The telephone rings and you already know who's calling. A dream forewarns of imminent danger and you alter plans accordingly. You know what someone is going to say next. Mere coincidence, or the work of psychic powers? This guide to psychic phenomena lets you find out for yourself whether or not you have this gift. Whether skeptical, curious, or already a practitioner, you'll find information and activities on many of the psychic disciplines, from telepathy, astrology, and crystals to the ouija board and psychokinesis. 168 pages 6 x 9.
Susan Jane Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. She has a degree in psychology and physiology from Oxford University (1973) and a PhD in parapsychology from the University of Surrey (1980). Her research interests include memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, and meditation. She practices Zen and campaigns for drug legalization. Sue Blackmore no longer works on the paranormal.
She writes for several magazines and newspapers, blogs for the Guardian newspaper and Psychology Today, and is a frequent contributor and presenter on radio and television. She is author of over sixty academic articles, about fifty book contributions, and many book reviews. Her books include Dying to Live (on near-death experiences, 1993), In Search of the Light (autobiography, 1996),Test Your Psychic Powers (with Adam Hart-Davis, 1997), The Meme Machine (1999, now translated into 13 other languages), Consciousness: An Introduction (a textbook 2003), Conversations on Consciousness (2005) and Ten Zen Questions (2009).