Psi Text Resources Thread

[Laird]

ETA: a quick search of Amazon suggests that Mysteries of Knowledge has, in fact, not yet been released - at least on that site.

I see now that Gayle announced its release a few days ago:

MYSTERIES OF HEALING IS NOW AVAILABLE

Just received this book, haven't started reading it yet but flicking through it certainly seems like an absolutely fantastic and thorough summary on the subject of the history of "paranormal" powers and experiences. Could well become a must read classic on the subject!:

A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal - Amazon UK

"Superb survey of the paranormal ... Although serious in content, it is written in a light, often humorous, style which is a delight to read. As someone who has myself made a lifelong study of the paranormal, I cannot recommend it highly enough." – New York Times bestselling author Herbie Brennan
This is the most entertaining and broad survey of the paranormal ever made, combining forgotten lore, evidence from parapsychological experiments and the testament of scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, psychologists, physicists and philosophers, and also quite a few celebrities. Exploring the possibility that paranormal phenomena may be – and that some most likely are – objectively real, this travelogue through the twilight zone of human consciousness is both scientifically rigorous and extremely entertaining.
Readers may be surprised to learn that reputable scientists, among them several Nobel laureates, have claimed that telepathy is a reality, that Cleopatra's lost palace and Richard III's burial place were recovered by means of clairvoyance, and that an espionage program using psychics was set up by the US military! The author proposes that all humans (perhaps all living beings) are linked together in a sort of "mental internet" that allows us to exchange "telepathic emails" and make clairvoyant downloads of information. Could it be that what we usually call "supernatural" is a natural but little understood communication via this mental internet? An engaging, entertaining and informative analysis of a controversial subject, in which these phenomena are approached as potential expressions of unexplained powers of the human mind.

The Possible Role of Intention, Attention and Expectation in Remote Viewing

Joseph W. McMoneagle & Edwin C. May

Joseph W. McMoneagle has participated in 44 on-camera demonstrations of remote viewing 35 of which would be considered as successful; that is, if they had been assessed by the usual blind rank-order method, they would have easily been ranked correctly in first place. The question we address here is, ìWhat, if anything, is special about these cases?î Under US Government funding, the research track record of what is known as STARGATE was exceptional. Perhaps the success could be attributed to the near exclusive use of highly talented special participants. However, we speculate here that the ill-defined concepts of intention, attention, and expectation were/are major contributors to the success of application-oriented, laboratory, and media-centered trials. As an illustration of these points, we provide a detailed description of the protocol and results of a recent demonstration trial conducted for the National Geographic Channel that was carried out in LFRís remote viewing laboratory in Palo Alto, California. The produces and staff of Pioneer Productions dedicated one individual for four days just to prepare for the shoot. Her duties were to learn about what constitutes a good remote viewing target, identify 6 targets within 25 km from the laboratory, prepare two sets of target packs, identify a neutral 3rd party individual to secure these materials, and act as beacon person during the trial. The full team included a camera crew of three and a single producer. At the time of the trial all people present with the viewer were blind not only to the individual randomly selected target but also to the complete six-fold target pack. The response was blind rank-order assessed on-camera, and the correct target was matched as 1st place. The qualitative correspondence with the intended site was excellent and typical of the 35 of 44 other media trials provided by McMoneagle. This single trial serves as an exemplar of an ideal application of intention, attention, and expectation