Psychic Phenomena and Mystical Experience

by Lawrence L. Leshan

Overview

Mysticism and the paranormal have long been associated in two ways: in the repeated reports of mystically trained individuals acquiring paranormal abilities and in the warnings given in all serious mystical training schools that students who become interested in these abilities will cease to make progress. This essay, chapter 24 of Psychic Exploration, discusses those associations. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944529307
Publisher:	Cosimo Books
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Series:	Psychic Exploration
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	10
File size:	795 KB

About the Author

LAWRENCE L. LESHAN, Ph.D., is psychologist, former professor, and author. Besides more than 50 articles in professional journals, Dr. LeShan is the author of Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal, The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist, and How to Meditate. He was the chief investigator for the research project on paranormal phenomena sponsored by the Ayer Foundation. He spent five years in the U. S. Army as a clinical psychologist during World War II and the Korean War. In the 1980s, Dr. Leshan began providing psychotherapy for cancer patients, a field in which he is considered a pioneer.