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Stacy Horn - Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
Pros: To be better informed about what we don't know yet
Cons: Still viewed largely as cultish instead of enlightening
The Bottom Line: One of the better introductions to the intensity behind one mans search into love eternal . . . and the paranormal realms it exists in
sojournseeker's Full Review: Stacy Horn - Unbelievable: Investigations into Gho...
The book, Unbelievable must be so because no one has believed to review it until now . . .
The title is as it states, especially if you cannot see past your religious indoctrinations, physical dimensions and release yourself from the ego wholeheartedly. You really must practice being pure spirit equally in touch with a psychic nuance to feed on the idea of things unexplainable can still be understood.
Since having been confirmed a clairvoyant in a few personal experiences as well as surrendering to the tenets of certain abilities learned through a masters program direction, I am both blessed and cursed. I tend to understand the paranormal realm in a very enlightened way. I read lots of different books on the specifics of paranormal investigation from both a scientific and media-delivered set of criteria studied.
The various subjects are intriguing because I have been known to dabble with ’the ouija board’ as a teenager grow up with a keen sense of feeling never alone as a young adult and now as a 40-something adult, I can open up without fear of ridicule.
This realm particularly interests me because I not only absorb it but reflect from it, vividly. The paranormal arena was played around in long before Rhine publicized the search in the early 1930’s. It is about the most publicized lab ‘Duke University, the Parapsychology Laboratory in Raleigh North Carolina, which focuses on the incredible work of J.B. Rhine and his wife Louisa who desperately, painstakingly tried to uncover a ‘working theory of ESP‘ using test subjects not as guinea pigs but assets to valuable scientific proof that went largely ignored even laughed at till maybe just a few years ago.
Four specific areas of research in paranormal phenomena were to be covered in his goal for the creation of his lab: 1) receiving and recording information from other people’s minds known as Telepathy, 2) getting and recording information from sources other than the mind like objects referred to as Clairvoyance, 3) seeing into and recording what is shown of the future known as Precognition and 4) moving objects with the power of one’s mind known as Telekinesis.
He had many sponsors with money and prestige behind his goals and was respectful to include investigation of curious incidents with the utmost discretion so as not to cause a ‘mass panic’. In my humble opinion, the very idea he was intrigued by the unknown is enough to convince me he would be intent on proving it till he died.
The book can be enjoyed for what it is not: a definite gateway into reaching nirvana by communicating with the other side, deceased relatives, and contacting a local priest for some extreme measure of eviction of something unknown . . . And unwanted.
This is not phony in my opinion and without pushing the concept I just ask that when read this, you open your mind to the possibilities rendered by poignant examples of people who lived through some harrowing unexplainable by common measured, things, throughout each and every page you turn.
In 241 pages plus an Epilogue that nicely wraps up the authors view and certain facts on the possibility of ghosts, poltergeists, telepathy, and other unseen phenomena--you become a staff member, an investigator, or a side-stepping traveler on some of the trips sexy and sultry J.B. Rhine went on.
He traipses through the controlled experiment, the correspondence with several affected individuals who have visions, the apprehension, the conferences, the séances, and some of the dramatics offered by mediums throughout his search, with finesse and fortitude. He was a tough guy to work for. Unlike any of his autobiographies, but just as compelling or enticing, this one is believable if you just relax and read through the pages . . .
I thoroughly enjoyed the company that J.B. Rhine kept also. This is dutifully noted in writer Stacy Horn’s own literary way. She uses exceptional pieces of dialogue that aim to prove what J.B speculated but needed scientific proof to be legitimately appreciated and recognized as a scientist not a quack. Friends, sponsors and big names like Jackie Gleason, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, and others gave this book an exciting plethora of phenomenal resource. I found such value in knowing that the entertainment, arts and literature and even scientific communities like physicists were already interested in “the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious“, that I kept turning page after page, “it is the source of all true art and science’, encouraging words from Albert Einstein who supported some of Rhines work.
This book covers experiences from people from around the globe, meaning each culture can assign a name to the entity sensed, seen, felt or heard. There are poltergeists, orbs, and identifying measurable like temperature changes and high-frequency caught on tapes, documentation that lifts the unknown into at least, ‘picked up on’. It is unfortunate that there is skepticism covered, but it is an integral part in understanding this phenomena. There are plenty examples of ’ghost stories’ that offer eternity with love surrounding you, loss that is so unbearable your soul nearly breaks apart, and a fear that is unreliquinshed by some of the most powerful prayer you can muster up.
Is it worth getting confused over what you believe and what you have faith in ? Remember it is based on one brilliant man who decided that love is survived in death and death is not final since love lives on forever as spirit or energy or something at least, measurable is confirmed. He found that in psychic power awareness, one could actually continue a relationship with a loved one that passed on because something more was coming through in waves . . .
The scientists who helped run the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke university equally struggled against media skeptics, educational parameters and of course political and socio-economic striations in the human experiment thus far. J.B. Rhine was not just the difficult boss, he was the perfunctory guide overseeing, conducting and recording every moment of his experiments. The lab was far better than darkened parlors where dramatic antics from hallucinogenic-affected women, called mediums, offered little to no clue about telepathy or other psychic experiences being valid.
Speculation is not privy here to proof unless you disbelieve what you think you already know. Some of the letters received by the Rhines are included in the book showing actual enthusiasm, regret, agony and suffering represented in the penmanship, which also says a lot about a person. Articulate and detail oriented and open to properties of their consciousness most people are not, are fascinating testimonials to the work done in behalf of the laboratory. I cannot emphasize that since I am intrigued by this field, that the work of J.B Rhine cannot go unnoticed or left alone.
It matters ! So, go out and get a copy because if you did not think you believed before, you know you might after . . .
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