{"id":1983,"date":"2023-12-01T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:08:40","slug":"witty-honest-and-penetrating-insights-into-parapsychology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Witty, Honest, and Penetrating Insights Into Parapsychology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-1960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dp.jpg\" alt=\"dp\" width=\"100\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Philosopher\u00a0Stephen Braude&#8217;s books are known for their original and penetrating insights, and his latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=108\"><strong><em>Dangerous Pursuits: Mediumship, Mind, and Music<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, says psychologist Stanley Krippner, &#8220;is no exception.&#8221; Hoyt Edge, writing in the <em>Journal of Scientific Exploration<\/em>, calls Stephen Braude &#8220;&#8230;the most prolific of the late 20th- and early 21st- century philosophers writing about parapsychology, and his work in the philosophical aspects of parapsychology has been the most influential in this field for the past several decades&#8230;&#8221; Braude, says psychologist Charles T. Tart, is &#8220;not afraid to wrestle with complexities others skim over\u2026like mediums who cheat sometimes, or just what is this &#8216;person&#8217; that we think might survive death.&#8221; In his review of the book in <em>Fortean Times<\/em>, Tom Ruffles notes that &#8220;Braude\u2019s rigorous approach is a corrective to shallow thinking in psychical research, and there is much of value here for anyone wishing to delve into the topics in more depth than is often the case in the literature.&#8221; But don&#8217;t think for a minute that this is another dry philosophical tome. &#8220;The author\u2019s wit, honesty, and tenacity shine throughout his writings&#8230;&#8221; writes Kenneth C. Turner in his review of the book for\u00a0the <em>Journal of Parapsychology. <\/em>For<em>\u00a0<\/em>Ruffles, the first and final essays, in particular, are &#8220;really &#8216;on the edge&#8217; \u2013 exploring areas about which we seldom think.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher\u00a0Stephen Braude&#8217;s books are known for their original and penetrating insights, and his latest book, Dangerous Pursuits: Mediumship, Mind, and Music, says psychologist Stanley Krippner, &#8220;is no exception.&#8221; Hoyt Edge, writing in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, calls Stephen Braude &#8220;&#8230;the most prolific of the late 20th- and early 21st- century philosophers writing about parapsychology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangerous-pursuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}