Handbook of PSI discoveries

363 Pages·1974·3.217 MB·English

by  Ostrander, Sheila and Lynn Schroeder

Handbook of
*PSI
Discoveries
By Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder
This eagerly anticipated new book from the authors
of the highly successful Psychic Discoveries Behind
the Iron Curtain is the first to supply the how-to of
the new gadgetry of ESP—simple devices you can
make or buy to launch you on the objective investi-
gation of the paranormal. Latest findings on the
frontier of psi around the world are included plus a
“whole earth catalog” of hundreds of intriguing
projects you can do with or without instruments.
This handbook shows how psi relates to fields as
diverse as gardening, photography, religion, health
—even the energy crisis. Here’s how to see the ways
your thoughts affect plant growth and all living
things. Techniques and devices to see, photograph,
and explore “auras”—including the how-to of
Kirlian photography. There are ways to enhance
ESP with a simple-to-make teleflasher and psi-
training games, group development projects, and
real games to play from Psychic Roulette to Tele-
pathic Bingo. New forms of energies—could they
help solve the energy crisis? Discover how you can
explore psi energy potentials from PK to pyramids.
Voice phenomena—how you can use your tape
recorder to track paranormal effects and investigate
the possibility of life after death. For the specialist
—an exclusive technical section. For everyone a
where-to-find-it compendium.
The authors believe anyone can experience the
paranormal—whether you’re “psychic” or not. This
is a book that fills you in on what’s happening and
also allows you to do something about psi.
*A letter of the Greek alphabet used to define all
types of psychic phenomena.
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HA ND BO OK O F PS I D ISC OV ERI ES

HANDBOOK
OF PSI
DISCOVERIES
by Sheila Ostrander
and Lynn Schroeder
Published by
BERKLEY PUBLISHING CORPORATION
Distributed by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS: NEW YORK
Copyright © 1974 by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any
form without permission. Published simultaneously in Canada by Longman
Canada Limited, Toronto
SBN: 399-11288-X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-88532
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SECOND IMPRESSION
This book is dedicated to
Marjorie D. Kern
1896–1973
Author, and founder of the Southern California Society for Psychical
Research.
and
Ivan T. Sanderson
1911–1973
Author, artist, explorer, and founder of the Society for the Investi-
gation of the Unexplained.

Contents
1. Points of Departure, 13
A Change in Consciousness? Is it Really New? New Biology of Think-
ing. Making your Own Psi Discoveries. How to Use the Handbook.
Experiment-Experimenter Interactions. Conclusion-leaping. Frontier
Map of the Paranormal.
SECTION ONE
2. Plants as a Paranormal Workshop, 27
Basic Plant Experiments. Is a Tomato a Pushover? Outdoor Gardens.
Thought for Food? Tuning in to Plants at a Distance. Measuring
Plant Growth Rate. Music and Plants. Plants and Water. Orphan
Plants. Synthesizers. Plant Energies.
3. How You Can Talk to Your Plants and Have Them
Answer Back, 45
Instruments for Plant Talk. Registering Primary Perception. Reasons
for No Reaction. Personal Response. Monitoring Distance Experiments.
Death Signal. Hierarchies. Plant Detectives and Detectors. Music and
Plants. Plant Thought Reading. Plant Memories. From Plant to
Planet? Plants that Turn on Machines. Kirlian Photography. The
Backster Effect. The Scientific Question.
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