TABLE OF CONTENTS: OPERATIONS OF INCREASING ORDER

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FOREWORD (by Dudley Lynch)
PREFACE

INTRODUCTION 1
    .1 Things Are Not What They Seem 1
    .2 Physical Reality is Junior to Normal State 4
    .3 Knowledge Must Change and Grow 5
    .4 The Number of Exceptions to the Present Paradigm Requires Change 7
    .5 This Change is Toward the Holistic and Cosmic 9
    .6 Paradigms Exist Which Handle the Exceptions 10
    .7 We Need to Decide if Replacement is Necessary 29

1. OPERATIONS OF INCREASING ORDER 33

2. EXOTIC ABILITIES OF MANKIND 47
    2.0 Introduction 47
    2.1 Animal Senses and Their Refinement 57
    2.2 A Taxonomy of Exotic Factors of Intellect 62
    2.3 The Etheric Body 66
    2.4 Non-Paranormal Human Oddities 68
    2.5 Developmental Aspects in Phenotype and Genotype. .72

3. COSMOGENIC POWERS AND ABILITIES 76
    3.0 Introduction to Paranormal Powers 76
        .01 Telepathy 80
        .02 Dowsing 86
        .03 Siddhis 93
    3.1 Physical Mediumship 98
        .10 Mediumship and Possession 99
        .11 Psychokinesis 107
        .12 Materializations 111
        .13 Poltergeist Phenomena 120
        .14 Apports 125
        .15 Conclusion 128
    3.2 Transformations in Space and Time 130
        .21 Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) and Bilocation 130
        .22 Clairvoyance 138
        .23 Precognition 139
        .24 Teleportation and Time-Warp 143

    3.3 Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions 149
        .31 Firewalking 149
        .32 Psychic Heat 160
        .33 Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) 162
        .34 Other Thermal Effects 165
    3.4 Stigmata 167
    3.5 Electromagnetic Effects: Prana 172
        .51 Luminosity and Auras 177
        .52 Electromagnetic Properties 181
    3.6 Independence from Physical Functions 184
     .61 (Breathing, Excretion and Sex Deleted), A Note on Chastity 184
        .62 Inedia (not eating) 185
        .63 Non-Somnia (not sleeping) 187
    3.7 Mortem Effects 187
        .71 Transfiguration 188
        .72 Translation 188
        .73 Automatic Disposal of Body After Death 189
        .74 Incorruptibility of Body 189
        .75 Knowing Hour of One's Death 189
    3.8 Levitation 190
        .81 Among Christian Mystics 190
        .82 Among Non-Religious Paragnosts 195
        .83 Levitation in the TM Siddhi Program 202
        .84 Theories to Account for Levitation 204
    3.9 Invisibility 206
    3.X Body Size and Weight Changes, Abnormal Strength 207
        .X1 Elongation 208
        .X2 Size and Weight Changes 209
        .X3 Extraordinary Strength 210
    3.Y Externalization of Sense Organs: Odor of Sanctity 211
        .Y1 Conclusion to Chapter 3 212

4. COSMOGENIC MENTAL ABILITIES 214
        .01 Psychometry 215
        .02 Knowledge of Arrangement and Motion of Stars 217
    4.1 Vision of Cosmic Beings 218
    4.2 Calm - 219
    4.3 Vision Through Opaque Objects: Miraculous Sight. .219
    4.4 Miraculous Touch 222
        .41 Healing Through Laying-on-of- Hands 223
        .42 Psychic Surgery I 228
    4.5 Miraculous Hearing: Clairaudience 234
    4.6 Empery 236
        .61 Over Self   237
        .62 Over Others: Orthocognitive Healing 237
        .63 Over Animals 245
        .64 Over Natural Elements and Other Forms 247
    4.7 Adamic Ecstasy 248
        .71 Time Recovery and Other Characteristics . . . . .248
        .72 Friendliness or Gemeinschaftgefuhl 252
        .73 Union-Compassion Healing 253
    4.8 Infused Knowledge: Omniscience 254
    4.9 Continuous Contact and Union 256

5. GENIUS, PRECOCITY AND REINCARNATION 262
    5.0 Introduction 262
    5.1 Genius and Some Examples and Conclusions 273
    5.2 Precocity as the End Product of Neotony 292
    5.3 Reincarnation or Something Grander? 308
    5.4 Conclusion 317

6. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: A TAXONOMY 320

7. FORM AS THE DEVOLUTION OF COSMIC SUBSTANCE 336

8. THE THREE-FOLD BODY OF BUDDHA 348

9. SUMMARY 357
    9.1 Recapitulation 357
    9.2 Unsolved Problems and Needed Research 360
    9.3 Epilogue 367

REFERENCES 373

Comments and Addendum

SUBJECT INDEX 383

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