Anthropologische Aspekte in Parapsychologie and Paramedizin

Journal/Book: Archives suisses d'anthropologie générale, Genève. 1982; 46: 67-76.

Abstract: Concurrently to somatical evolution of mankind there was a psychological evolution, magical thinking in the later palaeolithic time, followed (after the last glaciation) by a period of mythological thinking and further (in modern times) by logical thinking (principle of causality). In every human individual all these three categories are present because of their psychogenetic heredity.The medieval occultism, actually named "parapsychology", is based an magical thinking too, as paramedicine (quack-medicine) does. Modern anthropology under aspects of human totality is able to give informations of the origin of human magical behaviour and as an important auxiliary discipline such an anthropology should be integrated in the course of medical instructions.

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