Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory

A few days ago I attended the 2014 meeting of the Parapsychological Association (PA). The PA is an international scientific organization and an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It's where trained scientists exchange information on their research about parapsychological phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, remote viewing, precognition, etc. I've been going to most of the yearly meetings for half a century now. I had a somewhat unusual experience at this one, though, as my friend and colleague, Ed May, a physicist and one of the world's leading parapsychologists, gave me a copy of his newest book, "Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory," edited in conjunction with his colleague, physicist Sonali Bhatt Marwaha.I'm always grateful when someone gives me a book, especially an important one like this, but I don't usually write them a few days later saying I both want to thank them and curse them! Thank them because this is the most important technical book on parapsychological phenomena to be published in many years and a real contribution to the field! Curse them because I have so little time available to read the interesting and important things already piled up on my desk, no matter how much I want to read them, and these two physicists have just made the situation much worse by providing me with many, many more chapters that I very much want to read! The book, just out in 2014, is 433 pages!I should warn that this is a technical, scientific book. On the other hand, this reports much of the work that was supported by various military and government intelligence agencies for some 20 years, one of the few and, alas, now over, periods in parapsychology research that was beginning to have an adequate level of support, and interesting discoveries were made: I'll reproduce the table of contents below. Much of this research has never been published before and or was hidden under classifications of secrecy. I consulted on the remote viewing project at Stanford Research Institute (also known as SRI, and now SRI International) for a while and so knew about some of it, but there's a lot that's new to me.

A long waited account of Ed May's and his collaborators direct scientific experience related to a hot question, anomalous or extrasensoty perception.