Available: October 2007
Pre-orders available from
Amazon.com and
The
University of Chicago Press
224 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (October 1, 2007)
11 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables
ISBN: 9780226071527
ISBN-10: 0226071529
ISBN-13: 9780226071527 |
Stephen
Braude's forthcoming book...
The Gold
Leaf Lady
and Other Parapsychological
Investigations
- Available Autumn/Fall 2007
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Description
For over thirty years, Stephen Braude
has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and
psychokinesis to channeling and materialization. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other
Parapsychological Investigations is a highly readable and often amusing
account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here Braude
recounts in fascinating detail five particular cases - some that challenge our
most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own
credulousness.
Braude meets a south Florida woman who can make thin leaves of golden foil
appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to
test psychokinetic superstars - and frauds - like Joe Nuzum, who claim to move
objects using only their minds. Along the way, Braude also investigates the
startling allegations of KR, a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can
transfer images from photographs onto other objects - including his own body -
and Ted Serios, a Chicago elevator operator who can make a variety of different
images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, Braude considers his wife’s
surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to guide
professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own
personal experiences with synchronicity - a phenomenon, he argues, the can only
be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of large-scale
psychokinesis.
Heady, provocative, and brimming with eye-opening details and suggestions,
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations will intrigue
both adherents and detractors of its controversial subject matter alike.
"This book isn’t just good, it’s excellent.
Stephen Braude is at the top of the intellectual food chain in the study of
paranormal phenomena, an accomplished philosopher of science who brings his
first-rate intellect to bear in a fair and deep treatment of the supernatural.
Replete with personal accounts and anecdotes from his many investigations, The
Gold Leaf Lady is a riveting read, a tour through the paranormal that both
enchants and instructs us."
- Fred Frohock, author of Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science
and Mysticism
Stephen Braude
Easily and without exaggeration one of parapsychology's most insightful and
smart thinkers ever. |
Who is Stephen Braude?
Stephen E. Braude is Professor of Philosophy and former Chair of the
Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He studied
Philosophy and English at Oberlin College and the University of London, and in
1971 he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
Prof. Braude is past President of the
Parapsychological Association and the recipient of several grants and
fellowships, including Research Fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the BIAL Foundation in Portugal. He has published more than
50 philosophical essays in such journals as Noûs;The Philosophical Review;
Philosophical Studies; Analysis; Inquiry; Philosophia; Philosophy, Psychiatry
and Psychology; The Journal of Scientific Exploration; and The Journal of
Trauma and Dissociation.
Books
• ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Temple University
Press, 1979; revised edition, Brown Walker Press, 2002)
• The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science
(Routledge, 1986; revised edition, University Press of America, 1997)
• First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind
(Routledge, 1991; revised edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995)
• Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003).
Articles by Stephen Braude on this website
•
Survival or Super-psi
• Survival or Super-psi? A
Response to Montague Keen and Prof. Peter Wadhams
• A Further Response to
Montague Keen
• Drop-in Communicators
(from Immortal Remains)
• Out of Body Experiences and
Survival After Death (from Immortal Remains)
• Book Review of Trevor H. Hall's "The
Enigma of Daniel D. Home"
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