-woks, and ;ues- Irs. - nce: .ork: 290- 311 iting the oints and n1s at In ium iapia and ium- "-hap- pari- sible: _)ther The ch it ailed -0 of -ccur- both 0 ob- -ipon- and )Iica- 183- ledge 4e is as a ather our work 2). ce - The :~s at- . the ,s of -iatter and ~:r in -i the -t the s the the took- t not ience been and )rder. show other C ef- vider Parapsychology Abstracts International 0 r R e e a S e 2 0 Approved For Release 2 11 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700110001-8 t u a 0 r a n d society is the locus of conceptual or and how facts are 0 f c 0 n c e p made fact-like in spite of their han creators. Finally, t I r a n c r it 0 f e p and this is a cor of the Ipoint, I have tried to 0 t h c P-0n c r b explain why the Ne of ets described here is so 0 f v t d c v e e .h little known. Ite'I ha the image of the core set h t he in i v a g 1 d be n before our eyes thentould be nc facts. The t 0 u t'n nt.i privacy of creation is what ntains its sanctity and its ns w at power" (p. 152). A Postscript discuss the wimplications of the d c ,twimp slieN book for science educati science po uesti.ons, forcn- ui'ric, P, 'dicat' the role sic science, public iinq ies and the rle 6Uientific ex- qie nd sc caticM t. pertise , iristitu ns of democra ic S(Xi?tlyft it con- 'tu"of dern in the cludes with some ex ples of the way that an understand- tt ex pies of th~ way h' ing of i -h ge sheds light on political processes. ,h g. sheds light on .11 i, follow&TP.4 A methi pendix follows. - DT/R.A.W. nd D R a_1a-____i.r ua i NIA;^ ers irc '"in Mexicw MV2_Kfi4_ - O=qm rs in ,c, Alternative Therapeutics. )85. 256F 'Riffio-, " IS ifflutail I graphy: 228-242; Chapter notes: 224-227; 6graphs; I Glo-s- ~ry~,'Inde:K: 245-256; 17 tables This is a report of an intensive investigation of the successes and failures of Spiritualist healing in a rural set- ting in Mexico made by an anthropologist. In the course of the investigation the natives insisted that she participate in the rituals and undergo initial training as a Spiritualist healer. The author summarizes her work as follows: "The two interrelated tasks of this book havo been (1) to demonstrate the ways in which an alternative healing sys- tern succeeds and fails to heal, as perceived by its patients, and in which one rural segment of a complex society ex presses and manages illness, and (2) to describe the inter- action between a therapeutic regime and the historical, so- cial, and economic forces of the larger society of which it is a part. I have identified the people's rccovcry requisi- tes, explored the beliefs and practices of an important al- ternative health-care delivery system in contemporary: Mexico, and have analyzed its impact on the clientele within a personal and societal framework. I have unveiled a folk Mexican cognitive model of recovery, which I postu- late is rooted in the history of its bearers and is fostered by current ecological conditions." There are useful chapters on "Spiritualist Healing Techniques" and "How Spiritualist Healers Heal." Several! appendices present background information on her research. A glossary, extensive bibliography, and an index enhance the book's usefulness. - DT/R.A.W. 02565. Flynn, Charles P. After the Beyond: Human Transformation and the Near-Death Experience, Englewood Clif% NJ: Prentice-Hall,f1986. 190p. Bibliogra IndeV -190; 4 tablesi phy: 181183 185 This ~~k is %out the spiro'al impact of near-death experiences (NDEs). Njt looks q what many NDErs have had to say about life, d6th, and love. In the first chapter -.rview pf the book. Chapter 2 ex. Flynn provides an ove n7- befpersons. Chapter 3 amines the NDEs of 8r 0 deals with the difficulties _,rienccd by NDErs in getting ir people even to listen to th ir it!Drics, let alane accept them as valid. Chapter 4 conce-r1led with the difficulties if t ~ NDErs have in incorpbrating heir experiences in their lives. Chapter 5 exa',9fines some of the value transforma tions that NI)Er~ u 1crgo, and presc&s two in-depth, ex tensive case stu~icsfbf major changes in.the lives of two NDErs. The sixty chapter covers rcseaf-elk aimed at dis coverin h t- er - brush with death without an NDF ner 'g w e n leads to transf, ation. Various religious aspects of NDEs are examined ' Chapter 7, which emphasizes how NDErs 7 adopt a theocentric attitude centered in a God of uncondi- 43 tional love. The implications of NDEs for Christianity is the subject of Chapter 8. Chapter 9 looks at the positive effects NDErs exercise on the lives of nonexperiencers, to whom they direct the love of the Light they were imbued with by their experience. The 10th chapter deals with the meaning of NDEs for those who have not had any sort of transcendent or death-rclated experience and have not been influenced by anyone who has. Some of the more sig nificant findings of an educational experiment -- the Love Project - which he eonducted Ith sWe I classes are w11 '~r r11 presented. I this project he attempted ovide his stu dents with opportunity to beconiffmore loving and caring after t manner of NDErs in a context not directly related the NDE. 1.t is hiflo that "the NDE and efforts like Love Pre j,.t %ight provide a seedbed for large- le transformatif in orld close to _ thoL wf the I.,. of annihilation through rces opposit the Light!' (p. 8). here is afF orewoir,~ by Raymond "it. d bKeThe latter Ar Moody and an AfY_ th R9. points out th at lyn goes yond Ring's Heading aF Toward Ome 1 b yi we uld not simply wait pas- 94y sively for the ing of eg ut should "participate ac- com tively in its e rgencc" (p. Materials for the Love me Project are incl cd in the ndices. - R.A.W. ud 02566. Frazier, Kendrick, Paranormal Border- hi lands of Science. B~r eus Books, 1981. buffalo 469p. Chapter bibliographi O~met 1. IIvs; 3 il us; 34 tables b r h i 0 g p Anthology of critical per various pseudosciences a 0 c c n c u d ed he %,es inc (parapsychology included). Tude reports of ys, :_ 'ticala original research, critical ssa I rticles, and in c r i c a t A s vestigative reports. Ail ere oriwln%_~y published in the official CSICOP journal kepin'rer, which Frazier r n a 0 k e ju edits. Book I deals ith "Skeptical Inquiries Into the it h d a I Paranormal." Under t s head there are 7 articles dealing t nderh ,6/e with psi phenomena belief, 3articles on 'Tricks of the nbe e Psychic Trade," 6 on eller-Type Phenomena," 3 on "Storm of Life and Deat and 2 ?n bior#yth ins. Book II ed at "Inquiries Into Fri e Science, ainly on para- is' ri, 1 Fic is te ha. t psychology but th is a test of u/dsing ability and one on psychic archae ogy. The valfabook with such ogy. Th h, terwo.1, varied subject ter would be hanced by an index, which it lacks. - 11K.A.W. 02567. so, Michael. chef Choice: Playing the Surviv H1;~iln t, a Gir Walpole, N11 1985. 348p. Biblio- graphy. 341- The pur e of this "sketch of a New Age Metaphysics of th and lightenment" is to "draw a picture of Mind arge d to show how that concept may relate to our s ival, th here and hereafter" (p. 6). It is in 6 parts. Te*st resents an outline of the idea ts Te T h of a modern dcathcra.ft art of dying. Part Two deals "r,i, with research on surviva d stresses the importance of a psite synoptic view of psi, suIresearch, al red states, and _,i,u psi,u 0ps't suhhat the OBE is biological the )ry. Part3at ts to s owt 0 a way in whi e, - e tfringes of Mind at Lar e. il ih we 9 Part 4 is about near-d h pcena, which are important routes to Mind at Lar He sh s that there is a general mechanism, triggered near dea that may work in any crisis of transformati In Part NDEs are viewed as .'part of a larger c1 sof appariti I phenomena whose function is to assist, eassure, guide d direct individuals, .1 or groups of' indivi als, in times of 'sis" (p. 8). These he calls Messengers rom Mind at Larg . Part 6 is on the possibility of globa near-death and transformation. There is much in this b k about the meaning and significance of parapsychological phenomena. R.A.W. Pproved For Release 20010/08/11 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700110001-8