Apparitions

An influential ghost reference book from ';a pioneer of paranormal research who developed theories still relevant today' (The Spook Isles). Apparitionsdelves into G.N.M Tyrrell's ghost classification method, an interesting and thought-provoking system that is still in use today. Tyrrell's four categories include experiments, crisis, post-mortem and ghosts. Tyrrell develops the idea that the apparition may be a way for the unconscious part of the mind to bring to consciousness information that has been paranormally acquiredin crisis cases, for example. He introduces an evocative metaphor of a mental ';stage-carpenter,' behind the scenes in the unconscious part of the mind, and constructing the quasi-perceptual experience that eventually appears on the stage of consciousness, so that it embodies paranormal information in a symbolic way. Tyrrell first introduced the term out-of-body-experience in this book. Apparitions is part of The Paranormal, a seriesthat resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.