B E R K E L E Y ' S    M E T A P H Y S I C S

CONTENTS

1. What are paranormal phenomena?
   1. Supernatural, paranormal, or psi?
   2. Need for a new scientific paradigm
   3. Ontological myopia
2. Berkeley's Metaphysics
   1. Berkeley's vision and its context
      1. A short biography of Berkeley
   2. The nature of objects: to be is to be perceived
      1. Matter simply does not exist
   3. Occasionalism: Berkeley versus Malebranche
   4. Berkeley and common sense
   5. Berkeley and science
   6. Berkeley was not a solipsist
   7. Mathematical objects
   8. The nature of the spirit
      1. Existence of the spirit
      2. The perceiving and willing of the spirit
      3. The Will is the essence of the spirit
      4. Human spirit is God's spirit
      5. God's spirit has a mind
   9. Why are natural phenomena mechanistic?
   10. Berkeley's arguments
       1. Unintelligibility of absolute space
       2. Argument from the unintelligibility of matter
       3. The fictive nature of the physical world
       4. Argument from mediacy
       5. Argument from primary qualities
       6. Argument from intentional reference
   11. Why did so few share Berkeley's vision?
   12. Berkeley's view of angels
   13. Berkeley versus Eastern philosophies
       1. Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism
       2. Background to the Vedanta
       3. Vedantic ontology
       4. Maya: manifesting the world
          1. Elements
          2. Structure of mind
          3. Unreality of things
          4. Unreality of minds
          5. Atman and Brahman
       5. Ethical stance
       6. Buddhism
       7. After Berkeley
   14. Hylas and Philonous revisited
3. Psi phenomena
   1. The shifting sands of terminology
   2. Evidence
      1. Traditions, anecdotes, and data
      2. US Government investigations
         1. Hyman's critique
      3. University research
   3. Characteristics of telecognition
      1. Theory and structure
      2. Range of sensory modes
      3. Schematic impressions
      4. Vicarious perception
      5. The format of psi data
      6. Locomotion
      7. Coordinates
      8. Psychometry
      9. Mental access and dialogue
      10. Intentions & memories of buildings
      11. Out-of-body experience
   4. Characteristics of telekinesis
      1. Micro-telekinesis
      2. Macro-telekinesis
   5. How the mind accesses psi
      1. Subliminal knowledge
      2. Left-brain disablement
      3. Accuracy through repetition
      4. Inadvertent PK
   6. Psi versus physics
      1. Evidence against physical mechanisms
      2. Psi and relativity theory
   7. Psi in time: precognition and retrokinesis
      1. Precognition
      2. Retrokinesis
   8. Differences in psi-visibility
      1. Heightened psi-visibility
      2. Hypothesis: link strengthening
      3. Hypothesis: symbol potency
      4. Hypothesis: change of entropy
      5. Proposed experiments
   9. Disembodied entities
      1. Remote-viewing disembodied entities
      2. Exorcism and spirit release
   10. Modelling psi
       1. The energy model
       2. Woodhouse's 'energy monism'
       3. Dossey's critique
       4. DeQuincey's critique
       5. The field model
4. A Berkeleian Model of Psi
   1. A Berkeleian model of mind
   2. The metamind
      1. Metamental objects
      2. Metamental daemons
      3. Metamental language
      4. Just-in-time object generation
   3. Psi phenomena
      1. Telepathy and telecognition
      2. Synchronicity
5. Strange Manifestors
   1. Strange manifestors as rogue entities
   2. Ufos
      1. Background
      2. Ufos as paranormal phenomena
      3. Modelling the ufo phenomenon
   3. Vallee's account of ufos
   4. Metamental daemons as strange manifestors
      1. Robot-like ufos
      2. Transportation of abductees
      3. Physical effects of strange manifestors
      4. Physiological effects of strange manifestors
      5. Synchronicity as a strange manifestation
      6. Psi loci
   5. Carl Jung's theory of ufos
      1. Ufos projected from the collective unconscious
      2. What do ufos mean?
      3. Hildegard of Bingen
      4. The problem of interpretation
      5. Jung's doubts
   6. A Berkeleian perspective on Jung's theory
      1. Jung's theory versus physicalism
      2. Co-ordinating ufo visions
      3. Implementing the collective unconscious
      4. Exteriorisation of ufo visions
   7. Angels in religious traditions
      1. Traditional accounts of angels
      2. Berkeleian view of traditional angels
   8. Angels in Swedenborg's work
      1. The Angelic World
      2. Angelic communication
      3. Experience and volition: 'light' and 'heat'
      4. Degrees of angelic minds
   9. Angels in the modern era
6. Psi technology
   1. Impossibility of psi machines
   2. Psi receivers
   3. A possible psi technology
      1. Programmable telekinesis
      2. Psi informatics
   4. Ethics
      1. Should we use psi at all?
      2. Dangers from psi entities
      3. Dangers from psi use
      4. Proposals
7. Conclusion

© Peter B. Lloyd, 1999. Last modified 23rd June 1999.

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