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Anomalous Phenomena
Apports and the Mystery of Objects that Materialize and Translocate
Published by Bear & Company
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About The Book
Exploring the frontier where mind and matter converge
• Defines apports—objects that appear, vanish, or relocate under mysterious conditions—and documents the Scole Experiment’s remarkable physical materializations
• Examines ancestral dreams revealing hidden truths, ghosts seeking resolution, conscious UFOs, spontaneous healings, and phantom companions guiding explorers in danger
• Shows how these events point toward untapped human potentials and a larger model of reality where intention and meaning exert real effects
Apports—objects that materialize, dematerialize, or translocate without known physical cause—are among the most startling anomalous phenomena on record. Yet they are only one part of a much wider story.
Drawing on archival reports, eyewitness testimony, and on-the-ground investigation, Anomalous Phenomena presents a panoramic chronicle of extraordinary events: mysteriously transported objects, telepathic communications, apparitions of the departed, remarkable healings, and UFOs that behave less like machines than intelligent presences.
Across cultures and centuries, the same motifs recur—phantom figures guiding the lost, ancestors arriving in dreams, unearthly lights that seem to rearrange reality’s fabric. Far from fringe curiosities, such episodes demand recognition as part of the human record. Threaded throughout are Thompson’s own glimpses of the uncanny, reminding us that the extraordinary often lives just a breath from the ordinary.
Inviting readers to reconsider the mind–matter divide, Anomalous Phenomena opens onto a larger, empirically open model of reality—one that brings science, spirit, and lived experience onto shared ground.
• Defines apports—objects that appear, vanish, or relocate under mysterious conditions—and documents the Scole Experiment’s remarkable physical materializations
• Examines ancestral dreams revealing hidden truths, ghosts seeking resolution, conscious UFOs, spontaneous healings, and phantom companions guiding explorers in danger
• Shows how these events point toward untapped human potentials and a larger model of reality where intention and meaning exert real effects
Apports—objects that materialize, dematerialize, or translocate without known physical cause—are among the most startling anomalous phenomena on record. Yet they are only one part of a much wider story.
Drawing on archival reports, eyewitness testimony, and on-the-ground investigation, Anomalous Phenomena presents a panoramic chronicle of extraordinary events: mysteriously transported objects, telepathic communications, apparitions of the departed, remarkable healings, and UFOs that behave less like machines than intelligent presences.
Across cultures and centuries, the same motifs recur—phantom figures guiding the lost, ancestors arriving in dreams, unearthly lights that seem to rearrange reality’s fabric. Far from fringe curiosities, such episodes demand recognition as part of the human record. Threaded throughout are Thompson’s own glimpses of the uncanny, reminding us that the extraordinary often lives just a breath from the ordinary.
Inviting readers to reconsider the mind–matter divide, Anomalous Phenomena opens onto a larger, empirically open model of reality—one that brings science, spirit, and lived experience onto shared ground.
Product Details
- Publisher: Bear & Company (October 6, 2026)
- Length: 208 pages
- ISBN13: 9781591435594
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