Psychic Book Review

27th Nov 2007

The Wall Street Journal Online books section just published a brief book review of The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations. The review itself is interesting in that it does give a nod toward an author (in this case a Mr. Stephen E. Braude) who tries to present real psychics as well as fake psychics in a fairly non-biased way.

The book reviewer, John Desio, does a good job explaining that the book itself presents five cases of claimed psychic abilities from five individuals, and attempts to either validate or disprove the psychic’s claims. As you might imagine, many of the claimed psychics are either proven to be fakes, or refuse to be tested and thus become suspects by default.

However, one case, a former Bell Boy in Chicago named Ted Serios, claimed in the mid 1960s to be able to use a piece of cardboard to channel psychic energy onto a piece of Polaroid film. Mr. Serios’ claims were put to the test by a photographer, a Mr. Nile Root, who determined that Mr. Serios was actually inserting an image into the cardboard, which then was reproduced by the Polaroid film. The interesting thing is Mr Braude interviewed a doctor who worked with Mr. Serios, and then had a session with Mr Serios after which Mr. Braude declared this an important case and not a psychic fake.

The book reviewer, Mr. Desio, concludes his review by mentioning that the biggest criticism he has of psychics is their inability to use their psychic abilities to generate a nice profit for themselves. His final sentence indicates that to prove psychic abilities a psychic should be willing to make a big bet on the outcome of the Super Bowl, and we can only assume that by winning the bet the psychic would then prove they are psychic.

You can read the full review of the book at the Wall Street Journal online, and you can purchase the book by searching at your favorite eBookseller for the title: The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations by Stephen E. Braude.

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