OPERATIONS OF INCREASING

ORDER

AND OTHER ESSAYS

ON

EXOTIC FACTORS OF INTELLECT,

UNUSUAL POWERS and ABILITIES, ETC.

(as Found in Psychic Science)
 

Descriptors: Adamic ecstasy, altered states of consciousness, accelerated mental process, apports, auras, clairaudience, clairvoyance, dowsing,  elongation, empery, ESP (extrasensory perception), gemeinschaftgefuhl, genius, healing, hologram model, incorruptibility, inedia, invisibility, infused knowledge, jhanas, levitation, mortem excursus, materialization, miraculous sight, non-somnia, poltergeists, precognition, psychometry, psychokinesis, psychic heat and surgery, psychic phenomena, precocity, reincarnation, siddhis, SHC (spontaneous human combustion), stigmata, telepathy, teleportation, time warp, transfiguration, translation, vision through opaque objects.
 
 

JOHN CURTIS GOWAN

Professor (Emeritus)

California State University, Northridge

A. B., Ed. M., Harvard, Ed. D. UCLA


Privately published by the author

Copyright, 1980 by John Curtis Gowan

Quotations under 500 words are authorized if credit is given.

This book on psychic science is dedicated with respect to the memories of Mesmer, von Reichenbach, Zollner, Crookes, Richet, Reich, Tromp, and Bentov, who were courageous pioneers in discovering the area. It is also dedicated with affection to the memory of E. J. Thompson, whose enterprise secured the funds necessary to print it.

The copyright acknowledgements beginning on page iii are hereby made an official part of this page.

ADVISORY NOTICE

This is a book of theory which should be read only by serious adults in good mental health. The descriptions of various theories herein does not constitute an endorsement or encouragement direct or implied of practices based upon them. Readers who undertake such experiments do so at their own risk and on notice that some may be dangerous.