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The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations

The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations
By Stephen E. Braude

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For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations is a highly readable and often amusing account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here Braude recounts in fascinating detail five particular cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness.
 
Braude begins with a south Florida woman who can make thin gold-colored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—like Joe Nuzum, who claim to move objects using only their minds. Along the way, Braude also investigates the startling allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can transfer images from photographs onto other objects—including his own body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who could make a variety of different images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, Braude considers his wife’s surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to guide professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own personal experiences with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may need to be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of psychokinesis.
 
Heady, provocative, and brimming with eye-opening details and suggestions, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations will intrigue both adherents and detractors of its controversial subject matter alike.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #535540 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-16
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 232 pages

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"Stephen Braude''s Gold Leaf Lady is by turns funny, serious, sad, and mischievous. Whether you''re a believer or not, you read his book hoping that it''s all true."-Chris Carter (Chris Carter )

"The study of the supernatural has often been rejected by mainstream scientists on the grounds that it has nothing of interest to tell us. Philosopher and parapsychologist Stephen Braude does a beautiful job of proving them wrong. The Gold Leaf Lady is fascinating in its subject and insightful in its premise-that it's through exploring the world's mysteries that we truly learn to understand ourselves."-Deborah Blum, author of Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death (Deborah Blum )

"This book isn't just good, it's excellent. Stephen Braude is at the top of the intellectual food chain in the study of paranormal phenomena, an accomplished philosopher of science who brings his first-rate intellect to bear in a fair and deep treatment of the supernatural. Replete with personal accounts and anecdotes from his many investigations, The Gold Leaf Lady is a riveting read, a tour through the paranormal that both enchants and instructs us."-Fred Frohock, author of Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism (Fred Frohock )

"The Gold Leaf Lady describes what happens when a University of Maryland philosopher, a professional in the art of `deep nonsense' detection, collides with the perplexing world of the paranormal. Stephen Braude pulls no punches in his memoir of amazing, amusing, and at times poignant investigations. This book is sure to infuriate some and fascinate many."-Dean Radin, author of The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (Dean Radin )

"This book is an easy read, provides some fairly strong evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena and I''m sure will entertain most readers-other than [the author''s] professional colleagues."-Rob Harle, Metapsychology (Rob Harle Metapsychology )

"I enjoyed the book for its fascinating anecdotes and discussion of issues that they raise. . . . It can certainly be recommended . . . to anyone thinking about entering the ''psi'' area, for it gives a clear impression of the heat to be found in that particular kitchen. One has to admire Braude for having endured it so long with no apparent impairment of his enthusiasm or integrity." (Chris Nunn Journal of Consciousness Studies )

"The writing is so fluid that the book at times seems made for a screen adaptation. . . . But Braude also includes some dense philosophical arguments-especially in a chapter about synchronicity, in which he ponders whether humans can orchestrate unlikely coincidences through psychokinesis."-Scott Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education (Scott Carlson Chronicle of Higher Education )

"Braude carries the discussion about the nature of consciousness and reality in light of the occurrence of anomalous events into deeper waters than those usually entered. . . . I liked this book." (Imants Barus Journal of Scientific Exploration )

"An incisive, disarmingly frank account of [Braude''s] parapsychological investigations." (Choice )

About the Author

Stephen Braude is professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of some sixty journal articles and four previous books, including The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science and, most recently, Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life after Death.