A comprehensive and critical analysis of psi phenomena examines both scienitific evidence and claims of fraud, from prescientific roots of shamanism, yoga, ceremonial magic, Buddhism, and Judaism to the contemporary practices of scientology, Silva Mind Control, transcendental meditation, and hypnosis
Jeffrey Mishlove was the first student at the University of California, Berkeley, (or at any accredited university in the U.S.) to create an interdisciplinary, doctoral major in parapsychology. His best known work, The Roots of Consciousness, served as partial fulfillment of his examination requirements.