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A new edition of the classic scientific study of psi abilities
• Details the author's scientific experiments with psychics on telepathic powers and psychic phenomena
• Explores how shamanism, yoga, and Indigenous spiritual traditions provide the means to consciously cultivate psychic abilities
• Analyzes the biological, physiological, and psychological conditions and stresses that lead to the development and control of telepathic and paranormal experiences
Neurologist Andrija Puharich pioneered research in psi phenomena in the 1950s and '60s. This classic edition of that research provides profound examples of telepathy, clairvoyance, and mind powers that he recorded in labs and clinical settings. Puharich also draws on ancient spiritual practices to show how one might activate these abilities.
Connecting psychic phenomena to human physiology, Puharich recounts experiments he conducted with psychics in which observable activation of the parasympathetic nervous system resulted in measurable improvements in telepathic reception. He details his experiments on transmissive telepathy and how ESP and telepathy manifest in groups, and he hypothesizes that the ability to transmit thoughts and information is connected to adrenalin and related compounds.
Puharich examines what he terms a "mobile center of consciousness"—how the mind is separate from the body—and how this center of consciousness can access psychic powers and nonlocal knowledge. Beyond the lab, Puharich explored how shamanism, yoga, and Indigenous spiritual traditions provide the biological and physical means to consciously cultivate psychic phenomena and ecstatic states that enable extraordinary abilities.
Bringing these psi phenomena ideas into contemporary context is a new introduction by Mitch Horowitz, award-winning author of numerous books and host of the podcast Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real.
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION
Psioneer: Reintroducing Andrija Puharich's Beyond Telepathy
by Mitch Horowitz
THE ORIGINAL TEXT
BEYOND TELEPATHY
Foreword
1 The Telepathic Receiver and
the State of Cholinergia
2 The Telepathic Sender and
the State of Adrenergia
3 Telepathic Networks with Individuals
Serving as Unconscious Relays
4 General Extrasensory Perception
Networks Containing an Object as a Relay
5 The Memory Capacity of Objects
and the Impregnation of Such Objects
by Mind Action
6 The Dynamics of the Mobile Center
of Consciousness when Separated from
the Physical Body
7 The Mobile Center of Consciousness
Completely Independent of a
Living Physical Body
8 Shamanism: The Biology of the
Ritual of the Irrational
9 Yoga: The Psychology of Autonomy
for the Nuclear Mobile Center
of Consciousness
10 The Biological Foundations of Psi Plasma
11 The Physical Foundations of Psi Plasma
12 Summary of the Theory of Psi-Plasma Control
Epilogue: A Test of the Theory
Appendices
Bibliography
Author Index
General Index
About the Author
