Phenomena the secret history of the U.S. government's Investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis

Large Print 2017

For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army-and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New Y...

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ISBN:

9780316396806

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

706 pages (large print) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Phenomena

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Part I: the early days. The supernatural
The Puharich theory
Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army
Quasi science
The Soviet threat
Part II: the CIA years. The enigma of Uri Geller
The man on the moon
The physicist and the psychic
Skeptics versus CIA
Remote viewing
The unconscious
Submarines
Part III: the Defense Department years. Paraphysics
Psychic soldiers
Qigong and the mytery of H. S. Tsien
Killers and kidnappers
Consciousness
The woman with the third eye
The end of an era
Hostages and drugs
Downfall
Part IV: the modern era. Intuition, premonition, and synthetic telepathy
The scientists and the skeptics
The psychic and the astronaut

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2023161

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