Parasociology

This blog is dedicated to the conceptual and empirical development of parasociology, a sub-discipline of sociology studying how societies and paranormal or “psi” phenomena interact. It looks into phenomena like UFOs, Marian Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Parapsychology.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Psychoanalysis and parasociology

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The modern and systematic study of the so-called paranormal phenomena has its roots in the 19th century spiritualist movement. Many consider...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

UFOs, Synchronicity and Morphic Fields

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This post examines the notions of synchronicity and morphic field in the context of UFO sightings. If the UFO phenomenon is essentially a ps...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Carl Jung, UFOs, and his method

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This post is an attempt to come to term with some problems found in Jung’s analysis of the UFO phenomenon. As well, it seeks to integrate be...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Reading Notes – On the Trail of the Poltergeist

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This post is about a classic in parapsychology written by psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor. This is an older book published in the late 1950s, and...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Some particular methodological challenges about psi

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Welcome back to all. I hope you all had a great summer. This post is based on an older but interesting article about researching psi, whic...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The ugly truth about ufology

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This week’s post, exceptionally, has been graciously hosted on two RRRgroup blog sites. It can be found at either: http://ufoprovo.blogspo...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

UFOs and the aesthetic experience

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This post may appear, at first, a bit off track but I think that some important insights can be gained from looking at the nature of the art...
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