Those refreshed by scientific common sense will enjoy this work hugely, and would be strongly recommended to obtain it, in order to ward off the distressingly common assaults of the alternative therapy movements and other paranormal addicts.
British Journal of Medical Psychology
Although it is little known and poorly publicised, the term 'cryptomnesia' embraces a wide range of supposedly abnormal and paranormal behavior that is currently claimed to be 'unexplained', and is allegedly due to 'supernatural causes'. ...
The phenomena known as past-lives regression, future-lives progression, channeling and mediumistic phenomena, alien encounters and abductions, ... multiple personalities, fugue states, glossolalia - all involve aspects of what is generally considered to be hidden, remote or unconscious parts of the human mind, and all have a known or well-understoof psychological explanation. A better understanding of cryptomnesiac psychology ... can be quite helpful in simplifying the complexity and reducing the mystery surrounding these supposedly unearthly ans supernatural marvels.
Alien abductions, satanic kidnappings, the channeling of spirits, the recall of past lives - these and similar bizarre experiences are reported almost daily by the media. Is there a rational explanation for these strange events? According to psychologist Robert A. Baker, they are manifestations of cryptomnesia, or hidden memories, a phenomenon in which experiences that originally make little conscious impression are filed away in the brain and later are suddenly remembered in altered form. Referring to the most recent scientific evidence an memory and the brain, Dr. Baker dispels many erroneous beliefs, explaing the roles of delusions, imagination and suggestion in the creation of "supernatural" experiences.
Robert A. Baker, Ph.D., the author of the critically acclaimed They Call It Hypnosis, has taught psychology at M.I.T., Stanford University and the University of Kentucky, where he chaired the Psychology Department until his retirement.