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RANDI?S PRIZE IBD

ROBERT MCLUHAN
WHITE CROW BOOKS
02 / 2019
9781786770974
Anglès

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The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was a cash prize offered from 1964 to 2015 by stage magician James ',The Amazing', Randi for anyone who could convince him they had psychic powers. No one ever came close to winning, proof, say sceptical scientists, that there is no such thing as ',the paranormal',. But are they right?áIn this illuminating and often provocative analysis, Robert McLuhan examines the influence of Randi and other debunking sceptics in shaping scientific opinion about such things as telepathy, psychics, ghosts and near-death experiences.áHe points out that scientific researchers who investigate these things at first hand overwhelmingly consider them to be genuinely anomalous. But this has shocking implications, for science, for society and for even perhaps for ourselves as individuals. Hence the sceptics', insistence that they should rather be attributed to fraud, imagination and wishful thinking. However, this extraordinary and little understood aspect of consciousness has much to tell us about the human situation, McLuhan suggests.áAnd at a time when militants are polarising the debate about religion, its mystical, spiritual element offers an optimistic and enlightened way forward. Randi',s Prize is aimed at anyone interested in spirituality or those curious to know the truth about paranormal claims. It',s an intelligent and readable analysis of scientific research into the paranormal which, uniquely, also closely examines the arguments of well-known sceptics.á

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21,24€