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- 2006025661 abstract "In 1991, when her daughterʼs rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayerʼs familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser-a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose-and almost as a joke-Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found. Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues whoʼd been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy. Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other inexplicable phenomena. From Sigmund Freudʼs writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature. She does not ask us to believe. Rather she brings us a book of profound intrigue and optimism, with far-reaching implications not just for scientific inquiry but also for the ways we go about living in the world. Includes information on anomalous cognition (extraordinary knowing), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), clairvoyance, dreams, extrasensory perception (ESP), evidence, fortune telling, Sigmund Freud, ganzfeld studies, Gestalt psychology, God, healing, treatment and diagnoses, professional intuitives, National Research Council, (NRC), quantum consciousness, quantum mind, quantum phenomena, remote viewing, remote perception, science, Society for Psychical Research (SPR), telepathy, etc. Forwords by Freeman Dyson and Carol Gilligan.".
- 2006025661 contributor B10436263.
- 2006025661 created "2007.".
- 2006025661 date "2007".
- 2006025661 date "2007.".
- 2006025661 dateCopyrighted "2007.".
- 2006025661 description "Chapter 1: The Harp That Came Back: My Journey Begins -- Chapter 2: Going Public with Private Knowing: Breaking the Silence -- Chapter 3: Disavowing the Extraordinary: Personal Cost and Public Consequences -- Chapter 4: States of Mind: Knowing That Doesn't Feel Like Knowing -- Chapter 5: Intuitive Intelligence: the Art and Science of Union -- Chapter 6: Starting-and Stopping-the Conversation: The Strange History of Paranormal Research -- Chapter 7: Tossing Out Meteorites: Science, Fear, and Anxiety -- Chapter 8: Nighttime Eyes: learning to Live with Paradox -- Chapter 9: Measuring the Power of Prayer: is God in the Equation? -- Chapter 10: Listening Harder: Tuning Into Dreams and Telepathy -- Chapter 11: Three Seconds into the Future: The New Science of the Unconscious -- Chapter 12: Quantum Uncertainty: A Working Model of Reality -- Epilogue: To Begin Again: the Challenge of the Extraordinary.".
- 2006025661 description "In 1991, when her daughterʼs rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayerʼs familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser-a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose-and almost as a joke-Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found. Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues whoʼd been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy. Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other inexplicable phenomena. From Sigmund Freudʼs writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature. She does not ask us to believe. Rather she brings us a book of profound intrigue and optimism, with far-reaching implications not just for scientific inquiry but also for the ways we go about living in the world.".
- 2006025661 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.".
- 2006025661 description "Includes information on anomalous cognition (extraordinary knowing), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), clairvoyance, dreams, extrasensory perception (ESP), evidence, fortune telling, Sigmund Freud, ganzfeld studies, Gestalt psychology, God, healing, treatment and diagnoses, professional intuitives, National Research Council, (NRC), quantum consciousness, quantum mind, quantum phenomena, remote viewing, remote perception, science, Society for Psychical Research (SPR), telepathy, etc. Forwords by Freeman Dyson and Carol Gilligan.".
- 2006025661 extent "xiii, 302 p. :".
- 2006025661 identifier "0553803352 (hardcover)".
- 2006025661 identifier "9780553803358 (hardcover)".
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- 2006025661 identifier 2006025661.html.
- 2006025661 issued "2007".
- 2006025661 issued "2007.".
- 2006025661 language "eng".
- 2006025661 publisher "New York : Bantam Books,".
- 2006025661 subject "133.8 22".
- 2006025661 subject "BF315 .M36 2007".
- 2006025661 subject "Cognition.".
- 2006025661 subject "Parapsychology.".
- 2006025661 subject "Subconsciousness.".
- 2006025661 tableOfContents "Chapter 1: The Harp That Came Back: My Journey Begins -- Chapter 2: Going Public with Private Knowing: Breaking the Silence -- Chapter 3: Disavowing the Extraordinary: Personal Cost and Public Consequences -- Chapter 4: States of Mind: Knowing That Doesn't Feel Like Knowing -- Chapter 5: Intuitive Intelligence: the Art and Science of Union -- Chapter 6: Starting-and Stopping-the Conversation: The Strange History of Paranormal Research -- Chapter 7: Tossing Out Meteorites: Science, Fear, and Anxiety -- Chapter 8: Nighttime Eyes: learning to Live with Paradox -- Chapter 9: Measuring the Power of Prayer: is God in the Equation? -- Chapter 10: Listening Harder: Tuning Into Dreams and Telepathy -- Chapter 11: Three Seconds into the Future: The New Science of the Unconscious -- Chapter 12: Quantum Uncertainty: A Working Model of Reality -- Epilogue: To Begin Again: the Challenge of the Extraordinary.".
- 2006025661 title "Extraordinary knowing : science, skepticism, and the inexplicable powers of the human mind / Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer.".
- 2006025661 type "text".