THE WORLD OF TED SERIOS - "THOUGHTOGRAPHIC" STUDIES OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND

'THE WORLD OF TED SERIOS' is a unique document. . . . It represents the most significant contribution to our knowledge of mental process since Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis, and its revolutionary implications call for a searching reexamination of the conceptual foundations of science." - MARIE COLEMAN NELSON, Editor, The Psychoanalytic Review. ... A doctor’s own brilliant report on an exciting series of experiments in psychical phenomena—the subject, an "unemployed Chicago bellhop" with the uncanny ability to project his mental images directly onto photographic film. . . With over 140 illustrations, 80 of them the most remarkable pictures ever published—Ted Serios's own mental projections on film. - When the reports first reached him from Chicago, Dr. Eisenbud, well-known psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was decidedly skeptical. But for twenty-five years he had been interested in psi phenomena and extrasensory as it might be applied to the study of human behavior, and finally there was the evidence of his own eyes. In a normally lighted Chicago hotel room with two other witnesses present, he watched Ted Serios, holding a freshly loaded Polaroid Land camera pointed toward himself (Dr. Eisenbud had supplied both film and camera), stare intently into the lens, trip the shutter, and produce a distinguishable photograph of a building with the illuminated sign STEVENS over the marquee. Thereafter Ted Serios moved to Denver, and there began with Dr. Eisenbud two years of well-controlled experimentation. From the first not only was every safeguard taken against the possibility of deception, conscious or unconscious, but also the participation of the scientific community of that university city was actively sought. In the end over twenty-five doctors of science-medicine, physics, chemistry, psychology, for example—-signed statements attesting to the validity of the experiments in which they took ...