Fringes of Reason: A Whole Earth Catalog (A Field Guide to New Age Frontiers, Unusual Beliefs & Eccentric Sciences)

Harmony Books, December 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Collectible Very Good. 1st Edition (Stated) / 1st Printing (Harmony Books 1989) - No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Foreword by Stewart Brand -- * Introduction by Ted Schultz ------- PART I: THE NEW, IMPROVED AGE: 1.) The end by Stanley Young -- 2.) Deja vu by Jay Kinney -- 3.) Crystal Power by Lawrence Jerome -- 4.) The Airplane Game by Jeff Greenwald -- 5.) Armchair Shamanism by Chas Clifton -- 6.) Access to Cults ------- PART II: INNER FRONTIERS: 7.) Voices from Beyond by Ted Schultz -- 8.) Access to Dowsing -- 9.) Parapsychology by Charles Tart -- 10.) Access to Parapsychology -- 11.) Confessions of a Parapsychologist by Susan Blackmore -- 12.) Access to Eccentric Psychology ------- PART III: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW S WRONG!: 13.) Spontaneous Human Combustion by Kevin Kelly -- 14.) Spontaneous Human Combustion by Joe Nickell -- 15.) Chroniclers of the Unexplained by Ted Schultz -- 16.) Access to Freaky Folklore -- 17.) Some Like It Flat by Robert Schadewald -- 18.) Jumping Geography! By Ted Schultz -- 19.) Access to Eccentric Personalities -- 20.) The Conspiracy Watcher’s Field Guide by Jay Kinney -- 21.) Tabloid Turns Housewife into Zombie by Michael Randall ------- PART IV: WEIRD SCIENCE: 22.) The Blind Eye of Science by Ron Westrum -- 23.) Access to Anomalies -- 24.) The Encyclopedia of Anomalies by William R. Corliss -- 25.) The Monster Hunters by Robert Schadewald -- 26.) Access to Pseudoscience -- 27.) Brain Boosters by Joshua Hammer ------- PART V: NOT OF THIS EARTH: 28.) The Man Who Invented flying saucers by John Keel -- 29.) In Advance of the Landing by Douglas Curran -- 30.) UFO Folklore by Jerome Clark and Dennis Stacy -- 31.) Access to UFOlogy -- 32.) The Great Phonograph in the Sky by John Keel ------- PART VI: WHAT IS REALITY?: 33.) Beyond True & False by Robert Anton Wilson -- 34.) The Hundredth Monkey by Ron Amundson -- 35.) Lyall Watson Responds by Lyall Watson -- 36.) Of Myths & Monkeys by Maureen O’Hara -- 37.) Reality Shopping by Alan MacRoberts and Ted Schultz -- 38.) Scrutinizing the Paranormal by Ted Schultz -- 39.) Censoring he Paranormal by Jerome Clark -- 40.) Skeptics and Pseudo-Skeptics by Marcello Truzzi -- 41.) Am I Psychic Yet? By Paul Krassner -- 42.) Backstage with Bob by Kay Kinney -- 43.) Your Pathway to Cosmic Truth – By Mail by Rev. Ivan Stang ------- * Access to Weird Americana -- * INDEX -- * EXPLAIN THIS! By NORMAN DOG -- * ABOUT THIS BOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , A field guide to New Age frontiers, unusual beliefs, & eccentric sciences'--Cover. The first consumer guide to strange beliefs ... complete access to the best books, periodicals, products, and sources of further information - Back cover Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.