Anomalous Phenomena
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See moreExploring the frontier where mind and matter converge
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 this book are Thompson’s own glimpses of the uncanny.
Inviting readers to reconsider the mind–matter divide, Thompson’s Anomalous Phenomena opens onto a larger, empirically open model of reality—one that brings science, spirit, and lived experience onto shared ground—where the extraordinary often lives just a breath from the ordinary.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781591435594
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Bear & Company
Illustration: Includes 16-page color insert
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 268g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Keith Thompson is an author and independent journalist who writes about politics, belief, and the persistent fact of mystery. He is a talk radio host, former TV talk show host, and former U.S. Senate staff member. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, and San Francisco Chronicle. The author of The UFO Paradox and Angels and Aliens, he lives in northwest Florida.
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