Blum (2013).
- 17.
Ibid., p. 431.
- 18.
Blum (2013).
- 19.
Rabeyron and Caussie (2016, p. 64).
- 20.
Goetzmann et al. (2018).
- 21.
Roudinesco (2016, p. 198).
- 22.
Dale (2015, p. 157).
- 23.
Goetzmann et al. (2018, p. 24).
- 24.
Goetzmann et al. (2018, p. 24).
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Jinks, T. (2019). Forcing the Boundaries of the Second-Path: A Purposeful Unconscious. In: Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28902-7_25
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