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In The Future of the Body, Michael Murphy compiles an encyclopedic review of extraordinary human capabilities recorded in oral and written traditions, ancient chronicles, modern scientific studies, and comparative religious texts. Drawing on more than 3,000 sources from medical science, sports, anthropology, the arts, psychical research, and parapsychology, he presents evidence of metanormal perception, cognition, movement, vitality, and spiritual development, suggesting that these attributes are not fixed limits but evolving potentials. Murphy proposes that specific practices can systematically evoke these capacities, assembling them into a coherent program of transformative practice that he believes could advance humanity’s evolutionary journey.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Psychology/General Psychology
Authors: Murphy, Michael
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