{"id":40,"date":"2007-07-06T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/2007\/07\/06\/a-public-scholar-for-parapsychology\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T19:03:01","slug":"a-public-scholar-for-parapsychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"A Public Scholar for Parapsychology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Independent researcher Annalisa Ventola reviews three more of our D. Scott Rogo books in the Summer 2007 issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration<\/a>. She begins with Miracles: A Parascientific Inquiry into Wondrous Phenomena<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, which provides a parapsychological interpretation of various phenomena recorded in religious traditions. She notes that although \u201cmiraculous phenomena are untidy and elude simple classification\u2026Rogo rather enthusiastically gets up to his elbows in it. In the end, he suggests that the power of belief might be strong enough to create an independent spiritual reality for the culture that supports it.\u201d Ventola finds the book \u201cwell-researched and thoughtfully written,\u201d and notes that \u201cit remains one of the few introductory books available on this topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

With The Search for Yesterday: A Critical Examination of the Evidence for Reincarnation<\/strong><\/em>,<\/a> Ventola finds Rogo attempting \u201cto shake researchers out of their ‘research grooves’\u201d by questioning their very definition of reincarnation. While the work of the late Ian Stevenson has become synonymous with reincarnation research, \u201cRogo attempts to go beyond this research paradigm, introducing the public to a variety of approaches to the question of reincarnation, including hypnosis, regression, past-life therapy, and the past-life recall reported by researchers studying the properties of psychoactive drugs.\u201d In doing so, the book, which uses “some unusual and unexpected sources,” promotes \u201ca well-rounded examination of the evidence,\u201d according to Ventola.<\/p>\n

Our Psychic PotentialsBut she reserves some of her highest praise for Our Psychic Potentials<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, pointing out how it stands out from the \u201cmultitude of books and courses on the market purporting to enhance one\u2019s psychic abilities.\u201d While \u201cRogo’s strategies could very well form the basis for a formal self-training course in ESP,\u201d Ventola calls the book \u201can ambitious work \u201c that \u201casks a lot of the solitary practitioner.\u201d But when visitors to her Public Parapsychology<\/a> blog ask how they can develop their own psychic abilities, \u201cI have recommended this book to them. Unlike most other books on the subject, this book is devoid of the new age platitudes typically found in such discussions, and provides a very good introduction to the parapsychological literature, complete with references for further exploration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ventola then tops off her review by admitting how she finds herself \u201cinfected by Rogo’s enthusiasm for the field of parapsychology and the promise of its findings. I admire how he communicated even the most arcane details of laboratory experiments in a cogent, yet personal manner. In doing so, he took on the underestimated role of public scholar, a role that parapsychologists have largely neglected in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Independent researcher Annalisa Ventola reviews three more of our D. Scott Rogo books in the Summer 2007 issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. She begins with Miracles: A Parascientific Inquiry into Wondrous Phenomena, which provides a parapsychological interpretation of various phenomena recorded in religious traditions. She notes that although \u201cmiraculous phenomena are untidy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracles","category-our-psychic-potentials","category-the-search-for-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}