Psi Text Resources Thread

Magonia Review has an enthusiastic review by Clive Prince of Jeffrey J. Kripal's book "Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions" (2017):
http://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2020/01/s...rents.html

The SPR has a review by Nemo C. Mörck of another book by Ingo Swann, "Penetration: Special Edition: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy" (2019), which is a revised version of the original "Penetration" that was self-published by Swann in 1998, with an extra chapter found among Swann's papers. The main subject of the book is remote viewing that appeared to show a living civilisation on the Moon, and the extra chapter is about remote viewing of Mars, probably intended to be the first of a new section. Apparently opinions differ as to whether the content is fact or fiction - Mörck says it reads as fiction to him. He also mentions speculation by Stephan Schwartz that the remote viewers might have been seeing the future on Mars, rather than the present. (But I couldn't help thinking that Swann's vision* of a woman wearing "the briefest of halters of pink with big yellow polka dots" together with platform high-heels and purple sunglasses was more redolent of 1960):
https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/penetr...ingo-swann

(* It's been pointed out to me that Swann actually saw this woman in normal life - in a supermarket - but sensed that she was an extraterrestrial!)

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's a review by Simon Young of a book by Courtenay Raia entitled "The New Prometheans: Faith, Science and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siècle" (2019), from Times Higher Education:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/boo...tenay-raia

Young describes it as a set of linked biographies of four leading figures in the early SPR - William Crookes, Frederic Myers, Oliver Lodge and Andrew Lang. He thinks that this approach doesn't work particularly well in elucidating the history of the SPR, which takes centre stage only in one chapter, but that it's unrivalled "in recreating the ambition of a number of British thinkers in the late 1800s as they step knowingly into the shadows." In the final chapter, the author looks at "the failures of psychical research in the past century (in terms of mainstream science)".

Carlos S. Alvarado has a blog post on two Ph.D. theses on psychical research in the 19th and early 20th centuries:
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...ic-topics/

Elsa Richardson. Extraordinary Powers of Perception: Second Sight in Victorian Culture, 1830-1910.
Queen Mary, University of London, 2019
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=...hos.667084

Robert Radaković, Beyond Faith and Reason: The Genesis of Psychical Research and the Search for the Paranormal Domain (1850-1914).
Lancaster University, 2019.
(to which we already have a link in the Theses section of this site's Wiki)
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...vicphd.pdf

Elsa Richardson's Ph.D. diss is actually from 2013. People can get it from Queen Mary University of London. 

Alvarado could have included a link to Lesley Frances Gray's Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mesmer and His Legacy: Literature, Culture, and Science from 2018 which is accessible through the University of Kent. 

Elsa Richardson's Ph.D. diss is actually from 2013. People can get it from Queen Mary University of London. 

Alvarado could have included a link to Lesley Frances Gray's Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mesmer and His Legacy: Literature, Culture, and Science from 2018 which is accessible through the University of Kent. 

Thanks for the corrections and addition. I have amended the Thesis section of the Wiki Publications page.

Courtesy of the SPR website - a new book by Herb Mertz entitled "The Selection Effect: How Consciousness Shapes Reality" has just been published:
https://www.amazon.com/Selection-Effect-...1733508007

According to the description, Mertz worked with the PEAR Lab and later co-founded the company Psyleron to develop random event generators. The book covers the laboratory evidence for psychokinesis, and also "a personal training process that allows consciousness to influence real-world physical events in ways that cannot be attributed to brain activity alone."

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's an article at Medium discussing a 35-page CIA briefing document on "Co-ordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) Technology 1981-1983", written in 1983 and released in 2000. The article concentrates on a mention of the theories of the physicist David Bohm, though that seems to be relatively incidental in the original:
https://medium.com/remote-viewing-commun...0d1e38a003

Here is the briefing document itself:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/...0001-3.pdf

I can't see any indication of the authorship of the document, but as it's been in the public domain for nearly 20 years I assume it's well known to the people who read the remote viewing literature.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's an article at Medium discussing a 35-page CIA briefing document on "Co-ordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) Technology 1981-1983", written in 1983 and released in 2000. The article concentrates on a mention of the theories of the physicist David Bohm, though that seems to be relatively incidental in the original:
https://medium.com/remote-viewing-commun...0d1e38a003

Here is the briefing document itself:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/...0001-3.pdf

I can't see any indication of the authorship of the document, but as it's been in the public domain for nearly 20 years I assume it's well known to the people who read the remote viewing literature.

There have been a number of "news stories" about randomly selected declassifed documents since the closure of the Star Gate program. Those articles are usually just chaff and are almost always written by people with no or little understanding of the big picture.

There have been a number of "news stories" about randomly selected declassified documents since the closure of the Star Gate program. Those articles are usually just chaff and are almost always written by people with no or little understanding of the big picture.

Nemo,

Thanks a lot for the link to a most interesting article discussing David Bohm's thinking!!

Bohm did not restrict himself to mere armchair speculation, however. He formulated specific hypotheses about how scientists might, with sufficiently precise and sensitive instruments, measure these dynamics. He suggested that below what physicists call Planck Length, the lowest conceivable metric of physical extension (1.616255(18)×10−35 m), there is only the implicate order, which consists of the non-spatiotemporal and fundamentally subjective storehouse of meaning that unfolds into the spatiotemporal world in the form of information. It is this Planck Length, Bohm suggested, that constitutes the physical boundary that separates the explicate order from the implicate order. ibid