{"id":23,"date":"2007-05-03T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/2007\/05\/03\/on-music-heard-from-no-apparent-source\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T14:27:19","slug":"on-music-heard-from-no-apparent-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"On Music Heard from No Apparent Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/\" target=\"_top\"><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\" target=\"_top\"><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\" target=\"_top\"><strong><em>A Casebook of Otherworldly Music<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/rogo.html#A_PSYCHIC\" target=\"_top\"><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\" target=\"_top\">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>\n<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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-casebook-of-otherworldly-music","category-a-psychic-study-of-the-music-of-the-spheres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}