Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities

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Harmony/Rodale, Jul 16, 2013 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 400 pages
Can yoga and meditation unleash our inherent supernormal mental powers, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition? Is it really possible to perceive another person's thoughts and intentions? Influence objects with our minds? Envision future events? And is it possible that some of the superpowers described in ancient legends, science fiction, and comic books are actually real, and patiently waiting for us behind the scenes? Are we now poised for an evolutionary trigger to pull the switch and release our full potentials?

Dean Radin, Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and bestselling author of The Conscious Universe, presents persuasive new experimental evidence for the existence of such phenomena. He takes us on a thrilling scientific journey and challenges outdated assumptions that these abilities are mere superstition. Focusing on Patanjali's mysterious Yoga Sutras -- 2,000 year-old meditation practices believed to release our extraordinary powers -- Radin offers powerful evidence confirming that sometimes fact is much stranger, spookier, and more wonderful than the wildest fiction.
 

Contents

From Legendary Yoga Superpowers
1
Yoga Explosion
12
Other Realities
35
Mysticism and Miracles
46
Unbelievable
66
Yoga Sutras
94
The Siddhis
106
To Modern Science
117
Clairvoyance
267
Psi and Meditation
275
And Beyond
285
Pragmatics
287
Future Human
297
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
321
GLOSSARY
323
NOTES
325

Precognition
130
Telepathy
179
Psychokinesis in Living Systems
200
Psychokinesis in Inanimate Systems
218

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Dean Radin, PhD, is the author of Entangled Minds and The Conscious Universe. For more than two decades he has been engaged in research on the frontiers of consciousness. He has held appointments at Princeton University and several Silicon Valley think tanks, including SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.

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