Traces historical and modern scientific efforts to investigate and understand the supernatural world and psychic experiences and surveys contemporary theories, experiences, and personalities relating to parapsychology.

A comprehensive and critical analysis of psi phenomena examines both scienitific evidence and claims of fraud, from prescientific roots of shamanism, yoga, ceremonial magic, Buddhism, and Judaism to the contemporary practices of scientology, Silva Mind Control, transcendental meditation, and hypnosis

Attempts to unify a variety of supernatural phenomena with leading physicists' understandings of the universe (view table of contents)

Product Description: So begins Jeffrey Mishlove's The PK Man, the true and strange story of Ted Owens, whose claims of powerful psychokinetic abilities given to him by "Space Intelligences" were too bizarre and extreme for many to believe. When these claims were ignored or challenged, he purportedly used his powers to produce earthquakes, civil unrest, UFO sightings, strange weather events, and other powerful phenomena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)