Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsen, Annie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parapsychology--Military aspects--United States.

Parapsychology.

Military research--United States--History.

Military research.

Extrasensory perception.

Psychokinesis.

History.

Parapsychology--Military aspects.

United States.

HISTORY / Military / United States.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy).

Local Subjects:

HISTORY / Military / United States.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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. Now, for the first time, Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never-before-seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. A riveting investigation into how far governments will go in the name of national security.-- adapted from dust jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index.

ISBN:

0316349364

9780316349369

OCLC:

953598602