The end of materialism: how evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together

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The author reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that points toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing. Abstract: Ideal for scientifically minded individuals curious about life's spiritual side as well as spiritually inclined people seeking to back up their beliefs, this book offers evidence for the existence of telepathy, precognition, and psychic healing.  Read more... Content: Spiritual seeking in a world that thinks it's all nonsense -- How do we know the spiritual is real? -- Ways of not knowing: distortions of science and intelligence -- Starting from the natural world: a psychic coup d'État? -- Extended aspects of mind: the big five -- Telepathy -- Clairvoyance, or remote viewing -- Precognition -- Psychokinesis -- Psychic healing: PK on biological systems? -- Postcognition and extended aspects of mind: the many maybes -- Out-of-the body experiences -- Near-death experiences -- Postmortem survival: after-death communications -- Mediumship: experimental approach to postmortem survival -- Reincarnation -- So what have we learned? -- If I believed the western creed -- Bringing it all back home: personal reflections -- Returning to mystical experience.