The sixth sense reader / edited by David Howes.

'The Sixth Sense Reader' covers a wide range of cases, ranging from kinesthesia and intuition to shamanic flight and extrasensory perception. With contributions from anthropology, history, religion and biology, this volume showcases many insights into the varieties of extra/sensory percept...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Howes, David, 1957- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Sensory formations series.
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Table of Contents:
  • The search for a sixth sense : the cases for vestibular, muscle, and temperature senses / Nicholas J. Wade
  • Sense of direction / W.H. Hudson
  • Bushman presentiments / Wilhelm H.I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd
  • Anatomy of mysticism / Jess Byron Hollenback
  • The five senses in classical science and ethics / Louise Vinge
  • The mesmerism investigation and the crisis of sensationist science / Jessica Riskin
  • Swedenborg's celestial sensorium : angelic authenticity, religious authority, and the American New Church movement / Leigh Eric Schmidt
  • The erotics of telepathy : the British SPR 's experiments in intimacy / Pamela Thurschwell
  • Intuition and reason in the new age : a cultural study of medical clairvoyance / Ruth Barcan
  • Refusing to give up the ghost : some thoughts on the afterlife from spirit photography to phantom films / Pamela Thurschwell
  • The sense of being stared at / Rupert Sheldrake
  • Tactility and distraction / Michael Taussig
  • Sense-experience and mystical experience / Mircea Eliade
  • Peyote and the mystic vision / Barbara G. Myerhoff
  • The embodiment of symbols and the acculturation of the anthropologist / Carol Laderman
  • Sensing divinity, death, and resurrection : theorizing experience through miracles / Bilinda Straight
  • Zulu dreamscapes : senses, media, and authentication in contemporary neo-shamanism / David Chidester.