A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki

A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki

A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki

A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki

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Overview

Many people around the world accept the possibility of telepathy or clairvoyance. Very rarely, however, has anyone been able to demonstrate these psychic faculties with enough accuracy and reliability to produce significant results in repeated experimentation. An exception to this was the Polish engineer and industrialist Stefan Ossowiecki.

Ossowiecki (1877-1944) is perhaps the most gifted psychic ever to come under the scrutiny of researchers. He demonstrated a range and quality of clairvoyance that no one has exceeded, at least under experimental controls. Equally important, he was eager to learn more about his talent and allowed a variety of researchers to use him in experiments. Anecdotal accounts of his talent abounded, but it was the controlled observations of investigators in experiments conducted in Paris and Warsaw that confirmed his gift. For the first time, this book brings to English-speaking researchers and the public detailed accounts of the crucial experiments carried out with Ossowiecki, which produced compelling evidence of paranormal cognition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786421121
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 08/15/2005
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 823,756
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Mary Rose Barrington is a retired lawyer in London. The late Ian Stevenson was a research professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was the author of European Cases of the Reincarnation Type (2003) and Children Who Remember Previous Lives (2001). A member of the Society for Psychical Research, Zofia Weaver is a past editor of the Society’s Journal and Proceedings and, although Polish by birth, she lives in Nottingham, England.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Introduction (Ian Stevenson)     
1. The Life and Times of Stefan Ossowiecki (Zofia Weaver)     
2. The Formal Experiments     
Early Experiments by Geley and Richet     
Reception at the Institut Métapsychique International     
Geley Probes Deeper     
Co-Operation from London     
Reports by Various Other Researchers     
3. Informal Experiments and “Fieldwork”     
Demonstrations of Clairvoyance     
“Fieldwork”     
Telepathy?     
Out-of-body Experiences?     
Premonition/Precognition?     
Influence at a Distance?     
4. Answers and Questions (Mary Rose Barrington)     
Afterword (Ian Stevenson)     

Appendix I: Archaeological Experiments     
Appendix II: Chronology and List of Cases     
Appendix III: Biographical Profiles of the Experimenters     
Glossary     
Bibliography     
Index     
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