- Paperback: 286 pages
- Publisher: Prometheus Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (19 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1573920614
- ISBN-13: 978-1573920612
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 867,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"... Blackmore's devastatingly honest account of her struggle to make sense of the paranormal is as gripping as ever." New Scientist "A revealing autobiographical story of the appeal of parapsychology." -- Skeptic
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'True skepticism has nothing to do with disbelief', says Susan Blackmore. 'It is about taking people's claims seriously and trying to understand them'. As a starry-eyed student, Blackmore was convinced of the reality of astral planes, telepathy, and life after death. She was determined to devote her life to parapsychology, but what she found wasn't what she had bargained for. None of her cleverly devised experiments revealed a hint of the psi she was seeking. In a determined effort to find it somehow, she tested young children in play groups, trained students in imagery and altered states of consciousness, and even put Tarot cards to the test. She visited haunted houses and was regressed to a 'past life'. Finally, accused of being a 'psi-inhibitory experimenter' with the power of abolishing paranormal effects, she visited other, more successful, experimenters. Here she found only errors in their experiments. In this new and updated edition of "The Adventures of a Parapsychologist", Blackmore is at last at liberty to explain just what she found in those ill-fated experiments at Cambridge. She brings her story up to date in a lively and personal account of one scientist's never-ending search for the paranormal.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist (Paperback)
I am deeply sceptical of all notions of parapsychology. The human brain is so complex that it must from time to time act in an unfamiliar way. These strangenesses we may interpret as voices - including, I believe, the story of St. Paul on the Damascus Road.Where I admire Prof. Blackmore is her courage. It's some years now since she took part in a documentary on supposed alien abduction (in which I have no belief.) These she convincincly suggested were in fact undiagnosed epileptic attacks of the temporal lobes. Since this is my own condition, I willingly agree with her findings. Most important,however, and this I truly admire: she was prepared to investigate her suggestion by herself agreeing to undergo an artificially induced epileptic attack, which appeared to validate her views. This takes courage.
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In Search of the Light,
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This review is from: In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist (Paperback)
Whilst writing for my dissertation on near-death experiences in my third year at university I became lost amongst dull and depressing books that created no enthusiasm in me and thus I soon became bored and lonely. This book changed everything. I widened my research to include paranormal activity and started reading this book. Blackmore's assessable and compelling narration provided both an interesting and highly entertaining read which helped provide me with the enthusiasm to finish my work. This book is one of the most interesting and thought provoking books I have read in a long time.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't know, or doubt it?,
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This review is from: In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist (Paperback)
This book tells the story of Susan Blackmore, at first a somewhat naive, gullable student, highly interested in anything supernatural, growing into a sceptical person, going for the scientific approach. Her conclusion about paranormal phenomena she did research on -- "I don't know" --, should have been "I doubt it" if you ask me. A nice and very readable book, but the author could have left out some of the private life elements and be more to the point.
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