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<p>&#8220;A cogent argument offering many striking examples of the power and potential of the unconscious&#8230; Powell&#8217;s theory of consciousness seeks to resolve some of these mysteries.&#8221; &#8212;Kirkus Reviews <p>&#8220;Psychic power has had trouble gaining scientific respectability, but Powell makes a game effort to propose serious consideration of its existence. &#8230; Not about to compromise her credibility by claiming that mind power can levitate tables, Powell adheres to the possibility that human consciousness might affect matter at the quantum mechanical level. Incorporating Powell&#8217;s knowledge of neuroscience, this work should appeal to those open to the idea that ESP exists.&#8221; &#8211; Booklist <p>&#8220;In this extraordinary book, we find a renaissance in the understanding of consciousness, mind, and nature, and a whole new map of the continents of possibility that we had suspected but had rarely inhabited.&#160; Beautifully written, richly insightful,

In her new book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, former Harvard professor Diane Hennacy Powell combines philosophy, physics, and empirical data to examine supernatural traits like telepathy (the ability to access someone else's consciousness), psychokinesis (the ability to use one's consciousness to affect external objects), clairvoyance (the ability to broaden one's consciousness to remote time and space) and precognition (the ability to see into the future). - Time Magazine <p> A cogent argument offering many striking examples of the power and potential of the unconscious...human history is rich with mythology about extrasensory perception, most famously employed by the seers at the ancient oracle of Delphi, but its relationship to the brain remains unexplained. Is consciousness a surrounding force that we are capable of tapping into, or is it a result of the billions of synapse connections occurring in our brains? Can mere coincidence explain the vast number of Jung's synchronicities, or is consciousness a virtual medium for universal interconnectivity? Powell's theory of consciousness seeks to resolve some of these mysteries. Einstein and Hawking, she reminds us, wrote about time being malleable, existing totally and simultaneously. This would explain prescient visions and telepathic instinct shared by loved ones during crises even when they're located far from each other. In easy-to-understand language, the author describes carefully controlled studies involving telekinesis, clairvoyance and precognition, presenting the results as evidence of the brain's latent psychic tendency. She also theorizes that dreams, near-death experiences andout-of-body sensations may be manifestations of our inherent ability to relax the constructs of three-dimensional perception. Perhaps even memory is an instance of our minds accessing outside psychic information from all of space and time. Powell dubs this intertwined, inextricable relationship between the individual's internal world and the external world the Mobius mind, named for its cyclical and symbiotic nature. This concept persists in Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism; meditation is one technique to reach a state of collective enlightenment. Particle physics, too, relies on underlying theories of resonance and symmetry, notes the author. She makes a persuasive argument that with the spectacular advances in particle physics will come a scientific revolution of thought, and with it a deeper understanding of the brain. Phenomenal brain abnormalities, such as the unexplained expertise of the savant, demonstrate incredible feats of brainpower that can't be described or explained. - KIRKUS REVIEWS<p> Psychic power has had trouble gaining scientific respectability, but Powell makes a game effort to propose serious consideration of its existence.... Incorporating Powell's knowledge of neuroscience, this work should appeal to those open to the idea that ESP exists. - BOOKLIST

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Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D., is a former member of a think tank on consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. She lives in Los Angeles and Medford, Oregon.

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