Table of Contents
Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Paranormal 1
1 On Death and Not Dying 21
The Provocative Beginning of Near-Death-Experience Research
2 Do You See What I See? 53
The Curious Conflict Between Telepathy Skeptics and Believers
3 Out of Our Heads? Off with Their Heads! 83
Consciousness Outside the Brain
4 Blazing Saddles 113
UPOs and the Strange Lights Over a Texas Town
5 Was There a Ghost in My House? 139
The Unexplained Noises That Fueled a Childhood Mystery
6 To Infinity and Beyond 153
What Science and Spirituality Look Like from Outer Space
7 The Open Mind 177
How New Science Is Revealing the Power of Meditation and Prayer
8 The Impossible Dream 205
Sleep as an Untapped Resource for an Awakened Life
9 After-Death Communication? 233
How a New Therapy Uses the Dead to Help Patients Live
10 You Can't Go Home Again 251
Has Anyone Else Encountered a Ghost in My Old House?
11 Our Time in Hell 255
Lucid Dreaming and its Most Potent Lesson for Science and Spirituality
Acknowledgments 267
Notes and Sources 269
Index 313
