Sadly, I’m the kind of guy who wholeheartedly buys into the reality of Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, but will bizarrely choose to write about a book because I accidentally clicked on a link about the author twice, swayed by some workings of fate. This is exactly what happened with Paranormality: Why We See What Isn’t There, so maybe that makes me a milder version of the kind of people that Professor Richard Wiseman writes about.
His book is the culmination of more than twenty years studying the odd world of supernatural science. His work has included spending nights in supposedly haunted castles, giving his best shot at talking to the dead and testing the skills of people that claim to have telepathic powers.
In Paranormality, Professor Wiseman lays out the findings of his investigations in an attempt to put together a true explanation being the spooky incidents that have sparked hundreds of scary films, stories and old wives tales.
However, the most exciting prospect of the book is that it professes to set out some of the remarkable truths about the way that our mind works. Paranormality: Why We See What Isn’t There will be released on hardback on the 4th March 2011.
