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decoherence, 126
“Deep Thought” (Adams), 140
De Moura, Vicente, 257 , 258 , 268 , 271 , 274 , 275 , 378n7 , 382n61
Derrida, Jacques, 238 , 369n39
Dick, Anne R., 302 , 386-87n9 , 387n10
Dick, Jane, 293 , 301-03 , 309 , 312 , 313 , 339 , 341 , 388n22
Dick, Philip K., 12 , 13 , 87 , 90 , 97 , 129 , 157 , 177 , 593, 295-315 , 318 , 327 , 330 , 331 , 332 , 339 , 340 , 341 , 342 , 354n2 , 370n43 , 385-390 ; “2-3-74” experience of, 303-304 , 309-11 , 327 , 388n26 ; correspondence with Claudia Bush of, see Bush, Claudia; Oedipal feelings and, 301-03 , 313 ; precognitive dreams of, 304-11
Dick, Tessa B., 303 , 305 , 308 , 311 , 370n43 , 387n11 , 389n42 , 389n46
Di Corpo, Ulisse, 150-51 , 313
différance (Derrida), 238
Disneyland, 298-99 , 301 , 387n10
dissipative structures (Prigogine), 149
Dobyns, York H., 119 , 360n56 , 362n32
Doctor Who , 103 , 363n1
Dossey, Larry, 219 , 224 , 348n37 , 376-77n25
double-slit experiment, 123-25 , 128 , 132 , 134 , 135 , 321 , 361n4 , 363n48
Douglas, Mary, 175-76
dreaming (see also dreams, precognitive/premonitory; Freud, Sigmund): mnemonic theory of, 34-35 , 113 , 211-17 , 231 , 342 ; neuroscience theories of, 209-13 , 231 , 341 ; wish-fulfillment theory of, see Freud, Sigmund
“Dreams and Occultism” (Freud), 190-94
dreams, precognitive/premonitory, 7-9 , 30-42 , 45-49 , 60-62 , 69 , 72 , 92 , 94 , 99-101 , 107 , 107-14 , 117-18 , 171 , 178 , 180-85 , 188 , 190-91 , 214 , 218-32 , 241-44 , 256-57 , 266 , 268 , 273-75 , 335-44 , 347n34 , 347-48n35 , 393 ; about the Titanic , 20-22 ; in Jule Eisenbud’s work, 194 , 195-98 , 215-17 ; of J. W. Dunne, see Dunne, J. W.; of Elizabeth Krohn, see Krohn, Elizabeth; of Philip K. Dick, see Dick, Philip K.
Drem, Scotland, 44 , 86
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 54-55
Dunkirk, evacuation of, 43-44 Dunne, Brenda, 70
“Dunne dreams,” see dre ams, precognitive/premonitory
Dunne, J. W. (John William), 41 , 43-63 , 72 , 74 , 90 , 94 , 99 , 111 , 112 , 114 , 117 , 149 , 163 , 178 , 180 , 183 , 193 , 198 , 203 , 214-15 , 217 , 221 , 222 , 244 , 258 , 273 , 276 , 298 , 305 , 307 , 330 , 336-37 , 341 , 344 ; and dream of Lieutenant B.’s crash, 59-60 , 117 ; and dream of Mont Pelée eruption, 51-52 , 58 , 218-20 ; dream theory of, compared to Freud’s, 183 , 215-17 ; Serialism theory of, 49 , 55 , 57 , 72 , 99 , 112 , 183
Echeverria, Fernando, 118
effect size, 67 , 71
Ehrenwald, Jan, 280
Einstein, Albert, 4 , 36 , 55-56 , 102-03 , 122 , 126-27 , 130 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 207 , 253 , 290 , 322 , 390-91n4
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiment, 122-23 , 129-30
Eisenbud, Jule, 23 , 175 , 194 , 195-99 , 215-17 , 277 , 280 , 285 , 289 , 290 , 293 , 301 , 359n30 , 381n48 , 383n70 , 384-85
Eliot, T. S., 100 , 344 ,
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 343
“endochronometer” (Asimov), see thiotimoline
endosymbiosis (Margulis), 156-57
England, Jeremy, 364n6
enjoyment, see jouissance
entanglement (quantum), 57 , 71 , 122-23 , 126 , 129-30 , 132 , 135 , 136 , 139-40 , 142 , 143-44 , 152 , 153 , 156 , 160 , 161 , 164 , 168 , 170 , 236 , 263 , 323 , 361n4 , 362-63n47
entropy (see also Thermodynamics, Second Law of), 101-02 , 127 , 149 , 364n6 ; and Edwin May precognition theory, 244-45 , 376-77n25 ; and the sublime, 245-46
Epper, Ignaz (artist), 259
Esalen, 85 , 327 , 329 , 330
ESP (extrasensory perception), 6 , 24 , 66-77 , 80-92 , 108 , 112-14 , 122 , 128 , 129 , 141 , 144 , 201 , 260 , 262 , 280 , 349n55 , 352-57
eukaryotes, 156-57
Everett, Hugh, 109
Exegesis (Dick), 97 , 304 , 305 , 308 , 309 , 314 , 315
Experiment with Time, An (Dunne), 41 , 46 , 49 , 50 , 57 , 99-100 , 183 , 198 , 214-15 , 217 , 336-37 , 344
“experimental metaphysics” (see also Barad, Karen), 135-136 , 323 , 343
“Experiments on the Paranormal Cognition of Drawings” (Carington), 74-76
extrasensory perception, see ESP
Falk, Ruma, 261
Fantappiè, Luigi (see also syntropy), 150 fate, 94 , 175 , 178 , 179 , 180 , 194 , 201-03 , 243 , 268 , 280-83 , 285-86 , 289-90 , 292-93 , 323 , 331 ,
feedback (role in ESP experiments and precognition of), 69 , 72 , 74 , 75-76 , 193 , 353 , 360n37
“Feeling the Future” (Bem), 4-5 , 82-84 , 92 , 273
Feinberg, Gerald, 72-73 , 112 , 129 , 163
Fermat’s principle of least time, 132 , 318 , 321
Ferrari, Diane C., 71 , 76
Feynman, Richard, 127 , 128 , 321 , 322 , 342 , 391n10
file-drawer effect (see also selection bias), 25 , 34 , 37 , 71 , 86 , 265 , 336
“First in Our Family, The,” see “A. Lincoln Simulacrum”
“first sight” (Carpenter), 85 , 91 , 157 , 188
Fisher, Matthew, 366n55
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 36
Flatland (Abbott), 102
Fleming, Graham, 152 ,
Fliess, Wilhelm, 205 , 206 , 223 , 224 , 225 , 227 , 320 , 371
Florensky, Pavel, 369n25
Flournoy, Theodore, 187 , 249
Forrester, John, 238 , 371n4
Forsyth, David (Freud student), 191-93
fort-da game (see also Beyond the Pleasure Principle ), 239 , 248 , 313
Francis, Henry W. (Ian Stevenson case), 21
“Frau B.” (Freud patient), 181-82 , 183 , 268
free association, 204-06 , 212 , 336 , 339
free will, 10 , 108-09 , 137 , 279-80 , 362n32
“free won’t” (Ramachandran), 167 , 325
Freud, Anna, 189 , 226-27 , 229
Freud, Sigmund, 12 , 13 , 62 , 103 , 109 , 113 , 118 , 167 , 172 , 173 , 178-94 , 200 , 203-13 , 217 , 219 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 249 , 256 , 259 , 260 , 263 , 265 , 267 , 268 , 269 , 270 , 271 , 277 , 279 , 280 , 288-89 , 301 , 303 , 320 , 321 , 332 , 335 , 338 , 367-71 , 374-77 , 379n21 ; and “death drive” (see also trauma), 236-39 , 246 , 247-48 , 375-76n13 , 377n29 ; archaeological metaphors of, 230-32 , 276 ; cancer and treatment of, 223-27 ; Irma dream of, 203-07 , 222-30 , 289 , 311 , 320 , 340 , 371n6 ; medallion episode of, 179-80 , 227 , 230 , 280 ; seduction theory of, 237 ; wish-fulfillment theory of, 181 , 182-84 , 188 , 190 , 200 , 206-09 , 212-13 , 216-17 , 223 , 227-29 , 275 , 371n6
Freud, Sophie, 225-26 , 229 , 239
Friedrich, Caspar David, 246
frustrated spontaneous emission (physics phenomenon), 131-32
Futility (Robertson), 23-27 , 281-285 , 287 , 288-90
future detector, 141-145 , 153-55 ,
future-influencing-present effect (see also Priestley, J. B.), 92-95 , 116 , 193 , 249 , 268 , 357n59
Gardner, Martin, 24-27 , 33 , 38 , 182 , 187 , 289 , 299 , 349n55
“Gathering No Moss” (Robertson), 285 , 384n9
Geertz, Clifford, 331
Gladstone, Gerald, 45-49 , 60-62 , 220-22 , 337 , 373-74
Gleick, James, 102-105 , 113 , 321 , 358n15
Gnosticism, 314 , 339
Goddard, Victor, 43-49 , 60-62 , 86 , 220-22 , 337 , 350 , 373-74
Gödel, Kurt, 160
Golem, 168
Graff, Dale E., 215 , 377n26
grandfather paradox (see also bilking), 61 , 104 , 119 , 143 , 177 , 195-98
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 79-80 , 273 , 354n2 , 356n43
Guinness, Alec, 233-36 , 241 , 248-51
Guite, Malcolm, 332
Gurney, Edmund, 236 , 260
Halperin, David, 242-43
Hameroff, Stuart, 155-56 , 160
Hammerschlag, Anna (see also Freud, Sigmund, Irma dream of), 203 , 205 , 223 , 225 , 226 , 229
Hammid, Hella, 69
Hannah, Jack W., 23-24 , 349n55
Hansen, George, 367n2 , 385n20
Hebbian learning, 162
, 211
Heisenberg, Werner, 125-26 , 127 , 131 , 135
Henderson, Mrs. (Ian Stevenson case), 22 , 117
Herbert, Frank, 157 , 327 , 371n1
Herbert, Nick, xi, 361n3 , 370-71n48
hermeneutic circle, 372-73n29
“Herr P.” (Freud case), 191-95 , 276 , 277 , 324
Hidden Channels of the Mind (Rhine), 108
Hill, Betty (UFO abductee), 310
hindsight bias, 9 , 24-25 , 29-30 , 89 , 90 , 94 , 197-198 , 288 , 289 , 325
Hinton, Charles Howard, 148-49 , 157 , 160 , 161 , 170
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), 140
Hobson, J. Allan, 210 , 213 , 241
Honorton, Charles, 69 , 71 , 76 , 215
Howell, John, 131 , 134 , 141 ; beam-amplification experiment of, 3 , 4 , 131 , 134 , 135 , 141 , 162
Hubbard, L. Ron, 314-15
hypercube (see tesseract)
hypnagogic/hypnopompic states, 20-21 , 85 , 116 , 311
Inchbald, Guy, 350-51n22
indeterminacy, quantum, 126 , 127 , 209 , 238 ,
information: as distinguished from meaning, 91-92 , 138-40 ; as equivalent to causation, 138-40 ; classical theory of (Shannon), 139 ; quantum theory of (see also quantum computation), 137 , 144 , 149
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud), 173 , 180 , 183-85 , 188 , 200 , 205-09 , 223-29
Interstellar (Nolan), 103
Irma dream, see Freud, Sigmund
Jahn, Robert, 70
Jakobshavn ice-fjord, 17-18 , 345n1
Jones, Ernest, 180 , 189 , 226 , 230
Jones, Eryl Mai (Aberfan victim), 32 , 33
jouissance , 239-40 , 244-45 , 247-48
Jung, Carl, 13 , 62 , 64 , 65 , 78 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 95 , 110 , 159 , 185 , 189 , 220 , 224 , 255-77 , 304 , 320 , 324 , 327 , 330 , 332 , 337 , 338 , 364n10 , 370n43 , 375n13 , 378-83
Jurassic Park (Crichton), 358n15
Jurassic Park (Spielberg), 26 , 112 , 153
Kaiser, David, 139
Kammerer, Paul, 150 , 364n10
Kant, Immanuel, 245-46 , 269
Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August, 201 , 207 , 228 , 374n52
Klinkhammer, Gunnar, 118
Koch, Christof, 158
Korzybski, Alfred, 157
Kozyrev, Nicolai, 297
Krenz, Claudia—see Bush, Claudia
Kripal, Jeffrey J., xi, 8 , 17 , 41 , 86 , 108 , 110 , 114 , 118 , 283 , 312 , 326 , 326-33 , 345n11 , 357n52 , 392n21 ,n29
Krippner, Stanley, 69 , 215
Krohn, Elizabeth, 40-41 , 107 , 219 , 243 , 326 , 328-31
Kubrick, Stanley, 27 , 100-01 , 110 , 347n23
Kundalini, 272 , 275 , 381n49 , 382n63
Lacan, Jacques, 195 , 239-41 , 247-48 , 313 , 324-25 , 330 , 335 , 365n36 , 376n14 , 377n29
Laplanche, Jean, 238
law of large numbers, 24 , 25 , 33 , 34 , 37 , 41 , 68 , 235 , 336 ,
L’Engle, Madeleine, 147 , 363n1
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 123
Lewis, C. S., 100
Libet, Benjamin, 166-68 , 187 , 325
Lincoln, animatronic (see also Disneyland), 298-99 , 301 , 387n10
“Little Gidding” (Eliot), 344
Llewellyn, Sue, 211-13
Lloyd, Seth, 138 , 142-143 , 364n19
Lolita (Nabokov), 100-01 , 110
Loftus, Elizabeth, 30 , 115 , 237
long-term depression (synaptic plasticity), 162 , 211
long-term potentiation (synaptic plasticity), 162-63 , 211
Lorenz, Edward, 105 , 149 , 151 , 358n15
Luckhurst, Roger, 351n37
Luke, Gospel of, 121-22 , 249-51
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 202-03 , 363n1
Mailer, Norman, 87-90 , 301 , 312
Man & Time (Priestley), 37 , 93-95
Mandell, David, 31 , 41 , 107 , 347-48n35
many worlds interpretation (Everett), 109 ,
Margulis, Lynn, 156
Marwaha, Sonali Bhatt, 73 , 74 , 76 , 81 , 92 ,
materialism (see also consciousness), 36 , 72 , 90-91 , 150 , 158-59 , 165 , 169 , 266 , 333 , 364n13 ; transcendental, 365n36
Maugham, W. Somerset, 358n20
May, Edwin, 73 , 74 , 76 , 244-45 , 356n46 , 357n53 , 359n31 , 366n49
McDougall, William, 66
McMoneagle, Joseph, 76-77
meaning; as focus of precognitive phenomena, 11 , 13 , 31-32 , 36-37 , 42 , 89 , 90-92 , 95 , 151 , 235 , 276 , 323 , 325 , 331-334 ; arrival of, 11-12 , 95 , 273 , 318-320 , 324 ; as distinguished from information, 11 , 91-92 , 119 , 138-40 , 152-54 , 163-64 ; as something transpersonal (see also archetypes; collective unconscious), 90-91 , 264-265 , 273 , 333 ; cultural, 91 , 149 , 209 , 331-33 ; individual/subjective nature of, 28 , 35-37 , 39 , 159 , 213 , 261-62 , 342-344 ; materialistic challenge to (see also materialism), 65 , 90 , 15 ; inaccessibility to science of, 178 , 209 , 213 , 342-43
mechanism (see also materialism), 3 , 65
Meeting the Universe Halfway (Barad), 135
memory; distortion/revision of (see also hindsight bias), 9 , 24-25 , 26-27 , 30-31 , 32 , 52-53 , 62 , 89 , 94 , 114 , 116-17 , 179 , 188 , 243 , 249 , 325 ; precognition as a form of, 36 , 42 , 57 , 59 , 72-75 , 111-18 , 162-65 , 188-89 , 319 ; processes/neurobiology of, 111-16 , 160-62 , 163 , 203 , 210-213 , 231 , 313 ; role of dreams in consolidation of, see dreaming; super-abilities of, see cryptomnesia
Meninsky, Bernard, 249-51 microtubules, 155-57 , 160 , 162-63
Middleton, J. Connon (Ian Stevenson case), 20 , 22 , 42
Millenium Hilton, 27-28 , 379n25
Minkowski, Hermann (see also block universe), 56 , 61 , 102 , 108 , 119 , 130 , 133 , 144 , 154 , 171 , 289 , 312 , 318 , 333 , 390-91n4
mixed mediumship, 86
Möbius strip, 324-25
Moffett, Annie (see also Twain, Mark), 242-43
Mont Pelée eruption, see Dunne, J. W.
Morgan, Rev. Charles (Ian Stevenson case), 20-21
morphic resonance (see also Sheldrake, Rupert), 150 , 163
Moss, Robert, 224
Moss, Thelma (screenwriter), 234
Mossbridge, Julia, 81 , 392n28
“Mr. Foresight” (Freud case), see “Herr P.”
“Mrs. Fields” (baked goods brand), 310
Murphy, Michael, 85 , 327
Mutants and Mystics (Kripal), 283 , 312 , 327 , 329n29
Myers, Frederic W. H., 58 , 65 , 84 , 90 , 114 , 159 , 190 , 236 , 260 , 333
Nabokov, Vladimir, 100-101 , 110 , 113 , 117 , 217
neurons, 113 , 155 , 157-58 , 160-66 , 211 , 214
New Era of Thought, A (Hinton), 148 , 157
Newton, Isaac, 3 , 4 , 124 ,
New York Times, The , 20 , 26 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 100 , 285 , 288 , 289 , 294 , 308
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 65 , 309
Night My Number Came Up , The (see also Goddard, Victor), 222
9/11 attacks, 27-31 , 34 , 51 , 106 , 244 , 246 , 247 , 287 , 336 , 347n34 , 377n31 , 379n25
Noll, Richard, 264-65 , 273 , 381-82n58
nonlocality (see also entanglement), 57 , 90 , 144 , 263 , 323 , 333
Norns, 202
Novikov, Igor (see also self-consistency principle), 118-119 , 143 , 198 , 370-71n48
Oedipal feelings/Oedipus complex, 175 , 179 , 194-97 , 199 , 200 , 216 , 237 , 265 , 280 , 290 , 293 , 301-03 , 383n66
Oedipus the King (Sophocles), 176-78 , 179 , 180 , 230 , 291-92 , 392n33
O’Neill, J. (Morgan Robertson friend), 293
“On Synchronicity” (Jung), 260 , 382n60
Owens, Lance, 382n58
Paquette, Andrew, 215 , 347n34 , 348n44 , 372-73n29
panpsychism, 90 , 159
Paranormal Foreknowledge (Eisenbud), 23-24 , 175 , 194 , 195-96 , 198-99 , 215-17 , 280 , 384n3
participatory universe (Wheeler), 126 , 343
Pauli, Wolfgang, 151 , 260 , 370-71n48
Peake, Anthony, 33-34 , 296 , 297 , 301 , 332
Penrose, Roger, 160
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sp; Phallus, the (Lacanian construct), see castration
Phantasms of the Living (Gurney, Myers, & Podmore), 236 , 260 , 274 , 383n69
Podmore, Frank, 236 , 260
Podolsky, Boris, 122 , 129
Pong (video game), 143
Popper, Karl, 186 , 208 , 364n13 , 368n22
post-selection, 119 , 131 , 141 , 142 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 163-64 , 169 , 197 , 198 , 202 , 366n57
Potter, Clara Cook (Ian Stevenson case), 21 , 117 , 346n7
Pratchett, Terry, 202
Precognition (see also premonitions; presentiment; time loops): and sexuality, 88 , 95 , 176 , 193-96 , 280 , 291-92 , 354 , 370n43 , 381n48 ; as basis of creativity, 13 , 89 , 91 , 168 , 277 , 312 ; as focused on survival, 88 , 114 , 118-19 , 217 , 241 , 243-44 , 248 , 330 , 334 ; as linked to neurosis, 13 , 195 , 232 , 277 , 294 , 324-25 ; as orientation toward rewards, 10-11 , 41 , 88-89 , 95 , 101 , 114 , 118-19 , 165 , 193 , 217 , 236 , 241 , 243 , 266 , 268 , 272-73 , 275 , 277 , 289-90 , 330 , 334 , 356n45 , 366n52 ; as umbrella term, 6 ; hermeneutic approach to, 91-92 , 325-326 , 331-334 ; experimental evidence for, 67-71 , 81-84 ; theories of, 71-73 , 84-85
predictive processing, 167-68 , 189
premonitions (see also Aberfan disaster; Titanic ), 6 , 9-10 , 13 , 20 , 22-24 , 27-32 , 34 , 37-38 , 46 , 58 , 89 , 107-10 , 116 , 118 , 178 , 180-81 , 219 , 222 , 223-29 , 234-36 , 241-44 , 248-51 , 266 , 289 , 311 , 328 , 330 , 342 , 346n7 , 348n37 , 377n31 , 389n46 ; guilt associated with, 218-20 , 243
“Premonitory Dream Fulfilled, A” (Freud), 180-82
presentiment, 6 , 31 , 81-90 , 93 , 95 , 151 , 164 , 168 , 187 , 272 , 273 , 301 , 333 , 354-57
Price, Huw, 129-30 , 133 , 137 , 144 , 151 , 322
Price, Pat, 69
Priestley, J. B., 37 , 38 , 92-95 , 99 , 116 , 193 , 268 , 357n59 ,
Prigogine, Ilya, 149
primary process, 113 , 178
priming, 5 , 82-83 , 187 , 217 , 368n16
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory, 70
prophecy (see also self-fulfilling prophecy), 6 , 10 , 22-23 , 25 , 27 , 29 , 32-33 , 37-38 , 41-42 , 49 , 52 , 54 , 62 , 86 , 107 , 110 , 149 , 169 , 177-78 , 179-80 , 197-98 , 201-03 , 219-21 , 224 , 229-30 , 241 , 279 , 281-84 , 287-89 , 290-93 , 296 , 301 , 307-08 , 309 , 311 , 312 , 314 , 325 , 355n25 , 359-60n36 , 368n22
psi, 71 , 73 , 77 , 80 , 86 , 90 , 109 , 110 , 126 , 169 , 277
psychokinesis (PK), 85 , 92 , 109 , 110 , 198 , 265 , 357n53 , 359n30 , 384n15
Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The (Freud), 185 , 368n16
Puthoff, Harold, 69
Pynchon, Thomas, 79-80 , 354n2 , 356n43 , 366n52
Quarles van Ufford, Maggy (Henriette Madeleine Quarles van Ufford), 255-59 , 260 , 263 , 266-77 , 324 , 370n43 , 378 , 380n38 , 381-382