By Stephen E. Braude
For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the magical in lifestyle, from extrasensory belief and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The Gold Leaf girl and different Parapsychological Investigations is a hugely readable and infrequently a laugh account of his such a lot memorable encounters with such phenomena. the following Braude recounts in attention-grabbing aspect 5 specific cases—some that problem our so much primary clinical ideals and others that disclose our personal credulousness. Braude starts with a south Florida girl who could make skinny gold-colored foil seem spontaneously on her pores and skin. He then travels to long island and California to check psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—like Joe Nuzum, who declare to maneuver gadgets utilizing basically their minds. alongside the way in which, Braude additionally investigates the startling allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can move photographs from photos onto different objects—including his personal body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who can make various various photographs look on Polaroid movie. eventually, Braude considers his wife’s unusually fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to steer expert football groups to the head in their leagues, in addition to his personal own studies with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may wish to be defined by way of a polished, broad, and dramatic type of psychokinesis. Heady, provocative, and brimming with eye-opening info and proposals, The Gold Leaf woman and different Parapsychological Investigations will intrigue either adherents and detractors of its arguable material alike.
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So if we open the door to the salutary (or simply benign) effects of our thoughts on the external world, we must also open it to the destructive influence of our thoughts. And that’s precisely what freaks people out. 6 In fact, most of us won’t even allow ourselves to entertain this possibility. The responsibility—for what Freud called “the omnipotence of thought”—is simply too intimidating. But the great spiritualist mediums easily avoided that concern. From their point of view, they didn’t produce the phenomena they seemed to channel.
Similarly, anomalously structured foil would not establish the paranormal origin of the material; it might simply indicate an unusual mode of production. Still, I can understand why the JHU scientists found Katie’s foil less intriguing after their analysis. After all, they’re materials scientists, and they found that there was nothing special about Katie’s foil, considered simply as a sample of brass. And, I suppose, there was little (if anything) more they could have added to my research at that point.
Initially, it looked as if everything was running smoothly. Katie felt encouraged that some foil would appear during the six hours, the cameras were ready to record the event from different angles and different degrees of closeness, and Dean and Chris were ready either to endorse or debunk the phenomena if they occurred. But problems arose right from the beginning. , in a good mood and ready to go. However, the Unsolved Mysteries director had other plans. He wanted to shoot various set-up shots before embarking on our experiment.