This book is an excellent resource for scientific discussion of the evidence for ESP.
Diane Hennacy Powell, a Johns Hopkins-trained neuroscientist, competently and brillantly examines and discusses the scientific evidence supporting the reality of psi phenomena, and the meaning and implications of this evidence to understand, on rational grounds, the nature of consciousness.
It's refreshing to see an objective discussion of a controversial topic like psi research in the competent hands of a rigurous and highly trained professional scientist like Dr.Powell.
The Time magazine (certainly, not a friend of parapsychology) published an neutral interview with Dr.Powell that you can read here.
One excerpts of the interview with her on William James and consciousness: "He believed consciousness is not just what's happening to the neurons in the brain. The brain is our instrument in focusing and organizing our consciousness. Just like a prism will take a white light with all these different frequencies and separate it so you can see the different colors of the spectrum. Rather than us experiencing everything that's happening all at once, our brain focuses us on the here and the now. It uses our sensory organs as guides as to what we should be focusing on. Experiments have shown that most psychic experiences occur when are sensory organs are muted, like when we're dreaming or having a near-death experience"
Diane Hennacy Powell, a Johns Hopkins-trained neuroscientist, competently and brillantly examines and discusses the scientific evidence supporting the reality of psi phenomena, and the meaning and implications of this evidence to understand, on rational grounds, the nature of consciousness.
It's refreshing to see an objective discussion of a controversial topic like psi research in the competent hands of a rigurous and highly trained professional scientist like Dr.Powell.
The Time magazine (certainly, not a friend of parapsychology) published an neutral interview with Dr.Powell that you can read here.
One excerpts of the interview with her on William James and consciousness: "He believed consciousness is not just what's happening to the neurons in the brain. The brain is our instrument in focusing and organizing our consciousness. Just like a prism will take a white light with all these different frequencies and separate it so you can see the different colors of the spectrum. Rather than us experiencing everything that's happening all at once, our brain focuses us on the here and the now. It uses our sensory organs as guides as to what we should be focusing on. Experiments have shown that most psychic experiences occur when are sensory organs are muted, like when we're dreaming or having a near-death experience"
Read this interesting article by Dr.Powell on Twin Telepathy.
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