(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best parapsychology books

There is a great deal of subjective evidence. When it is analyzed using the tools of comparativism, it becomes much stronger. Overwhelming, I dare say.

But there is objective evidence too. It's important that atheists never stop seeking it out. To that end, here are just a few of the books that I have read that I think every atheist should also read.

https://www.amazon.com/Varieties-Anomalous-Experience-Examining-Scientific/dp/1557986258

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Parapsychology-Harvey-J-Irwin/dp/0786430591

https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Knowing-Science-Skepticism-Inexplicable/dp/0553382233

https://www.amazon.com/Outside-Gates-Science-Time-Paranormal/dp/1560259868

https://www.amazon.com/Mysticism-Evelyn-Underhill/dp/1463612354

https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936

https://www.amazon.com/Trickster-Makes-This-World-Mischief/dp/0374532559

https://www.amazon.com/Trickster-Paranormal-George-P-Hansen/dp/1401000827

https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Goddess-Complete-Being-Hughes/dp/0571166040

Get this book:https://www.amazon.com/Keys-Occult-Guides-Hidden-Newcastle/dp/0878770410
As well as all the writings of Hereward Carrington, Eliphas Levi, William Walker Atkinson, Frederick W.H. Myers.

There is a Kindle version, that's how I read it lol. Printed material is for losers

My grad school prof wrote a book on this you might find interesting, but it's highly philosophically technical, at least in terms of probability theory.

A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival (Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1137440937/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JA2rDbCVXVKHK

Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death

Atrytone,

The example I have for mystics producing info they could not have had is from The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, by Joe Fisher. The medium described details of landscape, locations, military hardware, etc for claimed European past lives that were partially accurate, but were effectively unknowable by the untraveled Canadian medium circle. Since the book was a refutation of the spirits the medium was channeling, and the author committed suicide soon after over stresses he blamed on the channeled spirits, none of the dismissals of self-aggrandizement etc for deception by the author are relevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siren_Call_of_Hungry_Ghosts

For ESP, see Radin, http://www.amazon.com/The-Conscious-Universe-Scientific-Phenomena/dp/0061778990/ref=cm_cr-mr-title, Carter, http://www.amazon.com/Parapsychology-Skeptics-Scientific-Argument-Existence/dp/1585011088/ref=cm_cr-mr-title, or Broderick http://www.amazon.com/Outside-Gates-Science-Time-Paranormal/dp/1560259868/ref=cm_cr-mr-title.

For origin of the universe, the Cosmic Landscape is many times more complex than spiritual creation, and less testable, as I just demonstrated by refuting multiple God hypotheses -- hence it loses out on Occam.

For prayer, just do a google search on "medical controlled study prayer" and read the reports listed. As with all such studies there are hits and misses, but the trend is for a benefit.

For faith healing, see the Catholic Church's documentation of the healings at Lourdes.

I can't help on the last one -- sacred literature does not tip the balance toward dualism.

During one study a psychiatrist exposed one patient suffering of schizophrenia to Hemi-sync sound pattern , he found that his patient lost the symptoms of his illness [Monroe, Far Journey ,1985]
Here's a link to the book if you wanna buy a copy.