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Let’s play around with the implications of this new approach. According to the third-path, paranormal events from alien abductions to zooforms are legitimate because they conform to the definition of experience , but many cases are not tangibly real in because they have not been perceived through the senses. Instead what is encountered is another kind of real, the otherreal.
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Notes
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Hancock (2005, p. 429).
- 2.
Ibid., p. 435.
- 3.
von Lucadou and Wald (2014).
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Hume (1995, p. 25).
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Stafford Betty (2004).
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Brabant (2016, p. 220).
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Barušs (2010).
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Mack (1993, p. 28).
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Hancock (2005, p. 289).
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Poynton (2012).
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Schäfer (2006).
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Ibid., p. 576.
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Ibid.
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Poynton (2012).
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Meijer and Korf (2013).
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Joye (2017); another expression is physicist Karl Pribram’s Holoflux.
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Das (2016).
- 18.
Poynton (2012).
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Ibid., pp. 116–117.
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Poynton (2012): There’s also the “serious question as to whether any model developed within the context of physics is capable of extension into non-physical experience”.
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Brooks (2012, p. 42).
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Jinks, T. (2019). The Otherreal. In: Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28902-7_30
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