Table of Contents
Prologue 5
Part I The Early Days
Chapter 1 The Supernatural 11
Chapter 2 The Puharich Theory 23
Chapter 3 Skeptics, Charlatans, and the U.S. Army 40
Chapter 4 Quasi Science 55
Chapter 5 The Soviet Threat 70
Part II The CIA Years
Chapter 6 The Enigma of Uri Geller 85
Chapter 7 The Man on the Moon 100
Chapter 8 The Physicist and the Psychic 118
Chapter 9 Skeptics versus CIA 138
Chapter 10 Remote Viewing 151
Chapter 11 The Unconscious 172
Chapter 12 Submarines 184
Part III The Defense Department Years
Chapter 13 Paraphysics 203
Chapter 14 Psychic Soldiers 221
Chapter 15 Qigong and the Mystery of H. S. Tsien 241
Chapter 16 Killers and Kidnappers 260
Chapter 17 Consciousness 277
Chapter 18 Psychic Training 296
Chapter 19 The Woman with the Third Eye 309
Chapter 20 The End of an Era 330
Chapter 21 Hostages and Drugs 346
Chapter 22 Downfall 364
Part IV The Modern Era
Chapter 23 Intuition, Premonition, and Synthetic Telepathy 377
Chapter 24 The Scientists and the Skeptics 388
Chapter 25 The Psychic and the Astronaut 403
Acknowledgments 421
Notes 425
List of Interviews and Written Correspondence 489
Bibliography 493
Index 509