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In terms of seeing paranormal things like ghosts, locked within the expanded realm is the potentiality of unrealised states which includes both the here-and-now awareness of mental, physical and perceptual elements, and the vast plain of unrecognised material..

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Brabant (2016).

  2. 2.

    A term for an expanded or extended consciousness.

  3. 3.

    Jung (1959/1990).

  4. 4.

    Weitz (1976): Very roughly, there might be some reference to archetypes as patterned in a morphic field, but that might upset stringent depth psychologists.

  5. 5.

    Kaminker (2016).

  6. 6.

    Stevens (1998).

  7. 7.

    van der Sluijs and Peratt (2009); also represented as a rounded object, four pillars, axis mundi, a rainbow, and lightning.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., p. 21.

  9. 9.

    Nunn (1998) and Huston (1999).

  10. 10.

    Martin‐Vallas (2013).

  11. 11.

    Ibid.

  12. 12.

    Joseph (2001); Of course, people share everything else in the brain, but that’s not the point!

  13. 13.

    Kaminker (2016, p. 93).

  14. 14.

    Zhu (2013).

  15. 15.

    Welman and Faber (1992, p. 65).

  16. 16.

    Urban (2005).

  17. 17.

    Bradshaw and Storm (2013).

  18. 18.

    Lash and Polyson (1987).

  19. 19.

    Jung (1959/1991).

  20. 20.

    Rosen et al. (1991).

  21. 21.

    Fordham (1953).

  22. 22.

    Lash and Polyson (1987).

  23. 23.

    Jung’s proposition about the paranormal, made in his 1959 writings.

  24. 24.

    van Erkelens (1991).

  25. 25.

    Clarke and Coleman (1975, p. 238).

  26. 26.

    Jinks (2012, p. 19).

  27. 27.

    Kottmeyer (2006).

  28. 28.

    Williams (2005).

  29. 29.

    Kottmeyer (2006).

  30. 30.

    Bolea (2015, p. 281).

  31. 31.

    Williams (2005).

  32. 32.

    Ibid., p. 134.

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Jinks, T. (2019). Witnessed Experience and the Third-Path. In: Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28902-7_33

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