Booth, John: Psychic Paradoxes ©1984 John Booth, Ridgeway Press, Los Alamitos, CA Hardcover, w/dj, 234 pages ISBN 0-943230-02-0 ©1986 Prometheus Books Softcover, perfect-bound

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Contents: (from hardcover book ToC):

ix Preface
xiii Introduction and Acknowledgments

1 Part One—Theatrical Psi
1 1 Mentalists, Mediums and Magicians
7 2 The Psychic Entertainers
18 3 Mentalists Take to Radio and Television
34 4 The Nurture of a Mentalist
40 5 Crystal Gazers—Blindfold Artists vs. Business Theatre
54 6 Bending the World Out of Shape by Mind Power
63 7 Questions of Paranormal Myth and Effort

79 Part Two—Tricks Of The Trade
79 8 Magical Mentalism

101 Part Three—The Psychic Connection
101 9 A Trip into the Land of Ghosts
113 10 British Ghosts I Have Tried to Meet
125 11 Psychic Oddities Explained and Unexplained

140 Part Four—Spurious Phenomena?
140 12 Great Mediums in Action
149 13 When Seeing Isn’t Believing
154 14 Shooting Down the Floating Trumpets
163 15 Two Great Mysteries of Psychic History
16 Did the Cross Correspondences Prove Immortality

180 Part Five—Serious Psi Research
180 17 Adventures with Disembodied Spirits
188 18 Human Problems Behind Counterfeit Phenomena
199 19 Forecasting the Future: Facts and Illusions
218 20 From Hoaxes to Hopefulness

231 Bibliography
233 Index