Fátima Revisited
The Apparition Phenomenon in Ufology, Psychology, and Science
by F. Fernandes, J. Fernandes, and R. Berenguel
Trade Paperback, 224 Pages
$17.95, ISBN: 1933665238
Genre(s):
UFOs
Paranormal
Historical Mysteries
Speculative Science
The Fátima Incident of 1917 was a critical event in the history of the paranormal. Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima, the brilliant entity who appeared above Fátima. Was she the Virgin Mary, sharing divine secrets with believers? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a world at war? Or was she an alien being, inspiring humanity to look up and contemplate the mystery of the Cosmos? Now, in Fátima Revisited, an international panel of top scholars subjects the legendary apparitions of Fátima - widely regarded as a sacred religious event - to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis; explores the connections between encounters with apparitions, angels, and aliens; and proposes a new paradigm for such unexplained phenomena. This third volume in the acclaimed trilogy, which includes the definitive histories of the Fátima case entitled Heavenly Lights and Celestial Secrets, is the result of a transdisciplinary study by the Multicultural Apparitions Research International Academic Network (Project MARIAN) at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal.
About the Author: Compiled by F. Fernandes, J. Fernandes, and R. Berenguel
Fernando Fernandes is a professor at the Superior Institute of Engineering in Porto. He has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computing from the University of Porto. He was a co-founder of the Portuguese Society of Scientific Exploration (SPEC), is an associate investigator at CTEC at the University Fernando Pessoa, and is a member of the collective CDU of the Anomaly Foundation in Spain. Prominent among his areas of interest are parapsychology, paranormal experiences and beliefs, and altered states of human consciousness.
Joaquim Fernandes is a professor of History at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal, where he is a member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. His doctoral thesis explored “The Imagined Extraterrestrial in Portugal from the Middle of the 19th Century to the Modern Era.” He is the co-editor of CTEC’s journal Cons-sciences. His interests are the history of science and the comparative anthropology of secular and religious visionary experiences, emphasizing the Fátima apparitions of 1917, about which he has co-authored three works with Fina d’Armada.
Raul Berenguel, M.S. is a research associate of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC) at the University Fernando Pessoa, where he began his investigations in 1971. He has been affiliated with the Center of Astronomical Studies and Unusual Phenomena (CEAFI) and the National Commission of Investigation of UFO Phenomena (CNIFO). He was the founder of the Portuguese Society of Scientific Exploration and is the author of several publications covering diverse borderland science issues.
Translated from Portuguese and Editedby Andrew D. Basiago and Eva M. Thompson
Foreword by William J. Birnes
Contributors include:
Anthropologist SCOTT ATRAN
Researcher RAUL BERENGUEL
Psychologist IRENE BLINSTON
Psychotherapist JANET ELIZABETH COLLI Anthropologist RYAN J. COOK
Physicist ERIC DAVIS
Engineer FERNANDO FERNANDES
Historian JOAQUIM FERNANDES
Historian DAVID M. JACOBS
Psychologist STANLEY KRIPPNER
Neurophysiologist FRANK McGILLION
Physicist AUGUSTE MEESSEN
Psychotherapist GILDA MOURA
Neuroscientist MICHAEL A. PERSINGER
Psychologist VITOR RODRIGUES
Psychiatrist MARIO SIMÕES
Astrophysicist JACQUES F. VALLÉE
Visit the Fatima Trilogy page on Anomalist Books for the other two volumes in this series.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
William J. Birnes, J.D., Ph.D., Host, UFO Hunters, The History Channel, USA
INTRODUCTION
Ralph Steiner, Investigative Journalist, Berkeley, California, USA
THE FÁTIMA PHENOMENA
Michael Persinger, Ph.D., Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE “MARIAN APPARITION” EXPERIENCES IN FÁTIMA, 1917 – PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIZATION AND MODELING
Joaquim Fernandes, Ph.D., University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
POSSIBLE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL FACTORS RELATED TO MARIAN VISIONS
Dr. Frank McGillion, London, United Kingdom
APPARITIONS AND MIRACLES OF THE SUN
Auguste Meessen, Ph.D., Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
MIND CONTROL AND MARIAN VISIONS – A THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH
Raul Berenguel, CTEC, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
GEOMAGNETISM AND VISIONARY MANIFESTATIONS 69
Fernando Fernandes, Ph.D., Porto University, Porto, Portugal
EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED CONGRUENCE BETWEEN DREAMS AND DISTANT TARGET MATERIAL DURING PERIODS OF DECREASED GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
Michael Persinger, Ph.D., Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN FÁTIMA
Vitor Rodrigues, Ph.D., Superior School of Nursing, Évora, Portugal
TRANCE(S) IN FÁTIMA
Mario Simões, Ph.D., University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
FÁTIMA – A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Gilda Moura, Center for the Study of Altered States of Consciousness, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
NATURAL ORIGINS OF THE SUPERNATURAL
Scott Atran, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
THE ALIEN ABDUCTION PHENOMENON AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES
Ryan J. Cook, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
RELIGIOUS APPARITIONS AND ALIEN ENCOUNTERS– COMMON THEMES
Irene Blinston, Ph.D., Palo Alto, California, USA
MARIAN APPARITIONS AND ALIEN ABDUCTION PHENOMENA – SOME COMPARISONS
David M. Jacobs, Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
ANGELS AND ALIENS – ENCOUNTERS WITH BOTH NEAR-DEATH AND UFOs
Janet Elizabeth Colli, Ph.D., Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
INCOMMENSURABILITY, ORTHODOXY, AND THE PHYSICS OF HIGH STRANGENESS – A 6-LAYER MODEL FOR ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
Jacques F. Vallée, Ph.D. and Eric W. Davis, Ph.D., National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
