Bibliographies Record Type: Review   ID: 1084
On Being Psychic: A Reading Guide (2nd ed.). White, Rhea A., & Anderson, Rodger I.
This work lists 1,921 information sources directed at persons who are interested in psychic (psi) experiences and the experiences of being a psychic (sensitive), healer, medium (channel), or out-of-body experient ("astral traveller"). Citations are listed alphabetically under nine broad subject categories: Psychic experiences in everyday life; works on individual psychics, mediums, and healers (this section is in three parts: 133 autobiographical works by 96 individuals, 534 biographical works on 238 persons, and 599 investigations of 194 persons); information sources on the psychology and physiology of being psychic; works on possible methods of inducing psi experiences and training psi abilities; methods of testing psi or mediumistic abilities; sources on resistance to and fear of psi and ways of coping with it; information sources on counseling persons who have had psi experiences and how to distinguish between the normal, the psychopathological, and the psychic; potential dangers involved in trying to develop psi or mediumistic ability and ways in which one who is interested in psi can be exploited or deceived by commercialized training courses and by professional psychics and mediums; and a section on "manufactured psi," or methods of producing psi or mediumistic effects through conjuring, illusion, or other nonpsi means.
Publisher Information:	Dix Hills, NY: Parapsychology Sources of Information Center, 1989. 151p.

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