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