The Skeptic's Guide to the ParanormalAllen & Unwin, 2004 - 260 Seiten Guaranteed to liven up any dinner party, this delightful, highly readable book offers color photos and scientific case-by-case explanations for 27 phenomena that appear to defy known science, including ghosts and poltergeists, the predictions of Nostradamus, and yogic levitation. |
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7 | 61 |
8 | 80 |
10 | 93 |
11 | 105 |
12 | 125 |
14 | 150 |
16 | 161 |
UFO encounters of the first kindsightings | 178 |
21 | 207 |
The Bermuda Triangle | 226 |
Dowsing and divining | 244 |
Acknowledgements 261 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ability Air Force alien abductions appear artist audience Australian balloons believe bend Bermuda Triangle Bigfoot body Bridey Murphy burn candle cause claim cloth cold reading convincing craft crash Croiset crop circles described detected Doris Stokes dowsers dowsing Elly-May evidence explained fact famous feel film flying fraud genuine ghost heat hoax Houdini hypnosis inversion layer investigation Katie known later levitation light Loch Ness look Maggie magician medium memories metal move never night Nostradamus Numerology objects paranormal parapsychology past lives past-life perform person photograph police predictions produced psychic quatrains quoted Randi recognise References reincarnation rods rope Roswell Ruth scientists séance séance room Shroud of Turin sightings sitters Skeptical Inquirer someone spirit spiritualists spontaneous human combustion spoon star sign story talk telepathy tell theory tion told trick UFO reports Uri Geller witnesses York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 153 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware...
Seite 151 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Seite 105 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Seite 42 - ... certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof.
Seite 153 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 42 - Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You...
Seite 151 - And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at. once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Seite 42 - You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.