He is contributing to its online education expansion, including by planning, developing and teaching online courses that help give their students personal and professional success as well as academic success – via improved wellbeing, mindfulness and connection. ![]() Stephen McKenzie, PhD, is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Melbourne. The book also provides valuable benefits to non-student readers – expert and non-expert. The book provides considerable theoretical and practical benefits to students of a variety of psychological courses, including positive psychology related courses, and also of many other wellbeing related courses. This will help people thrive in response to as well as survive our great real-life challenges, by developing a deeply practical understanding of reality psychology knowledge and related practice techniques. The book features a presentation of the underlying principles of reality psychology – including the value of a full connection with reality as it really is - rather than as we would like it to be. This will provide real human benefits, including real mindfulness, real resilience, real behaviour change, and real communication. It includes concrete steps for this new paradigm to restore the real power of vital psychological knowledge and techniques, which need to be brought back from their association with artificial positivity. It offers valuable theoretical and practical content to its readers on the vital need for, nature of and potential for the reality psychology paradigm. It will appeal to general readers in addition to students and scholars of parapsychology, anomalistic psychology, and consciousness studies.This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm. By contrasting these three paths, the book provides a valuable resource for readers interested in the philosophical and psychological origins of explanations for paranormal experiences, from the 19th century to the present. The third perspective is different yet again, and considers the sighting to be authentic, but argues that explaining the ghost requires a radical departure from conventional models of reality and consciousness. With reference to psychological theory, the ghost sighting is a product of erroneous consciousness. In turn, the second perspective treats the experience as being wholly illegitimate. ![]() ![]() The first perspective considers the experience to be legitimate – to be something real – and various possibilities are presented that are grounded in the paranormal and parapsychological literature, among which a “ghost” is one putative explanation. ![]() Each perspective is examined from first principles, with specific reference to what happened in the corridor, how it happened, why it happened, and who might be responsible. The subsequent chapters explore the three most important historical perspectives accounting for this and other types of paranormal experience. It opens with the story of an inexplicable human figure seen crossing a secluded hotel corridor, interpreted as a ghost by the sole witness. This book explores various explanatory frameworks for paranormal encounters.
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