REL 2000 Chapter : Chapter 8 Religion
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C h a p t e r 8 , p a g e | 1. The history of scholarly study of the paranormal. Paranormal is both objective (some form of evidence explaining how an event occurred) and subjective (only the individual sees). Paranormal includes the miraculous (ex: healing) and supernatural (ex: levitation) phenomenon. B. rhine: historical context, experimental approach, results. C h a p t e r 8 , p a g e | 2: princeton research anomaly research (pear) project suggests that human beings possess some type of micro-power (psi) global consciousness. Kripal"s hybrid approach: the sacred (the more) as the hyper-real the role of consciousness. The role of the more something beyond our world that we don"t understand: the religious imagination the hyper-reality taps into our world and our experiences but it is shaped by the religious imagination which has two levels.
