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049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aAlderson-Day, Ben, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPresence : _bthe strange science and true stories of the unseen other / _cBen Alderson-Day.
246	3		_aStrange science and true stories of the unseen other
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSt. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axv, 285 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"These experiences of sensing a Presence when no one else is there have been given many names--the Third Man, guardian angels, shadow figures, "social" hallucinations--and they have inspired, unsettled, and confounded in equal measure. While the contexts in which they occur are diverse, they are united by a distinct and uncanny feeling of visitation by another. But what does this feeling mean, and where does it come from? When and why do presences emerge? And how can we even begin to understand a phenomenon that can be transformative for those who experience it, and yet so hard to put into words? The answers to these questions lie in this tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and philosophy. Presence follows Ben Alderson-Day's attempts--as a psychologist and a researcher--to understand how this experience is possible. What is a voice when it isn't heard, and how otherwise do we know or feel that someone is in our presence? Is it a hallucination connected to psychosis, a change in the working of the brain, or something else? The journey to understand takes us to meet explorers, mediums, and robots, and step through real, imagined, and virtual worlds. Presence is the story of who we carry with us, at all times, as parts of ourselves"--Publisher, page 2 of dustjacket.
505	0	0	_gPreface: What is there? -- _gPart 1: Phantom others. _tA thickness in the air -- _t"Things which should never be spoken of" -- _tThe double -- _tLuke -- _tThe presence robot -- _t"I'll set the table for three people when it's just me and my wife" -- _gPart 2: Fellow travelers. _tThe walnut of reality -- _tThe Marathon Monk of Billingham -- _tSeeing darkness -- _tSpirit -- _tIn two minds -- _tYou never asked.
650		0	_aSpirits. _993445
650		0	_aPsychology. _933212
650		0	_aParapsychology. _939339
650		0	_aNeurobiology. _9172651
655		7	_aInformational works. _2lcgft _9222299
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft _94847
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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