02564. FINKLER, KAJA. SPIRITUALIST HEALERS IN MEXICO:

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tional love. The implications of NDEs for Christianity is
the subject of Chapter 8. Chapter 9 looks at the positive
effects NDErs exercise on the lives of nonexperiencers, to
whom they direct the love of the Light they were imbued
with by their experience. The 10th chapter deals with the
meaning of NDEs for those who have not had any sort of
transcendent or death-related experience and have not been
influenced by anyone who has. Some of the more sig-
nificant findings of an educational experiment -- the Love
Project - which he conducted with eral classes are
presented. 1,& this project he attemptedif provide his stu-
more loving and
in a context not
ope that "the NDE
. might provide a
ut should "participate ac-
Materials for the Love
society is the locus of conceptual o r and how facts are
made fact-like in spite of their h an creators. Finally,
and this is a cor of the I point, I have tried to
explain why the ve of ev is described here is so
little known. If we al ha the image of the core set
before our eyes then t ould be no facts. The
privacy of creation is what ntains its sanctity and its
A Postscript discuss the w implications of the
book for science educati, science po uestions, foren-
sic science, public inq ies and the role ientific ex-
pertise in the institu ns of democratic soci?tlyft it con-
cludes with some ex pies of the way that an understand-
ing of scientific ch ge sheds light on political processes.
A methodological pendix follows. - DT/R.A.W.
a Spiritus rst ea ers [n exrco?;
grapy: apter notes: 224- ;rapes I Olos_
saiy; Inde:K: 245-256; 17 tables
This is a report of an intensive investigation of the
successes and failures of Spiritualist healing in a rural set-
ting in Mexico made by an anthropologist. In the course
of the investigation the natives insisted that she participate
in the rituals and undergo initial training as a Spiritualist
healer. The author summarizes her work as follows: "The
two interrelated tasks of this book have: been (1) to
demonstrate the ways in which an alternative healing sys-
tem succeeds and fails to heal, as perceived by its patients,
and in which one rural segment of a complex society ex-
presses and manages illness, and (2) to describe the inter-
action between a therapeutic regime and the historical, so-
cial, and economic forces of the larger society of which it
is a part. I have identified the people's recovery requisi-
tes, explored the beliefs and practices of an important al-
ternative health-care delivery system in contemporary
Mexico, and have analyzed its impact on the clientele
within a personal and societal framework. I have unveiled
a folk Mexican cognitive model of recovery, which I postu-
late is rooted in the history of its bearers and is fostered
by current ecological conditions."
There are useful chapters on "Spiritualist Healing
Techniques" and "How Spiritualist Healers Heal." Several
appendices present background information on her research.
A glossary, extensive bibliography, and an index enhance
the book's usefulness. - DT/R.A.W.
02565. Flynn, Charles P. After the Beyond: Human
Transformation and the Near-Death Experience.
Englewood Clif( NJ: Prentice-Hall, "1986. 190p. Bibliogra-
phy: 181-183; Inde 185-190; 4 tables;-
This book is1ltout the spirt$ual impact of near-death
experiences (NDEs). NIt looks at what many NDErs have
had to say about life, death, and love. In the first chapter
Flynn provides an overvk w jf the book. Chapter 2 ex-
amines the NDEs of a n be r of persons. Chapter 3
deals with the difficulties a pcnenced by NDErs in getting
people even to listen to tb it stories, let alone accept them
as valid. Chapter 4 j conce-rtged with the difficulties
NDErs have in incorporating their experiences in their
lives. Chapter 5 exa Ines some of the value transforma-
tions that NDErs u 'jcrgo and presents two in-depth, ex-
tensive case studies of major changes fit .the lives of two
NDErs. The sixt chapter covers researli aimed at dis-
covering whether a brush with death without an NDF
leads to transfo ation. Various religious aspects of NDEs
are examined Chapter 7, which emphasizes how NDErs
adopt a theocentric attitude centered in a God of uncondi-
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the Light" (p. 8).
Toward Omega by sayiri
sively for the coming of
tively in its emergence" (p`
Project are included in the
Love Project
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lands of Science. Buffalo
Anthology of critical
(parapsychology included).
original research, critical
vestigative reports. All
edits. Book I deals
Paranormal." Under t
with psi phenomena
Psychic Trade," 6 on
of Life and Deat
"Inquiries Into Fri
varied subject
which it lacks. -
various pseudosciences
y published in the
The a
ith "Skeptical 'Inquiries Into the
head there are 7 articles dealing
e Science," is
is a test of d
thms. Book II
mainly on para-
inal Choice: Playing the
Survival G
synoptic view of psi, su
biological theory. Part
a way in which we ex
Part 4 is about near-d
routes to Mind at Lar
mechanism, triggered
crisis of transformati
"part of a larger cl
he calls Messengers From Mind at Larg'. Part 6 is on the
possibility of globs near-death and transformation. There
is much in this b #k about the meaning and significance
of parapsychological phenomena. - R.A.W.
resents an outline of the idea