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	<title>Anomalist Books &#187; A Casebook of Otherworldly Music</title>
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		<title>On Music Heard from No Apparent Source</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annalisa Ventola, who is author of the excellent blog Public Parasychology, recently reviewed two of D. Scott Rogo&#8217;s books in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, which by the way has the best book review section on topics of interest to us of any publication. The two books, A Casebook of Otherworldly Music and A Psychic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://www.anomalistbooks.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/casebook.thumbnail.jpg' class="left" alt='A Casebook of Otherworldly Music' />Annalisa Ventola, who is author of the excellent blog <a href="http://publicparapsychology.blogspot.com/"><em>Public Parasychology</em></a>, recently reviewed two of D. Scott Rogo&#8217;s books in the <a href="http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse.php"><em>Journal of Scientific Exploration</em></a>, which by the way has the best book review section on topics of interest to us of any publication. The two books, <a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/rogo.html#A_CASEBOOK"><strong><em>A Casebook of Otherworldly Music</em></strong></a> and <a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/rogo.html#A_PSYCHIC"><strong><em>A Psychic Study of the Music of the Spheres</em></strong></a>, relate paranormal music experiences to out of body experiences, survival after death, and other psychic phenomena. Ventola writes that &#8220;Being both a musician and a student of psychical research, Rogo was in a unique position to provide an original contribution to the field, and did so by the age of twenty &#8230;&#8221; Ventola chose not to  focus her criticism on Rogo&#8217;s &#8220;naivety about what constitutes proof of survival as well as the proper uses of certain statistical terms,&#8221; as she notes that Rogo&#8217;s subsequent books, some of which have been published by <a href="http://www.anomalistbooks.com/rogo.html">Anomalist Books</a>, reveal a &#8220;developing maturity of the author both in the sense  of his writing style and his methods of critical analysis.&#8221; </p>
<p><img src='http://www.anomalistbooks.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/spheres.thumbnail.jpg' class="left"alt='A Psychic Study of the Music of the Spheres' />Ventola then summarized Rogo&#8217;s conclusions: &#8220;According to his content analysis, both experiences [transcendental music and out of body events] manifest during similar mental states, and the type of music heard (i.e. choral vs. instrumental or melodic music vs. music without a discernable melody) coincides with the type of OOBE (natural vs. enforced) reported. Rogo&#8217;s analysis also uncovers what he calls a &#8216;crescendo effect&#8217; in the majority of the collected cases, in which the experients report the volume of mysterious music gradually being heard, rising to full power, and receding again.&#8221; Ventola ends her review with quite a compliment: &#8220;It is admirable that someone so young, without having yet completed a formal education, would not only have the initiative to collect reports about little understood or discussed phenomena, but also have something meaningful to say about them.&#8221;</p>
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