3 Results in the "Psychic Research" category

Why People Think Things Remember A historical and cultural study of token-object reading, from Victorian science to Cold War files. There is a particular weight to certain objects. A ring that has outlived its owner. A watch that stopped at a certain hour and never started again. Most people, at least once, feel that quiet pressure of meaning when they touch something that clearly…

The Hand That Writes A pen rests on paper. The room is quiet. The writer claims not to know what will come next. Words begin to form, slowly at first, then in a rushing stream. When the page is filled, the writer looks down and reads what “someone else” has written. For some, this is a parlour curiosity from the age of séances. For…

Cold War Intelligence and the Search for Psychic Advantage The desk of a Remote Viewer. A government office after hours, 1965. In a secure room at Fort Meade in the 1970s, a man sat at a plain table, a pen in his hand, sketching what he claimed was a secret Soviet installation thousands of miles away. He had never seen it. No satellite photograph…