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Jacobsen, Annie.
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Parapsychology -- Military aspects -- United States.
Extrasensory perception.
Psychokinesis.
Remote viewing (Parapsychology)
Military research -- United States -- History.
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Jacobsen, Annie.
Parapsychology -- Military aspects -- United States.
Extrasensory perception.
Psychokinesis.
Remote viewing (Parapsychology)
Military research -- United States -- History.
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Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen
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Jacobsen, Annie.
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133
.8
J17p
Subjects
Parapsychology -- Military aspects -- United States.
Extrasensory perception.
Psychokinesis.
Remote viewing (Parapsychology)
Military research -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780316349369 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition
Description:
viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index
Contents:
Part I: the early days. The supernatural -- The Puharich theory -- Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army -- Quasi science -- The Soviet threat -- Part II: the CIA years. The enigma of Uri Geller -- The man on the moon -- The physicist and the psychic -- Skeptics versus CIA -- Remote viewing -- The unconscious -- Submarines -- Part III: the Defense Department years. 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 -- Part IV: the modern era. Intuition, premonition, and synthetic telepathy -- The scientists and the skeptics -- The psychic and the astronaut
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. The story of these radical, controversial programs and how far governments will go in the name of national security--Provided by publisher.
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