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A Study Of The Field, The Methods And The Facts Of ESP And PK Research.
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II CD .35 03958 Z <> PARAPSYCHOLOGY Frontier Science of the Mind (Fifth Printing) PARAPSYCHOLOGY FRONTIER SCIENCE OF THE MIND A Survey of the Field, the Methods, and the Facts of ESP and PK Research J. B. RHINE and]. G. PRATT Parapsychology Laboratory Duke University Durham, North Carolina CHARLES C THOMAS Springfield Illinois PUBLISHER U.S.A, Published and Distributed Throughout the World by CHARLES C THOMAS PUBLISHER BANNERS-TONE HOUSE 301-327 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, This book part of it Illinois, U.S.A. is protected by copyright. No may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher. 1957, by CHARLES C THOMAS PUBLISHER ISBN 398-01580-5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 57-10999 First Printing, 1957 Revised Second Printing, 1962 Third Printing, 1967 Fourth Printing, 1972 Fifth Printing, 1974 With THOMAS BOOKS careful attention is given to all details of It is the Publisher's desire to present books that are satisfactory as to their physical qualities and artistic possibilities and appropriate for their particular use. BOOKS witt be true to those laws of quality that assure a good name and good will. manufacturing and design. THOMAS Printed in the United States of America 00-2 Foreword HEBE ABE many indications that the time has come to provide a convenient one-volume summary of present knowledge about parapsychology. Most urgent is the need among busy professional people for a clear, concise statement of the known facts of new how the researches are carried on and what general advance has been made in relating the new findings to older branches of knowledge. Outstanding among the audience we have had in mind are the various professional groups connected with medicine and the psychological and social sciences this field of science, just and practices. This book was undertaken as a result There are other professional groups, too, for whom the volume was intended as a handbook of essential information on the subThe teacher, for example, or minister or field worker in ject: anthropology should, we believe, find it as wefl suited to his purpose as die psychiatrist or dermatologist or clinical psychologist In a word, the competent, mature inquirer, whatever his professional field, should consider that the book was written for him. Finally, these pages have been written, too, with the coming need of a college textbook in mind. Two university requests for such a text have recently been received, and with the present prospects of the growth of parapsychology, others are anticipated. More popularly written introductory books on parapsychology have been published in recent years. The titles of most of them may be found in the literature cited in the book. Younger students and nonprofessional readers making their approach to parapsychology may find it advantageous to read one or more of these other works by way of introduction. This book is, of course, not meant for our long-experienced fellow workers in parapsychology, nor even for the well-read scienhighly informed student of the field who knows most of its should not be considered as intended to answer and satisfy completely all the questions the tific literature at firsthand. Likewise, it FOBEWORD vi extremely skeptic