Screen LibraryPhenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis /
For more than forty years, the United States 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...
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Back Bay Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2017 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Back Bay paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
For more than forty years, the United States 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 Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with more than fifty of the individuals involved. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-507) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780316349352 (paperback) : 0316349356 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | BF1045 |
| CLC: |
E712.9 E712.39 E0-051 |
| Call Number: | E0-051/J175 |
| 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 Mystery of H.S. Tsien -- Killers and Kidnappers -- Consciousness -- Psychic Training -- 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. |