Test Your Psychic Powers - Softcover

Blackmore, Susan; Hart-Davis, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534812555 ISBN 13: 9781534812550

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Would you like to know whether ESP really exists? Or who's right about precognition, or the powers of the ouija board? Have you ever bought a crystal or tried dowsing and wondered whether they really work? And what about astrology? The best way to find out is to do your own experiments. Then you can rely on your own results and not just someone else’s opinion. This book tells you how. There are ten chapters. Each starts with the story of an extraordinary experience or phenomenon, from premonitions that came true to the powers of mind over matter. This is followed by directions for carrying out both simple and more complicated experiments. Some can be easily done at home on your own, while others are better suited to groups of friends or students. Many are ideal for school or college projects. Simple statistics are explained and tables given for working out the significance your results. The book would be a useful text for simple courses on experimental design or critical thinking.

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Review

The title of this book is almost deceptive. You might think that this is just another treatise on "discovering your psychic potential," but it is actually a respectable work that repeatedly stresses the importance of the scientific method. It stands out amid the alarming number of books that claim to teach readers how to tap into hidden psychic abilities, yet provide no quantifiable evidence to prove that the methods work, or even that psychic ability exists. The experiments employed in Test Your Psychic Powers have long been used by parapsychologists in their quest to validate the existence of psychic abilities, and are designed to minimize the possibility of erroneous conclusions. It is obvious that authors Susan Blackmore and Adam Hart-Davis know what they're talking about, and while they provide plenty of case histories supporting the existence of psychic phenomena, they leave the final judgement up to readers.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1534812555
• ISBN 13: 9781534812550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244