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Some occult crazes of the 1970s have had to be looked at more critically during this decade – but there is one enthusiast who can still weave a spell, a unique blend of science and mystery, over his readers . . . Lyall Watson dismisses nothing out of hand, ranging widely over the whole spectrum of the strange and the unusual, making surprising patterns out of the loose ends in nature. His earlier bestseller, Supernature, sold over a million copies. This new book follows the same path. Beyond Supernature is an important and ambitious work, filled with the sort of lucid and lyrical prose that has become Dr. Watson’s trademark. It will delight his many followers and excite a whole new generation of those who, even in these difficult times, can still look at the world with wide eyes – and wonder. £10.95 net in UK BEYOND SUPERNATURE Also by Lyall Watson SUPERNATURE THE ROMEO ERROR GIFTS OF UNKNOWN THINGS LIFETIDE LIGHTNING BIRD HEAVEN’S BREATH Lyall Watson BEYOND SUPERNATURE A New Natural History of the Supernatural Hodder & Stoughton LONDON SYDNEY AUCKLAND TORONTO British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Watson, Lyall Beyond supernature: a new natural history of the supernatural. 1. Psychical research I. Title 133 BF1031 ISBN 0 340 38824 2 Copyright © 1986 by Lyall Watson. First printed 1986. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in Great Britain for Hodder and Stoughton Limited, Mill Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent by St Edmundsbury Press Limited, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Photoset by Rowland Phototypesetting Limited, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Hodder and Stoughton Editorial Office: 47 Bedford Square, London WC1B3DP CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Part One LIFE 5 Chapter One PATTERN Chance : Coincidence : Order : Imagination 9 Chapter Two PERSON Cells : Organs : Organisms : Identity 34 Chapter Three PROCESS Resonance : Natural Selection : Fitness : Perfect Speed 58 Part Two MIND 83 Chapter Four SELF Bioelectricity : Mind Fields : Biofeedback : Transcendence 89 Chapter Five SOCIETY Connections : Communication : Crowds : Control 117 Chapter Six SEPARATION Multiplicity : Possession : Remote Sensing : Beyond the Body 145 Part Three PLANET 175 Chapter Seven OBSERVATION Miracles : Poltergeists : Psychokinesis : Metal Bending 181 v CONTENTS Chapter Eight DESCRIPTION Paranormality : Paranthropology : Parapsychology : Paraphysics 212 Chapter Nine SYNTHESIS Pararchaeology : Parabiology : Earth Magic : Earth Mind 240 CONCLUSION 264 BIBLIOGRAPHY 269 INDEX 287 vi “Those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely go as far . . ”. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY in Collected Essays, 1881
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