Serious-minded investigation into the effects of psychedelic drugs on the telepathic abilities of two "sensitives" and two "normals."
Near fine.
Price: $350.00
"I had the impression that I spoke a lot of nonsense, but nevertheless I was not concerned. I remember talking to an envelope, and although I realized that this was absurd I could not help doing so."
Fifth in a series of monographs issued by the Parapsychology Foundation, whose interests included "laboratory experiments such as those concerned with extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, as well as so-called spontaneous phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition." The authors, a research biochemist (Cavanna) and the President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (Servadio), proceed with methodological rigor, attempting to improve on prior investigations into substance-enhanced ESP by standardizing their assessments of subjects and drug effects. Volunteer subjects were subjected to a rigorous battery of standardized tests and a session with a Freudian psychoanalyst, whose typically gruesome analyses are recorded within; the subjects, who were never told what precisely they had ingested, report their own impressions alongside the formal research findings and transcripts of their in-process trip reports as they try to telepathically perceive the images concealed from them: "Obscene ideas, scaffolding, metal grid, aluminum, diver's helmet, too many things, too many things..." A remarkable record of the intersecting worlds of parapsychology and psychedelic experimentation in the early 1960s.
New York: Parapsychology Foundation, Inc, (1964). 9'' x 6''. Original grey printed wrappers. Illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. 123, [1] pages. Mild toning, edgewear.
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