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Author:

Jacobsen, Annie, author.

Title:

Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Parapsychology--Military aspects--United States.
Military research--United States--History.
Extrasensory perception.
Psychokinesis.
Parapsychology--Military aspects--United States.
Military research--United States--History.
Extrasensory perception.
Psychokinesis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index.

Contents:

The The psychic and the astronaut. 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.

ISBN:

0316349364
9780316349369

LCCN:

bl2017003679

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