Telepathy, psychokinesis, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences . . . are
these fraud and bunkum or worthy of scientific study? In Parapsychology,
Philosophy and Spirituality (State University of New York, £15.50, ISBN 0
7914 3316 1), David Ray Griffith argues the latter, and claims that the
mechanistic world-view of most scientists is an article of faith that blinds
them to the possibility of the paranormal.
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