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Transmigration (1970 Novel)
''Transmigration'' is a science fiction book by Scottish writer J. T. McIntosh, published in 1970. Plot summary The hero discovers he is both cursed with bad luck and blessed with a miraculous power - the power to occupy other people's minds - provided he dies first. A series of freak accidents bring him closer and closer to death, until at last he does die - but miraculously transmigrates into the nearest body around. His power to occupy minds is involuntary, and when it happens, he overwhelms those he invades, though he is able to communicate with them. Unwilling to depart from the bodies he occupies, he learns that the only way out of the body he is spirit possession, possessing is by dying, presenting him with an unusual ethical conflict. See also *''Anima (novel), Anima'' (1972) by Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan, Marie Buchanan *''Reincarnation in Venice'' by Max Simon Ehrlich, Max Ehrlich *''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (novel), The Reincarnation of Peter Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmigration (novel)
''Transmigration'' is a science fiction book by Scottish writer J. T. McIntosh, published in 1970. Plot summary The hero discovers he is both cursed with bad luck and blessed with a miraculous power - the power to occupy other people's minds - provided he dies first. A series of freak accidents bring him closer and closer to death, until at last he does die - but miraculously transmigrates into the nearest body around. His power to occupy minds is involuntary, and when it happens, he overwhelms those he invades, though he is able to communicate with them. Unwilling to depart from the bodies he occupies, he learns that the only way out of the body he is possessing is by dying, presenting him with an unusual ethical conflict. See also *''Anima'' (1972) by Marie Buchanan *''Reincarnation in Venice'' by Max Ehrlich *'' The Reincarnation of Peter Proud'' by Max Ehrlich *Astral Projection * Out-of-body experience *List of science fiction novels This is a list of science- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmigrate
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrection is a similar process hypothesized by some religions, in which a soul comes back to life in the same body. In most beliefs involving reincarnation, the soul is seen as immortal and the only thing that becomes perishable is the body. Upon death, the soul becomes transmigrated into a new infant (or animal) to live again. The term transmigration means passing of soul from one body to another after death. Reincarnation (''Punarjanma'') is a central tenet of the Indian religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism; as well as certain Paganist religious groups, although there are Hindu and Buddhist groups who do not believe in reincarnation, instead believing in an afterlife. In various forms, it occurs as an esoteric belief in many st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirit Possession
Spirit possession is an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly caused by the control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods. The concept of spirit possession exists in many cultures and religions, including Buddhism, Christianity,Mark 5:9, Luke 8:30 Haitian Vodou, Hinduism, Islam, Wicca, and Southeast Asian, African, and Native American traditions. Depending on the cultural context in which it is found, possession may be considered voluntary or involuntary and may be considered to have beneficial or detrimental effects on the host. In a 1969 study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, spirit possession beliefs were found to exist in 74% of a sample of 488 societies in all parts of the world, with the highest numbers of believing societies in Pacific cultures and the lowest incidence among Native Americans of both North and South America. As Pentecostal and Charismatic Christian churches move into both Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anima (novel)
Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan (15 November 1922 – 20 May 2010) was a British author who specialized in writing literature belonging to the Mystery fiction, mystery, suspense, or detective genre. She wrote over forty novels under a number of various pseudonyms, including Clare Curzon, Marie Duell and Rhona Petrie. She studied French and psychology at King's College London, King's College in London. Bibliography Stand-alone novels *''Thorne in the Flesh'' (1971) *''Anima (novel), Anima'' (1972), a tale about a séance where a mysterious older woman (having the appearance of a remarkably younger woman) acts as a Mediumship, medium, inviting a Transmigration of the soul, traveling spirit to come and inhabit the body of a young woman who lives across the field of her childhood home, the manor of ''Greenshards'', now a summer home. As the spirit possession, possession continues, the young woman loses track of where she has been, and what she has been doing. *''Unofficial Breath' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan
Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan (15 November 1922 – 20 May 2010) was a British author who specialized in writing literature belonging to the mystery, suspense, or detective genre. She wrote over forty novels under a number of various pseudonyms, including Clare Curzon, Marie Duell and Rhona Petrie. She studied French and psychology at King's College in London. Bibliography Stand-alone novels *''Thorne in the Flesh'' (1971) *''Anima'' (1972), a tale about a séance where a mysterious older woman (having the appearance of a remarkably younger woman) acts as a medium, inviting a traveling spirit to come and inhabit the body of a young woman who lives across the field of her childhood home, the manor of ''Greenshards'', now a summer home. As the possession Possession may refer to: Law * Dependent territory, an area of land over which another country exercises sovereignty, but which does not have the full right of participation in that country's governance * Drug possessi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reincarnation In Venice
''Reincarnation in Venice'' is a science fiction or Mystery fiction, mystery book written by popular fiction author Max Simon Ehrlich and published in 1979 by Simon & Schuster in New York. The author begins his story by declaring that on one balmy September morning in 1954 a 25-year-old Venice, Venetian man steps out of a mansion just off the Grand Canal (Venice), Grand Canal and into the street: :''He was young, perhaps no more than twenty-five, with a darkly handsome patrician face, and was, like most Venetians of his class, exquisitely tailored. He paused for a moment, in front of the great doors of the palazzo and looked up. His wife was at one of the upper windows. He smiled at her and blew her a kiss. She waved back at him.'' Page 13. Before the day is through, he will have died unceremoniously, and his body thrown into one of the canals. The story picks up again on page 23, apparently decades later in another part of the world when a young and wealthy computer pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Simon Ehrlich
Max Simon Ehrlich (October 10, 1909 – February 11, 1983) was an American writer. He is best known for the novel ''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud'' and the movie of the same name. Biography Early life and education Max Simon Ehrlich was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on October 10, 1909 to Simon and Sarah Ehrlich. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1933. Finding aid for papers in Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, with linked "Biography/History". Career Ehrlich began his career in newspapers, working as a correspondent for the Albany, New York ''Knickerbocker Press'' and ''Evening News'' during his college years, then after graduating as a feature writer for the Springfield, Massachusetts ''Republican''. From there he turned to radio, working as the chief writer of the script division of WSPR in 1938 and 1939, in the script division of the American Jewish Committee from 1939 to 1941, and from 1941 to 1945 he was the assistant script direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud (novel)
''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud '' was written by popular fiction author Max Ehrlich. It was published in 1974 by Bobbs-Merrill and a year later by Bantam. Plot When college professor Peter Proud is overcome with a series of ever more frightening nightmares he seeks professional help from a colleague in the Psychology department who recommends outside help. All of his nightmares are similar and as he relates them to a psychologist recordings are made of him for future reference. When they are strung together they have him swimming in a lake at night and drowning at the hands of a woman who strikes at him from the safety of a rowboat, mercilessly bludgeoning him with her paddle. Deciding there is something to his nightmares he travels from California to the Eastern Seaboard to locate the exact location of the places he sees in his dreams - a church steeple, a town hall building and most importantly the lake where he keeps drowning. It helps being independently wealthy as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astral Projection
Astral projection (also known as astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of a subtle body called an " astral body" through which consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout the astral plane.Robert L. Park. (2008). ''Superstition: Belief in the Age of Sciences''. Princeton University Press. pp. 90–91. . The idea of astral travel is ancient and occurs in multiple cultures. The modern terminology of "astral projection" was coined and promoted by 19th-century Theosophists. It is sometimes reported in association with dreams and forms of meditation. Some individuals have reported perceptions similar to descriptions of astral projection that were induced through various hallucinogenic and hypnotic means (including self-hypnosis). There is no scientific evidence that there is a consciousness whose embodied functions are separate from normal neural activity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out-of-body Experience
An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world from a location outside their physical body. An OBE is a form of autoscopy (literally "seeing self"), although this term is more commonly used to refer to the pathological condition of seeing a second self, or doppelgänger. The term ''out-of-body experience'' was introduced in 1943 by G. N. M. Tyrrell in his book ''Apparitions'', and was adopted by researchers such as Celia Green, and Robert Monroe, as an alternative to belief-centric labels such as " astral projection" or "spirit walking". OBEs can be induced by traumatic brain injuries, sensory deprivation, near-death experiences, dissociative and psychedelic drugs, dehydration, sleep disorders, dreaming, and electrical stimulation of the brain, among other causes. It can also be deliberately induced by some. One in ten people has an OBE once, or more commonly, several times in their life. Psychologists and neuroscienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Science Fiction Novels
This is a list of science-fiction novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories. It includes modern novels, as well as novels written before the term "science fiction" was in common use. This list includes novels not marketed as SF but still considered to be substantially science fiction in content by some critics, such as ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. As such, it is an inclusive list, not an exclusive list based on other factors such as level of notability or literary quality. Books are listed in alphabetical order by title, ignoring the leading articles "A", "An", and "The". Novel series are alphabetical by author-designated name or, if there is none, the title of the first novel in the series or some other reasonable designation. 0-9 * ''334'' by Thomas M. Disch * ''1Q84'' by Haruki Murakami * ''1632'' series by Eric Flint * '' 2312'' by Kim Stanley Robinson * ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' by Jules Verne A * ''A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor'' by Hank Green * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
