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INTRODUCTION

REVIEWS OF BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS (ANNOTATED)

PUBLICATIONS OF AUTHOR

ONLINE ARTICLES

LINKS

Blog

 

 

 

OVERVIEW

The paranormal encompasses everything from levitating monks to ESP, from spirits to cattle mutilations—an incredible and unsavory hodgepodge.  The mix seems incoherent.  But the trickster makes sense of it.

    Among other things, this book explains:

  • Why parapsychology and UFOs are shunned by establishment science.
  • How anthropology and literary criticism apply to the paranormal.
  • Why psychic phenomena are associated with mystical practices.
  • Why tabloids often put paranormal features on their front pages.
    Trickster theories are not well known.  They are scattered across disciplines and hidden in obscure academic tomes. The Trickster and the Paranormal brings them together.
 

The links below give descriptions that are short, terse, and meant for specialists.  The book explains them in ordinary language.

Social Science
Literary
Paranormal
Skeptics
Anthropology
Literary Criticism
Near-Death Expericences
Magic
Folklore
Reflexivity
Parapsychology
Martin Gardner
Psychology
Semiotics
Ufology
Skeptics
Religion
 
Witchcraft (modern-day)
 
Sociology
     

 

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564  pages

Full  references

Index

Paperback  $22.94
ISBN 1-4010-0082-7

Hardcover  $33.29
ISBN 1-4010-0081-9

Printed and distributed by Xlibris Corporation.
 


  


George P. Hansen was professionally employed in parapsychology laboratories for eight years—three at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina, and five at Psychophysical Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey.  His experiments included remote viewing, card guessing, ganzfeld, electronic random number generators, séance phenomena, and ghosts.  He has been active in a number of psychic, UFO, and New Age organizations, and he helped found a skeptics group.

His papers in scientific journals cover mathematical statistics, fraud and deception, the skeptics movement, conjurors in parapsychology, and exposés of hoaxes.  He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

List of Author’s Publications 

Online Articles


 


 

email the author

gphansen2001@yahoo.com
 

 
 

The Trickster, the Paranormal & Transitions

A 36 minute audio CD.

George Hansen in conversation with Joanne D.S. McMahon, Ph.D. and magician Ben Robinson.

The trickster is the governing archetype of the betwixt and between, of liminal periods, and transitions.  During times of personal and cultural change, paranormal events are likely to erupt.

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George P. Hansen was cataloger of the Milbourne Christopher Library.
 

Click here for information on the Milbourne Christopher Foundation.
 


 
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