Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena: Lightforms (Religion, Education and Culture) - Hardcover

Mark Fox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708321577 ISBN 13: 9780708321577

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book is a study of unusual light phenomena, based on almost 400 unpublished accounts of modern-day encounters with strange lights collected over a period of thirty years, held at the University of Wales, Lampeter. It is an original and perennially topical book that goes beyond existing studies of unusual light phenomena - such as lights encountered during angelic experiences, near-death experiences, 'after death communications' - in a number of ways. It shows, for example, that experiences of unusual, spiritual, religious and paranormal lights are cross-cultural, trans-historical, and are reported widely in the present day: but not necessarily experienced when near to death.It also demonstrates that these experiences share to a remarkable degree a 'common core', showing by drawing on a large number of vivid, unpublished and dramatic testimonies that unusual lights typically manifest at times of crisis, and are overwhelmingly benign and loving, producing 'turning-points' in the lives of experients and typically setting them in new spiritual and creative directions.

About this title

Review:

'Mark Fox's book provides a valuable biography of Hardy and a history of the Religious Experience Research Unit. To anyone interested in anomalous events that bridge the objective and subjective worlds, this book is essential reading. A relevant, scholarly and well presented volume. --'Bob Rickard, The Fortean Times, Sept 2008

About the Author:

Dr. Mark Fox is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Joseph Chamberlein Sixth Form College, Birmingham. Previously, he eas a lecturer at Westminster College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0708321577
• ISBN 13: 9780708321577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224