“Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain”

Probably the most aggravating thing – to both authors and readers – in any publisehd work, is that an introduction should turn out to be a review. A preface is where the authors can sound off on any rankling questions brought on by their editors; and an epilogue is where they can take a final pot-shot at their readers. Reviewers should keep out of the whole mess and go publish some place else. An introduction, especially if written by some person other only some attempt at augmentation of the book´s general theme; prehaps bringing to it some corollary and pertinent observations, since a lot of things can be said in an introduction that the authors have not been able to say – or have not been allowed to say – in the body of their text. So, I shall now proceed to offer some such complementary and perhaps impertinent observations for your possible edification.

First, let it be most clearly understood that this book, has nothing whatsoever to do with any “psychic” anything. The employment of this word in the title should, rather, be read to mean “Matters that we have been taught to call psychic.” The choice of this title is, nonetheless, quite legitimate, on two counts. First, it will attract a great number of people who would otherwise not even so much as glance at the opus; and second, because it may render a very real service in clearing up this whole preposterous semantic confusion.

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Contents

Introductions by Ivan T. Sanderson

Prologue

Russia

1. “A Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma”

2. Karl Nikolaiev, Self-Made Psychic

3. Mind-Link, Body-Link

4. Wolf Messing, The Psychic Stalin Tested

5. Political Smoke Screens and Parapsychology

6. Have the Soviets Found the Secret of Mind Over Matter?

7. Inner and Outer Space

8. UFOs and PSI, Seeking the Cosmic Messiah

9. The Telepathic Knockout

10. What Makes You Psychic?

Telepathic Sender – The Forgotten Psychic?

Amping-Up Psychic Ability

Astrology – or Cosmic Biology?

Can ESP Be Bugged?

11. From Animals to Cybernetics: The Search for a Theory of Psi

12. Artificial Reincarnation

13. Time – A New Frontier of the Mind

14. Eyeless Sight

15. Dowsing: Form “Wizard Rod” to “B.P.E.”

16. Kirlian Photography – Pictures of the Aura?

17. Science Probes the Energy Body

18. The Energy Body and ESP

Healing

The Energy Body and Acupuncture

Acupuncture, Telepathy, and the Bioplasmic Body

Points That Make You Psychic?

The Aura, Energy Body, and Plants

A Window on the Unknown

19. A Soviet Witch Predicts

Folk Healers

A Supernatural Hothouse

Can a Young Russian with Nothing but ESP…?

Shamans and the Dance of the Supernatural

The Mystic Soul of Russia

20. Are we in an ESP Race wiht Russia?

ESP-ionage, Or a Weapon of War

Are There Religious Implications to Soviet Parapsychology?

Political Interference

America vs. Russia: A Psychic Comparison

Bulgaria

21. Vanga Dimitrova, the Bulgarian Oracel

22. Missing Control Center for the Mind

Suggestology

Healing with Thought

Parapsychology: Teaching the Blind to See

Supernormal Powers of the Mind Revolutionize Education

Exploring Psi

Czechoslovakia

23. The Psychic Life of Czechoslovakia

Alchemy

Psychotronics

Reincarnation Research

Bretislav Kafka, Pioneer Parapsychologist

24. Dr. Milan Ryzl, Creator of Psychics

25. Pavel Sepanek, An Answer for the Skeptics?

26. Astrological Birth Control

27. Pyramid Power and the Riddle of the Razor Blades

28. Psychotronic Generators – Psychic Machines?

The Secret´s in the Form

A Visit to the Czech Merlin

29. Image, Energy, Potential

Appendixes (A, B, C, D)

Partial Bibliography and References

Index

A Laffont special edition