Title Highlight: Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience

Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience
REF: PN56. E65 E64 1994
1 volume, Illustrations

An entertaining book that gives brief introductions to such modern mysticisms as A Course in Miracles, UFO encounters and Neo-Paganism as well as older forms of mystic or paranormal phenomena including Alchemy, Voodoo, The Egyptian Book of the Dead and Mystery Cults. Arranged alphabetically, the entries cover topics drawing from a world-wide range of religious traditions including familiar religious traditions such as Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam as well as unusual ones including the I AM, Rosicrucian, Pagan and New Age movements. The number of topics covered ranges from those claiming scientific foundations (ESP, Teleportation and Hauntings) to those with mystical foundations such as faith healing, chakras and clairvoyance. A very useful aspect of the book is that each article has a number of sources listed immediately after it that will assist in finding out more on a given topic. The book confines itself to mystic and paranormal topics, so items like the Loch Ness Monster, vampires and werewolves are not covered by this book, although zombies do get an entry.