Beyond the Reach of Sense Rosalind Heywood HC E.P. Dutton (BCE) 1959

Description: The study of ESP or Extra-Sensory Perception, once considered a ridiculous waste of time, is now the object of the most scrupulous scientific inquiry. In this excellent introduction, Rosalind Heywood tells us what ESP is, what it is not, what we know, and what we have yet to learn. Separating knowledge from superstition, she gives a clear history, filled with individual cases and examples, of the progress of ESP to date. Up to the middle of the last century ancient forms of ESP, involving oracles, ouija boards, planchette, and table rapping, though fashionable, were scorned by the serious minded. But in 1882 three scientists, convinced that spiritualism required careful, scientific investigation, founded the Society for Psychical Research, which laid down especially stringent requirements for sifting data and recording experiments. Here are some of the most fascinating of the various tests conducted by the society, including a "qualitative experiment" in which an agent is asked to make drawings in one room and a "percipient" is asked to concentrate and reproduce these same drawings in another room and a "quantitative experiment" based on guessing cards, where the percipient works against the law of averages with astoundingly high results. Mrs. Heywood also examines numerous other phenomena, such as visitors from the world of the dead, mediums and transmission of messages, and "cross correspondences." For all those interested in the mind, in science, and in the supernatural, here is an event of the first importance, an extremely clear and unbiased account of ESP, as revealed by scientific, not fanciful, procedure.

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