Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 6, Issue 4 , Pages 227-236 , July 2010

Nonlocality and Exceptional Experiences: A Study of Genius, Religious Epiphany, and the Psychic

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 A slightly different version of this paper will be published in Krippner S, ed. Nonlocality and Exceptional Experiences: A Study of Genius, Religious Epiphany, and the Psychic. In Advances in Parapsychological Research Volume 9. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2010.04.008

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 6, Issue 4 , Pages 227-236 , July 2010

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