Carlos S. Alvarado - The Consciousness Library

On Subtle Bodies, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Apparitions of the Living: A Review of Ernesto Bozzano's Study of "Bilocation"

Journal of Scientific Exploration May 22, 2022 Carlos S. Alvarado, Massimo Biondi 1 citation

For many years there have been phenomena such as apparitions of the living, photographs of the living at a distance, near-death experiences, emanations of light from the dying, fog, or incorporeal “doubles,” which have suggested the existence of a spirit, or “subtle body,” able to separate itself from the physical body, sometimes bringing consciousness with it. This idea also underpins the...

DOI: 10.31275/20221951 Psychic Consciousness Value mathematics Physical body +4

Early Psychical Research Reference Works: Remarks on Nandor Fodor’s Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science

Journal of Scientific Exploration December 24, 2020 Carlos S. Alvarado

Some early reference works about psychic phenomena have included bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and general overview books. A particularly useful one, and the focus of the present article, is Nandor Fodor’s Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science (n.d., ca. 1933 or 1934). The encyclopedia has more than 900 alphabetically arranged entries. These cover phenomena such as apparitions, auras,...

DOI: 10.31275/20201785 Encyclopedia Psychic Telepathy Psychoanalysis +1

Panoramic memory, affect, and sensations of detachment in the dying: Discussions published in France, 1889–1903.

The Journal of near-death studies 2011 Carlos S. Alvarado 8 citations

Between 1889 and 1903, several authors published papers in the French journal "Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger" and in a few other publications in which they discussed panoramic memory, changes of affect, and a sense of detachment from the body in dying persons. With a few exceptions these publications have been ignored in modern discussion of the phenomena of the dying....

DOI: 10.17514/jnds-2011-30-2-p65-82. Full text

Online resources for the history of out-of-body experiences and death-related phenomena.

The Journal of near-death studies 2010 Carlos S. Alvarado 4 citations

Google Books is a digital library covering out of print publications about a variety of topics, among them materials relevant for a history of discussions, observations, and collections of cases of out-of-body experiences and death-related phenomena such as near-death experiences, deathbed visions, and apparitions. In this article, I provide examples of copyright-free and cost-free sources from...

DOI: 10.17514/jnds-2010-28-3-p143-162

Interrelationships of Parapsychological Experiences, Dream Recall, and Lucid Dreams in a Survey with Predominantly Spanish Participants

Imagination, Cognition and Personality September 1, 2007 Carlos S. Alvarado, Nancy L. Zingrone

Previous questionnaire studies of parapsychological experiences have found significant interrelations between the experiences in question and dream experiences. In this study we present a replication of these relationships using a nationality of participants neglected in previous studies, a predominantly Spanish sample. A questionnaire was published in a Spanish New Age magazine. Four hundred...

DOI: 10.2190/ic.27.1.f

Onset and Terminal Sensations in Out-of-Body Experiences

The Journal of Psychology November 1, 1994 Carlos S. Alvarado

(1994). Onset and Terminal Sensations in Out-of-Body Experiences. The Journal of Psychology: Vol. 128, No. 6, pp. 701-702.

DOI: 10.1080/00223980.1994.9921301

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