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

Call Number

  • 133.8 J175 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Physical Description

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

Summary

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 the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army--and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never-before-seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. A riveting investigation into how far governments will go in the name of national security.

Contents

  • The supernatural
  • The Puharich theory
  • Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army
  • Quasi science
  • The Soviet threat
  • The enigma of Uri Geller
  • The man on the moon
  • The physicist and the psychic
  • Skeptics versus CIA
  • Remote viewing
  • The unconscious
  • Submarines
  • 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
  • Intuition, premonition, and synthetic telepathy
  • The scientists and the skeptics
  • The psychic and the astronaut.

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