| Titel: | Review of 'Yoga and Parapsychology: Empirical Research and Theoretical Essays' |
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| Autor: | Solfvin, Jerry |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Parapsychology |
| Jahr: | 2011 |
| Band: | 75 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Seiten: | 148-157 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | Reviews the book, "Yoga and parapsychology: Empirical research and theoretical essays" edited by K. Ramakrishna Rao (2010). As world political and economic events outside of the academy continue to ramp up the booty for the deepening of real and lasting East- West communication and understanding, it may be an especially propitious time to do so within the academy as well. K. Ramakrishna Rao has become a passionate and indefatigable leader in this great endeavor. Now this volume comes to the most fascinating and challenging part of this East-West dialogue, a sequence of seven chapters that triangulate upon the nitty-gritty of the Indian perspective on psi phenomena. I applaud this book and recommend it to parapsychologists, Indologists and forward thinking philosophers and scientists. It should at least have a place in one's personal or corporate reference library as it has a great deal of material which is not easily found elsewhere. But I would hope that it would not just sit on a shelf, but be widely read and discussed. The topic is timely, I believe, especially as the need for improved East-West communication deepens daily. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |