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Creating the Paranormal free ebook by Bob Trubshaw   Description: Creating the Paranormal brings together recent cognitive science with the 'social uses' of the paranormal, especially the way in which encounters are retold. To all intents and purposes such narratives are how must of us are aware of the paranormal – and all of us create the meaning and significance of such stories. Someone who 'believes in ghosts' as well as someone who sceptically dismisses them are equally imposing prior assumptions onto a diverse spectrum of anomalous experiences. In Creating the Paranormal Bob Trubshaw challenges every easy dismissal of anomalous phenomena and makes us question more deeply what it is we think was experienced. Published April 2012. Available as a free PDF download only. Version: April 2012 File size: 1.53 MB Added on: 19-Aug-2012 Downloads: 1096 Go to Web Site | Rate Resource | Report Broken Link | Details Category: e-Books and articles / eBooks   How the Anglo-Saxons Found Their Way free ebook by Bob Trubshaw   Description: Before maps were commonplace people had been getting from place to place successfully for many millennia. How did they find their way? In this innovative study Bob Trubshaw looks at how place-names may have sufficiently descriptive to have acted as route markers. He then looks at how legends could be used to create mnemonics to remember places in the correct order. Perhaps not too surprisingly there is direct evidence for such 'narrative cartography' in the records of Anglo-Saxon England. An appendix by Wade Tarzia looks at place-lore in early Irish literature, especially in the Táin Bó Cúailnge or 'The Cattle-raid of Cooley'. How the Anglo-Saxons Fouind Their Way develops ideas first published in Bob Trubshaw's book Singing Up the Country. Published February 2012. Available as a free PDF download only. Version: Feb 2012 File size: 976.56 Kb Added on: 19-Aug-2012 Downloads: 550 Go to Web Site | Rate Resource | Report Broken Link | Details Category: e-Books and articles / eBooks   Souls, Spirits and Deities free ebook by Bob Trubshaw   Description: Modern Western ideas about souls, spirits and deities are seemingly materialistic and rational. Yet, when looked at closely, these seemingly-secular ideas rather too clearly betray their origins in Christian doctrines. By looking closely at ethnographical parallels together with recent 'Dark Age' scholarship Bob Trubshaw starts to strip away these more recent ideas. This begins to reveal how pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons might have thought about the differences between souls and spirits – and the similarities of spirits and deities. Souls, spirits and deities develops some of the ideas about souls in Bob Trubshaw's recent book Singing Up the Country. Published January 2012. Available as a free PDF download only. Version: File size: 1.14 MB Added on: 19-Aug-2012 Downloads: 784 Go to Web Site | Rate Resource | Report Broken Link | Details Category: e-Books and articles / eBooks   The Process of Reality free ebook by Bob Trubshaw   Description: For the last thirty or more years Bob Trubshaw has been deeply influenced by the worldview of Chinese Taoism. Although Taoism has been a major part of Chinese culture for over two millennia, and as such is one of the more important world religions, Western awareness of Taoism is mostly through distorted and over-popularised interpretations. Fortunately, in recent years new scholarship has shed more light on exactly what early Taoists living nearly 2,500 years ago were thinking. Intriguingly these seem to be very similar to ideas being put forward at almost the same time by pre-Socratic Greek philosophers such as Heraclitus. By looking at well-established trade routes there was almost certainly contact between ancient Greece and China, via the Middle East and India. The opening chapters of The Process of Reality look in detail at this curious continuity that defies a simple explanation of 'East meets West' and instead suggests roots going back well into prehistory. The final chapters consider what 'reality' looks like when seen from a Taoist rather than Western perspective. And this is not simply an academic exercise as Bob Trubshaw also discusses how, for him, it is also a 'lived experience' of 'emergent creativity' pervaded by something known to the Chinese as ch'i and to medieval clergy as potentia. Published July 2012. Available as a free PDF download only. Version: July 2012 File size: 2.19 MB Added on: 19-Aug-2012 Downloads: 471 Go to Web Site | Rate Resource | Report Broken Link | Details Category: e-Books and articles / eBooks