The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth by Jeremy Northcote

Author:Jeremy Northcote
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, parapsychology, politics, belief, paranormal phenomena, church, religion, science, scientific truth, academia, occult, pseudoscience, pseudo-science, western society, orthodoxy, empirical, sociology, scepticism, skepticism, psychical research, occultism, satanism, emic, etic, doxa, ganzfeld, auto-ganzfeld
ISBN: 9781845404109
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2013
Published: 2013-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

2 This concept is referred to in Redfield’s novel as “the First Insight” (1994:6).

3 According to some analysts, feminist-oriented involvement in the scene has a long history. For example, a number of analysts have pointed out that the female mediums of the nineteenth century were counterparts to, and in some cases participants in, the early women’s suffrage movement (Goldsmith 1998; Yeager 1993).

4 Sociologist Paul Heelas, however, has criticised such a perspective (rightly I feel) because it ignores the “strong commitment to a form of foundationalism” evident amongst New Agers, who tend to emphasise an individuated or “cosmic” Self (1993:110). With regard to other participant types (whose rationalist, even scientific, orientation belies any postmodern categorisation), the postmodern thesis has, I contend, even less relevance.

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