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The 7th Sense: Forgotten Powers of the Human Mind - Softcover

Wilson, Heinrich

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Synopsis

We've been told we only have five senses. Maybe six, if you count intuition. But history, science, and countless "impossible" stories suggest otherwise.

For centuries, shamans, monks, soldiers, and ordinary people have reported glimpses of hidden faculties: gut feelings that save lives, dreams that predict disasters, healers who calm pain, and uncanny connections that defy distance. Modern science dismisses most of this, yet still admits to silent senses like balance, proprioception, and interoception. Meanwhile, governments have quietly funded experiments into telepathy, remote viewing, and even mind-over-matter.

So which is it? Superstition? Coincidence? Or proof that humans carry a forgotten power - a seventh sense?

In this provocative book, Heinrich Wilson digs into:

Cold War psychic research and secret military projects

Telepathy, empathy, and the strange science of shared feelings

Placebo, nocebo, and the power of belief to heal or harm

Telekinesis experiments, folklore, and the blurred line between mind and matter

The hidden prison of distraction, consumerism, and ridicule designed to keep us blind

The risks of awakening - fraud, manipulation, and instability - and the promise of rediscovery

The seventh sense won't turn you into a superhero. But it may explain why you sometimes "just know," why dreams sometimes come true, and why our world is built to keep those whispers silent.

The question isn't whether it exists. The question is whether you're willing to notice.

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About the Author

Heinrich Wilson is an award-winning author of narrative nonfiction and social criticism. He writes about the history most people would rather leave buried: forgotten revolutions, underreported atrocities, failed utopias and the quiet machinery behind the stories nations tell about themselves. His work sits at the meeting point of fact and conscience, asking not only what happened, but what it did to us.

German-born and based in Ireland, Wilson brings an outsider's eye to both the Old World and the New. His books are well researched, plainly told and unwilling to look away. They are books that refuse to be silent.

History, he believes, is not the past. It is the ground we are still standing on.

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