Where Science and Magic Meet - Softcover

Roney-Dougal, Serena

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9781852304461: Where Science and Magic Meet

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ISBN 10: 1852304464 ISBN 13: 9781852304461

Publisher: Element Books Ltd, 1993

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A noted parapsychologist offers convincing evidence of psychic ability through her numerous experiments. Examine the techniques used in different esoteric schools for altering states of consciousness from a scientific point of view. An authoritatively written work emphasizes that the psychic arts should be a working, living part of a way of life. As practical as it is spiritual, this will lead you to a oneness with, the universe.

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Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD has a psychology degree from University College, London and a PhD in parapsychology. For 15 years she taugh parapsychology, yoga, and meditation, at Glastonbury, Somerset, where she lives. In 2002 she started teaching parapsychology at Bihar Yoga Bharati, the world's first Yoga University. For the next three years lived and worked with monks in a Tibetan monastery in South India. This research is continuing now at Samye Ling Tibetan monastery in Scotland.

Introduction to the Looking-Glass Reality
The biggest implication of psi phenomena is that we are potentially aware of everything in the entire universe.
As mentioned in Chapter 1, experimental research over the past fifty years has confirmed that awareness of psi is dependent on one's state of consciousness, one's attitude, motivation, relaxation and other psychological (mental) aspects. We are separated from this potential omniscience by the thinnest of veils. In scientific terms this veil is call 'filter theory'. We would go totally crazy if we were aware of everything in the entire Universe even for only one second; so we need filters to block out all but the most essential items from our conscious awareness.
Unfortunately this trend has gone too far, and the pressures of living in a city have made most city people so blocked that they aren't even aware of what their close friends and family are feeling, let alone whether or not some distant relative is in need of help. We have as a race become insensitive - or desensitised, mainly as a result of living in cities where the pressure of so many people and all their thoughts and emotions is so great that we have to blank out all but the most immediate perceptions or go totally crazy. So now we have to reverse the trend and become more aware, more sensitive, open up the filters a little bit, and open our psychic, as well as our physical, eyes and ears. This of course is easiest in the country!
Some people call this process of increasing awareness 'becoming aware of the subconscious', since it is only in conscious awareness that we are so blocked, and the potential omniscience is all there in the subconscious. In becoming aware of the subconscious per se, we also tend to become aware of psychic information. This information is different from most subliminal information in that it was never physically present; we know something that we have never

physically heard or seen or felt. The psychic information of which we become aware when we open up to the subconscious has come in by means other than our eyes or ears or other sense, possibly through the 'third eye'. In trying to understand this process by which psychic information is available I shall be travelling through some pretty strange waters.
Thresholds and the subconscious
Conscious experience is a very limited channel. We can, it is now accepted, be conscious of only about 7 things at any one time. Yet there are 10 thousand million neurones ........

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