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• Provides accounts of ESP ranging from ancient Greek myth, traditional North and South American, African, and Polynesian stories to individuals like Rumi, Charles Dickens, and Carl Jung
• Considers unexplained ESP-related happenings, including bilocation, the ability to locate lost items, early knowledge of one's own death, and perceptions regarding the well-being of loved ones
Whether a premonition of an impending event, a warning of potential danger, or an unlikely synchronistic experience, such things are surprisingly common, even if they often cannot be clearly explained.
Taking readers on a historical and cross-cultural voyage through extrasensory experiences, Daniel Bourke documents, contextualizes, and sheds light on these mysterious phenomena. From the plains of Peru and the haunted highlands of Scotland to the snowy taiga forests of the Far North and the Indigenous cultures of Australia and America, Bourke examines the strange psychic occurrences that seem to appear in all places, at all times. These include instances of bilocation, premonitions about the coming of visitors, intuitions of the location of lost items or treasures, the discovery of cures by telepathic means, and even accurate pre-perceptions about one's own demise or the perilous situation of a loved one. He looks at the renowned Greek seers, including Iamos, who announced the death of Hercules at the moment it occurred; the far-reaching visions of the shaman in a trance who might warn his tribe of danger; and the witches, wizards, and heroes of legend and romance who were privy to secret knowledge through magical means. Bourke's survey incorporates rare accounts from people all around the world and across the ages, including figures like Rumi, Saint Anthony, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Carl Jung.
Shedding light on our cultural and mythic past, Bourke shows that wherever you look in the world, whatever culture or time, telepathic tales are unfolding all around us. Daniel Bourke is an author, poet, and songwriter. He has a background in the natural sciences, the arts, and the video game industry. He has previously been published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, New Dawn Magazine, and the journal Darklore and is the author of Apparitions at the Moment of Death. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. ONE
I Knew You Were Coming
Vardogers and Strange
Knowledge of a Visitor's Arrival
Witches have red eyes, and cannot see far, but they have
a keen scent like the beasts, and are aware when human
beings draw near.
Jacob Grimm
In the 1970s a rural Finnish woman offered the following memorate
to Leea Virtanen, former professor of Finnish and comparative folk
poetry studies:
My mother had the gift of knowing in advance when visitors
were coming and who they would be. She had this gift all her life.
Occasionally, she has been mistaken, but then it has turned out that
the person intended to come, but was prevented.1
Some decades earlier, in his autobiography, English writer Osbert
Sitwell stated, rather unceremoniously, regarding his time at boarding
school, that:
I knew beforehand when my mother, or my brother or sister, was
coming to see me. Infallibly, invariably, and without being informed
of it, I became aware the previous day, and even when it appeared
most unlikely that such a visit was impending, and equally I could
tell if suddenly it had to be postponed.2*
While a couple of anecdotes may not impress, such experiences are surprisingly common and involve the seeming reception of knowledge regarding the approach of someone to one's own location at a time when this couldn't have been conventionally known. This, as we'll see, might be a visitor known to the informant, a loved one, a stranger, an animal, or even entire armies, and may become known by way of a dream, a vision, a footstep, a voice, a scent, or a sound. While there is no agreed upon terminology to describe what s
• Considers unexplained ESP-related happenings, including bilocation, the ability to locate lost items, early knowledge of one's own death, and perceptions regarding the well-being of loved ones
Whether a premonition of an impending event, a warning of potential danger, or an unlikely synchronistic experience, such things are surprisingly common, even if they often cannot be clearly explained.
Taking readers on a historical and cross-cultural voyage through extrasensory experiences, Daniel Bourke documents, contextualizes, and sheds light on these mysterious phenomena. From the plains of Peru and the haunted highlands of Scotland to the snowy taiga forests of the Far North and the Indigenous cultures of Australia and America, Bourke examines the strange psychic occurrences that seem to appear in all places, at all times. These include instances of bilocation, premonitions about the coming of visitors, intuitions of the location of lost items or treasures, the discovery of cures by telepathic means, and even accurate pre-perceptions about one's own demise or the perilous situation of a loved one. He looks at the renowned Greek seers, including Iamos, who announced the death of Hercules at the moment it occurred; the far-reaching visions of the shaman in a trance who might warn his tribe of danger; and the witches, wizards, and heroes of legend and romance who were privy to secret knowledge through magical means. Bourke's survey incorporates rare accounts from people all around the world and across the ages, including figures like Rumi, Saint Anthony, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Carl Jung.
Shedding light on our cultural and mythic past, Bourke shows that wherever you look in the world, whatever culture or time, telepathic tales are unfolding all around us. Daniel Bourke is an author, poet, and songwriter. He has a background in the natural sciences, the arts, and the video game industry. He has previously been published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, New Dawn Magazine, and the journal Darklore and is the author of Apparitions at the Moment of Death. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. ONE
I Knew You Were Coming
Vardogers and Strange
Knowledge of a Visitor's Arrival
Witches have red eyes, and cannot see far, but they have
a keen scent like the beasts, and are aware when human
beings draw near.
Jacob Grimm
In the 1970s a rural Finnish woman offered the following memorate
to Leea Virtanen, former professor of Finnish and comparative folk
poetry studies:
My mother had the gift of knowing in advance when visitors
were coming and who they would be. She had this gift all her life.
Occasionally, she has been mistaken, but then it has turned out that
the person intended to come, but was prevented.1
Some decades earlier, in his autobiography, English writer Osbert
Sitwell stated, rather unceremoniously, regarding his time at boarding
school, that:
I knew beforehand when my mother, or my brother or sister, was
coming to see me. Infallibly, invariably, and without being informed
of it, I became aware the previous day, and even when it appeared
most unlikely that such a visit was impending, and equally I could
tell if suddenly it had to be postponed.2*
While a couple of anecdotes may not impress, such experiences are surprisingly common and involve the seeming reception of knowledge regarding the approach of someone to one's own location at a time when this couldn't have been conventionally known. This, as we'll see, might be a visitor known to the informant, a loved one, a stranger, an animal, or even entire armies, and may become known by way of a dream, a vision, a footstep, a voice, a scent, or a sound. While there is no agreed upon terminology to describe what s