The mind-body problem and the issue of Psychokinesis

Mysterious Minds: The Neurobiology of Psychics, Mediums, and Other Extraordinary People

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-84

  Parker, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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