Author: IVERSON, JEFFREY
Title: In search of the dead / Jeffrey Iverson
Description: London : BCA by arrangement with BBC Books 1994. Book Club Associates Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good. slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 212 pages; Physical description: xii. 212p. [16]p of plates ; 23cm. Summary: For over a century. scientists have searched for proof that man survives death. In this book. and the BBC2 television series which it accompanies. Jeffrey Iverson looks for evidence of an after-life. Enquiries into the existence of psi powers which survive death of the brain include experiments in viewing at a distance where the odds against guessing correctly are billions to one. and the story of a team of psychics. led by a parapsychologist. who 'saw' the infamous New York 'Son of Sam' killer. The author delves into mediums. seances and apparitions. including the incident of the ghostly warning that may have scared a ship in the 1942 Siege of Malta. He asks whether near-death experiences are the hallucinations of a dying brain. or whether those close to death actually leave their bodies. Subjects: Parapsychology -- Paranormal -- Supernatural -- Reincarnation -- Furture life -- History. Contents: PART ONE Powers of the mind: A green man with wings; The psychic and the Son of Sam; A casebook of psychic detectives; Rubbing strange stones together; The dream laboratory. PART TWO Visions and voices: Back from the dead?; A shoe on a ledge; The Vietnam veteran; Sea changes; Seattle Studies; Vision of the future? PART THREE Intruders from the psychic world: Echoes of the dead; The ghost of Operation Stone Age; The Age of mediums; The queen of psychics; Riddles of the dead; Message from a murdered priest. PART FOUR Remembered lives: The Galilee of the twentieth century; Dead men's hands; Possessed; The boy Lama; The classic case of Shanti Devi; For whom the bell tolls; A fear of thunder; Quantum leaps; Scientific no-go areas; Looking for white crows.Weight in Kg appr.:

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